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iPad vs. a Rock

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Will they ever learn?

Comment by x986123 — January 30, 2010 @ 8:44 pm
hehehehe

Comment by Mardenator — January 30, 2010 @ 8:49 pm
Same thoughts – different execution…

Comment by Tableteer — January 30, 2010 @ 8:50 pm
RE: Standard ports… That’s not quite correct. The Camera Kit
accessory allows you to upload from your own camera via USB or
SD card. What is the big deal about it not taking a photo when
we all have so many digital cameras we can upload from already?
Do you really want to be taking a photo with your sketch pad or
with your pocket digital camera, or SLR and just upload to iPad?
I am not going to walk around, taking photos with a clipboard.
Geez, people. Get over the camera thing… It’s still cool, and
so NOT a rock. Please, the humor is over for me. Can we just
move on?

Comment by C.Proppe — January 30, 2010 @ 8:51 pm
Has a purpose– rock: yes. Ipad: no

Comment by Joey — January 30, 2010 @ 9:00 pm
ok, so you have to be a geek to laugh at that, but WOW am I loving this.

Jeff Yablon

Comment by Jeff Yablon — January 30, 2010 @ 9:04 pm
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Pingback by Michael Doornbos » Blog Archive » iPad vs. a Rock « The Jason Calacanis Weblog — January 30, 2010 @ 9:08 pm
Note to self…add rock to have list at gdgt.com

thx for the reminder Jason.

Comment by James Chapman — January 30, 2010 @ 9:13 pm
I love ya Jason but this is a little corny.

And you know there is an adapter kit sold straight from Apple for USB and SD cards. Of course this is just for connecting cameras and getting photos on the iPad. But seriously, what would you plug into the USB port? Did you complain when the iPhone doesn’t come with a USB port?

Comment by Chris P. — January 30, 2010 @ 9:16 pm
Hi, Jason, here’s another funny comparison between the iPad/Kindle/Rock

http://visualoop.tumblr.com/post/359564710/ipad-vs-kindle-vs-rock

Cheers

@TSSVeloso

Comment by TSSVeloso — January 30, 2010 @ 10:00 pm
You can make a tool out of the rock that can be used to hunt food and build shelter out of materials from your surroundings.
Like to see you try to build a shelter or hunt game with an iPad.

Comment by Paul Blasman — January 30, 2010 @ 10:04 pm
Actually the rock has a touch screen.
It’s just the refresh rate is measured in centuries.

Comment by Brevemike — January 30, 2010 @ 10:08 pm
“But seriously, what would you plug into the USB port?”

Who would ever need more than 640K of RAM?

Comment by Burzmali — January 30, 2010 @ 10:27 pm
No really, name a device you want to plug in via USB? A mouse? Keyboard is via dock or bluetooth. A Flash drive? Nobody is listing anything.

This is like when Apple dropped Diskette drives and the Super Drive in the MacBook Air. “OMG What’s Apple doing?! We NEED those!”

Comment by Chris P. — January 30, 2010 @ 11:20 pm
but seriously who’s gona carry around an oversized iphone that doesnt even have the same amount of features of an iphone. Also its the same size as those net book pc’s and it cant do 1/8 of what that can do.

Comment by vm — January 31, 2010 @ 9:14 am
Oh, I don’t know, things omitted with the original design, say a webcam.

Comment by Nick — January 31, 2010 @ 9:28 am
Yeah, I can see it now. Dorks, with a logitech webcam clipped to the iPad. This exactly why Apple did this.

Comment by Chris P. — January 31, 2010 @ 5:48 pm
“All this has happened before, and all this will happen again.”

1) Apple releases a new product in a category they haven’t been in before
2) Tech press and thousands of “me too” followers bash the device as useless, ridiculous, nothing new, missing this feature or that
3) Product is released and not only sells in ridiculous quantities but continues to sell more and more
4) Users find the device eminently useful and when they run into someone that bashes it look at them sadly like they would a confused child
5) Bashers finally give in and buy one, realizing that it was that much better than what they were using or attempting to compare it to

I have to say my favorite comment has to be, “Will they ever learn?” I am still unsure if he is talking about Apple or their critics. Because with over $15 billion in sales and record sales/profits for YEARS now I think it is pretty obvious that Apple has learned and learned well.

Comment by Frank — January 31, 2010 @ 6:33 pm
The more I talk to people about the iPad the more I think that this might end up being bigger than the iPhone.

Two things stick out most:

1. Females who are not Apple “fan-girls” love this device as it is.
2. The iPad will be the new Kitchen and Living Room computer.

And when it’s not on it will be a digital photo frame.

Brillant.

Comment by Joseph Lewis — January 31, 2010 @ 10:44 pm
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@Josheph Lewis: If it’s not on it will be off.
@Chris P.: Nobody should need to tell you what you need to plug into a USB port. External hard drive comes to mind considering the tiny storage these things come with. And are you really ok with Apple stick on a proprietary port so that they can force you to go buy their proprietary adapter for something as universal as a USB connection? With all the add-ons required to make this thing useful the $500 base price is useless.
@C. Proppe: People want the camera for video conferencing, not walking around taking snapshots with a clipboard.

Comment by Tommy — February 1, 2010 @ 7:16 am
“Two things stick out most:

1. Females who are not Apple “fan-girls” love this device as it is.”

Can you install iBrate or MyVibe on it too?

Comment by kik — February 1, 2010 @ 4:51 pm

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