Apple stock shot up once the price was announced.. actually. Then people turned and tried to profit quickly.. given then abysmal performance of the entire market the last two weeks.
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So far out of the entire internets it seems like just Kmarion and teds (teds is just trolling) seem to be interested in this
I was quite interested actually, but the lack of HD space and usb ports/camera/SD slot/multitasking made me kind of "ehh".Mekstizzle wrote:
So far out of the entire internets it seems like just Kmarion and teds (teds is just trolling) seem to be interested in this
As in buying?Mekstizzle wrote:
So far out of the entire internets it seems like just Kmarion and teds (teds is just trolling) seem to be interested in this
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people buy shit like this to seem cool and hip. utterly useless. i guess this financial crisis of the past year hasn't taught most people a damn thing.
So basically you were hyped up by the media machine but then realised it sucks, that puts you in the camp of how most people felt.Bevo wrote:
I was quite interested actually, but the lack of HD space and usb ports/camera/SD slot/multitasking made me kind of "ehh".Mekstizzle wrote:
So far out of the entire internets it seems like just Kmarion and teds (teds is just trolling) seem to be interested in this
The others being the people who always thought this thing would be shit (me), and the small percentage who don't care and will buy it regardless, because it's Apple.
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no idea what you're talking about.11 Bravo wrote:
people buy shit like this to seem cool and hip. utterly useless. i guess this financial crisis of the past year hasn't taught most people a damn thing.
I'm sure some people are sacrificing a lot.
for example: getting 16gb instead of 84gb
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Nerp, I didn't have any expectations. I thought "interesting" but had no real desire or nagging to see how cool the new apple shit is.Mekstizzle wrote:
So basically you were hyped up by the media machine but then realised it sucks, that puts you in the camp of how most people felt.
The others being the people who always thought this thing would be shit (me), and the small percentage who don't care and will buy it regardless, because it's Apple.
I mean I have an iPhone and I love the little thing to death, but I would never be caught dead with a macbook pro.
are you taking a piss?NateWiese wrote:
no idea what you're talking about.11 Bravo wrote:
people buy shit like this to seem cool and hip. utterly useless. i guess this financial crisis of the past year hasn't taught most people a damn thing.
I'm sure some people are sacrificing a lot.
for example: getting 16gb instead of 84gb
The people saying it's 'useless' are unimagnitive tools. They claim "they knew it would be shit" when it just amounts to them being close minded, too lazy to actually use their heads. The developers have just now gotten their hands on the kit. That is going to open a world of iPad specific applications. How practical they will be has yet tbd. I could give a fuck shit what people think. It sure as hell isn't the trendy or hip thing here.
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i said utterly useless.Kmarion wrote:
The people saying it's 'useless' are unimagnitive tools.
Browsing on 3.5 and browsing on 10 is a totally different experience to.Bevo wrote:
Nerp, I didn't have any expectations. I thought "interesting" but had no real desire or nagging to see how cool the new apple shit is.Mekstizzle wrote:
So basically you were hyped up by the media machine but then realised it sucks, that puts you in the camp of how most people felt.
The others being the people who always thought this thing would be shit (me), and the small percentage who don't care and will buy it regardless, because it's Apple.
I mean I have an iPhone and I love the little thing to death, but I would never be caught dead with a macbook pro.
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I'll quote you when I'm speaking directly to you.11 Bravo wrote:
i said utterly useless.Kmarion wrote:
The people saying it's 'useless' are unimagnitive tools.
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aye aye captainKmarion wrote:
I'll quote you when I'm speaking directly to you.11 Bravo wrote:
i said utterly useless.Kmarion wrote:
The people saying it's 'useless' are unimagnitive tools.
not trolling btw
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I would not think the person using this would not use it as a storage archive for their photography or musicBevo wrote:
I was quite interested actually, but the lack of HD space and usb ports/camera/SD slot/multitasking made me kind of "ehh".Mekstizzle wrote:
So far out of the entire internets it seems like just Kmarion and teds (teds is just trolling) seem to be interested in this
A fair sampling of applications, music, videos and pictures would easily exceed 64g. Obviously it won't be used as a storage device but if I were say a photographer using it to view/show pictures while working an event I would hate to be limited by that amount of space.jsnipy wrote:
I would not think the person using this would not use it as a storage archive for their photography or musicBevo wrote:
I was quite interested actually, but the lack of HD space and usb ports/camera/SD slot/multitasking made me kind of "ehh".Mekstizzle wrote:
So far out of the entire internets it seems like just Kmarion and teds (teds is just trolling) seem to be interested in this
An app would be able to import, resize it to fit, and look nicely on a 10 inch device in good quality (as a small file). When you stop thinking of it as a note/netbook then you will start seeing a bit more possibilities.
Edit: and probably geotag it as well.
Edit: and probably geotag it as well.
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Why would you want to resize to fit to screen? Compromising picture quality because the lack of storage isnt very smart.Kmarion wrote:
An app would be able to import, resize it to fit, and look nicely on a 10 inch device in good quality (as a small file). When you stop thinking of it as a note/netbook then you will start seeing a bit more possibilities.
