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Bill Gates Responds To Apple iPad

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the tired-of-these-yet dept.

superapecommando writes "Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has called Apple's iPad a 'nice reader' but claims netbooks are the way forward. Speaking briefly to BNET's Brent Schlender, the Microsoft Chairman, who had admitted to being in awe of the iPhone on first release, saw nothing in the iPad to really excite him."

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  1. That's it by Renegade+Lisp · · Score: 5, Funny

    If there was anything that could guarantee the skyrocketing success of the iPad, we've just witnessed it.

    1. Re:That's it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      When asked that question, Billy Boy should've just said "LULZ" and left it at that.

    2. Re:That's it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm buying one. Day one, I will be in line at the Apple store with my mock turtleneck, tortoise-shell glasses, and my douche. I'll snatch one of these puppies up for the sole purpose of donning my Yoko Ono, blind-people shades, holding this thing to my ear, and asking the kids at the Genius Bar why my iPhone for the visually impaired gets such shitty reception. I will do this multiple times per store to no less than a dozen stores.

    3. Re:That's it by bemymonkey · · Score: 2, Funny

      Videos please.

    4. Re:That's it by smallfries · · Score: 2, Funny

      There is no Slashdot consensus. Did you not realise when you posted a response saying the parent was wrong that you were invalidating your own argument? Did you not ever notice that almost every response to every post on Slashdot is someone violently disagreeing?

      What absolute rubbish. I can't believe that you dragged your sorry ass over here from digg just to post that trash. [insert apple fanboy attack here].

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  2. The iPad ought to be enough for anybody. by lisany · · Score: 4, Funny

    The iPad ought to be enough for anybody.

  3. Trust in Bill Gates predictions by gmuslera · · Score: 2, Funny

    because we all have more than enough memory with 640k

  4. Pocket PC by JohnHegarty · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have an old Pocket PC that cost about $300 back in 2005 , and I really can think of much the IPad does that it won't.

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  5. Re:How About Neither? by nine-times · · Score: 4, Funny

    But if there's one thing Bill Gates knows about, it's how to build an effective, consistent, and beautiful UI that people will love.

  6. Re:Borg with a heart of gold by AliasTheRoot · · Score: 5, Funny

    What happens when they turn 6?

    Madonna adopts them.

  7. Re:For once... by Spatial · · Score: 2, Funny

    XP runs fine on them. Windows netbooks run like shit by default because:

    - They have McFatty AntiSpeed running
    - They have more programs and services running than the mind of god, especially at startup

    When I fixed those two problems on my netbook, it became downright pleasant to use.