Plasma wrote:
In actual terms, the iPad royally sucks! I mean, it's essentially a thinner, lighter, tablet PC, but where you have to pay to download programs that you could get for free on a regular one. And that doesn't have proper drawing or gaming support. Or any sort of open source stuff at all.
Remind me again why Microsoft is always portrayed as the anti-opensource, cheddar-greedy company again?
But the marketing... OH GOD, THE MARKETING! I mean, their entire strategy is going "BIGGER SCREEN, GYROSCOPE, BIGGER SCREEN, GYROSCOPE, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD APPS AND BOOKS, BIGGER SCREEN, IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER! What? No, we're not going to tell you why it's better than the competition, IT JUST IS!"
I laughed at the part where they were saying how they plan to never lower the price like it's a good thing. No, really, they actually said that they didn't like the way most tech starts off really expensive and then gets cheaper over time, so they want to keep it at a constant price as much as they can! UGH!
Also, the way they were advertising multi-touch like a revolutionary new idea was REALLY cheap! Why? Because that's already a Windows standard now! They were actually trying to take advantage of how Microsoft doesn't blow loads of cash on marketing like they do!
For once Plasma, I actually agree with you. The problem is that every other product that Apple's released in recent years has been able to provide something that other companies haven't. Look at your iPod, your iPhone, your Macbook Air. The iPad has been their slip-up, because it offers absolutely nothing new at a price more expensive than computers that are far more functional. I'm going soon be able to get
a computer that, while not as light or compact, is superior in every other way, and can run Crysis at 60 FPS to boot, while the iPad can't even run Adobe Flash. Apple really dropped the ball this time.
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