Apple Tablet
Isn't ... isn't that just a big iPod touch?
Just The Facts
- When was the last time someone sold a computer that couldn't multi-task?
- Are there people out there with 13" long thumbs for whom this device will be easy to type on?
- Is this question gimmick getting old?
Get Ready Everyone! It's ... The Opposite of Innovation
This image from Reddit just about sums it up, assuming those are iPod Touches and not iPhones.
Jobs spent years trying to cram all the iPhone's functionality into an iPod sized device. The iPad has less functionality and is bigger, proving that everyone will just stop giving a shit once you get past a certain amount of money.
Apple stocks took a dive following Job's latest unveiling. Some speculate it's because the iPad is a computer with all the multi-tasking capabilities of a computer from 1987 and none of the keyboard.
I won an iPad from work in a raffle. It was for a charity so I figured what the heck. It is a fun toy, and yes, that is all it is, a toy. Would I have paid $600 for it? No way in hell. Am I happy I have it to play with? Yes, it's fun to play with. I don't care what they show about it being used for "Education" or "Business" in the commercials, anybody who owns one uses it 90% of the time to play on the internet, 9% of the time to play silly games on it (Fruit Ninja, Angry Birds, etc.), and maybe, just maybe 1% of the time using it for educational purposes.
ReplyAnd by educational, I mean opening a Dora the Explorer App and handing it to their toddler.
Steve Jobs is dead, but the iPad still sucks balls.
ReplyThis is still funny, it still applies, and it still makes me f*****g mad that the ipad is selling so well.
ReplyPC fanboys and nerdy white boys, your opinions are noted, but ignored. I love my iPad. So kindly suck my balls.
ReplyYou poor soul, there's no such thing as PCfanboys, (nor iPads, for that matter).
Yeah I'm sorry we all know apple is "massiv in da ghetto homeboy"
No, this article is still right a year later. I'm not saying that no one has an iPad and likes it and finds it to be useful, but if it had been made by someone besides Apple (especially if it was Microsoft), it would have been discontinued. The reason Apple gets to innovate so much is because even when they screw up, or hardly do anything worthwhile, they still make a ton of money.
ReplyPretty retarded. All of the tech nerds were bitching about this when it was news, but it really was a good investment for apple. The whole purpose of it was ease and simplicity of use. They weren't designing it for anyone who's going to be coding a game and using bittorrent at the same time
ReplyPresenting extreme examples of multi-tasking really helps your point. I've always noted that a person either does not use two applications at once or uses multiple, intensive applications at once, nothing in between.
It's incredible how retarded this article seems today, and I have Down's syndrome.
Replywell, in a few months they'll fix all these issues in the ipod 2.0, the fanboys will buy two of them, and they will still be useless.
ReplyI thought it was funny.
ReplySomeone should open this up for editing again.
Replyok i have some complaints about the tablet, but this article is just awful
ReplyYeah they should have waited a while cause there really isn't any information on it yet
Credit to Reddit where credit is due. Good brevity; definitely better than some other lengthier ones.
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ReplyGuess what no one cares...
I've never seen this spambot before. Huh.
The iPad was such a stupid idea.
Replyyour mom deciding not to get an abortion was a stupid idea
Ha! A Cracked Topic that was short and sweet. I'm even going to pretend that picture was made here, because that's how I roll.
Replyit seems that all these years I've thought the goal was to make things smaller i was wrong...
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ReplyForget about the iPad, think iPad nano! ... Oh wait... Nevermind...
ReplyI can't wait for the iPad Nano! It will have all the functionality of the iPad but will be the size of a cell phone! Yay!
...yeah....I'll keep my mini-Ipad
I don't see whats so great about an ipad. Soon, other companies will do the same thing but call it something else.
ReplyOther companies are already doing the same thing. There are several slate type of tablets hitting the market soon after or even before the iPad, and traditional tablets with the flip around screen have been out for years. I'm talking about fully functional computers with all the bells and whistles like USB, SD reader, camera, and full powered processors. Apple is not ahead of the game in anyway with the iPad, they just have a really good marketing team.
I don't even think they've got a good marketing team anymore. They've made the mistake of making all iPhones look the same, so there's no way to own one and not look like a sucker with the clearance model everyone else is walking around with.
The iPod stayed fresh and hip because you could show off how much better yours was by putting it on the table. Without that douchebag appeal driving their products Apple could potentially lose its cool edge, and without that they're just selling really over-priced phones/MP3 players/computers.
a couple of questions, a paragraph and a photoshop you didn't do. is the lameness of this very article a metatextual comment on how lame the ipad is? or do you just suck?
ReplyDude, this is not a full article, it is a 'topic'. Because it is a new topic, there is not much content yet. Look at some of the other Cracked Topics and you'll see what I mean.
there are plenty of topic pages that have a good amount of content in them. the ones that don't are routinely called out for it. i understand the 'need' to get the iPad topic on google, since it's the big thing right now. that isn't an excuse to publish a paragraph and a half. this calls for bringing your 'A' game, which hasn't happened yet.