Originally Posted by john_locke:
“I take it you're not going to mention the debates you had with "fanboys" about the ipod and iPhone then? I can 't help what some idiot told you about Mac OS and Windows, but what I can tell you is that you can't see the wood for the trees in how the iPhone OS and UI has changed computing as we know it. This is an extension of that.”
(sigh). You really DO have a problem reading things, don't you? Have I said anything remotely negative against the Iphone? No.
I read your comment in which you told us millions of iPods and iphones have been sold. The implication was that this was all the evidence we needed to know that the Ipad would be a storming success and if we didn't agree - well, we didn't "get it".
Call me picky but I found that unacceptably condescending and smug and so chose to point out the obvious: forecasts from Macfans are not always right.
FYI, it wasn't one idiot who told me that Mac's were going to be bigger than PC's - I've had that debate several times. Imacs, Windows on a Mac - every time Apple release something it stirs massive ambition among the zealots. And God forbid that the rest of us should be stupid enough to criticise it...
By the way - I don't use Windows. I have 2 Macs, an ipod touch and several ipods going back generations. If Apple get their shit together with the next generation of iphones (i.e. produce a piece of hardware broadly compatible with the standards and specs being set elsewhere), I'll buy one of those. Generally, I like the products - but not so much as I don't try to judge each one on its merits. I'm reserving judgement on the IPad and certainly won't dive in on generation 1.