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The iSad will fail

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i think if you have expectations that do not match reality, then you're just setting yourself up for fail.

reality is the iPad was never intended to replace a laptop. I still have my laptop. I still use it. I also use my iPad for other things, not always related to business.

the iPad is a lot of fun. I really enjoy it and am happy with my purchase.
 
It's funny considering how much time I spent on the forums when the iPad was first announced I'd actually forgotten about all of these threads. I never quite got how they couldn't see that it was going to be a success. I could understand why someone wouldn't like it, and say that they wouldn't buy it. But the lack of being able to see why someone would like it, made no sense to me.
 
H00513R said:
So with more than a million units sold, how do you like your predictive powers? :cool:
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It's a failure, repeated one million times ! :D
By the end of the year, it will be an even bigger failure, repeated ten million times! :D
 
ditzy said:
I could understand why someone wouldn't like it, and say that they wouldn't buy it.
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I didn't champion against...but I didn't champion for it either. I was pretty sure I didn't want another piece of technology. I was SUPER, SUPER excited for Apple in November...certain they could absolutely corner the market with what was sure to be a competition killer. I was disappointed in the lack of some of the key missing features.

Then a Best Buy employee came into my class and said I needed to hold it to believe it. I did...and I was indeed sold!!

A month later, I am convinced that although Apple could have pushed harder for an absolute monopoly they have indeed created a revolutionary device that is as much of a paradigm shift as the laptop initially for me in 1994.

The iPad is the freedom from the laptop like the laptop was a freedom from the desktop. The laptop NEVER really replaced the desktop (a 28" monitor for photo editing trumps my 17" laptop or my 15" or my either 12") and neither will the iPad replace the laptop. But for so many things that required being tied down to either inflexible device, the iPad is truly refreshing.
 
Streethawk said:
I'll happily admit i was completely underwhelmed after the keynote. A lot of thinking about it and i slowly came to realise what potential it has.
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Same here. The problem was the hype surrounding this device reached a fever pitch in the months preceding Steve's keynote. People were habitually browsing these rumor forums and dreaming up devices that are still 5 years out - foldable OLED screens and the like, not to mention a brand new OS that was going to be unimaginably awesome. And then, we ended up getting a keynote that was a bit too similar to the 2007 iPhone reveal.

In the hours days and and weeks following the event, the device began to make more sense to me. Why should Apple design a new OS when iPhone OS is already so successful and seemed to scale beautifully. The 4x3 screen, at first a WTF moment, made perfect sense when viewing other widescreen tablets being used in portrait. The iPad could be used seamlessly transitioning into any orientation. The potential for amazing apps was there. And then there was the onscreen keyboard, which people were also irate about. But sure enough, this too turned out to be a none issue (this entire post was written in landscape on my iPad in no time at all).

Now that I finally have my iPad, it's managed to exceed any expectations I had for it, and I respect Apple more for making what were, at the time, unpopular design decisions and executing them so well to prove the concept. This is a device that is just so much fun to use, and people bitching about it lacking this or that completely miss the point. This is easily the most enjoyable computing experience I've had in a while, and there is just so much use for this thing.
 
hm, the ipad has sold over 1 million times in the US alone.
that is 600 million dollars in revenue.
plus the share apple gets from the app store.
plus the movie store.
plus the ebooks and magazine.
plus the joy that steve jobs gets out of killing flash.

all that in 2 month in one country with the 3G version out for less than a month.


drtyrell: what is exactly your point in starting this thread?

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The iSad is probably the least innovative device to come from Apple in its history. The Cube injected a revolutionary compression of hardware components and functionality. Steve's presentation was an absurd highlight of the units complete failure to deliver. The goal was set to out perform a cellphone and or a laptop. Steve then carefully sat in his comfy leather chair and bored the audience to death. Hails from the crowd could only be liken to the town drunks visiting a comedy club after a hefty regiment of the snake that bit them.

For nearly an hour the education was laboriously repeated; "where you used to use your mouse, you now use your finger." We were all done with the demo five minutes in. We all sat patiently waiting for the hero we know and love to show us something amazing, and with each reveal we recalled the days of old when the Macintosh was demonstrated to have a word processor. Sadly, the iSad has no word processor built in. One cannot complete tasks that involve true business needs. The laptop remains the supreme solutions for true comfort and functionality.

At the end of this drab campfire lecture, a movie rolls to drive home the utter genius of this device. Again, we here the musical score that is to influence us to think of angels and pixies bringing down from the heavens a new revolutionary device from God himself, but this time the scripts were tired. The suggestive nomenclature of "exciting" "amazing" "our best work" fail at the footsteps of a lump of clay that is the next device.

The iSad will parish in its current iteration. Just as the Cube, fools will rush in where angels are using laptops. To you I say, best of luck this summer when you lose your job, and the only thing you can do in the unemployment line is flick your internet 1996 device with no Flash as your last month of internet service runs out.

Advice to Apple, upgrade every other device and software you have, and QUICK.
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We have enough iPad complaint threads that are not disingenuous trolling to not need this one.

Once again, in case any of this is not clear:

- We have no problem with forum members having any view of Apple or their products ranging from extreme dislike to worshipful reverence.

- Similarly, forum members are free to express their like or dislike of any product, including things like saying an Apple competitor product is superior to an Apple product.

- Regardless of your opinion, we expect you to be civil -- no name calling, no posting explicitly for the purpose to annoy or anger other forum members, etc.

(Also, please don't resurrect a trolling thread that has died a natural death already... please just let it be or report it for closure)
 
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