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Bianca Paragon January 30th, 2010 3:06 AM

Protip, guys, none of the Apple Handheld Devices support flash. It's a conscious decision they made based on the security vulnerabilities in flash and the fact that as a format (especially flash video) it's on the way out.

Flandre Scarlet January 30th, 2010 5:00 AM

...I have only one thing to say about this. Ph41l. (phail)

Harmonie January 30th, 2010 3:43 PM

So essentially it's just a big iPod Touch?

Well I'll be missing out on this. It's very expensive, as well. I already chose my 30GB iPod Classic/Video over the iPod Touch two and a half years ago. That iPod has done just fine for me.

donavannj January 30th, 2010 4:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bianca Paragon (Post 5509578)
Protip, guys, none of the Apple Handheld Devices support flash. It's a conscious decision they made based on the security vulnerabilities in flash and the fact that as a format (especially flash video) it's on the way out.

When I say flash, I mean the memory type, 90% of the time. Disregard if this wasn't directed at me.

linkinpark187 January 30th, 2010 4:38 PM

i personally have no interest in Apple products. if i ever have a chance to get into a major career in video and/or photo editing, maybe. but even then i'm only planning on some form of Mac. if you ask me, i think the iTouch/iPad are kind of ugly....with that big black border...blech... :laugh:

Hovo January 30th, 2010 9:05 PM

Just a larger version of the ipod touch. Nothing impressive.

Binary January 31st, 2010 8:45 AM

It doesn't look so attractive visually.
Hopefully it will stand out product-wise. But I have no interest in this.

Captain Fabio January 31st, 2010 9:46 AM

Can not wait for this iPad.
Bottom line is, I am very likely to buy it :D

Niprop January 31st, 2010 1:13 PM

"So this must be the iphone for old people.."

Meh, if nothing else, I suppose it could be used as an ebook for collage students. Don't see much use after that, though, unless you really want to carry it around as backup in case your real iphone runs out of power.

Corvus of the Black Night January 31st, 2010 1:34 PM

Spoiler:
Wow, I didn't know Apple was working with Kotex.

Anti-Hero January 31st, 2010 3:15 PM

I don't buy apple products, simply because I can get things with more or less the same functionality at a much cheaper price. Sure, my generic mp3 won't hold as much songs as an iPod, but to be honest, I will still only listen to a select few if I put thousands of songs on their... so... yeah.

The iPad will be no different, I'd rather just get a netbook.

Zelda January 31st, 2010 5:24 PM

They just announced it at the Grammy Awards on television. xD Personally I think it's okay, but I'd rather get myself a Netbook as well. As Zet said on the first page, it sounds much like a Netbook with the battery range lasting 10 hours.

Either way though, right now all I want is the iPod Touch so I don't think I'd be getting an iPad anytime soon. It makes me wonder what else the Apple store will come out with next.

winseven4lyf January 31st, 2010 5:30 PM

Another overpriced bit of rubbish from Crapple. Is it even a computer? No.. It's an ebook reader, photo viewer, video player, etc. NOT A COMPUTER -.-" I certainly wouldn't pay 1100 bucks for a video player :S

Lucy Lu January 31st, 2010 8:50 PM

That looks pretty cool, but I got to see how it pans well with the other notebooks. If it in-sync with the iPod Touch, it won't be too bad. I thinking about getting one in the near future. Maybe by then the prices are going to be a lot lower. XD And maybe they probably have a lot more applications that are useful. I have to see though. It looks nice though.

On second thought...I am getting this! It looks so cool. You can read, check e-mail, use Maps, look at your photos, listen to music, watch tv, watch videos, go online, etc. Here, I found a video about it. You have the internet on your fingertips. Well I don't need the iPod Touch now. I am getting the iPad! XD

Spoiler:

Captain Fabio February 1st, 2010 5:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by winseven4lyf (Post 5513961)
Another overpriced bit of rubbish from Crapple. Is it even a computer? No.. It's an ebook reader, photo viewer, video player, etc. NOT A COMPUTER -.-" I certainly wouldn't pay 1100 bucks for a video player :S

Over-priced? 1100 bucks?

You don't know anything about it do you?
It is real cheap for what it is you know.
Starting at $499.

twocows February 2nd, 2010 10:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Captain Fabio (Post 5516213)
Over-priced? 1100 bucks?

You don't know anything about it do you?
It is real cheap for what it is you know.
Starting at $499.

Yes, $500 for something less useful than the worst parts of an iPod, a netbook, and an e-book reader, and yet more expensive than all three. Sounds reasonable to me!

linkinpark187 February 2nd, 2010 11:34 AM

lol twocows, i love that. but seriously, for $200-$250 less, you can get a netbook that will do more than this. sorry, but i have no faith in the "mighty" blue apple.

This may be about some older apples, but I still feel it to be true (beware, there's some foul language, bad for little ears):


Virtual Chatot February 2nd, 2010 2:21 PM

I'm not going to get one until the mobile wireless one comes out, or at the most until it's firmware is jailbroken.

Zet February 2nd, 2010 2:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lucy Lu (Post 5514395)
That looks pretty cool, but I got to see how it pans well with the other notebooks. If it in-sync with the iPod Touch, it won't be too bad. I thinking about getting one in the near future. Maybe by then the prices are going to be a lot lower. XD And maybe they probably have a lot more applications that are useful. I have to see though. It looks nice though.

On second thought...I am getting this! It looks so cool. You can read, check e-mail, use Maps, look at your photos, listen to music, watch tv, watch videos, go online, etc. Here, I found a video about it. You have the internet on your fingertips. Well I don't need the iPod Touch now. I am getting the iPad! XD

Spoiler:

Sad thing is that you can't multi-task on it, so you can't do everything at once.

Lucy Lu February 2nd, 2010 4:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zet (Post 5518277)

Sad thing is that you can't multi-task on it, so you can't do everything at once.

Really? Oh...darn. Well I still like it because you can access your pictures, e-mail, and go online on it. And it is going to compete with Kindle with their e-reader. It looks pretty cool. That would be great if you can multi-task, but I guess they didn't think of that. Oh well. Still getting it. I hope the internet service they got on it is reasonable.

TheAppleFreak February 2nd, 2010 5:39 PM

Just wait until the OSx86 community creates a kernel or a kernel patch for the A4. Then, we might get multi-
...forgot about the lack of system resources. Never mind.

I'm probably going to wait for the second gen iPad. Given that the rumor mills are starting up again, we might be able to expect a Mac OS X enabled iPad. Or one with a camera. Woo.

linkinpark187 February 3rd, 2010 5:59 AM

hmm...here's 10 good reasons not to get one (and i'm sorry to those who love apple, but you can't tell me that this article isn't agreeable):

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1324&tag=nl.e101

Enjoy! :D

Bianca Paragon February 3rd, 2010 6:22 AM

It's not agreeable.
I'm buying one anyway <3 I do feel sorry for those who don't 'get' it~

Elegy February 5th, 2010 6:42 PM

I want a tablet pc, but this is not a tablet pc... It's somewhere between a tablet pc and a portable media player, minus the portable part and minus the pc. So a tablet media player, basically. Which is nice, but not $500 nice. Though I definitely want something like it in terms of form factor, just not with a similar set-up, price, brand, etc.

I'm guessing that the competition after this comes out will do the same to the tablet market as the mp3/etc market - create a lot of good, if not as popular options. And maybe some of them will run Linux. :)

Bianca Paragon February 9th, 2010 7:00 PM

Running Linux would be an instant path to commercial failure. Look at Android; it was pretty much stillborn :\


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