How did Apple succeed in Tablets (ie: iPad) when everyone else failed miserably?

[TanisHalfElven]

If I go to a park to read a book, it'll be with an actual book. If I took an $500+ electronic device, I'd take a laptop so I can do something else if I get bored. Like put in a DVD or play a real game or browse the web. I like doing so on a laptop because a laptop does everything I need, not just a few things I need.

Every single use for an iPad I've seen people say they like seems like nothing more than a stretch -reaching for such a tiny niche to fit the iPad into and then they defend it as if they couldn't possibly live their lives until the iPad was invented. Oh please.

I see, i suppose when you want to talk to people you walk to there house. when you want to write you use a quill and a bottle of ink and write on pyparus.

Get with the times. Your on a tech site buddy. We're folks who buy toys for the simple fun of having new cool things to play with.

Your just being stubborn here. I see 2 problems.
1. Either you can't afford the ipad, or your mama won't buy you one.
2. Your just stubbornly against technology, in which case i don't know what the heck your doing on ANANDTECH.

 

[bfdd]

I see, i suppose when you want to talk to people you walk to there house. when you want to write you use a quill and a bottle of ink and write on pyparus.

Get with the times. Your on a tech site buddy. We're folks who buy toys for the simple fun of having new cool things to play with.

Your just being stubborn here. I see 2 problems.
1. Either you can't afford the ipad, or your mama won't buy you one.
2. Your just stubbornly against technology, in which case i don't know what the heck your doing on ANANDTECH.

anyone making the stretch that compares owning an ipad to owning a vehicle or even just a phone is an imbecile and most likely a fanboy with the blinders on.

ps they aren't comparable. modern life can be lived without an ipad, it would be very very very hard to do without a phone or car.

 

[vi edit]

I see, i suppose when you want to talk to people you walk to there house. when you want to write you use a quill and a bottle of ink and write on pyparus.

Get with the times. Your on a tech site buddy. We're folks who buy toys for the simple fun of having new cool things to play with.

Your just being stubborn here. I see 2 problems.
1. Either you can't afford the ipad, or your mama won't buy you one.
2. Your just stubbornly against technology, in which case i don't know what the heck your doing on ANANDTECH.

I think this post just set a words per post density record for incorrect use of "your".

 

[TanisHalfElven]

anyone making the stretch that compares owning an ipad to owning a vehicle or even just a phone is an imbecile and most likely a fanboy with the blinders on.

ps they aren't comparable. modern life can be lived without an ipad, it would be very very very hard to do without a phone or car.

But there was a time when owning a vehicle was as outlandish as owning an ipad. I'm not a fanboi. I use android, and windows 7. I hate people like you who accduse anyone who doesn't agree with there agenda of fanboyism. Grow up. In the real world, people have different needs satisfied by different things.

 

[TanisHalfElven]

I think this post just set a words per post density record for incorrect use of "your".

Oh look the grammar police. I'm gonna have to go to grammar jail. oh well at least i'll be away from non-contributing dumb asses like you.

 

[Ichinisan]

I see, i suppose when you want to talk to people you walk to there house. when you want to write you use a quill and a bottle of ink and write on pyparus.

Get with the times. Your on a tech site buddy. We're folks who buy toys for the simple fun of having new cool things to play with.

Your just being stubborn here. I see 2 problems.
1. Either you can't afford the ipad, or your mama won't buy you one.
2. Your just stubbornly against technology, in which case i don't know what the heck your doing on ANANDTECH.

I think this post just set a words per post density record for incorrect use of "your".

I've definitely seen worse before (here on ATOT).

 

[Ichinisan]

Oh look the grammar police. I'm gonna have to go to grammar jail. oh well at least i'll be away from non-contributing dumb asses like you.

I love when people respond this way. Translation:

I'd like to continue creating posts that make me look stupid; oblivious, until the day I die. Ignorance is bliss.

Have it your way.

 

[bfdd]

But there was a time when owning a vehicle was as outlandish as owning an ipad. I'm not a fanboi. I use android, and windows 7. I hate people like you who accduse anyone who doesn't agree with there agenda of fanboyism. Grow up. In the real world, people have different needs satisfied by different things.

no, they are very very different situations. automobiles were quite fucking revolutionary, a 10" iTouch is not. There is absolutely nothing revolutionary about the tablet industry. I am not talking just about the iPad, I'm talking the industry as a whole. A tablet fits only where one makes it fit, there is overlap in EVERY CATEGORY IT DOES THINGS IN.

What was the automobiles overlap? Horses? Not comparable.

