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iPad Will Beat Netbooks With "Magic"
entirely_fluffy writes "In a talk intended to woo investors, Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook said the iPad will win over potential netbook buyers, but not because of specs or features. No, Cook said, the iPad's magical properties will seal the deal. 'The netbook is not an experience people are going to continue wanting to have,' Cook said, according to Macworld. 'When they play with the iPad and experience the magic of using it ... I have a hard time believing they're going to go for a netbook.'" Another thing that would help would be a camera and a $100 discount, but hey Magic is cool too, provided they have enough mana.
Apple already beat all estimations on what it'd cost. I think everyone on /. was estimating around $999 (as was everyone else on the net). All of the closest competitors are around that price point.
Why not just ask for it for free?
A camera would be nice.
Why do feminine hygiene products come to mind when I read the word "iPad?" It makes me wonder if the generation 2 will be the iTampon. It would go hand in hand with the iDouche that most of the Apple fanboy crowd I've met already own. Besides, using an iPad to stop the flow of blood would at least give it a useful purpose.
For some Apple fanatics, Apple could sell them a kick in the balls and they'd stand in line for six days just to buy it.
Somebody always says stupid shit like this, but people don't line up just because it's Apple, they line up because they really want the product.
Hell, some people lined up for Vista, but nobody says what you said about MS fanatics.
What's the point? MS fanatics are too stupid to understand that they are being insulted. Where's the fun in that?
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
nothing says "I like penis" like owning something from Apple.
Fixed that for you.
Also, they won't make you go through five levels of "are they really your balls? Prove it."
If you had read the Apple EULA as you were supposed to, you'd know that your balls already belong to Steve, alone with everything else in your pitiful fanboi lives.
Really? 5 insightful? I know I'm going to get modded to hell over this, but who cares. People are equal. A gay person is just as much of a person as a straight person is. This isn't what we're talking about here. If you really think a homosexual couple is the exact same thing as a heterosexual couple....then you were born for politics. Heterosexual couples propagate the species. Homosexual couples do not. NOT EQUAL. I don't care if they get married, it doesn't effect me in the slightest. But can we please quit with the little = sign on the bumpers already? Its not the same thing. Its just not. This being said, you really think that just because I'm not drinking the koolaid that I think gay people are pathetic? Why do you think in such black and white terms?
Anyway....are you proposing that we all decline the business of people whom we disagree with? If i disagree with the political or religious view of a person, that should no longer accept their business? That I have to hold anyone whom I take money from in high esteem?
Keep your koolaid. I'll call it like I see it.