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Author Topic: Are you gonna get an iPad? Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-23-2010 11:13 PM                        I don't think that guy is serious but if he is, I nominate it for the Dumbest Idea of 2010 Award.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-24-2010 11:00 AM                     I want to see what happens when he makes a right or left turn. Parallel parking would be lots of fun with an iPad attached to the steering wheel. Possibly more funny, in dark humor sort of way, is what would happen when the iPad user/motorist ass-ends another vehicle due to being distracted while driving. The air bag in the steering wheel would deploy. That would launch the iPad into the driver's face at high speed. Booyah!  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-24-2010 11:12 AM                        "But officer, I didn't know I was speeding....I was reading USA Today on my iPad and couldn't see the speedometer."  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-01-2010 04:15 PM                     Thankfully, he's not serious. Here's a link to the patent he says he has. iPad Steering Wheel attachment patent. On another note: iPed The iPad hasn't reached China yet but the iPed has. Apple's iPad is not even on sale yet in China but the iPed can be bought in Shenzhen in the country's south for ¥9600 ($124), almost a fifth of the price of the new Apple gadget. The world's first iPad lookalike runs on Google's Android operating system and is apparently powered by an Intel chip. Pictures of the iPed, filmed by Japanese TV news and posted on YouTube, show the gadget being sold in a Shenzhen computer mall in packaging that even looks like an iPad box. The change in vowel is seemingly the only major difference in appearance between the two computers. A review of the iPed on tech website TECHi says "the iPed is exactly what you're thinking: a Chinese knock-off". "The iPed is an Intel-driven, Android-based copycat packaged like an Apple product and, to be honest, it doesn't look half bad." Last week, Apple and its contract electronics manufacturer Foxconn refused to confirm or deny rumours that the iPad was being made at Foxconn's massive Shenzhen factory, which had been hit by a spate of staff suicides. Apple, now the largest US technology company by value, said yesterday it had sold two million iPads, outdoing even the iPhone on its launch. Last Friday, the flat, 25 centimetre black tablet computer that Apple claimed would revolutionise the industry went on sale in Australia, Japan, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Demand in the United States was so strong that the company pushed back the global rollout. It goes on sale in nine more countries in July, including Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Last week, Apple dethroned software giant Microsoft as the largest US technology company in terms of market value.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-01-2010 06:34 PM                        Amazing how huge it is (saleswise) yet I can't find one person who has one or wants one, except for one or two people in this thread. I've talked to lots of people from age 15 to 60. Maybe it's regional. I have yet to see a Kindle around here yet, either (although I want one of those!).  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 06-02-2010 12:05 AM                     I haven't seen anyone in my town pimping an iPad out and about, although I'm certain at least a few people here have them. LOTS of people here have iPhones. I'm still not sure I see any real purpose for the iPad, but if anyone can sell people on the idea Apple can. I think the iPad is enjoying the "halo effect" of the iPhone. Honestly I think the iPad has moved 2 million units largely because of the success of the iPhone. It literally looks like a great big iPhone. If the iPhone had not already existed the iPad's chances of success would have been a lot more iffy. Aside from the strengths of the iPhone, another reason why the iPhone continues to be so successful is because the rest of the mobile phone market in the United States is a complicated mess. So many other phones have various shortcomings, especially any with a reasonably priced service plan. If you want a phone with a full keyboard so text messaging isn't such a pain in the ass you have to pony up another $20 per month on top of what your voice plan costs. Just about any device labeled as a "smart phone" and many others featuring some enhanced multi-media or Internet capabilities require upwards of $30 per month or more on top of the voice and messaging plans. Many people look at other phones to avoid the high cost of owning an iPhone. Unfortunately it seems every alternative "smart phone" has the same kinds of high total cost of ownership. The customer has to be willing to give up a lot of features and even some basic functions to save a decent amount of money. In the end, a lot of people just say "screw it" and get an iPhone even if they're not sure that's what they want.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 06-02-2010 12:31 AM                     As much as I think the ipad is dumb, that iped is simply a POS. The vids I've seen of them showed them to be extremely slow. in comparison. Then again, the thing costs significantly less.  |  IP: Logged Greg Anderson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 766 From: Ogden Valley, Utah Registered: Nov 1999 posted 12-01-2010 12:56 PM                        Roll call: Who here has an iPad now? I do. I've had it for three months and, while I am aware of its limitations, I still enjoy it a lot. I won't try to talk anyone else into getting one but I try to be generous when people ask questions. Like, when someone I know asks how much the thing weighs, I just hand it over and let them play with it.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-01-2010 01:52 PM                        I finally saw one in real life, at a meeting in October. Also one of our employees got a Kindle over the summer and he loves it.  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 12-01-2010 02:16 PM                        I have one. I got it to be a living room internet browser. It's become quite a bit more than that.  |  IP: Logged

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