 

[TanisHalfElven]

no, they are very very different situations. automobiles were quite fucking revolutionary, a 10" iTouch is not. There is absolutely nothing revolutionary about the tablet industry. I am not talking just about the iPad, I'm talking the industry as a whole. A tablet fits only where one makes it fit, there is overlap in EVERY CATEGORY IT DOES THINGS IN.

What was the automobiles overlap? Horses? Not comparable.

See you might think its not revolutionary now. But overtime it could extend. The first cellphones had a similar problem. And for the record i never compared the the first car to the ipad. Dumb asses there extrapolated from my post. And then bitched about grammar.

 

[Kev]

Almost everyone above that says they would never buy one, would have to choose between rent or financing it for over a year.

Quite possibly the stupidest fucking thing I've ever read.

 

[TechAZ]

Quite possibly the stupidest fucking thing I've ever read.

You don't read much of Alkymest's posts do you? Don't worry, tomorrow is a new day to outdo himself.

 

[Kev]

no, they are very very different situations. automobiles were quite fucking revolutionary, a 10" iTouch is not. There is absolutely nothing revolutionary about the tablet industry. I am not talking just about the iPad, I'm talking the industry as a whole. A tablet fits only where one makes it fit, there is overlap in EVERY CATEGORY IT DOES THINGS IN.

What was the automobiles overlap? Horses? Not comparable.

But it's so sleek and cool! And I can check my email! And read webpages! And fling birds across a screen! Holy shit!

 

[QueBert]

Oh look the grammar police. I'm gonna have to go to grammar jail. oh well at least i'll be away from non-contributing dumb asses like you.

Actually in grammar jail you have to deal with the grammar correctional officers. I know it's hard to believe, but they're actually worse, and much more annoying than the grammar police.

 

[alkemyst]

Based on your postings you literally have no job no life and no friends. I don't need to tell someone I don't know that they're poor to try and make myself feel better. I know I know more wealthy people than you do, I just don't feel the need to post everywhere about it or how much I make or anything like that because it's the internet and it doesn't matter. No one on here tries to prove they have money except for you so you probably have no money at all.

Why are you so broke if you know all these 'wealthy people'? You aren't counting people that are above you in your office are you, you can't be counting them as your friends...right?

For one I am by far not the most wealthy person here. I'd consider myself middle class and I am sure those scraping by would say I had to be upper class. I am not here to brag about my money and that's why I know when someone like you sees it that way I know you are full of shit.

I have pretty much reported the events of my life here. Good and bad since 1999. I have challenged anyone to prove me wrong on anything major. Best so far has been asshat grabbing a typo or something out of context.

The problem is people then to describe things in other threads like how they are living at home, shacked up with a dozen of stoners, have car problems due to it being a POS beater....then try to make claims that they buy $500 video cards every 3-6 months, expensive luxury items, etc....yet when an Apple thread pops up immediately a $500 device is insanely overpriced and expensive and god forbid a tip or wage thread pops up. These people want to see everyone as impoverished as themselves and struggling.

 

[alkemyst]

Quite possibly the stupidest fucking thing I've ever read.

You doubt that?

Go read those that are most against the iPad and tablets above and learn their other posts.

Anyone with an extra $500 and life would have an iPad just out of the convenience it brings. At my old job I was on-call every three weeks. Even a compact laptop was a PITA. I didn't use it everyday since I have a desktop so battery life and the like was always iffy, not to mention having to carry it to places like dog park, restaurants (many of which do not allow for these kinds of things at the table), theatres, etc.

iPad is so much better. A small STM bag, days of battery life and inconspicuous.

And my wife that already had a 13" mac book pro, brings the iPad to work instead for the same reasons. It's a better fit in her day.

Again she already has an iPhone4 so there a ton of overlap for her, but a lot that isn't.

It's funny these same tools above were probably the ones insisting on having both a laptop and desktop not to long ago...yet now a laptop and a tablet is a waste because they overlap?!?!

It's about finances, not true opinion.

 

[Nik]

I see, i suppose when you want to talk to people you walk to there house. when you want to write you use a quill and a bottle of ink and write on pyparus.

Get with the times. Your on a tech site buddy. We're folks who buy toys for the simple fun of having new cool things to play with.

Your just being stubborn here. I see 2 problems.
1. Either you can't afford the ipad, or your mama won't buy you one.
2. Your just stubbornly against technology, in which case i don't know what the heck your doing on ANANDTECH.

If I'm going somewhere I haven't been, I have printed directions and their phone number. I don't need an $800 piece of shit to help me.

When I want to write, I use a writing utensil and paper.

I'm not being stubborn; it's you stupid fucks that won't stop trying to change my opinion, now fuck off.

 

[alkemyst]

Yet another "I'm rich and I don't socialize with anyone who isn't rich too" post.

Not really but unfortuantely this iPad debate is really one that can afford one and one that cannot.

