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| Aquafire wrote: | iPad....?
Women will stay away for obvious reasons.
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Yeah, can you imagine the confusion when a woman asks another "Can I borrow your iPad? I left mine at home!"
Someone at Apple is pretty clueless not to have seen this marketing mis-step ahead of time.
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| I remember a dude laughing at me because I told him I had a Palm Pilot. I probably wouldn't tell people I had an "iPad". If they asked me what it was, I'd likely just say it's an Apple "touchscreen" or "tablet. |
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| I saw somewhere - 2 speakers, on opposite sides, I think top and bottom, on the shorter ends. |
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I'm definitely going to buy the $829 version, I need the maximum amount of space. I can't wait to have my very own max ipad! 
but in all seriousness, I'm not sure how I feel about the iPad yet. To me, its uses seem limited with the lack of usb and camera. Right now I dont think i need a giant iPhone. But I could be proved wrong. I guess i'll just wait until I try it out myself before I make any serious judgements.
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Think of it for what it can do, not what it can't. Looks like an ultra cool device to me...an iPod touch with a large screen and more features. The demo video on engadget makes it look very responsive and a lot of fun to use.
If you already have a MacBook, like me, it'll be hard to justify. Unlike Steve Jobs, I don't see it doing things a lot better than a MacBook. But the wow factor is there for sure. |
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| MacDSmith2 wrote: | | Aquafire wrote: | iPad....?
Women will stay away for obvious reasons.
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Yeah, can you imagine the confusion when a woman asks another "Can I borrow your iPad? I left mine at home!"
Someone at Apple is pretty clueless not to have seen this marketing mis-step ahead of time. |
Just as well it didn't come with a stylus. Could you imagine...
Pen + iPad = PeniPad...
Think about it...
| Bandit Bill wrote: | | I remember a dude laughing at me because I told him I had a Palm Pilot. I probably wouldn't tell people I had an "iPad". If they asked me what it was, I'd likely just say it's an Apple "touchscreen" or "tablet. |
I would have loved for them to have called it the iMaX.
The tablet designed to Maximize your potential. 
Oh well....
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I would have loved for them to have called it the iMaX.
The tablet designed to Maximize your potential.
Oh well....
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I like the updated iPad, get me ... the MaxiPad! 
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| Are there any adults here? |
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Hey, Apple dug this hole themselves by being totally clueless to the potential advertising pitfalls of a name so closely associated with a woman's private business! They should have gone with iTablet.
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| MacDSmith2 wrote: | | Hey, Apple dug this hole themselves by being totally clueless to the potential advertising pitfalls of a name so closely associated with a woman's private business! |
It wouldn't have occurred to me if you and others hadn't brought it up—childish the way I see it. There are note pads, chair pads, cotton pads, foot pads, helicopter pads, lily pads, etc.
John Gruber has a good take on the iPad. "Fast, fast, fast." http://daringfireball.net |
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| Undo wrote: | | childish the way I see it. |
Lighten up a bit. Google "iPad horrible name" and you'll find there are many people that feel the same way. The jokes will dwindle in a few days. If people want to have a bit of fun in the meantime, they should be allowed to.
Here's an article written by a female writer for the New York Times that feels the same way.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/the-ipads-name-makes-some-women-cringe/
When I mentioned the name to my girlfriend today she laughed. |
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| Bandit Bill wrote: | | Undo wrote: | | childish the way I see it. |
Lighten up a bit. Google "iPad horrible name" and you'll find there are many people that feel the same way. The jokes will dwindle in a few days. If people want to have a bit of fun in the meantime, they should be allowed to. |
You're right. Sorry for being such a stick-in-the-mud. |
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| Undo wrote: | | You're right. Sorry for being such a stick-in-the-mud. |
It's all good, I can appreciate you're coming from. |
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dont like the thing.
1ghz cpu and no seperate gpu is very poor really if this thing is going to be for games aswell. |
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