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Reed:
Yeah, that's what I did. I was just commenting on how blatant the author's bias was.
Sox:
If I tried to write the same article without the bias, given the content, I think I would struggle immensely.
Company A uses shady practices to put competition out of business and tries forcing users and developers to use their own proprietary formats.
Rival Company B pushes interoperable formats that can be used by everybody on any system so it can have some staying power against company A.
Or did I totally misread that article?
I struggle to take anybody seriously if they suggests that Windows is more of an 'everyman' company than Apple.
I like the iPad. If I had a better wage, I'd buy one. I can justify it because my iPod broke last week. I'm poor though, and unwilling to wait so I'm going to settle for an iPod touch. What I wouldn't give for that extra power and screen size, though. It's a good gadget. It's not the holy grail of tablets everybody was expecting due to the noise that surrounds anything Apple does these days. To be fair, anything they release after the iPhone is probably going to be a disappointment. Anything that isn't essential for everybody and doesn't make the earth shake is going to be viewed as extravagant. All eyes are on Apple to deliver now, so if a product doesn't do exactly what you're expecting it to, it's "shit".
Well, no, it's not, it's just not for you.
Literally, the only complaint I've seen about the iPad is "It's not a computer!"
The iPad is not a computer. That is what has gotten the technology geeks of the internet so bent out of shape? Are you being serious? Please tell me this is a joke. If you want to run a task that you would usually run on a computer, run it on a computer. It should be readily apparent that the iPad is not a replacement computer to anybody that has eyes and a lick of common sense.
There's all these jokes about it being a big iPhone as if the designers were somehow not aware of this. The iPhone is an excellent media device. It's also not a computer. It's a media device that fits in your pocket. It's kinda small for a lot of the media activities it is capable of, it'd be cool if it was significantly bigger.
Have any of you ever used a 17inch laptop? They're not particularly portable.
They're essentially a 13 inch laptop, but bigger, for the people who require a bigger display.
Have any of you seen the Nintendo DSi XL? They say it's for old people, but personally I'd love to play my DS games on a bigger screen.
Hey, infact, how big is your television? Televisions can be pretty big. Typically, they're small, but they're better bigger. People prefer bigger TVs.
Generally, a bigger screen is a welcome thing, right?
The iPad is not a computer. It's not a laptop replacement. It's a bigger media device. I've heard it called "netbook killer" and then compared to notebooks. Like a nice laptop. Laptops are made for multi-tasking. Netbooks are tiny things the size of a paperback novel designed for browsing the web, they have less processing power than the average biscuit.
Is it a good replacement for a netbook? Sure, I guess.
For a laptop? Don't be ridiculous. But that's not what it's supposed to be.
Ozymandias:
Even described as a bigger media device, that sounds completely and utterly idiotic.
Why would I want to carry something the size of a small monitor around to just listen to music and watch videos? That just sounds obnoxious as fuck.
People keep saying "well you're not the target audience" well who the fuck is the target audience except for morons with money and a steaming desire to look like it?
jhocking:
What I love about that browser war story is how Microsoft's relationship to Flash is kinda like the US's relationship to the Taliban. First Microsoft teams up with Macromedia to fight off rivals, and then is like "oh shit now they're using the weapons we gave them against us" and whips up Silverlight to to try to kill off the monster they created.
Sox:
--- Quote from: Ozymandias on 03 Feb 2010, 18:44 ---Even described as a bigger media device, that sounds completely and utterly idiotic.
Why would I want to carry something the size of a magazine around to just listen to music and watch videos? That just sounds obnoxious as fuck.
People keep saying "well you're not the target audience" well who the fuck is the target audience except for morons with money and a steaming desire to look like it?
--- End quote ---
I think the target market is people who don't take gadgets too seriously and think it'd be a neat thing to have regardless.
Personally, I'd love something like this for travel. I probably wouldn't whip it out while standing in a line to check my emails, or use it to browse the web in a coffeeshop, but I wouldn't use a laptop for those things either. When it comes to long bus/train/car/plane journeys and overnight stays out of the house though, it's definitely more preferable than a laptop, netbook or tiny little phone.
Joe, the browser wars are even more entertaining if you picture them as being children's anime TV shows, with each company being portrayed as a meaty dude with spikey hair or a giant robot, and the various formats being lasers that they fire out of their hands.
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