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Why I Don't Want an iPad for Christmas
superboyac:
Hmmm...
I likely wouldn't kick Joanne Kelly out of bed for eating crackers. ;)
But I definitely would for booting up an iPad. :P
-40hz (December 22, 2010, 01:07 PM)
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Suit yourself! She's welcome in my bed with or without an ipad. If she brings one, we can do...stuff...with both of our ipads.
superboyac:
Ah, cmon people, don't hate on the ipad. I have it and it's great. Once I got over the idea that it's not a fully functional desktop computer, I realized how useful it is. It's the best tablet out right now, the others are not even close.
I'm not a fanboy. I'm also eagerly waiting for a competitive Windows or Android tablet. But it can't suck. It has to have a nice screen, first of all. I don't want a crappy screen. It also needs to have as responsive multi-touch as the ipad. If they can get those down, I'm interested. And nothing big, bulky, plasticky and bad battery life. I can't believe it's been half a year, and there are still no competitors. What's the best alternative, the Samsung Galaxy tab? I heard Windows is secretly working on a tablet friendly OS (Windows 8?) and Sony is also working on a tablet something. that would be exciting...Sony and Windows. But Sony is bound to screw it up royally. And Windows...well, hopefully they can come up with something innovative and practical. It's Sony I'm more worried about...they always have to ruin something.
Renegade:
Ah, cmon people, don't hate on the ipad. I have it and it's great. Once I got over the idea that it's not a fully functional desktop computer, I realized how useful it is. It's the best tablet out right now, the others are not even close.
I'm not a fanboy. I'm also eagerly waiting for a competitive Windows or Android tablet. But it can't suck. It has to have a nice screen, first of all. I don't want a crappy screen. It also needs to have as responsive multi-touch as the ipad. If they can get those down, I'm interested. And nothing big, bulky, plasticky and bad battery life. I can't believe it's been half a year, and there are still no competitors. What's the best alternative, the Samsung Galaxy tab? I heard Windows is secretly working on a tablet friendly OS (Windows 8?) and Sony is also working on a tablet something. that would be exciting...Sony and Windows. But Sony is bound to screw it up royally. And Windows...well, hopefully they can come up with something innovative and practical. It's Sony I'm more worried about...they always have to ruin something.
-superboyac (December 27, 2010, 09:20 AM)
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I think that sucking is one thing that will go with other pads, unfortunately.
Apple has the simplest UI there. Android makes you click then scroll. With iOS, you page instead, which is easier. That's the benchmark now. Unless someone comes up with a better UI paradigm. That's tough stuff.
What Android needs is a hack that makes it page instead of click & scroll, just like iOS.
The problem with those 2 OSes is that you get more flexibility with Android, but users don't care about flexibility -- they want easy, and iOS delivers that.
Now, with Android, you can get it somewhat like iOS, but it takes... wait for it... work. :( And knowledge. Yuck. Nobody will do that.
The average user isn't savvy enough to sort large result sets. Why else would Apple not let you sort in the ape store? Because apes can't sort. But they can press a button.
To be certain, iPads are gorgeous devices. Forged in Hell on tortured baby souls by Satan's transvestite donkey witches. :D
40hz:
Hmmm...
I likely wouldn't kick Joanne Kelly out of bed for eating crackers. ;)
But I definitely would for booting up an iPad. :P
-40hz (December 22, 2010, 01:07 PM)
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Suit yourself! She's welcome in my bed with or without an ipad. If she brings one, we can do...stuff...with both of our ipads.
-superboyac (December 27, 2010, 09:11 AM)
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Now now...
Remember what Steve said!
No pornography on any of his iPads. :P
Kink? There's....uhmm...not an app for that.
superboyac:
The average user isn't savvy enough to sort large result sets. Why else would Apple not let you sort in the ape store? Because apes can't sort. But they can press a button.
To be certain, iPads are gorgeous devices. Forged in Hell on tortured baby souls by Satan's transvestite donkey witches. :D
-Renegade (December 27, 2010, 09:40 AM)
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haha...that's some big league hating there! It's true, you can't sort in the app store, it drove me nuts the first time i saw that. I don't care. Like I said, once I stopped comparing the ipad to my fully featured desktop monster, I got over all of this stuff. I'm telling you, once you think about apple products as simply extensions to your computing habits, you'll be fine with them. As long as you have a homebase computer that is very rich and flexible like windows or linux, you'll be fine using apple products. It all comes down to file management. I made a thread about it, it was such a big revelation to me.
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