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jmke 21st May 2010 17:28

My iPad tryst: I craved, I caved, I gave up
 
Steve Jobs may blackball me for writing this, or even thinking it, but I think you should know: The iPad is useless. Beautiful, but useless.


Using iBook as stand for iPad

In the span of about a week I purchased, gave up on and feverishly resold an iPad after realizing Apple already made and I already own the more utilitarian and ergonomic version: the iPhone.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37235630...ence-wireless/

thorgal 21st May 2010 18:02

What an interesting news post :rolleyes: For every a$$hole that writes an article like this there will be 100 satisfied customers that you don't hear about.

jmke 21st May 2010 18:04

this is the second post I see from an apple using reviewer who returns/sells his ipad because he can't find a real excuse for keeping the device ;)

wutske 21st May 2010 23:24

More and more I start to wonder whether the iPad wasn't designed to be kinda useless. I mean, it's a hell of a marketing trick and they can afford doing so. They create bigger iPhone, be very secretive about it in the beginning, then all of a sudden drop a bomb as if a new era has started ... et voila: the perfect mix for a gigantic amount of free advertesing, people all over the world are talking about the iPad, even on the news and on television they're talking about it.

On the other hand, they're also pushing the micro-sim format. It's unbelievable... all of a sudden, all mobile operators are offering micro-sims... Just because the iPad needs it.
Can you imagine any other company able to do something like that ?

//edit: lol@pic:banana:

jmke 21st May 2010 23:25

let me see.. might think of a few...
Starts with M end with icrosoft (OS)
or how about *ntel? ;) (dev)

Kougar 22nd May 2010 04:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmke (Post 258493)
this is the second post I see from an apple using reviewer who returns/sells his ipad because he can't find a real excuse for keeping the device ;)

As if that is unusual for any device bought purely as a "want". ;)

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/...ipad-world.ars

wutske 22nd May 2010 13:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmke (Post 258511)
let me see.. might think of a few...
Starts with M end with icrosoft (OS)
or how about *ntel? ;) (dev)

Which product/technology did Microsoft push to the market ?
Same for Intel.

thorgal 22nd May 2010 13:56

Maybe you guys can give it a try before go out and bash the thing

jmke 22nd May 2010 14:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by wutske (Post 258520)
Which product/technology did Microsoft push to the market ?
Same for Intel.

let me see...

MS: WINDOWS
Intel: x86

Quote:

Originally Posted by thorgal (Post 258521)
Maybe you guys can give it a try before go out and bash the thing

buy me one ;)
you're just unhappy that we're not going crazy over this product ;)

ps: nothing is stopping you from making newspost about iPad which put it in a different light;
I don't "seek out" negative iPad news or reports, I'm still using the same RSS news sources as always

thorgal 22nd May 2010 19:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmke (Post 258522)
you're just unhappy that we're not going crazy over this product ;)

ps: nothing is stopping you from making newspost about iPad which put it in a different light;
I don't "seek out" negative iPad news or reports, I'm still using the same RSS news sources as always

No, I'm unhappy because you only provide negatively biassed news, which seems to be popular among PC based websites nowadays, Dailytech being the worst of all


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