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Heavy US Demand Delays iPad's Worldwide Release
Dave Knott writes "The international launch of the iPad has been delayed until late May, a one month setback from the original launch window of late April. Citing Apple's press release: 'Although we have delivered more than 500,000 iPads during its first week, demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks as more people see and touch an iPad. We have also taken a large number of pre-orders for iPad 3G models for delivery by the end of April.' International pricing will be announced on May 10, at which time international pre-orders are expected to begin."
Microsoft does not have to "pump" windows mobile because, despite all the iPhone hype, the number of Windows Mobile smartphones is only slightly behind the number of iPhones (http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/pages/what-were-top-smartphone-operating-systems-october-numbers)- and the number of windows mobile applications vastly outnumbers the number of iPhone applications (by about 10 times I wager)
I looked in on the Apple store in Palo Alto today, and it wasn't that busy. They had plenty of iPads on display. I think everybody who wanted one early already has one.
The first spyware for the iPad has already been deployed: "Our engineering team has devised a workaround to Safari on the iPad's rejection of any and all 3rd-party cookies."
"Can you not understand the concern?"
As a total geek & nerd: no.
"Most geeks like Mac OS X exactly because it's a solid Unix that grandparents can use."
I like OS X because it's a solid Unix **I** can use. I say that as a Unix geek & nerd.
What is your point?
I use something because it provides the best value. The nutjub "opensource community" has completely failed to live up to its promise since the mid 2000s or so.
When there is an open platform that can do a fraction of what my iPad can I will agree that you have a point.
obviously no deficiencies vs. no obvious deficiencies
The only reason that HTTP is "text-based" is because that's the way UNIX is designed and it derived from the UNIX community.
Had the web been designed by the embedded community, it would have been much more efficiently encoded. Likewise HTML would have just been a file format without delusions of being a "language".
Your hatred for Apple is pathetic. They are a company that makes products. Some people see a need for them and buy them, others don't. To bring emotion into it shows how impoverished your life must be.
I don't know what kind of /. you read, but in mine, there are plenty of +5 pro-Apple comments, but there are also plenty of +5 strongly anti-Apple comments. I'd say that pro-Apple ones have been more numerous lately, but not by a significantly large margin. In any case, you definitely get to hear both sides.
(And, yes, I'm generally skeptical about Apple, except for the few things that they have that are really interesting - such as LLVM,)
By the way, this applies to most other topics (including - gasp! - Microsoft). There is bias, for sure, but if your comments are coherent, and have references to back their claims, they will be upmodded eventually. The way bias generally comes out is that the "groupthink" comments get upmodded without providing references, and even being clearly trolling. But, again, you see both sides of the story.
About the only one on which going against the groupthink is virtually guaranteed to get you modded down to oblivion is being perceived as pro-"big copyright" in any story on a related subject - e.g. if RIAA sues another poor guy for $X million, and someone posts that he had it coming, and should cough up; or, say, that 90+ year copyright terms are economically beneficial. Then again, this is borderline trolling, so no surprise there.
[...] if I have to buy a Mac for someone it's like pulling teeth.
We're kindred spirits! When someone asks me to buy a Mac "computer," I work 'em over with a pair of Vise-Grips until they become reasonable.
Thank you, Edward Snowden.
"Arguments from authority are worthless." —Carl Sagan