Holy iPad Slayer! Company Releases World's First Christian Tablet

Velcroman1 writes "Steve Jobs worshippers need not apply. But if you're looking to get in God's good graces, or you're simply in the market for a family-friendly tablet, you may want to check out Family Christian's Edifi. Billed as the world's first Christian tablet, its genesis came with the inevitable intersection of technology and religion, according to Brian Honorable, a technology supervisor at Family Christian, the group that sells the tablet. 'We wanted to be able to offer our customers the ability to use our Holy Bible application, which has 27 different English translations of the Bible,' Honorable said."

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Re:Resistive Touch. Move along.

[narcc]

Capacitive touch screen suck at precision.

Resistive touch screens are awesome for precision. If I wanted a tablet for writing or drawing, I'd be stupid to opt for a capacitive touch screen over a resistive touch screen.

RIM has a patent on a hybrid resistive-capacitive touchscreen, which is really the best of both worlds. Finger fondling capacitive screen, cheap stylus friendly resistive touch screen. The Galaxy Note uses a more feature-rich Wacom digitizer which is awesome. It's a shame that they're the only company that understands how useful a stylus can be on a slab.

To answer Steve Jobs' question, "Who wants a stylus?": just about everybody. (No, those fat fake rubber finger "stylus" things don't count. They don't even come close.)

Christian != "family-friendly"

[wickerprints]

From the summary: "But if you're looking to get in God's good graces, or you're simply in the market for a family-friendly tablet,..."

Sorry, but Christian != "family-friendly." There is nothing "friendly" about brainwashing and indoctrinating your children into a superstitious, fearful, dogmatic, and guilt-obsessed worldview. Conversely, there is nothing intrinsically "unfriendly" about being non-Christian--i.e., it is a fallacy to imply that Christians have some kind of exclusive claim on being more wholesome or moral than others, simply by being Christian.

Oh, and one more thing: this whole article is just a thinly-veiled slashvertisement.

Re:Christian != "family-friendly"

[LeanSystems]

What points of consensus on morality has the atheist community reached?

Your ignorance shows no bounds and therefore I quit reading at that point. Atheism (a = not, theism = belief in a god) is anyone that does not believe in a God. There is not single belief system for atheist. That would be like asking if you can get clear consensus on any issue because all the people you ask live in the same city/state/country/planet.

I would also add that you could easily ask 5 Christians about certian moral issues and recieve 5 different answers... examples are: what you can do on the sabbath, should a woman submit to her husband, does the Pope have devine power, is it allowed to have multiple wives, birth control, and abortion.

So your smug comment will be applauded by Christians who probably have less in common with you than this atheist.

Re:Christian != "family-friendly"

[meglon]

As long as it impacts me IN NO WAY, i don't care what they believe. However, i cannot fathom someone having the incredible level of ignorance or intentional stupidity required by that person to say that religion only affects "believers" and no one else, especially if you live in the US where fanatical religious extremists have been trying to indoctrinate kids through schooling, rewriting history, trying to elevate themselves above everyone else, and generally trying to subvert the freedom and liberty of ANYONE who doesn't "believe" like they do for decades upon decades.

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[Penguinisto]

As a man who considers himself Christian, I'm saying the same damned thing.

Chalk it up to a scam angle used to push out crap tablets.

(besides, if you want a bible on an iPad that bad, well: go get one - there's like a bajillion of them in there!)