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it has less functionality than my iPhone and I wouldn't know ho to utilize it between pc and notebook

QFE.
And personally, as I don't even need one of those uberphones (yet, I'm afraid), I'd have even less need of Apple's latest overpriced electronic fashion accessoire. I also like to do my reading on paper, I spend enough time staring at a screen as it is, the last thing I'd want to do is take the stupid Eierbrett into bed with me to read a book...

(My cellphone is strictly for emergency use, it might be on all the time, but don't anyone expect me to pick up, or reply to their text message when I've decided I'm "unavailable". And it's useful as an alarm clock, now I can wake up to "No guts, no glory" wherever I go. )

I don't really see how the iPad is a practical tool at all so long as you can't run multiple apps on it at once. Think about it...you can't have an IM program or Skype or Thunderbird or anything else running in the background while you surf the web or type up an article or what not...what's the point?

That's cause you said 1-glasses instead of iglasses. Kinda blows the joke...[:'(]

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ORIGINAL: Arctic Blast

I don't really see how the iPad is a practical tool at all so long as you can't run multiple apps on it at once. Think about it...you can't have an IM program or Skype or Thunderbird or anything else running in the background while you surf the web or type up an article or what not...what's the point?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAl28d6tbko

You're about 4 hours too late for that comment. Apple just announced multitasking for both the iphone and the ipad today. Ipod this summer. iPad this fall.

I have tried it and think it's going to sell like hotcakes. It has the best browsing experience I've seen. Lightning fast. too bad it doesn't have flash - I don't buy their excuses a bit. Fortunately I've seen a lot of sites going to html 5 in response though.

It is not meant to replace either a notebook or an ipod. Having owned a netbook I think the iPad is better for 80% of your everyday tasks. It won't do the remaining 20% at all though ;-D

I-glasses.. sorry was really trying for the I-pod iphone, i-glasses run...

I found it funny...(ish)[:D]

Wow.... ipad,iphone,iskint,ibrake,icry,iregret,ipaperweight...& so on.[:D]

My only criterion for an electronic device:

- Internet access

- can play wargames


I too have no mobile phone and no MP3 player and no reason to get either !

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The device also appears to act as an aphrodisiac of sorts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UciKe5EbjqQ

ORIGINAL: Joe 98

My only criterion for an electronic device:

- Internet access

- can play wargames


I too have no mobile phone and no MP3 player and no reason to get either !

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Exactly the same as me....no mobile (I hate the phone anyway...half the time I don't answer the bloody thing nd that a land line)...as for an MP3 it would take me days to put my music onto one...just doesn't justify the time it would take....

I want internet...I want wargames...I want fun games with kid (will buy a WII soonish)

I had no idea this forum was populated by a band of luddites.

Personally, I don't mind the availability of these gadgets as much as I dislike the fact that they're marketed as essential, and you're supposed to feel incomplete and like an inferior being if you don't use them...


And while they may be status symbols, that only works when they add to a show of wealth, not when your clothes look like they're trash and you can barely afford a second pair of jeans... but maybe that's just my old-fashioned priorities clashing with current values.
Still, everytime I see one of these Bafög-sponsored jerks touting their i-crap but failing to have 5€ on their account and subsequently holding up the entire line at the cashier, I just want to lash out...

Paul Miller says that "iPad app prices are out of control and will kill us all."

ORIGINAL: Crimguy

You're about 4 hours too late for that comment. Apple just announced multitasking for both the iphone and the ipad today. Ipod this summer. iPad this fall.

It won't be real multitasking though. In the future, Once you'll open app "B", app "A" will freeze and be moved to the background (means it will be paused), and if you then switch back from "B" to "A", then B will be paused.

Currently, listening to some tunes and writing an SMS on an I-phone will work (because the music-player is a part of the OS), but if you want activate a 3rd party app AND then an Apple utility, the 3rd party app will be closed.
Also, listening to music and using facebook or other 3rd-party apps won't work, unlike on OS's with real multitasking - like Android.

Multitasking is a core element of the Android OS.
Apple used to dismiss multitasking in the past, as they claimed it would be an unnecessary burden for the battery.

Well, Google showed that you can do it, so Apple tries to counter Google's attack with their half-assed version of multitasking, now.

Apple = Overpriced, restrictive, missing functions or functionality, limited RAM, imho.

Their only advantage: The design is top-notch.

ORIGINAL: Crimguy

I had no idea this forum was populated by a band of luddites.

Luddite? Nah. It's just like Apple doesn't seem to catch up with the technical possibilities/progress, once they create a forerunner. It's been like that with the I-Cube, the I-Mac, and the I-Phone just follows that path. The competition uses to pass Apple after a while, sometimes picking up one or another idea or enhancing ideas, but always adding many more features, sometimes the competition passes and breaks new ground.

The I-cube, for example, was really neat: small, no fans inside (passive cooling), integrated CD-ROM drive, but you couldn't upgrade it. It had one or 2 memory banks, that was it. It was 10-20% more expensive than the other G4 machines, and you could only put in bigger HDs (>128 GB) if you installed OS X with special drivers. The cube let Apple stocks drop, and it took an iPod to solve this crisis. After Apple released the I-Cube, other companies came up with those "barebone" PCs, the awesome looking MacBook Air (reportedly overheating at 66° Celsius [150° F] already) was passed by even smaller eeePCs with Intel's Atom CPU.

They keep doing stuff like that.

ORIGINAL: jackx

Personally, I don't mind the availability of these gadgets as much as I dislike the fact that they're marketed as essential, and you're supposed to feel incomplete and like an inferior being if you don't use them.

A lot of people will go for this just to be coolhttp://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141180/

I hate Apple and their rip off prices for music, their rip off prices for movies and their rip off prices for their over priced hardware with every breath of my dying body!

ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd

I hate Apple and their rip off prices for music, their rip off prices for movies and their rip off prices for their over priced hardware with every breath of my dying body!

Gee Judge. It would be nice if you had an opinion instead of being so wishy-washy..[:'(]

lol - sorry. Was I not clear? [:D]

I don´t have anything of this iStuff either. I got a 4-year-old cellphone from my company which I rarely use. The trick is to keep your number more or less secret [:D].
 
Here in Germany I have made this observation: The lower the social class of the user the more sophisicated are the electronic devices. I always wonder how they pay their bill[8|]
 
 

Low income/class, expensive gadgets and an incessant and compulsory urge to communicate... what a wonderful combination indeed, and a mutually reinforcing download spiral of ever more meaningless communication and ever more sophisticated devices to facilitate the former... the fruit of modern civilization indeed.[:@]

@GoodGuy: I don't think Apple is dropping the ball on being truly innovative and progressive, to me it looks more like they're not even trying (and quite deliberately, why put in some effort when you can cash in easily without), but just looking for something "fresh" to hype up their latest fashionable iCrap.