I dont get it.

too big to fit in your pocket, too stripped down for any level of real functionality as a PC.

What is the point of it other than paying a minimum of $500 so you can websurf fom the couch? which you can already do with a laptop or an ipod touch?

seems like kind of a dumb device. it is just a big ipod touch that is too big to fit in your pocket.

anyone planning to get one?

 

iTampon

 

iSupersoaker

 

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iMloling

 

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My girfriend has the Kindle which is a device to read books it is not as much as the i-pad thing but she reads books on it and they are cheaper to buy them on the thing she has than to buy the book out right that is the only use I can think of.

 

I plan on getting a version that has Flash support, a bigger battery, and a non-shitty apple processor that can multitask. Dell is making a kick *** one, well two a smaller portable iTouch killer and a tablet PC.

**** Apple and their marketing. Netbook killer my ***. This thing can't even out perform my Omnia phone.

 

i wonder when the Apple fanboys will detach themselves from steve jobs ***** long enough to come out and start ripping on everyone who doesent love apple.

 

I love my iphone...I really don't see the point of the ipad though..my phone can do 90% of the **** that does

 

 

^ LOL

 

Lmfao!!!

It looks just like a gigantic version of my itouch

 

LMFAO! Nice one BadFish.

 

iPad fail. i want to get an ipod touch eventually, but iPad is useless. the ipod is the only apple product i will buy. might get a Kindle if i fancy it. but i dunno.

 

The kindles are nice well worth the money if you read a good bit. the books are really cheap for them. haven't heard anything bad about them. my girlfriend has one.

 

i never understood the whole kindle thing.

why not just buy a book?

 

because they are too much it is cheaper on the kindle and ends up paying for itself if you read a lot

 

I agree with everyone. My friend was telling me about how awesome he thinks it looks. I told him the exact same things Jack had to say about it. I'll just stick with my iPod. It's WAY more portable, and can do just about everything this iPad can do, except 3G. Jailbreaking FTW.

 

So it does everything that my iphone does... except voice calling. Oh and it's too big to fit in my pocket. Why do I want it again?


(I don't)

 

the worst thing about the iP(O)AD is the fact that they said expect 90 days for delivery. By the time you got your iPad a new one would be out.

 

1st thing I though of was, Fred Flinstone gets an I-pod, stone tablet looking thing there, Geez next they'll make a big ole walkie talkie type phone for us, like in the 80's..

Old is new again..

 

Yeah they should have made it smaller, but then it'd just be an ipod touch with a data plan.

 

It's a neat device, but that's it. I can't see the use or functionality of it either. I could never use it for school, I wouldn't want to use it at home. I have an Ipod Touch and it's pretty cool, makes me want an Iphone. My girlfriend as a Kindle also and she loves it and I see the point in it. She can buy books on it for cheaper than at a book store, she doesn't have to carry around a book, and when she is done with them they don't stay on the coffee table for months. But the Ipad, that's just dumb. If you compromise on too many things, or try to please too wide of a customer base, you end up not doing anything well and not making anybody happy. The worst part is the Apple brand loyalist who with tread the Ipad with the reverance that of God.

 

Like I just posted on the BMC, that thing looks cartoonish. Utterly ridiculous.

I'm not addicted to the internet enough to where I need a device that can get on the internet wherever I am. If I want to play games while I'm out, I'll play my Nintendo DS or my iPod. If I want to listen to music, I'll use my iPod or my phone. If I want to read books, I'll read an actual book.

Plus, that $800+ price tag is ******* rape. I could buy cams with that.

Edit: I just want to ******* stomp the throat of the guy in the pictures above. God, what a douche. His hair is atrocious. I hope he gets scalped by a psychotic indian.

 

On EnGadget's website even the Apple fanatics were bitching about it.

Looks like Apple took a big flop on this one. Almost as bad as when they were going to release the iPod Touch the first time, when all you could do is use your fingers to scroll through the menu, no apps or anything else.

I have to say that even if it could do more than just eBooks and other junk, I still don't think I would buy it. Its exactly like the iPod touch in the sense that its only able to run one application at a time. AND you still have to do everything through the over expensive iTunes Store until someone develops a jailbreak for it, which is not a good idea in case the thing takes a **** on you and you have to get it fixed.

 

It's a complete waste of money. Hey I'm Apple, I keep making the same product, but this time its jumbo size. How can you have a tablet this size where you can go online, but yet you won't add Flash? Oh and why put on this big event to announce something when anyone who gives two ***** about Apple already knew it was coming a long time ago? Just a waste.

 

this thread is full of win!

 

That's exactly what I was thinking. I also love my iphone, but I can't figure out the target market for the ipad.

 

its a test of commitement to everyone who sucks on the ***** of steve jobs.

If you dont buy one, you are not a true apple fan.

lol