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iPad - leucifer - 01-27-2010
Does anyone here even care about this thing?
Besides the fat that it sounds like something that happens here with post counts, or something that is dispensed in a women's restroom?
iPad - Beau - 01-27-2010
NOPE.
iPad - leucifer - 01-27-2010
Hey beau. Long time.
All the Apple Whores on the internet are frothing at the mouth for this thing and I just don't get it. Basically, it's a big iPod (or iPhone if you get the 3G one). I for one don' t need a giant MP3 player.
iPad - BIRD33 - 01-27-2010
What does it do?I still make fun of my friends for having an ipod by calling them gay which I'm sure sounds like I'm a caveman.I used to say the same thing about cell phones a dozen years ago and my tune has certainly changed on that.The cell phone can get me laid while the ipod can not.
iPad - CT280 - 01-27-2010
what the fuck are you talking about?
iPad - leucifer - 01-27-2010
Apple just announced their new tablet. But it is just a large iPod.
Some points:
- As expected, the iPad's raison d'être, according to Jobs, is to be a mobile video-watching, book-reading, game-playing, photo-perusing, music-listening, web-surfing, and email-emailing device
- It looks like a big, half-inch-thick, 1.5-pound iPhone - although with a more rectangular aspect ratio - even down to the single circular button below the display.
- The iPad will ship in two models, one with Wi-Fi connectivity only, and one also with 3G through AT&T. Each version will ship at 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB configurations. Wi-Fi iPads will cost $499, $599, and $699; while Wi-Fi and 3G hardware will cost $629, $729, and $829.
But for some reason all the Apple Nerds are creaming their shorts.
iPad - BIRD33 - 01-27-2010
I don't need it.My blackberry is all I need.
iPad - leucifer - 01-27-2010
I have a Google Phone and it's great, but I have an iPod just for music because playing music on the phone kills my battery. Now, having said that I thin the iPod Touch is ridiculous. I wanted an MP3 player, not an email system, game system, calendar/contact management piece of shit. Especially not one that requires a wi-fi connection nearby. My phone handles all of that shit for me. I want something to play music when I work and run. That's it.
iPad - leeman - 01-27-2010
I bought a Creative Zen Stone 3Gb MP3 player.
Small, need no bigger and batteries last long/charge.
iPad - Beau - 01-27-2010
leucifer Wrote:Hey beau. Long time.
All the Apple Whores on the internet are frothing at the mouth for this thing and I just don't get it. Basically, it's a big iPod (or iPhone if you get the 3G one). I for one don' t need a giant MP3 player.
LEU? now i see who you are how are ya bro! Long time!!!
Man quite frankly I have never seen much use for anything other than my basic cell phone. My doggone kids got Iphones, G3's, blackberrys. Heck I just use it to call people and that's it. I text every now and then but that's only in response to my kids. I always tell them "you know what just took us 5 minutes to go back and forth on could of been knocked out in 15 seconds with a simple phone call." . Guess I'm just old.
iPad - CT280 - 01-27-2010
nothing gets by beau.
iPad - Blondie - 01-27-2010
Looks pretty cool. I will probably end p with one eventually.
iPad - leucifer - 01-27-2010
Beau Wrote:LEU? now i see who you are how are ya bro! Long time!!!
Man quite frankly I have never seen much use for anything other than my basic cell phone. My doggone kids got Iphones, G3's, blackberrys. Heck I just use it to call people and that's it. I text every now and then but that's only in response to my kids. I always tell them "you know what just took us 5 minutes to go back and forth on could of been knocked out in 15 seconds with a simple phone call." . Guess I'm just old.
I'm good. Hanging in there. I got the google phone so I could keep up on my work emails when I am on call without worrying about having my laptop around, but that's about it. Other than looking up shit online to prove people wrong when I get into an argument. I like doing that.
iPad - WoolyGoat - 01-28-2010
i believe they are also hoping to play some sort of role in the e-reader market
iPad - leucifer - 01-28-2010
WoolyGoat Wrote:i believe they are also hoping to play some sort of role in the e-reader market
I just read that. That's the first interesting thing about this contraption I've heard yet, but I am not paying close attention.
I have a Kindle, first generation. It's nifty, but to be honest 8 out of 10 books that I read I still buy physically. I may not be the target audience here.
iPad - BIRD33 - 01-28-2010
leucifer Wrote:I just read that. That's the first interesting thing about this contraption I've heard yet, but I am not paying close attention.
I have a Kindle, first generation. It's nifty, but to be honest 8 out of 10 books that I read I still buy physically. I may not be the target audience here.
I don't get the Kindle thing.Not that I reread many of the books I buy but I like having them on the shelf for some reason.I also love going to the book store to look at hot nerdy chicks.Is reading off the screen like that the same thing as looking at a computer monitor all day?I also don't like the whole -the man controlling all the books aspect of it if they stop printing them eventually.
iPad - leucifer - 01-28-2010
BIRD33 Wrote:I don't get the Kindle thing.Not that I reread many of the books I buy but I like having them on the shelf for some reason.I also love going to the book store to look at hot nerdy chicks.Is reading off the screen like that the same thing as looking at a computer monitor all day?I also don't like the whole -the man controlling all the books aspect of it if they stop printing them eventually.
Son of a bitch, from double posts to no posts. I replied to this and the answer disappeared.
Reading on the kindle is easy. It's not like a monitor, it isn't back-lit and the text looks a lot like printed words. So in terms of eye stress is it just like having a book.
Normally I prefer to own my books as well. I like the kindle for two things.
1. I don't need to take 10 books with me on vacation and anymore. That shit gets heavy in my carry on.
2. The kindle store is good for books I want to try out. Shit I don't think I want to own, but want to read. I got Twilight on there to see what the fuss was about. Horrible book, I am glad I didnt' buy the book.
3. The kindle store lets unpublished authors put their books up there for their own price. There's bound to be a lot of crap, since it isn't edited and anyone can do it, but they're cheap ($1 a book) and you can find some cool stuff sometimes (I'm assuming, I haven't really looked yet, but I like the concept).
iPad - BIRD33 - 01-28-2010
I like the unpublished concept as well.I'm too attached to the physical product.I like to throw my books around to show them whose boss.
My sister is into twilight but the she's a housewife so that figures.