The Ipad’s on the tip of everyone’s tongue these days. Why, I have no idea. Stuck in the awkward position of being a weak laptop, a roided up blackberry, a high functioning kindle, and a bulky telephone, its practical application seems mystifying.
If I want to call someone I’ll use a phone, if I want to go online, I’ll use a laptop, if I want to listen to music I’ll use an Ipod, but what is the use of an Ipad?
in a new York Times article published today, a few possible answers are given. “It’s beyond technology. It’s a culture. It’s a community,” said Rey Gutierrez, a die-hard loyalist with a tattoo of the Apple logo on his left hand, who had waited outside the San Francisco Apple store since 4 a.m.”
OK, so its a cultural statement to buy a computer that fits no nitch. I guess that’s a personal decision. But all the Ipad hysteria seems strange to me. I love the Ipod, the Iphone is nifty, a phone with wonderful applications and enough functionality to serve as a stripped down laptop yet small enough to work as a phone, but the Ipad, with its wish to be all things computer related, is probably going to fail.
Sure, sails are going to spike this month, but I don’t see Apple being able to sustain sails of the device into 2011. Netbooks all the way, in my opinion.
I leave you with this final oddity from the Times article. “We’re totally excited. It’s going to change everything,” Tracy Kahney said while her son, Lyle, 9, fidgeted uncomfortably in the cardboard Ipad costume she had made for him.”
In fact, the Ipad will not change everything. Its going to change everything? I just want to know how someone got themselves into a weird head space. The Ipod changed a lot, so did the Iphone, because now MP3 players and Smartphones are ubiquitus, but the Ipad, is like the retarded child of every portable electronic device that has hit the market in the last five years. Its crack addled, and is going to spend its life first loved, then resented for the hole its burning into its parents pockets, then it’ll die a slow death in fostercare.
This is the times article sited. Its definetly worth a read. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/technology/04ipad.html
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The Ipad. Half Netbook, half phone, half Kindle, mostly useless.
The Ipad’s on the tip of everyone’s tongue these days. Why, I have no idea. Stuck in the awkward position of being a weak laptop, a roided up blackberry, a high functioning kindle, and a bulky telephone, its practical application seems mystifying.
If I want to call someone I’ll use a phone, if I want to go online, I’ll use a laptop, if I want to listen to music I’ll use an Ipod, but what is the use of an Ipad?
in a new York Times article published today, a few possible answers are given. “It’s beyond technology. It’s a culture. It’s a community,” said Rey Gutierrez, a die-hard loyalist with a tattoo of the Apple logo on his left hand, who had waited outside the San Francisco Apple store since 4 a.m.”
OK, so its a cultural statement to buy a computer that fits no nitch. I guess that’s a personal decision. But all the Ipad hysteria seems strange to me. I love the Ipod, the Iphone is nifty, a phone with wonderful applications and enough functionality to serve as a stripped down laptop yet small enough to work as a phone, but the Ipad, with its wish to be all things computer related, is probably going to fail.
Sure, sails are going to spike this month, but I don’t see Apple being able to sustain sails of the device into 2011. Netbooks all the way, in my opinion.
I leave you with this final oddity from the Times article. “We’re totally excited. It’s going to change everything,” Tracy Kahney said while her son, Lyle, 9, fidgeted uncomfortably in the cardboard Ipad costume she had made for him.”
In fact, the Ipad will not change everything. Its going to change everything? I just want to know how someone got themselves into a weird head space. The Ipod changed a lot, so did the Iphone, because now MP3 players and Smartphones are ubiquitus, but the Ipad, is like the retarded child of every portable electronic device that has hit the market in the last five years. Its crack addled, and is going to spend its life first loved, then resented for the hole its burning into its parents pockets, then it’ll die a slow death in fostercare.
This is the times article sited. Its definetly worth a read. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/technology/04ipad.html
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