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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.
netbooks are just as good as your spelling...
"Does it honestly need to be anything more beyond a giant iPod Touch?"
For close to a grand, yes it does need to be more.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
For a device who's primary focus is clearly browsing the web and reading things, with some media playing on the side, a keyboard isn't really that important, more of a waste.
No one cares. Really, no one gives a shit what OS it runs as long as it works. Okay, obviously people here on slashdot care, but you guys really need to understand that you are unlike the other 99.9999999%
No one cares. People are actually very shitty at multitasking, yes that includes you, even if you think it doesn't apply and you are special. Human beings are horrible multitaskers and in almost EVERY instance the result is a dramatic loss of efficiency.
Multitasking is great on your PC that isn't running off a battery and can do useful things in the background like crunch SETI@Home for you, doing this on a low power energy conserving device is retarded.
It might be useful to have an instant messenger client running in the background, but really, is it that important?
Yes, and a Toyota Camery only costs 10% of the cost of a Porsche. But people buying a ferrari are a different class than people buying a Camery, at least financially. The Camery is cheaper and gets the job done, but go take a ride in a Porsche and tell me if you'd willing go back to the Camery afterwords. You might, but you'd have a limited number of reasons for doing so, most of which would boil down to 'a Porsche is intended for a different class of the population than the Camery'.
I'd be willing to bet that the Sapphire used on the iPhone screen provides more protection completely exposed to impacts than the cheap thin plastic covering your netbook and its display will ever offer.
Camery > Porsche
1: Camery cheaper
2: Camery will run on more types of fuel than a Porsche
3: Camery has 4 doors so you can carry your kids
4: Camery can be had cheap as $200 (used)
5: Camery has crumple zones and can't do 140mph so its safer.
Now my list, must like yours, is retarded, mostly wrong and in the place its not flat out wrong, the statements are certainly misleading (intentionally, yours could just be ignorance).
Yes, your netbook is a PC thats too small to be really useful and the iPad is too restricted to function as a full PC replacement.
Good job, you managed to show how a screw driver is a really shitty hammer.
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Could I ebay it?
Could I get one that is not locked down?
Honestly a computer that someone else decides what code is allowed to execute is less than useless.
Besides owning a large truck that is never used for hauling or off road sporting, nothing says "I have a small penis" like owning something from Apple.
I love it when the obvious insecurities of socially repressed slashdotters manifests itself in pure nerd-rage.
"A uses X, and B uses X, therefore A is B".
Spot the logical fallacy.
I never stated that. Your ignorance in the terms you use is phenomenal. Just because you've seen other people use a term like, "logical fallacy", to win an argument does not mean you can just use that term to make yourself correct.
So now you're arguing that if two different operating systems look "exceptionally similar", they're the same OS?
No. As I've already pointed out, the very post you are replying to contains the following words:
"You're right, however, that they aren't the same OS."
iPhone OS and Mac OS X are both variants of OS X.
"OS X" and "Mac OS X" are the same thing, and refer to an OS that uses Darwin as its kernel.
No. Mac OS X is the version of OS X used on the Mac. Additionally, the OS X kernel is not called Darwin, the kernel is XNU. Darwin is OS X without most of the additional frameworks and technologies.
Even if you did define these two different operating systems to be labelled as belonging to an "OS X" family, that's purely an artificial categorisation. I can just as easily define Windows and Linux to belong to some made up OS family. They are still different OSs.
Not at all. Both Mac OS X and iPhone OS share all the same kernel, the same driver system, the same core technologies (CoreAudio, CoreVideo, CoreAnimation, QuickTime (not the player, not the container format, but the subsystem used in OS X), CoreData, etc.) and the same frameworks all the way up to Cocoa, where Mac OS X uses Cocoa and the iPhone uses Cocoa Touch (something else in the post you replied to without bothering to read).
At $500 I'm still not interested in it. If I'm in their target market (and I think I should be) then it is overpriced by at least a couple hundred dollars.
You sound broke. Broke people don't buy apps. Therefore, you're not in anyone's target market.