Topic: iPad...meh

[vudu]

I don't think anyone here has said the iPad doesn't have a use--and if they have they're lying.

Would I like an iPad?  Hell yes.
Would I pay for one?  Nope.

[NWR_insanolord]

If you go up and read this thread, or the internet in general, there are plenty of people who have said that.

[Stogi]

I wouldn't want an iPad if it were given to me. I'd flip it in a second.

[BlackNMild2k1]

I wouldn't want an iPad if it were given to me. I'd flip it in a second.

I'd play with it first.... realize that I have no practical use for it and then sell it to the highest bidder.


But if I could use it as a document viewer like .pdf only have people sign the pad, I could do paperless loans and it would be very portable for that. All it would really need is a camera w/ flash for pictures of documents and I.D.'s & the ability to wirelessly hook up to a printer(that is not an Apple printer)

That could have some real potential.

[vudu]

I wouldn't want an iPad if it were given to me. I'd flip it in a second.

You just said you'd want $500+ more than you'd want an iPad.  You didn't say you didn't want an iPad.

[Stogi]

I don't see the difference..

[BlackNMild2k1]

I wouldn't want an iPad if it were given to me. I'd flip it in a second.

You just said you'd want $500+ more than you'd want an iPad.  You didn't say you didn't want an iPad.

I wouldn't want an iPad if it were given to me. I'd flip it in a second.

Looks to me like he said he wouldn't want an iPad even if it was given to him for free.
Isn't that saying he doesn't want an iPad and would sell it if someone gave it to him?

[vudu]

If I gave you the choice of an iPad that you couldn't sell or nothing at all which would you take?

[BlackNMild2k1]

I would, but it would have no 3G connection and probably wouldn't be used very much if ever.

[Stogi]

Could I still give it away?

[BranDonk Kong]

So...I might be able to get a 64GB iPad 3G for $400...that, I would actually consider.

[NWR_insanolord]

So...I might be able to get a 64GB iPad 3G for $400...that, I would actually consider.

How? Can I get in on this? I was planning on buying one at full price next month anyway.

[mac<censored>]

So...I might be able to get a 64GB iPad 3G for $400...that, I would actually consider.

Hey, cheaper than 3 iphones duck-taped together!

[ThePerm]

check your PM BnM

[kraken613]

I got to use my friends iPad for a full evening.

Yeah it maybe a big iPhone or iPod Touch but it is big one. Much more usable and something you could use as a main device. Browsing was great on it and very comfortable. Reading when the backlight was down seemed good too. The full iPad apps from what he had seemed very deep and feature packed.

When the 2nd Gen iPad comes out this is something I will consider.

[NWR_insanolord]

Just to piss off Brandogg, Apple's iPad already accounts for the same amount of Internet traffic as the entire Android platform.

[D_Average]

But that can't be right!  Android does!!  Right!?!

[BranDonk Kong]

You're comparing basically a tablet PC to cell phones though. I would hope people were actually browsing the web with the iPad, since apparently that's what it was made for...

[NWR_insanolord]

Well the iPad isn't even close to the iPhone, which has nearly 20 times the Internet traffic, so I don't think it's just because it's a tablet versus a phone.

[BranDonk Kong]

But there are more iPhones out there than any other phone (and surely more than 20x more iPhones than iPads)...and of course people are using their internet connection. I get what you're doing here, but then again I don't. It doesn't piss me off that people actually use a product that they buy. I think the $400 iPad thing is a bust, but if something comes up, you will all know.

[NWR_insanolord]

It was supposed to piss you off that the iPad is selling; you made it clear that you thought it was awful and tried your damnedest to convince everyone else of that. It was also a shot at the Android platform in general, as it is nowhere close to the iPhone killer it was touted as and probably only gained most of the traction that it has because it's available on carriers that aren't AT&T, which I figured would upset you.

[TJ Spyke]

I would love to be given a iPad, but I sure as hell would not pay $500 +tax (which is the lowest price for it). The most I would pay is $300 (which Apple could apparently still make a profit on as iSuppli estimates that it costs Apple $260 to make the iPad).

[mac<censored>]

It was supposed to piss you off that the iPad is selling; you made it clear that you thought it was awful and tried your damnedest to convince everyone else of that.

Er, but "the ipad is awful" is not synonymous with "the ipad isn't selling"; given the pre-release hype, it would have been very surprising if didn't sell.

Note that I don't see any reason to think the ipad is "awful", but it seems very unlikely to live up to the hype.    The iphone is popular for some pretty good reasons -- it's stylish, simple, and does a decent job of making a "good enough" version of the internet available in a handy bring-everywhere package.  The "bring everywhere" point is extremely significant.  The ipad,  despite having many of the same limitations as the iphone (same gimped OS, etc), is not something you can just tote along without thinking, and I think that makes it far less useful to most people.  It's much more like a laptop, where you have to actually think "do i really wanna bring the laptop/ipad?"  It's fine for browsing while sitting on the couch, and that's a niche that it will no doubt do well in, but really not quite the world-changer that all the recent hyperventilation suggests...

[BranDonk Kong]

AT&T has Android phones now.

[NWR_insanolord]

AT&T has Android phones now.

Even though they acknowledge their massive network problems, they decided it would be a good idea to put even more phones out there. Great logic there, AT&T, right up there with spending huge amounts of money in an advertising pissing contest with Verizon instead of investing it in your network.