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Story: The iPad is potentially one of the most important, culture-changing products in history!Total Replies: 17
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tuxchick

Jan 27, 2010
5:47 PM EDT
"This thing is just complete fail. End of the year Apple is rumored to release the 128 Gig model branded as the Max-iPad."

http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-01-27-03...
techiem2

Jan 27, 2010
6:14 PM EDT
I love Apple's description on their site:
Quoting:Our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price.
Followed by:
Quoting:Starting at $499


And after looking it over: Yeah, it's pretty (of course, it's Apple). Yeah, it does some interesting things (multitouch display, etc.). But it's nothing special. It's a DRM ridden, locked down, audio/video format restricted (I laughed at how few formats it supports) hybrid between a table pc, iPod, and iPhone - that can't make calls.
montezuma

Jan 27, 2010
6:24 PM EDT
Basically an "Idepends" then
tuxchick

Jan 27, 2010
6:34 PM EDT
iDepends? Stylish, expensive adult diapers?
gus3

Jan 27, 2010
6:36 PM EDT
Ouch. Even worse than "CR@PS".

If it's DRM'd to kingdom come, would that mean it's locked in an iPadded cell?
tracyanne

Jan 27, 2010
7:08 PM EDT
no gus, that's the users.
azerthoth

Jan 27, 2010
7:26 PM EDT
iI iAM iSO iCONFUSED. iDARN iTHOSE iLEMMINGS. i(*&^*^&%%&#)
dinotrac

Jan 27, 2010
10:59 PM EDT
Read all this stuff and tried to decide if it was important.

Conclusion:

iGuess.
jezuch

Jan 28, 2010
3:10 AM EDT
http://static.funnyjunk.com/pictures/500x_stevejobscomic_01....
Bob_Robertson

Jan 28, 2010
9:23 AM EDT
Thanks, Jezuch. It's been so long since I thought about Duke Nuke'm with the BubbleGum Crisis graphics pack, "Priss Nuke'm".

tmx

Jan 28, 2010
3:58 PM EDT
The real question is: can I use it to pad my @ss?

PS. If Fujitsu decided to sue for the name iPad, which I don't think they would because the name is horrible, they should just let Apple have it. It is not as bad of a marketing decision compared to 'JooJoo' though.
Bob_Robertson

Jan 28, 2010
4:00 PM EDT
> can I use it to pad my @ss?

Wouldn't that bet the aPad?
tuxchick

Jan 28, 2010
4:49 PM EDT
Oh I dunno tmz, I always thought 'squirting' the Zune took top honors for terrible marketing.
tracyanne

Jan 28, 2010
5:09 PM EDT
The iPad is priced at $US499, that's $AU557.34 about the same price as Windows powered netbooks in Australia, Linux powered ones can be purchased for $AU399.00 - 1 gig RAM ($US357.34) including shipping to anywhere in Australia ($AU441 with 2Gig RAM) same machine withj Windows 7 Home Premium, and no extra software $AU594.00 + MS Office Home and Student goes up to $777.00. Naturally the Linux version already has an Office package pre installed.

cr

Jan 28, 2010
11:13 PM EDT
iRoll
hkwint

Jan 30, 2010
8:26 PM EDT
Testing:

Nope, my table doesn't work in comments... Sad.
tmx

Mar 01, 2010
2:10 AM EDT
One month late for this, but still worth it: http://dailyiphoneblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/ipad-i...
Bob_Robertson

Mar 01, 2010
8:48 AM EDT
Quite the iCon Artist.

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