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Yes, yes, I know....
I'm being really politically incorrect here...
However, I cannot help associating the iPad with "large-button" telephones for people with reduced vision.
Perhaps it's because I'm more or less blind without my contact lenses...
And the buttons and display on normal phones are so f...ing small  .
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I will not be using one. They do not offer anything new. Only MAC fans and the infirm will enjoy this drivel.
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Maybe I'll get one of these.
Two heads are better than one.
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Marc
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we bought one for one of my friend's birthday!!!! but my birthday is longlong later...
i completely agree with you! 
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Same thing applies to the kindle as well, and that will not change.
I'd buy one; but I'm not an early adopter.
Watched code never compiles.
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This is called "marketing" 
luisnike19
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Initially I thought it was a pointless useless device . Same as tablets etc . But then I thought about browsing t'interweb whilst in front of the Tv with my wife . No clicks annoying her important soaps , and no getting nagged for being in the study for hours . A decent e-book reader as well. I kind of see it , but for that money I'd rather buy a new Bicycle . Could I use it ? Yes . Do I need it ? No . Will it be a success ? Undoubtedly every Apple buying zombie I know is dribbling at it , like hordes of Pavlovian dogs they must buy new Apple shiney thing and spend hours doing the man maths to justify buying it (Man maths can justify anything) . But after the initial techgasm fest what will be left ? A smartphone with a bigger screen (but with no working phone ).
Now if I could simply plug my smart phone in the side of a big screen , now then we have a product . Low cost as it will be limited processing outside of the smart phone . Give me a price point around £100 on top of my smart phone then I am interested .
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Exactly.
I spend all day sitting at a computer. When I am at home I have better things to do than log back on. if I want something from the internet I power up, log on, get it, power down again. If I want to read a book I read a book - I keep a heap of books I read in parallel. If I want to watch a film I have a nice big screen at home. On the road I have everything I need in my smartphone, and if I really need a computer I take the laptop so I can print and have external links and stuff, which is what the iThingy can't do.
When they get lighter, smaller, and cheaper - as cheap as the smartphone - and get some external interfaces I might think about getting one for when I am not at home, but I am a cheapskate and would get some no-name clone.
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To date, I've never owned an i[Anything] - and it will almost certainly remain so.
Overrated. Overpriced. Overhyped.
Or, as they've said since time immemorial: " A fool and his money are soon parted."
Bring me a shrubbery.
/xml> "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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| "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek dissappointment. If you are searching for perfection in yourself, then you seek failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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+1024
iWon't be using this iCrap
in another thousand years we'll be machines or gods█
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iNdeed! 
d{^__^}b - it's time to fly
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I cannot currently conceive of a circumstance where I would own this generation, nor the next, of the iFad. However, I suspect that I will, at some time in the future, own a similar device.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas?
Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.
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Henry Minute wrote: I suspect that I will, at some time in the future, own a similar device.
The future? Bah, buy one of the pre-historic ones instead and be retro. My first tablet pc was a 386 with a grayscale screen. I think it was running windows 3.1.
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My first 'luggable' (I hesitate to call it a laptop) had a grayscale screen. I didn't know they had tablet devices back then.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas?
Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.
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I'm pretty sure it was this guy[^]. But I haven't seen it in at least 10 years. Maybe it's in the garage.
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Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas?
Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.
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I remember that!, I never actually knew anybody who owned one.
Two heads are better than one.
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But I doubt very much I would use one.
Other tablets may feature, but only if they are a) much cheaper and b) have a proven use that my netbook cannot fulfil.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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Dalek Dave wrote: You can never say never...
I can and I did. And I know it's going to be true...
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for my pocket
d{^__^}b - it's time to fly
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I am using Nexus One which is running on Android 2.1 (manually updated to 2.2 Test Build). I used to sit in first of my Home PC for a long time. Nowadays I turn my PC "ON" once in a while.
iPad - Who are you?
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i have a Milestone and now are waiting for "Google TV" because TV is so boring....
An android Tablet will be king 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I've had my iPad for 5 weeks now. It hasn't lived up to the magical claims but I do find myself using it heavily for couch browsing. I use my home pc much less now because I turn to this device for most of my home browsing needs. At work I am using the iPad to develop a reporting app. Was it with the cost for me personally, realistically: NO. I have enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
I've had the opportunity to work with several slate tablet devices over the past 6 months and the IPad is the hands down winner on all aspects. The screen is beautiful, the touchscreen is near perfect for fat fingers, the battery life is very good, the onscreen keyboard is the best one I've seen.
There will, no doubt, be better and cheap err tablets in the future. But for 2010 so far there really is no competition yet. I truly hope to see a solid Windows 7 tablet before too long. It someone can put together a Windows 7 tablet with the same physical characteristics as the iPad, for same cost and match the onscreen keyboard for usability, then Id love to buy one.
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Matt Gullett wrote: There will, no doubt, be better and cheap err tablets in the future.
So why did you need to 'invest' at this early stage? What was the urgency?
What aren't you telling us ? ? ?
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| "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
| "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek dissappointment. If you are searching for perfection in yourself, then you seek failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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