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The iPad. A giant iPod to lug around!
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Stuart P
28-01-2010
Originally Posted by Lucky_drawes:
“I agree with others. Multitasking will come. They want to sell it to people again and a again.”

come like it has on the iphone?
welwynrose
28-01-2010
I think I will hold off getting one until they've got a couple of generations under their belt I held off with the iphone after jumping in with both feet with the ipod
davethorp
28-01-2010
Originally Posted by Stuart P:
“come like it has on the iphone? ”

Actually it has.... just not officially
Stuart P
28-01-2010
oops i stand corrected :yawn:
funnyusername
28-01-2010
what a load of crap. just another platform for the gullable status boys to syphon their money directly to Apple.

if anything sales of netbooks should really blow up after this disappointment. there is very little you can't do on a netbook, whereas on this iFad theres a billion things it won't let me do for twice to three times the price.
davethorp
28-01-2010
I jailbroke my iPhone just to try out the new multitasking application which has palm pre style task switching. Within 1 hour I restored the Apple firmware as I'd got bored and didn't see the point of it (plus I have a new 3GS so can only tethered JB).

The only thing I'd need to run in the background on my iPhone or if I bought an iPad is mail which already does, and the iPod which already does
funnyusername
28-01-2010
Originally Posted by zapod:
“meh. I can't be bothered responding to the negativity here other by saying the iPad is exactly what I, personally, require in a portable device. That is all.”

interesting! what does this provide that anybody would require? serious question..
fletchem
28-01-2010
Originally Posted by davethorp:
“The only thing I'd need to run in the background on my iPhone or if I bought an iPad is mail which already does, and the iPod which already does”

I like to listen to music/radio while I do things.
finbaar
28-01-2010
The iPad confirms everything about Apple that I have experienced over the last 30 years.
Stuart P
28-01-2010
Originally Posted by finbaar:
“The iPad confirms everything about Apple that I have experienced over the last 30 years.”

which is?
davethorp
28-01-2010
Originally Posted by fletchem:
“I like to listen to music/radio while I do things.”

And you can

Well music for defo not sure about streaming radio
john_locke
28-01-2010
This is pretty hilarious. It's *exactly* like reading forums the day after the iPod was announced. And then the iPhone.

100 milliion units and several billion dollars later, you all still don't get it.
David Tee
28-01-2010
Originally Posted by john_locke:
“This is pretty hilarious. It's *exactly* like reading forums the day after the iPod was announced. And then the iPhone.

100 milliion units and several billion dollars later, you all still don't get it.”

I had similar debates about Apple TV and how it was going to change *everything*.

Oh - and how the next generation of Macs were going to be bigger than Windows "within 2 years".

Still waiting....
funnyusername
28-01-2010
apple tv was big wasnt it? oh wait...

the ipod was game changing. this changes absolutely nothing.
IvanIV
28-01-2010
I have just seen this... Looks just about right.

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/image...962ff/340x.jpg
john_locke
28-01-2010
Originally Posted by David Tee:
“I had similar debates about Apple TV and how it was going to change *everything*.

Oh - and how the next generation of Macs were going to be bigger than Windows "within 2 years".

Still waiting....”

What a pile of nonsense. Apple are on record saying Apple TV is a pet project - and it's chugging along fine. On version 3 now. Where's this quote about macs being bigger than windows in 2 years? Where did apple say that? I challenge you to produce links to Apple saying anything like that. You're blowin' smoke.
zapod
28-01-2010
Originally Posted by Mikeandhersonq:
“My £250 touch laptop has all that and converts into a tablet. They'll probably add them one by one in a million updates forcing everyone to buy them again and again.”

£250? Link please.
funnyusername
28-01-2010
http://s1.b3ta.com/host/creative/127...79/blutack.jpg
john_locke
28-01-2010
Originally Posted by Stuart P:
“come like it has on the iphone? ”

IPhone and iPad will get it at the same time, when OS 4 is launched at the WWDC in the summer. Around when the new iPhone is launched.
SummerRain
28-01-2010
What is the point in it? It's just like a very large iphone. Why would you buy that and not the MacBook? Pointless imho.
David Tee
28-01-2010
Originally Posted by john_locke:
“What a pile of nonsense. Apple are on record saying Apple TV is a pet project - and it's chugging along fine. On version 3 now. Where's this quote about macs being bigger than windows in 2 years? Where did apple say that? I challenge you to produce links to Apple saying anything like that. You're blowin' smoke.”

Try and read things properly will you? Did I say that Apple said these things? No... I said I "had similar debates". With fanboys like you who swore blind all these wonderful new creations were going to work and obliterate any competition in the process.
funnyusername
28-01-2010
Originally Posted by SummerRain:
“What is the point in it? It's just like a very large iphone. Why would you buy that and not the MacBook? Pointless imho.”

this is what i'm waiting to hear - just one reason why this is considered neccessary
john_locke
28-01-2010
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.
David Tee
28-01-2010
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.
SummerRain
28-01-2010
I have a MacBook and an iPod and I really love Apple but this has really disappointed me tbh, I just don't see the point in it at all. It won't even be able to run Mac OS apps.
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