Apple iPad

**N9ne** · 01-28-2010, 02:50 AM

I tend to be a avid apple owner for things such as itouch or ipods, but this this is god damn retarded. Seriously if it was meaning to be as a drawing applet, they are a little late considering there's great brands for cheaper, but the fact that its just a large itouch as said, is for faggots.

**DarkSpoon** · 01-28-2010, 05:40 PM

even for drawing this is usls because its capacitive touch. that means you use your finger or a capacitive stylus, but it doesnt have pressure sensitivity. that's the main reason every other tablet on the market is resistive touch. cant use your finger but its amazing for writing and drawing. i have an old Motion Computing tablet that my boss was going to toss out and i use that thing to take notes in my classes. it's badass. has all the bonuses of paper(drawing graphs and other shit that you cant type) and the computer(one thing to carry, email, printing, facebook, forums, prons) with neither of the drawbacks. it's pretty usls in any other setting though. cbf tapping things out for too long on an on screen keyboard or having the software try to decipher my shitty handwriting.

**Spyder** · 01-28-2010, 07:05 PM

LOL yeah, a mactard buddy of mine (who I am generally good friends with, actually) is HUGE on it. "If by 'pile of shit' you mean 'the redefining of personal computing', then yes, yes it is" LOL. Got him in such angrz earlier.

I think it's okay. I don't see me having an use for it. At least with the iPhone...I NEEDED a phone. I don't need a tablet thing.

**N9ne** · 01-28-2010, 07:22 PM

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**Diddlez** · 01-29-2010, 12:51 AM

Pretty sure the whole reason for this was to compete with amazon's kindle and bookstore. You cant multitask on the iPad or really do much of anything other than read shit. CBF the kindle even but when you compare the price of each I see no reason to get this fucking iPad. Plus its huge, heavy, and looks dumb as shit.

**ShockWave** · 01-29-2010, 01:35 AM

They should release an upgraded version of the iPad and call it the Max iPad.

**N9ne** · 01-29-2010, 03:53 AM

Originally Posted by ShockWave

They should release an upgraded version of the iPad and call it the Max iPad.

http://jezebel.com/5458338/that-time...ted-ipad-jokes

**Spyder** · 01-29-2010, 01:23 PM

Originally Posted by Diddlez

Pretty sure the whole reason for this was to compete with amazon's kindle and bookstore. You cant multitask on the iPad or really do much of anything other than read shit. CBF the kindle even but when you compare the price of each I see no reason to get this fucking iPad. Plus its huge, heavy, and looks dumb as shit.

Duno, I generally disagree with that. It IS a great deal more useful than the kindle, if anything, because of the app store. You can watch movies on it (granted you have to go through iTunes for them), play games (again, not a lot of iPad-optimized games - but some work fine whether you play on the iPhone or the iPad), and read books in color. My thinking is I already have an iPhone, so why would I need this thing anyway. I don't read books on devices and I don't really care about tablet style netbooks regardless of how cool they are.

I DO see why they put the iPhone OS on it and where they are going with it. Without getting into the technical stuff (there are plenty of articles on this by now, like this pretty interesting blog about it) there are a LOT more iPhone users than there are OS X users. The learning curve for an iPhone user getting an iPad is pretty much nothing...so from a sales standpoint, that's pretty good (even with some people like me saying "uh, I have an iPhone, so I don't need that...").

It would be cool to see Amazon get on the ball and make a better Kindle. It's sort of pathetic the way it is now, I think. They can go just as far as Apple can due to their MP3 store, movie rental/purchasing store, etc.

**DarkSpoon** · 01-29-2010, 06:17 PM

how is the kindle pathetic? it performs it's main function perfectly. plus, im already tired of ipad and kindle comparisons. kindle=ebook reader. ipad = gimped tablet computer. reading books on the ipad will suck just like reading books on any computer screen sucks. eye strain gets pretty rough after a while. there isnt any eye strain with eink.

**Diddlez** · 01-29-2010, 06:23 PM