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Israel Repeals iPad Ban

Posted by timothy on from the please-take-it-out-of-your-bag-though dept.

SillySilly writes "The ban has been lifted: The Communications Ministry announced Saturday evening that starting Sunday it will allow Apple's iPad tablet computer into the country, following two weeks of confiscations and confusion."

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  1. Re:Tablet computer by JWSmythe · · Score: 0, Redundant

        No, the proper term is buzz word driven sales. Apple has done pretty well there. People need their iMac, iPod, iPhone, and now iPad. All the cool kids have it, so why don't you too?

        I used someone's iPhone, and was generally annoyed with it. I haven't had a chance to play with an iPad yet, but I suspect it'll be like all of the other Apple products I've used since my Apple IIe. It's pretty to look at, but I'll still call my PC based Linux/Windows machine a computer. (I either have one of each or dual boot).

        I was kind of stunned that at one place I worked, they bought several of the x86 Mac's, and went straight out and got their dual boot toy ("bootcamp", if I remember correctly), and used it as a Windows machine. No one could satisfactorily answer the question "Why did you spend more on that than a x86 Windows PC?" If you're going to buy an Apple to use an Apple, why would you make it run like an orange?

     

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  2. Re:What, why? by adolf · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Gosh. If it were that easy to keep things quiet with the FCC, you'd have thought that Apple would've known about it.

    Instead, we get this.

    Hmm.

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