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Originally Posted by SuperSlowSS
Think how do you carry a paper notebook or book around? You can use a bag, or just carry it with your hand. You do the same with the ipad.
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I don't carry paper notebooks around. Why? Cause they don't fit in my pocket.
A book is different. I will carry that in my hand, throw it on the car seat, or leave it on a table at a coffee shop. Why? Cause it costs $30, not $700. If it goes missing, get dropped, gets spilled on, ... I'm not worried.
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And this thing is so thin, I can just put it in my laptop bag with my laptop.
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My laptop is already in my bag, why do I need another $700 toy to carry around?
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And apple isn't stupid, they wouldn't want this thing to cut into their macbook or iphone sales.
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iPhone sales have cut into iPod sales.
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Yes goes up. Just look at the newton! It was soooo cool and expensive at the time. Where is it now? That was a niche product.
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This is a niche product, and at $700 isn't not cheap. 16GB isn't enough to hold videos, which is supposed to be a selling point of this. Its a simple portable multimedia centre - without enough space. So people will be buying the $600 and $700 models.
Lets not even get into the $30-70 add-ons and the $130 3G option with a $30 data plan. Now I need a data plan for my phone, and my iPad.
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Lets just say if I had to buy my grandparents a computer to surf the net and do some email...I would get the ipad.
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I would also get one for my GF's 8yo, yet she would quickly be very disappointed in it like she is with her DSi. She wanted a DSi to surf the internet, to play online games and watch videos. Unfortunately the DSi does not support flash, so its useless for 90% of her surfing. She nearly cried when I informed her of this, since she had debated between the DSi and a iTouch just so she could sit on the couch and surf.
I reassured her that the iTouch doesn't have flash either, she'd only get access to YouTube yet lose all her cool DS games. She felt better.
Any device that claims to be the ultimate internet device and lacks flash is garbage IMHO.
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You speak like you have already played with it.  |
So do you.
