Apple thinks its iPad is the shizz, better than a Netbook my rear

[0roo0roo]

^ I'm going to do us all a favor and add punctuation and paragraphs to your post.

0) What? It's a Netbook, not a laptop

1) All of those things are necessary, because you can have either have an oversized Smartphone - without the phone, or even inputs like USB. Or you can have a Tablet - which by definition should also be a computer.

2) What do you want? A Tablet that isn't a tablet? But wait, what is it? It's a calendar ooooh. It goes the interwebs.. ahhh. It has a colorful calculator. Sweet! Sum it all up and it's still A POS. The iPad could only WISH to be a Tablet Netbook. It's like Batman trying to criticize Superman - it's just pathetic.

3) Windows Mobile phones are poorly made? Windows Mobile was DOMINANT back in the day. It didn't anything "poorly". My Windows Mobile phone back in the day on Sprint could act as a Mobile WiFi ACCESS POINT using Sprint's 3G network. ANYWHERE. 3 YEARS AGO. Where are we now?

4) It really doesn't matter, except you have here a POS iPad disguised as Batman claiming to be Superman but without the balls to back it up.

It may seem ridiculous to you that having a Netbook around that lasts a whole day to show people pictures you took with your digital camera, upload to online albums on your trips, or view on the big screen when you're not at home. I'm not at all surprised actually that it seems ridiculous to you. Lack of imagination and lust for anything Steve Jobs pisses out of his dick seems to be the common denominator amongst Macheads.

Ooh ooh, but you can go on CNN.com and tell people around the latest breaking news and weather. It's pretty much the extent of the iPad's capabilities.

no sh*t its a netbook not a laptop, just as a tablet is not a netbook, cept the tablet is trying to be far more different than a laptop whereas the netbook really is just a lousy laptop

none of those things are necessary. you might as well claim your iphone NEEDS hdmi out.

not even sure what you are talking about in that 3rd point.

windows smart phone was dominant? lol lay down that crack pipe, you've clearly lost it when you are defending that pos.

people that think like you have put out cut price low usability devices that compete in a race to the bottom. so you pissing on jobs is just rich. you pushing the ability to dump gigs of pictures onto your "netbook" as so important just shows how out of touch you are. that is just not important to most people, and netbooks with their low quality tiny screens are lousy with pictures anyways, trying to manage hundreds if not thousands of your pictures on a slow ass netbook is a ridiculous thing to claim as priority 1.

 

[Patranus]

Eh... different tools for different fools. If I wanted an expensive color eBook reader, I'd get an iPad. If I wanted another little computer, I'd get another netbook.

I guess you haven't checked the price points of the Kindle recently.

 

[zinfamous]

That website just SMACKS of fly-by-night scam company to me.

Haha! I was suddenly weirded out after clicking that link. :sneaky:

 

[TheStu]

Neither OS X nor Windows 7 is good on a finger driven display. There was an application released for OS X around the time that the iPad got announced, it would make the cursor point something like 10*10 or 15*15 pixels instead of the usual 1*1. Have fun using your desktop OS, designed for single pixel precision, with your finger. Tell you what, drive to your local Best Buy, try out the HP TouchSmart. How much fun did you have with that? Not very much? Color me astounded.

I wanted more out of the iPad, I wanted Apple to release it with an OS between the iPhone and OS X. Something that could run iPhone apps as widgets maybe, with multitasking, but what we got is not that.

However, here is the thing... from what I have read, the thing is fast. I mean FAST. Usain Bolt riding the Energizer Bunny dipped in Cocaine fast. 3 Year Old, there's the cookie jar, mom's back is turned, fast. You click an icon, the thing is open, like that. Web pages load freaky fast, practically desktop fast. Plus it weighs .5lb and has a 10 hr battery.

Netbooks are cool, netbooks are handy, but you aren't launching your browser in half a second when you are trying to prove your point about how well it can multitask.

I am imagining multiplayer games on the iPad (it has 10 point MultiTouch) where you and a buddy can both manipulate objects on the game field. I am imagining a graphic designer at an impromptu meeting, quickly sketching an idea and then handing the iPad to the client to get their input. I am people like my grandmother finally actually going on facebook for herself and enjoying it. I am imagining a lot of people that frankly, would be pissed to high heaven with the small screen and keyboard and trackpad of a netbook, using this and actually USING it.

There is a place, for now, for both types of systems. But I would not be surprised at all if the iPad takes off like the original iPod (slow and then irresistible) and you will know that hold out will have lost when they are designing iPad apps, on the iPad.

 

[zerocool84]

I guess you haven't checked the price points of the Kindle recently.

But the difference is that what a Kindle does, it does it extremely well. Reading books on it is awesome and easy on the eyes and the battery lasts forever. It doesn't try to be something its not like other things.

