Comments on: iPad vs. a Rock

By: kik

kik — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:51:24 +0000

“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?

By: Tommy

Tommy — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:16:55 +0000

@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.

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By: Joseph Lewis

Joseph Lewis — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:44:46 +0000

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.

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:33:23 +0000

“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.

By: Chris P.

Chris P. — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:48:12 +0000

Yeah, I can see it now. Dorks, with a logitech webcam clipped to the iPad. This exactly why Apple did this.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:28:52 +0000

Oh, I don’t know, things omitted with the original design, say a webcam.

By: vm

vm — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:14:33 +0000

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.

By: Chris P.

Chris P. — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:20:38 +0000

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!”

By: Burzmali

Burzmali — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:27:27 +0000

“But seriously, what would you plug into the USB port?”

Who would ever need more than 640K of RAM?