forget YOU NEWSWEEK.

[Sirrus]

So I get my copy of Newsweek today and I see, on the cover the following words: "What's so great about the iPad? Everything".

Regardless of your loving opinion on Apple,

HEALTHCARE loving PASSED THIS WEEK.

Instead of talking about the government making adjustments and changes regarding 18% of our economy, they talk about the loving iPad, in the worst possible way. Let me get some quotes from the article:

Jobs is a relentless perfectionist whose company creates such beautifully designed products that they have changed our expectations about how everything around us should work.

Oh yeah, his products are beautiful and they've definitely changed my expectations of how something should work: I want my stuff to work and do everything I want it to do and Apple sure as hell doesn't deliver on that.

But the very simplicity of the iPad masks its transformational power. Some say the iPad heralds a new era of computing, and I'm inclined to believe them.

Transformational? What the hell, it's a bigger iPod Touch, not a loving epiphany where all the stars in the universe align to you and your iPad and you are one with the energy of media.

Say you're reading the latest Henning Mankell on your iPad. While you're sitting there with it in your lap, why not check your e-mail or flip on an episode of The Office?

Total loving crock. That makes it sound like a laptop when it runs like a stuffty iPhone with no multitasking or any ability to make it too useful for what they just said.

What's the big deal about Apple's iPad, currently arriving in stores on the biggest wave of hype since, well, Apple's iPhone? The easy answer is that the iPad comes from Apple, and we always expect big things from Apple because it is run by Steve Jobs, whose California garage was the birthplace of the personal computer in 1976.

forget you Newsweek, do your research. The Apple I was designed and hand built by Steve Wozinak, all Steve Jobs did was suggest that he sell it. Same with the Apple II, though less so.

Since then, Jobs has transformed computing by making machines people actually like to use.

More giving Steve Jobs blow jobs. They act like before Apple computer usage was some mundane, horrible experience and then Steve Jobs came in on clouds like some kind of computer messiah.

Finally, to put the cherry on top of the forget-me-im-so-mad-right-now pie, they have the gumption to end the article with this.

Magical? Revolutionary? You bet.

After I finished reading this article I just started yelling "Fuuuuuck you Newseek, forget you Apple" etc. I am so livid right now, I can barely loving think straight. Thoughts?

oh btw: Here's the rest of the article: http://www.newsweek.com/id/235565/page/1

[Ad Bot]

[Retz]

wait till next week
 

[A.R.C.]

They were payed to say good things.
This is nothing new.

[Riot]

They were payed to say good things.
This is nothing new.

 They weren't able to come up with anything good. Lol

[Moybus]

"I've never used this product, but I know it's god awful despite several reviews saying otherwise!"

[Sirrus]

"I've never used this product, but I know it's god awful despite several reviews saying otherwise!"

Where the forget is the market for this?

The OS doesn't work to replace a laptop.
Its twice as expensive as eReaders and doesn't have eInk and the battery lasts half a day tops of constant reading.
Its too expensive for parents to buy for their kids.
Its too large to replace a media player.

Instead of trying to do one thing good, it does four things stuffty. Real "Magical and Revolutionary."

[A.R.C.]

Where the forget is the market for this?

The OS doesn't work to replace a laptop.
Its twice as expensive as eReaders and doesn't have eInk and the battery lasts half a day tops of constant reading.
Its too expensive for parents to buy for their kids.
Its too large to replace a media player.

Instead of trying to do one thing good, it does four things stuffty. Real "Magical and Revolutionary."

INNOVASHUN!

[dkamm65]

INNOVASHUN!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA

[Meekl]

I was at an electronics store, and on a Mac screen, it was automatically doing a little show on the iPad. The video was official, it was actually streaming from Apple, and it pasically said it's a bigger iPod touch.

[Comatose]

Totally irrelevant.

[Carly]

I'm going to avoid stating my opinions since immature idiots have taken them the wrong way in the past, but this isn't really a rant on Newsweek, it's a rant on Apple.

:/

[Inv3rted]

Where the forget is the market for this?

The OS doesn't work to replace a laptop.
Its twice as expensive as eReaders and doesn't have eInk and the battery lasts half a day tops of constant reading.
Its too expensive for parents to buy for their kids.
Its too large to replace a media player.

Instead of trying to do one thing good, it does four things stuffty. Real "Magical and Revolutionary."

So instead of using it hands on you form your opinion based on preconceived biases?

You did the same thing with Avatar.

[Sirrus]

So instead of using it hands on you form your opinion based on preconceived biases?

You did the same thing with Avatar.

The only bias in those statements maybe is "too expensive for parents to buy for their kids".

I don't have to use the thing to know that I would rather use an eReader for an eReader. The E Ink technology is easier to see in harsher light and easier to read period. Plus the battery goes for days without needing a charge and costs half as much as the cheapest, sans-3G version of the iPad. The Kindle has 3G built in for $250.

The OS is just an updated facade of iPhone OS- so no multitasking, no flash, no arranging files on the home screen or anything that could make it useful as a laptop.

Finally, there's no point in using it as a media player, it's got a 9.7 inch screen. I'd have to carry it in a backpack when I could use another media player that fits in my pocket easily.

You're all about drawing conclusions from facts, aren't you?

[Radial543]

You're all about drawing conclusions from facts, aren't you?

And you're all about being handicapped, lol.

[Sirrus]

And you're all about being handicapped, lol.

Tell me how what I said was wrong.