 

[bas1c]

a 300 dollar netbook does everything...poorly. the cost of whipping it out to access stuff is not much different than a more powerful laptop which is the issue. it gets by on price alone. the ipad does what people actually need to do on a tablet, not what they theoretically would want to do but never do in reality. if you have niche needs well its not for you. its just that simple. its like the ipod, the windows users complained it didn't do this or that, but most people didn't care, it did what they actually wanted to do well, and thats what windows users tended to miss. its like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVR0pZo0lDM does everything many say they want, poorly.

Could you be a little less vague and quantify what "did what they actually wanted to do well" means?

Edit: Also what is this "the cost of whipping it out to access stuff" mean?

 

[MJinZ]

No, but it can fit in my backpack, which is where I'd rather carry it any ways. My pockets are for my money clip and dice, not electronic devices. With the size and weight it is, it's still very portable.





I'm confused why will I have to pay $30 to use it? Wifi is free in my town, if you mean I'd have to pay for 3g *which I don't want* uhhh, what device has free 3g? Wifi is all I need, the city I live in provides it free everywhere.

What City exactly is that? So again, you are in the 1% of the 1%. The iPad is going to be awesome for people like you.

 

[MJinZ]

no sh*t its a netbook not a laptop, just as a tablet is not a netbook, cept the tablet is trying to be far more different than a laptop whereas the netbook really is just a lousy laptop

none of those things are necessary. you might as well claim your iphone NEEDS hdmi out.

not even sure what you are talking about in that 3rd point.

windows smart phone was dominant? lol lay down that crack pipe, you've clearly lost it when you are defending that pos.

people that think like you have put out cut price low usability devices that compete in a race to the bottom. so you pissing on jobs is just rich. you pushing the ability to dump gigs of pictures onto your "netbook" as so important just shows how out of touch you are. that is just not important to most people, and netbooks with their low quality tiny screens are lousy with pictures anyways, trying to manage hundreds if not thousands of your pictures on a slow ass netbook is a ridiculous thing to claim as priority 1.

How old are you kid? If you're going to be ignorant of the fact that Windows Mobile had DOMINANT MARKET SHARE, I'm done with your ass here. No sense in arguing with a child, especially about "Priority 1" (lmao?).

Please graduate High School first before posting in the "real world".

 

[slackerinabox]

Last I checked, Apple were the ones claiming it was the second coming of Jesus and going to take over the world and cure all disease.
Cowon don't do that.

Apple also single handedly annihilated all legacy ports, the floppy disc, CDs and many other things (soon to be added... diseases and world hunger)

OF COURSE Apple will trumpet it as the greatest product ever - THEY SELL THINGS.. Any company that sells a product will claim it's the best thing ever.. Do you really expect Apple to say "meh.. It's kinda pointless, really.. I'd rather use a netbook or, hell, a refurb dell...And iphones? Overrated and expensive!"

 

[BoberFett]

the issue i have is people are bashing it comparing it a theoretical fantasy device of their dreams. a netbook that does everything instantly and costs nothing. none of which exists. its simply unfair. if the device you were describing existed then fine, but it doesnt.

The iPad does nothing I want at a very high price. It can't even run Flash. The device I'm waiting for will come out eventually, it's inevitable. But it's going to take time for the newness of tablets to wear off. Right now they've all got the early adopter tax added into the price. They will come down to commodity prices at some point and some Chinese company will make exactly what I've described.

 

[slackerinabox]

The iPad does nothing I want at a very high price. It can't even run Flash. The device I'm waiting for will come out eventually, it's inevitable. But it's going to take time for the newness of tablets to wear off. Right now they've all got the early adopter tax added into the price. They will come down to commodity prices at some point and some Chinese company will make exactly what I've described.

so don't buy it and stop whining about it.. Do you see mac forum people bitching about the zune?

 

[Train]

Do you see mac forum people bitching about the zune?

Yes.

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums

Just checked it out. For a MAC forum, there are a hell of a lot of threads about Windows, Windows 7, Windows 7 Mobile, Zune, etc.

 

[dartworth]

lol...what a waste of bandwidth and storage this thread is...

 

[RoloMather]

No multitask = FAIL!

 

[0roo0roo]

How old are you kid? If you're going to be ignorant of the fact that Windows Mobile had DOMINANT MARKET SHARE, I'm done with your ass here. No sense in arguing with a child, especially about "Priority 1" (lmao?).

Please graduate High School first before posting in the "real world".

its hilarious to see you fall to this level, but i guess thats all you have when you are left bigging up the historically tiny windows share of the tiny "smartphone market" which failed to take off because of the total mediocrity of such phones until apple stepped in and stomped them. you know who had the dominant share of the tablet market for the last decade? yea microsoft. windows tablet pc? seen one lately?