I should order a second one just to ruin your weekend.

 

[Nik]

Why are you so broke if you know all these 'wealthy people'? You aren't counting people that are above you in your office are you, you can't be counting them as your friends...right?

For one I am by far not the most wealthy person here. I'd consider myself middle class and I am sure those scraping by would say I had to be upper class. I am not here to brag about my money and that's why I know when someone like you sees it that way I know you are full of shit.

I have pretty much reported the events of my life here. Good and bad since 1999. I have challenged anyone to prove me wrong on anything major. Best so far has been asshat grabbing a typo or something out of context.

The problem is people then to describe things in other threads like how they are living at home, shacked up with a dozen of stoners, have car problems due to it being a POS beater....then try to make claims that they buy $500 video cards every 3-6 months, expensive luxury items, etc....yet when an Apple thread pops up immediately a $500 device is insanely overpriced and expensive and god forbid a tip or wage thread pops up. These people want to see everyone as impoverished as themselves and struggling.

Oh look, Alkemyst unsurprisingly belittling others by projecting onto them and looking down on them from his soapbox.

 

[Nik]

Not really but unfortuantely this iPad debate is really one that can afford one and one that cannot.

I should order a second one just to ruin your weekend.

I can, yet I don't. You're just fucking retarded.

 

[alkemyst]

If I'm going somewhere I haven't been, I have printed directions and their phone number. I don't need an $800 piece of shit to help me.

When I want to write, I use a writing utensil and paper.

I'm not being stubborn; it's you stupid fucks that won't stop trying to change my opinion, now fuck off.

Wranglers and a pair of KMart trainers, y0!

BTW, Nik; we are not trying to change your opinion. You are not making opinion statements, you are declaring the tablet market is one created out of tricking people into a product that is simply a waste of money and serves no purpose over a laptop.

 

[Nik]

You doubt that?

Go read those that are most against the iPad and tablets above and learn their other posts.

Anyone with an extra $500 and life would have an iPad just out of the convenience it brings. At my old job I was on-call every three weeks. Even a compact laptop was a PITA. I didn't use it everyday since I have a desktop so battery life and the like was always iffy, not to mention having to carry it to places like dog park, restaurants (many of which do not allow for these kinds of things at the table), theatres, etc.

iPad is so much better. A small STM bag, days of battery life and inconspicuous.

And my wife that already had a 13" mac book pro, brings the iPad to work instead for the same reasons. It's a better fit in her day.

Again she already has an iPhone4 so there a ton of overlap for her, but a lot that isn't.

It's funny these same tools above were probably the ones insisting on having both a laptop and desktop not to long ago...yet now a laptop and a tablet is a waste because they overlap?!?!

It's about finances, not true opinion.

Nobody gives a shit about whatever lie you're making up about your life and job yet again. Nobody believes you with all the bullshit you've spewed and rightly so.

Just because you can't seem to function without an iPad doesn't mean everyone else who's intelligent enough not to buy one is making the decision because they can't pay rent if they buy one.

Do you even listen to yourself?

Jesus, I bet your wife would bitch slap you and put you back in your place if she read half the shit you sling here.

 

[Nik]

Wranglers and a pair of KMart trainers, y0!

BTW, Nik; we are not trying to change your opinion. You are not making opinion statements, you are declaring the tablet market is one created out of tricking people into a product that is simply a waste of money and serves no purpose over a laptop.

I'm glad you finally see it my way.

 

[alkemyst]

Oh look, Alkemyst unsurprisingly belittling others by projecting onto them and looking down on them from his soapbox.

oh, look at me I am a martyr...people feel bad for me and help me! help me! halp!

 

[Nik]

oh, look at me I am a martyr...people feel bad for me and help me! help me! halp!

Do you understand the concept of a martyr? Do you even understand the insults you're flinging? Where have I said that people should feel sorry for me? Quote me, liar.

 

[alkemyst]

Nobody gives a shit about whatever lie you're making up about your life and job yet again. Nobody believes you with all the bullshit you've spewed and rightly so.

Just because you can't seem to function without an iPad doesn't mean everyone else who's intelligent enough not to buy one is making the decision because they can't pay rent if they buy one.

Do you even listen to yourself?

Jesus, I bet your wife would bitch slap you and put you back in your place if she read half the shit you sling here.

See that's not it at all. I could function without an iPad, without GPS, without NAV, without a cell phone, without internet, without a car, without higher end clothing, without a large screen LCD, etc.

It's about convenience. Just like your statement of when you want to write you grab paper and a pencil...I am so sure that's how you send in a resume or an offical letter/document. lolz.

My wife feels I shouldn't even post here because she thinks many can't help they live at home and don't have friends/things to do.