This is simply further evidence that the site slashdot.org is being used for terrorist activities. Shut it down!! And toss Commander Taco in Gitmo just to be safe!
Oh for sure they've had some failures -- the cube, the MacTV, and much more. But they did something really right here, marketing-wise, and they did it seemingly effortlessly. How do you generate hype about a product when you won't even tell anyone that you're working on it? Apple managed to do that. It's remarkable, no matter how boring or derivative the technology might be. A lot of people wanted this device very very badly long before its existence was even acknowledged, much less leaked.
OK, I'm guilty of overstating the case, but the Nexus and the Android devices actually were at the show. A lot of folks (including some of the people pushing ereaders) were talking about (and even got downright dreamy about) a product from a company that wasn't even there. That's remarkable. Even moreso given the lack of the hype machine there.
I've never thought to myself, "how great would it be to have a 10-inch iPhone?" After watching the live coverage for the last hour, that's basically all this is.
Yes, but imagine watching the live coverage on a 10-inch iPhone!
This is exactly what happened when the iPod was announced: slashdot dismissed it as derivative while Apple quietly reinvented the freakin' walkman. One thing Apple generally gets right is marketing. There may be nothing technologically revolutionary to most slashdotters in the iPad but the fact is it's already shaken up the consumer world even before it was officially acknowledged as an existing product. At the Consumer electronics show in Las Vegas this year the upcoming Apple tablet was a bigger topic of excitement than any device that actually existed at the time -- Apple didn't even go to the convention and yet they managed to have a significant presence there. They have been very successful in the hype department without even spending a dime on advertising. Technological merits aside they will sell a boatload of these.
You're right the solar panel is a gimmick, but the tablet will still get excellent battery life because it will mostly be powered by the user's sense of self-importance.
eventually, politically motivated hackers break into his mailbox and start publishing his letters to his friends talking smack about some other guy's climate modeling program....
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This is simply further evidence that the site slashdot.org is being used for terrorist activities. Shut it down!! And toss Commander Taco in Gitmo just to be safe!
I bet the headline would get even more pageviews if they claimed this was an iPad flaw instead of iPhone.
what the hell's an iPad? an iPod from Boston?
or you're a lousy friend
WHO DAT thinks they can own Who Dat??!!
>i>It is not possible to cheat on homework.
I could name at least 7 people who have degrees at
"real" universities because I did _all_ their course work.
You do realize that you are a huge part of the problem, right?
"Some say, that Idiocracy" (parmesan comma)
Mmmm, parmesan comma....
So, it took officers a year to mount the hard drive in another system, and take a look in the recycle bin.
the other system was running Vista
Oh for sure they've had some failures -- the cube, the MacTV, and much more. But they did something really right here, marketing-wise, and they did it seemingly effortlessly. How do you generate hype about a product when you won't even tell anyone that you're working on it? Apple managed to do that. It's remarkable, no matter how boring or derivative the technology might be. A lot of people wanted this device very very badly long before its existence was even acknowledged, much less leaked.
OK, I'm guilty of overstating the case, but the Nexus and the Android devices actually were at the show. A lot of folks (including some of the people pushing ereaders) were talking about (and even got downright dreamy about) a product from a company that wasn't even there. That's remarkable. Even moreso given the lack of the hype machine there.
That's more space than a Nomad!!!
I've never thought to myself, "how great would it be to have a 10-inch iPhone?" After watching the live coverage for the last hour, that's basically all this is.
Yes, but imagine watching the live coverage on a 10-inch iPhone!
it has wireless!
This is exactly what happened when the iPod was announced: slashdot dismissed it as derivative while Apple quietly reinvented the freakin' walkman. One thing Apple generally gets right is marketing. There may be nothing technologically revolutionary to most slashdotters in the iPad but the fact is it's already shaken up the consumer world even before it was officially acknowledged as an existing product. At the Consumer electronics show in Las Vegas this year the upcoming Apple tablet was a bigger topic of excitement than any device that actually existed at the time -- Apple didn't even go to the convention and yet they managed to have a significant presence there. They have been very successful in the hype department without even spending a dime on advertising. Technological merits aside they will sell a boatload of these.
Here. It's not like this is GNU Hurd or something.
That Divinyls song from the 90s, "iTouch Myself"
I think youtube provides videos in a more readable format through its mobile website; I can watch them even on my Palm Centro.
It actually has a robust power source; it is powered almost entirely by the user's sense of self-importance.
You're right the solar panel is a gimmick, but the tablet will still get excellent battery life because it will mostly be powered by the user's sense of self-importance.
It's quite another to make fun of them when they don't exist yet.
-Wireless
-More space than a Nomad
Of course Uranus is a gas giant
but ... but ... but.... the genocide is where all the shiny comes from!
eventually, politically motivated hackers break into his mailbox and start publishing his letters to his friends talking smack about some other guy's climate modeling program....
almost as solid as Netcraft
You don't see this problem in Europe.
yeah, but you do see a lot of Europeans there.