Edit: and probably geotag it as well.
Yes, but who has 10" pockets? You'd have to carry a knapsack/bag around 24/7 in the winterKmarion wrote:
Browsing on 3.5 and browsing on 10 is a totally different experience to.Bevo wrote:
Nerp, I didn't have any expectations. I thought "interesting" but had no real desire or nagging to see how cool the new apple shit is.Mekstizzle wrote:
So basically you were hyped up by the media machine but then realised it sucks, that puts you in the camp of how most people felt.
The others being the people who always thought this thing would be shit (me), and the small percentage who don't care and will buy it regardless, because it's Apple.
I mean I have an iPhone and I love the little thing to death, but I would never be caught dead with a macbook pro.
Actually, what would be really interesting would be if they could find a way to make it fold in half without sacrificing any of its previous qualities. It might fit into a large pocket then.
I still stand by that whomever makes my dream tablet (300GB+ HDD, can play HD movies, OLED screen) with a good interface and durability I will buy it. Even if its Apple, HP, Dell, Microsoft... anyone. They just have to make it first
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Kmarion, the reason it is being compared to a netbook is because Jobs himself compared it to a netbook, saying it does everything better than a netbook (which is kinda hard to prove with a product not even on the market, yet).
Bevo is right - the stock market's response to the Apple iPad says it all. Since the rumors started, the price of Apple stock has been climbing despite the overall falling of the stock market as a whole. What happens when the iPad is released? The price plateaus and then starts to fall back down. If you'd bought stock in Apple at the beginning of summer, you would have doubled your investment by now.
Bevo is right - the stock market's response to the Apple iPad says it all. Since the rumors started, the price of Apple stock has been climbing despite the overall falling of the stock market as a whole. What happens when the iPad is released? The price plateaus and then starts to fall back down. If you'd bought stock in Apple at the beginning of summer, you would have doubled your investment by now.
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kmar is right- this is not a 'hip' gadget. the fuck is hip about carrying around a tablet? it's a more design and industry-orientated gadget than a lifestyle-accessory. people will not be carrying ipads around in their back-pockets to get out at starbucks over their double-latte-moche-americanos-with-strawberry-whip. with an open world of thousands of apps and a wide use in design, photography and the home... it's aimed at a different market.
@poschy: design-questions are aimed at the actual brief, specification and purpose of the invention. consumer-questions deal with ones' own applicability and desire for the product. with apple they always do seem to be inextricably linked, but i think this is wrong. you can see the point in a gaming mouse made by logitech. whether or not you have a use for one in your own pc-gaming is your consumer question. people think that because they cannot afford the cost of an apple product, or cannot find a personal use for it in their own lifestyle/home, that it has no function or purpose as a product. that's wrong. people don't call the logitech G5 mouse a retarded invention because they don't want to fork out $75 for 2000DPi instead of a standard 800DPi. but they say the iPad is a /fail announcement because they won't use a 10-inch screen, or whatever. dumb anti-apple bandwagon shit.
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kmar is right- this is not a 'hip' gadget. the fuck is hip about carrying around a tablet? it's a more design and industry-orientated gadget than a lifestyle-accessory. people will not be carrying ipads around in their back-pockets to get out at starbucks over their double-latte-moche-americanos-with-strawberry-whip. with an open world of thousands of apps and a wide use in design, photography and the home... it's aimed at a different market.
@poschy: design-questions are aimed at the actual brief, specification and purpose of the invention. consumer-questions deal with ones' own applicability and desire for the product. with apple they always do seem to be inextricably linked, but i think this is wrong. you can see the point in a gaming mouse made by logitech. whether or not you have a use for one in your own pc-gaming is your consumer question. people think that because they cannot afford the cost of an apple product, or cannot find a personal use for it in their own lifestyle/home, that it has no function or purpose as a product. that's wrong. people don't call the logitech G5 mouse a retarded invention because they don't want to fork out $75 for 2000DPi instead of a standard 800DPi. but they say the iPad is a /fail announcement because they won't use a 10-inch screen, or whatever. dumb anti-apple bandwagon shit.
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Except they probably will, whether it was designed for it or not.Uzique wrote:
people will not be carrying ipads around in their back-pockets to get out at starbucks over their double-latte-moche-americanos-with-strawberry-whip. with an open world of thousands of apps and a wide use in design, photography and the home... it's aimed at a different market.
Quoted for emphasisPrivateVendetta wrote:
That's the point.Uzique wrote:
i dont mean tablet-technology as a whole, i mean if HP had been the company behind this highly-anticipated launch, and had produced the exact same gadget. people wouldn't question the purpose and design brief of it; they'd only have consumer questions. because it's apple though, the two polemic sides are either calling it the next lifestyle must-have or a redundant piece of technology with as much use as a 2000 year old piece of granite. fucking re-tar-ded.
It wasn't as ground-breaking as they were hyping it all up to be, in lots of peoples opinions. Including mine.
I imagine there would be less shit-sayers if they hadn't hyped it up so much
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