iPad WTF

[[ES] Secret Squirrel]

I mean who what why. Could this be the Sinclair C5?

[[ES] Mindflayer]

It will sell well. The detractors all poo-poo'd the iPhone as well.

Remember when Engadget and the rest of the tech blogs said the iPod was stupid?
Remember when they said the iPhone was stupid?
Remember when they said OS X was stupid?

(Also when they said Windows 7 was stupid, or the Zune was crap, or whatever....)


http://www.stephenfry.com/2010/01/28/ipad-about

[[ES] Mindflayer]

From the Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes? post on Daringfireball:

Adobe’s fear, of course, is that #4 is what will happen. And with good reason, since I think it’s fair to say that we’re seeing this happen already. Flash evangelist Lee Brimelow made his little poster showing what a bunch of Flash-using web sites look like without Flash without actually looking to see how they render on MobileSafari. Ends up a bunch of them, including the porno site, already have iPhone-optimized versions with no blue boxes, and video that plays just fine as straight-up H.264. iPhone visitors to these sites have no idea they’re missing anything because, well, they’re not missing anything. For a few other of the sites Brimelow cited, like Disney and Spongebob Squarepants, there are dedicated native iPhone apps.

Kendall Helmstetter Gelner put together this version of Brimelow’s chart using actual screenshots from MobileSafari, the App Store, and native iPhone apps. The only two blue boxes left: FarmVille and Hulu.

[[ES] Secret Squirrel]

Well maybe I am wrong. The market for mini laptops has been good and my lappie is certainly feeling heavy now a days. I am sure Apple have done the reseach. The next time I post heree is when I see somebody using one. I dont expect that to be any times soon.

Now if they could fit one to this....

[[ES] Mindflayer]

What is that, Andy?

I am pretty sure I will buy an iPad. The netbook I have is mediocre at best. I love my Sony PRS-505, but PDF support is poor. This can replace both with the functionality I need at the time.

[[ES] Secret Squirrel]

Thats the Sinclair C5. The future of transportation through the eyes of Clive Sinclair and his company. The guy made a small fortune building early home computers and lost the lot on the C5.

The iPad to me is just a bigger iphone with greater size, weight and futility:

Its not just an oblong that you can read wiki on, no it doubles up as a content deilvery platform:



electronic burka:



hand held air conditioning:



chopping board:



owning an ipad will be like having the whole world in your hands, well until at least you have to drop it for the iphone..

its reason for being is to milk money....

[[ES] Canadian Bacon]

I agree that its raison d'etre is to milk the population that has come to adore the Apple logo. I feel like they're just filling a niche that never needed to be filled because they know millions of people will buy it for the brand name.

[[ES] Mindflayer]

Have to stop thinking of it as a computer and more as an appliance.

We'll see - everyone thought Apple was stupid for entering the MP3 market when there were already MP3s and for entering the phone market where they would get crushed.

[[ES] Canadian Bacon]

Have to stop thinking of it as a computer and more as an appliance.

We'll see - everyone thought Apple was stupid for entering the MP3 market when there were already MP3s and for entering the phone market where they would get crushed.

And now they're pioneering the awkwardly-sized tablet market?