Apple Tablet announcement tomorrow?

**Senoska** · 2010-01-29 17:57

The review on CNN had me rage claiming the ipad would be a "Flash killer" and claimed it was a "Bulky, sloppy piece of code that chugs along and would cause the iPad to have a 2 hour battery life." Fuck. That. I love my flash

**dejet** · 2010-01-29 18:03

they really think that flash would kill it? shit maybe add firefox flash killer?

**Senoska** · 2010-01-29 18:11

Many people will bemoan the lack of Flash in the iPad. It wasn't mentioned, but eagle-eyed viewers would have seen the missing plugin icon on the New York Times site during yesterday's demo, and given that Apple clearly hates Flash as both a non-open web "standard" and as a buggy, CPU-hungry piece of code, it's unlikely it will ever be added, unless Apple decides it wants to cut the battery life down to two hours.

Who needs Flash, anyway? YouTube and Vimeo have both switched to H.264 for video streaming (in Chrome and Safari, at least -- Firefox doesn't support it), and the rest of the world of Flash is painful to use.

In fact, we think the lack of Flash in the iPad will be the thing that finally kills Flash itself. If the iPad is as popular as the iPhone and iPod Touch, Flash-capable browsers will eventually be in the minority.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/28/w...iref=allsearch

RAAAAAAAGE

**miokomioko** · 2010-01-29 18:15

The saddest thing I see there is that anyone thinks when Apple doesn't support something, consider it "killed."

**Katlan** · 2010-01-29 18:17

Aside all the rabid Apple fans, I will be amused when this idea doesn't come close to breaking the sales Apple is hoping for. Cause its just retarded and Iwata pretty much said all there is too about the device

**miokomioko** · 2010-01-29 18:18

I don't know if anyone mentioned it in this thread, but their stock rose in anticipation in the last week and then it dropped like 10 points the day the iPad was announced.

check and mate.

**dejet** · 2010-01-29 18:41

Originally Posted by miokomioko

I don't know if anyone mentioned it in this thread, but their stock rose in anticipation in the last week and then it dropped like 10 points the day the iPad was announced.

check and mate.

always is the case so it would seem. It really means nothing.

Vuitton · 2010-01-29 19:10

Originally Posted by miokomioko

I don't know if anyone mentioned it in this thread, but their stock rose in anticipation in the last week and then it dropped like 10 points the day the iPad was announced.

check and mate.

This is a regular pattern for Apple when they release new products. People buy stock in anticipation of the announcement. Then, they sell stock during the announcement while the stock is still slightly higher in anticipation of the product sucking, which lowers the price of the stock. If they think the product will be popular, they'll buy back all the stock and then some while its cheap (cheaper than before the announcements) before the product officially launches. This way they protect their money from a flop product, and increase their money if its popular.

**miokomioko** · 2010-01-29 20:15

Obviously, I usually don't follow apple's stock...

**Mayareira** · 2010-01-29 20:34

Originally Posted by miokomioko

Obviously, I usually don't follow apple's stock...

Or any other stock maybe? Because that type of response happens quite frequently in stock market.

An 12 year old kid that doesn't know anything about stock market posts a shit on the interwebs, and people jump right on top of it.

Spoiler: show

You can imagine my frustration with my handful of mac zealot friends that think it's awesome and well worth the price tag.

Is it just me or is Apple being really douchy with the whole iBook "kindle-killer" shit? Is that necessary? Do they really need to butt in on that market and probably dazzle all the idiots who like looking cool in public with little gadgets for reading their books for which they could just be carrying a $1 copy of instead of a $500 piece of shit?

Mac? What does an iPad have to do with a Mac? What kind of generalization is this? I've been checking the Mac related communities and all of them literally bashes this thing.

yet my brother who has a fucking $200 E machine that is 5 years old makes music

my friends so called hip macbook pro

I have a friend who has a desktop that is the shit tho, his mac desktop is the shit... but really it was some 4 grand, I do not know if I could makke a PC better then that for 4 grand so really I have no clue about that one. tho for 4G's I could get a PC with one hell of a GPU and more then likely 16 gig of ram..

Seriously, what kind of friends do you people have? A single pharagraph with 3 friend references, 2 of them saves the world with 200$ e-machines while the apple guy is the hippie cool-wannabe one. I really want to meet with these mystery apple fanboy friends who admits buying MBP's just to "surf web".

Spoiler: show

I've seen 3~ mac users here, Isoilia, Darus? and myself and so far, none of us claimed anything serious about this thing.

Spoiler: show

**Kaslo** · 2010-01-29 23:40

I'm a mac user too. I'm still not sure on this thing, mainly due to lack of flash (this could be alleviated, not entirely, if Hulu just makes an app). May get it if I like the feel of it and can talk the dad into getting it for a graduation present, mainly for a travel device and comic book viewer on the go (there are a couple of good .cbr .cbz reader apps out). On the go I'm not as worried about multitasking, but I hope they work in a way that it will save where you are at in an app so you can pop back and forth. But I'm not totally gonna pass judgement till I have it in my hands trying it out.

**Reality** · 2010-01-30 01:33

Originally Posted by Senoska

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/28/w...iref=allsearch

RAAAAAAAGE

I like the cross talk there. They claim that if the iPad is as popular as the iPhone and iPod Touch, it will finally kill flash.

