Anyone else not impressed by tablets?

Mike Gayner · Mar 10, 2012

Pliablemoose said:
I'm just glad I didn't listen to you fools and bought Apple stock despite all the predictions of the failure of the iPad, I've never seen such a concentration of stupid supposedly tech savvy people in my life...

Seriously, how the hell do some of you manage to find your way to a bathroom and use it correctly?

LOL this guy.

SKORPI0 · Mar 10, 2012

Played with a friends iPad 2 a week ago, impressed how much sharper some images/text appears compared to my HP TP (with ICS 4.03). I might have to put some $$$ aside to get one/the new iPad.

Pliablemoose · Mar 10, 2012

Mike Gayner said:
LOL this guy.

It's true. I remember the threads about the iPad like it was yesterday and getting shouted down about what a POS it was and how Apple was doomed...

The funniest thing is seeing them fess up to buying an iPad after all the trash talk.

I was the same way, and I remember being pissed seeing an Apple forum started here, thought it was BS. I was wrong.

Dominato3r · Mar 10, 2012

Pliablemoose said:
It's true. I remember the threads about the iPad like it was yesterday and getting shouted down about what a POS it was and how Apple was doomed...

The funniest thing is seeing them fess up to buying an iPad after all the trash talk.

I was the same way, and I remember being pissed seeing an Apple forum started here, thought it was BS. I was wrong.

Maybe it'll take others some time to be become enlightened the same way you did

ponyo · Mar 10, 2012

Pliablemoose said:
It's true. I remember the threads about the iPad like it was yesterday and getting shouted down about what a POS it was and how Apple was doomed...

The funniest thing is seeing them fess up to buying an iPad after all the trash talk.

I was the same way, and I remember being pissed seeing an Apple forum started here, thought it was BS. I was wrong.

Guilty as charged.

I thought the iPad was just big iPod Touch and made fun of my cousin for buying one shortly after the release. He showed it to me, and I messed with it for few minutes. I was so impressed I called every Apple store in the city trying to buy one. All were sold out. A week later, I got lucky and found one in stock and bought it on the spot for my wife. But it's still just big iPod Touch.

Pliablemoose · Mar 10, 2012

ponyo said:
Guilty as charged. I thought the iPad was just big iPod Touch and made fun of my cousin for buying one shortly after the release. He showed it to me, and I messed with it for few minutes. I was so impressed I called every Apple store in the city trying to buy one. All were sold out. A week later, I got lucky and found one in stock and bought it on the spot for my wife. But it's still just big iPod Touch.

You say that like it's a bad thing

I carry my iPod Touch at work every day, damn thing is slightly bigger than a credit card and I can trade stocks on it.

HybridSquirrel · Mar 10, 2012

it literally took me 2 minutes to type out a 200 word e-mail response. fuck me.

btw touchpads aren't compatible with open source tuning programs for your car....just an FYI

Joepublic2 · Mar 10, 2012

Nah, I don't really see the point; If I'm going to carry around something as big as a tablet might as well go balls to the wall and just take my notebook.

HAL9000 · Mar 10, 2012

Love my iPad and I'm blown away by the new display. So nope, I'm impressed by tablets. Give them a full OS and I'm sold.

bearxor · Mar 10, 2012

Pliablemoose said:
Seriously, how the hell do some of you manage to find your way to a bathroom and use it correctly?

They don't know how to use the three sea shells?

SKORPI0 said:
Played with a friends iPad 2 a week ago, impressed how much sharper some images/text appears compared to my HP TP (with ICS 4.03). I might have to put some $$$ aside to get one/the new iPad.

Having gone from an iPad to a TouchPad running CM9, it's no substitute for the real thing... Planning on getting an iPad 3 and ditching the ToyPad.

Pliablemoose · Mar 10, 2012

HAL9000 said:
Love my iPad and I'm blown away by the new display. So nope, I'm impressed by tablets. Give them a full OS and I'm sold.

They've been around for years, go buy one, report back, tell us how useful it is.

HAL9000 · Mar 10, 2012

Pliablemoose said:
They've been around for years, go buy one, report back, tell us how useful it is.

I don't know of any proper tablets that have a full desktop OS?

Crono · Mar 10, 2012

Pliablemoose said:
They've been around for years, go buy one, report back, tell us how useful it is.

Yeah, I think people sometimes forget that Apple didn't invent tablets (well, excluding the Newton, which was more PDA-like).

Though Windows 8 should be a massive improvement.

Crono · Mar 10, 2012

HAL9000 said:
I don't know of any proper tablets that have a full desktop OS?

Windows tablets were around well before the iPad.

HAL9000 · Mar 10, 2012

Crono said:
Windows tablets were around well before the iPad.

Resistive touch screens? No thank you.

Pliablemoose · Mar 11, 2012

HAL9000 said:
Resistive touch screens? No thank you.

I know you have memory problems and all, but do you know how to use Google or anything, or is it all mindless stream of consciousness drivel that you post?

HAL9000 · Mar 11, 2012

Pliablemoose said:
I know you have memory problems and all, but do you know how to use Google or anything, or is it all mindless stream of consciousness drivel that you post?

Is that a rhetorical question?

Pliablemoose · Mar 11, 2012

HAL9000 said:
Is that a rhetorical question?

Consider yourself dead to me, enjoy.

Puddle Jumper · Mar 11, 2012

Mike Gayner said:
LOL your THinkpad also cost twice as much as an iPad so it's hardly a fair comparison.

Yeah but even if you buy a $500 iPad you still need some sort of pc to go with it. Considering even the worst laptops cost close to $400 the Thinkpad isn't such an unreasonable comparison since it is replacing 2 devices not one.

HAL9000 · Mar 11, 2012

Puddle Jumper said:
Yeah but even if you buy a $500 iPad you still need some sort of pc to go with it. Considering even the worst laptops cost close to $400 the Thinkpad isn't such an unreasonable comparison since it is replacing 2 devices not one.

Why do you?

Puddle Jumper · Mar 11, 2012

HAL9000 said:
Why do you?

Do you really think the iPad is a complete substitute for a pc? Up until the latest version of iOS you couldn't even set one up without using a pc.

HAL9000 · Mar 11, 2012

Puddle Jumper said:
Do you really think the iPad is a complete substitute for a pc? Up until the latest version of iOS you couldn't even set one up without using a pc.

It depends what sort of user you are, if you just browse the internet and watch youtube videos then yeah it's a fine substitute...

Puddle Jumper · Mar 11, 2012

HAL9000 said:
It depends what sort of user you are, if you just browse the internet and watch youtube videos then yeah it's a fine substitute...

I don't think I have ever seen a single person who exclusively uses youtube and browses the internet. Even the most basic user will need more than a tablet at some point.

HAL9000 · Mar 11, 2012

Puddle Jumper said:
I don't think I have ever seen a single person who exclusively uses youtube and browses the internet. Even the most basic user will need more than a tablet at some point.

I know a lot of people who just browse the internet.

Veliko · Mar 11, 2012

I have a Kindle and a smartphone. I don't see the need for a tablet.

Anyone else not impressed by tablets?

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