[quote]CBS) They came . . . they saw . . . they bought. First-day sales of Apple's iPad, which went on sale across the country yesterday, are estimated at 700,000 units. Of course, you only need one. John Blackstone has the fine print:
Like it or not, there is no way to ignore the iPad, from the cover of newsmagazines to the late night comedians:
"Number 10," began David Letterman's Top 10 List: "What the hell is it?"
That remains the question. What exactly does it do?
Steven Colbert had some suggested uses: "You can shield your eyes from the sun. And just look how quickly it makes delicious salsa!"
What it does, perhaps, is change everything.
"The iPad is like the Beatles of 2010," said Steven Levy, senior writer of Wired Magazine. "It takes something that we thought we knew and makes it seem fresh."
Levy says the brilliance of the iPad is that it makes the computer disappear.
"You don't think 'computer' when you use it," he said. "You just do the task you want to do."
Want to read a book? The iPad becomes a book. Want to read a newspaper? The iPad becomes a newspaper.
It can be a game board, or a movie screen with the touch of a finger.
The appeal of that has already been noted by other computer makers who are now rushing to get their own tablet computers to market. Just the way that Apple's iPhone started a flood of other smartphones … the iPad will do the same, says technology analyst Larry Magid.
He says, to use the language of the original tablet, from Moses, iPhone "begat" all that followed in cell phones. "The iPhone really created this demand for smartphones that used touchscreen, and that use your fingers to control them," he said.
It may be what Apple has been working towards for decades.
In the beginning computers were complicated. You almost needed a programmer's skill to make them work.
Then along came Apple with machines that seemed designed for anybody to use. In a remarkable video from 1981, a bearded Steve Jobs told a skeptical CBS News correspondent why the computer he's built will catch on:
"It's just going to be very gradual and very human. and will seduce you into learning how to use it," he said.
Jobs was right. We've learned how to use computers, and now he's selling one that doesn't seem to be a computer at all.
And that may lead to things we can't even guess yet.
"The thing about technology is that the most exciting applications are probably the ones that nobody has yet imagined," said Magid. "Technology opens up the doors for creativity." [/quote]
Gr[url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/04/sunday/main6362239.shtml]eat[/url] comparison, guys.
overhyped bullshit strikes again
hahahahaha
just like the beatles, it's overrated
More like iPad: "Like the Justin Beiber of 2010"
annoying as fuck, useless and overrated
uhmmm the beatles are not a larger ipod...
[QUOTE=Dr.C;21177131]just like the beatles, it's overrated[/QUOTE]
oh you didn't just go there
The [I]Dung Beatles[/I] of 2010
[img]http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q198/Hezzy88/mojo.jpg[/img]
Jesus that was bad
ever wonder what's inside an iPad? now you know the horrible truth apple doesn't want you to know:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/JDbjc.png[/img]
Sound it out before posting. Save yourself the trouble.
Also, does anyone else go :| when they see/read/hear a bunch of fools hollering about 'i bought an ipad so sweet'?
[I]Tell me why[/I] these people don't just [I]get back[/I] and shut the fuck up. [I]Imagine[/I], we could [I]come together[/I] and go on a rampage, destroying all the ipads [I]across the universe[/I].
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.... [I]Yellow Submarine
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[QUOTE=GunsNRoses;21177343][I]Tell me why[/I] these people don't just [I]get back[/I] and shut the fuck up. [I]Imagine[/I], we could [I]come together[/I] and go on a rampage, destroying all the ipads [I]across the universe[/I].[/QUOTE]
:golfclap:
oh and look its the mingers from facepunch again, 1. none of you can afford an ipad/macbook so yeah thats why ur crying and 2. the beats are amazing, its the scummy chav of today that cant appericate real music.
How could one possibly want an ipad?
Hey guys I just bought an overpriced and over sized Itouch, how cool am I?
[QUOTE=First 10'er;21177365]oh and look its the mingers from facepunch again, 1. none of you can afford an ipad/macbook so yeah thats why ur crying and 2. the beats are amazing, its the scummy chav of today that cant appericate real music.[/QUOTE]
3. We can use grammar properly.
except it's not like the beatles at all
[QUOTE=Comcastic;21177372]Hey guys I just bought an overpriced and over sized Itouch, how cool am I?[/QUOTE]
I bought two.
I am cooler then you.
:downs:
They compared the iPad to the Beatles?
Fuck them in the eyes
It's a completely fucking useless toy that does very few things, and does NOTHING that something else can't do and will be forgotten in 5 years, the Beatles are being listened to and sold in stores still 50 years later and influenced an entire generation, maybe two
[QUOTE=Wonky;21177352]:golfclap:[/QUOTE]
[I]I want to tell you[/I] how much this means to me.
[QUOTE=First 10'er;21177365]oh and look its the mingers from facepunch again, 1. none of you can afford an ipad/macbook so yeah thats why ur crying and 2. the beats are amazing, its the scummy chav of today that cant appericate real music.[/QUOTE]
lol, you really should [I]think for yourself[/I] and stop talking out your ass.
[QUOTE=First 10'er;21177365]oh and look its the mingers from facepunch again, 1. none of you can afford an ipad/macbook so yeah thats why ur crying and 2. the beats are amazing, its the scummy chav of today that cant appericate real music.[/QUOTE]
Game over, insert four quarters to try again.
lol big ipod touch
"INNOOVATION"
Did they just make fun of the Beatles?
[QUOTE=BlueSaint;21177407]I bought two.
I am cooler then you.
:downs:[/QUOTE]
I just bought the entire warehouse :golfclap:
Makes a great Frisbee.
[QUOTE=Silly Alt;21177444]I just bought the entire warehouse :golfclap:[/QUOTE]
you aren't Steve Jobs!
Fair enough, the Beatles didn't have usb ports either.
[QUOTE=First 10'er;21177365]oh and look its the mingers from facepunch again, 1. none of you can afford an ipad/macbook so yeah thats why ur crying and 2. the beats are amazing, its the scummy chav of today that cant appericate real music.[/QUOTE]
Please stop what you're doing.
[QUOTE]"You don't think 'computer' when you use it," he said. "You just do the task you want to do."[/QUOTE]
Yeah I'm getting tired of thinking "computer" when I use my computer.
[QUOTE=Reaver1991;21177463]Fair enough, the Beatles didn't have usb ports either.[/QUOTE]
Well...:q:
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