Oh really? Then why haven't those two devices COMBINED even put a dent in Flash's success and widespread use?

Fucking toolbag.

**miokomioko** · 2010-01-30 03:43

Originally Posted by Mayareira

crap

Wow, could you come off any more inappropriately defensive? (Also, shut the hell up about me using the word "mac," instead of apple, that just makes you look like an ass.)

You are obviously a little out of touch with two vastly different demographics of Apple's loyal customer base. First, there's the ones that constantly hang out on the internet, write blogs, frequent forums, write reviews, comment on articles etc. Those types are at least somewhat intelligent and a hell of a lot more informed about modern technology and where Apple's devices stand on the playing field, regardless of how they are packaged.

On the other hand, there's the quite larger customer base that consists of lame art students, rich dads, trophy wives, the general technologically retarded middle-age adults and privileged high school dolts. It would be extremely naive to assume that a majority of their customers are the ones writing technology blogs and posting on apple-topic forums instead of the MASS of idiots constantly wandering into Apple stores in every fucking mall in america, to ooh and ahh at the pretty gadgets.

I hate to say it, but after going to an art school and having been involved with the local band scene far too long, a large amount of my circle of friends are photographers, artists, indie band kids, etc... and almost none of the people I know, in the physical world, are technologically inclined enough to even understand that Apple did not invent portable MP3 players when they announced the iPod 9 years ago. I constantly have to deal with a reign of "ooh, shiny" mentality around me every time Apple packs old technology in fancy aluminum casing (or cheap white plastic, for that matter).

So, a handful of people on here, saying their friends/acquaintances got boners over the piece of shit iPad, who also probably don't even know enough to understand that 720p on a brand new device like that is laughable and can't comprehend half of the specs they are even reading... Not far fetched and, to be honest, I think it more accurately describes a majority of their customers than your forum/blog buddies.

**Zilong** · 2010-01-30 03:51

If not being supported by apple kills anything, we wouldn't have PC gaming >_>

**dejet** · 2010-01-30 15:13

Originally Posted by Mayareira

Or any other stock maybe? Because that type of response happens quite frequently in stock market.

An 12 year old kid that doesn't know anything about stock market posts a shit on the interwebs, and people jump right on top of it.

Spoiler: show

Mac? What does an iPad have to do with a Mac? What kind of generalization is this? I've been checking the Mac related communities and all of them literally bashes this thing.

Seriously, what kind of friends do you people have? A single pharagraph with 3 friend references, 2 of them saves the world with 200$ e-machines while the apple guy is the hippie cool-wannabe one. I really want to meet with these mystery apple fanboy friends who admits buying MBP's just to "surf web".

Spoiler: show

I've seen 3~ mac users here, Isoilia, Darus? and myself and so far, none of us claimed anything serious about this thing.

Spoiler: show

Brother 200 crap PC that gets the job done
friend one 1100 macbook that gets the job done
friend two pimping Mac desktop

Is that hard to read? My brother knows little to nothing about PCs, he knows his music programs very well tho. anything else youd like to know? I do have more then 2 friends with macs. The friend that only surfs the web wont say thats all he does, however I know him. He does no real photo editing, he does no video editing and plays games on a PS3. I can tell you for a fact that mac does not get used for what it could be used for.

you can also count me as a 4th mac user, as I use my fathers macbook all the time. As for the reason he uses that? his editing tools are for macs only so he has to, outside that he uses a desktop PC

Dont get me wrong I dont bash mac for sucking, they dont. I only say they are overpriced thats it... lol

getting away from mac vs pc or who sucks what. This new item is sucky in my view and has such a limited use that a large amount of people should not buy it in my eyes.

**octopus** · 2010-01-30 16:48

Originally Posted by miokomioko

I don't know if anyone mentioned it in this thread, but their stock rose in anticipation in the last week and then it dropped like 10 points the day the iPad was announced.

check and mate.

How hard is it to actually check the facts?

http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/27...-was-unveiled/

Apple stock actually went up at the end of Wednesday.

**miokomioko** · 2010-01-30 17:19

Originally Posted by octopus

How hard is it to actually check the facts?

http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/27...-was-unveiled/

Apple stock actually went up at the end of Wednesday.

Go look at the stock for Thursday and Friday compared to Wednesday.

**octopus** · 2010-01-30 17:49

Originally Posted by miokomioko

and then it dropped like 10 points the day the iPad was announced.

That's what you said.

**Zeh** · 2010-01-30 18:04

I think that Google CEO Eric Schmidt said it best. "Tell me: what's the difference between a large phone and a tablet?". While I will no doubt buy the iPad regardless just because Apple had brainwashed me, they really needed to do more to redefine the definition of a tablet. That means including features that are basic, standard and should've been included in the first place.

**Mayareira** · 2010-01-30 18:08

Overall, reason people are unimpressed with the device is...well, it was below the expectations. iPod did revolutionized the portable music player market just like Sony's Walkman did previously, iPhone did pretty much the same with touch screen and app support (still personally don't like touch screens, BB person here).

I really don't see anything new about the iPad. Sure, it'll probably have a better touch screen response and capabilities, build quality... but yeah, nothing new to see here other than maybe an impact on the electronic media (again, like mentioned e-ink is what makes a reader a reader)

I'd probably be much more optimistic if it had OS X instead of iPhone OS.

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