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iPad complaint thread.
Ed_McCarron:
Maybe they don't care about browsing this web. I hear next month they are releasing a new cybernetic implant to allow you to browse the AppleWeb where they control everything - you included.
RayB:
I've used a Netbook and surfing its tiny screen with scrollbars and a trackpad or "nub" is just getting "archaic". PEOPLE! you gotta look at more than just a generalized feature list! All cars have 4 wheels and 1 steering wheel but they don't all drive the same.
patrickl:
--- Quote from: RayB on April 12, 2010, 04:07:45 pm ---I've used a Netbook and surfing its tiny screen with scrollbars and a trackpad or "nub" is just getting "archaic". PEOPLE! you gotta look at more than just a generalized feature list! All cars have 4 wheels and 1 steering wheel but they don't all drive the same.
--- End quote ---
Netbooks come with touchscreens too and you can switch to fullscreen.
Netbooks have keyboards so you can properly type when you want to write something on a forum, e-mail or whatever and you can set them down and still read the screen.
I had the same idea, that browsing the web on a tablet would be the coolest ever, but I was done with that in a week and now never do it anymore. I guess if you really only read and don't mind holding the thing in your hands all the time then you'd be fine.
Level42:
--- Quote from: patrickl on April 12, 2010, 04:53:40 pm ---
--- Quote from: RayB on April 12, 2010, 04:07:45 pm ---I've used a Netbook and surfing its tiny screen with scrollbars and a trackpad or "nub" is just getting "archaic". PEOPLE! you gotta look at more than just a generalized feature list! All cars have 4 wheels and 1 steering wheel but they don't all drive the same.
--- End quote ---
Netbooks come with touchscreens too and you can switch to fullscreen.
Netbooks have keyboards so you can properly type when you want to write something on a forum, e-mail or whatever and you can set them down and still read the screen.
I had the same idea, that browsing the web on a tablet would be the coolest ever, but I was done with that in a week and now never do it anymore. I guess if you really only read and don't mind holding the thing in your hands all the time then you'd be fine.
--- End quote ---
You know the funny thing is that you have never ever touched the damn thing, and you are already so full of hate for it.
But even IF you will ever work with it, you will dish it just because you want to because it's an Apple product.
Somethings in life are just pointless. Like trying to convince an Apple hater of it's GOOD points.
The funny thing is, that in this country where Patrick and I live, Apple used to be a _very_ minor party. The number of Mac users was really only the guys in music and graphics/video.
Now, there are a shitload of Apple stores, you can buy their products on every street corner, yet they never aired ONE TV commercial over here.
I'd say there _must_ be something about their products that people seem to like.
And history repeats itself: The iPod had the same critiques. It lacked this and that, there were _so_ many alike devices already on the market, the price was too high, well I don't have to explain who's the market leader in the MP3 player market now.
When the iPhone came, the same story.
The iPad will have the same effect. I know you laugh now, but we'll talk a bit more in about a year or so.....
syph007:
Oh I'm about the biggest apple hater around... everyone I know is as well. I admit im not their target market, but the arrogance of steve jobs in those product launches really really drives the hatred. The ipad... i wont tell you why you need it.. just that you need it.. its the best INTERNET experience ever for some reason.. blah blah magic blah blah... He will somehow have you think he invented the tablet pc.. i was using one in 2004 and thinking it was stupid then. I still believe its a hard sell to find a device niche between phone and laptop that ISNT a netbook. I can see the reader reason, but thats what those eInk devices are for, this ipad crap is a regular LCD?
I find everything about them to be insulting to my intelligence. I realize they market to the lowest common denominator so that they have a wider audience... but sheesh. I'm old, i remember laughing at people who had macs back in the day.. they should have died off as a company back in the 80's/90's. I've written apps for palm, windows mobile, blackberry, android and I felt by way of peer pressure to try writing for the ipad. Horrid crap is all I can say.
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