Thread: IPAD is a Grossly Overrated Toy/Fad

I have an iPad and a roll neck sweater just so I can sit at starbucks and not get sneered at

I felt the need to post this to balance out the even headed replies

dodgy ebooks - mobilism.org , ebook releases forum , and then use calibre to convert if you need to

Originally Posted by hazz

^I see laptops and tablets as being very complementary rather than competing technologies. Reading books from a computer screen is not very pleasant or eganomic, its only since I got the iPad that I stopped buying books and went almost entirely electronic.

Why not spend $80 on a Kindle? It's cheaper, battery life is infinitely superior, and book reading is a far better experience.

^If would agree with you on that, the battery life is superb, they work really well in daylight and if I were reading small format books such as novels and epub books I would probably have got one.

However I using a lot of large format books with colour, in pdf format , for me this gives the 10" colour tablet the advantage, as I can display a whole page as it would be in the print book at the same size, so despite the weight, battery life and daylight issues.... I got the 10" tablet, with few regrets.

Ipoop's can fry eggs!

^? I've read the new ones do, but mine doesn't get any hotter than body temperature.

You could certainly cook on my laptop. It's one of the reasons it isn't comfortable to actually have in my lap.

Originally Posted by misskit

You could certainly cook on my laptop.

Thank you very much, what time should I arrive? Do you prefer flowers or wine?

I am not an Apple fanboy, however I did buy the original iPad just over a year ago and at the time was also a bit at a loss as to the benefits (apart from the obvious of surfing the Web and playing Angry Birds!). However I have now found some unique uses for it namely:

- Kindle. Downloading book both fiction and non fiction.
- Press Reader. Downloading newspapers from around the world.
- Zinio. Downloading magazines from around the world.

As for watching video in the browser, I use Skyfire browser and have no problem.

You're absolutely right about the iPad but a brilliant marketing campaign has kept consumers convinced that they need one. Apple is now the highest valued company in the history of the world and some of it is due to this overpriced toy. Go figure.

I have a Logitech Harmony remote control to control the appliances.

No need to piss about with apps.

How much was that? The other logitech remotes were 100's of $, the link, $100.

Why not use the Ipad?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Google Places does the same thing and you don't need friends in the area; you can find restaurants near you, read reviews on them, click a button and it will give you directions (Driving, Public transport, even Walking).

Used it in Sydney and found a cracking little restaurant tucked away out of sight that everyone thought was terrific.

Not always true. I was in Hua Hin last week and we trusted one of these website to try a Mexican restaurant that was highly rated. We found out it was popular with western students because of their margarita but the food was crap. On the other hand friends told us about some local restaurants that was not popular with tourists and that was fantastic.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I have a Logitech Harmony remote control to control the appliances.

No need to piss about with apps.

Apple offers refunds for new iPad in Australia over 4G

The third version of Apple's iPad went on sale earlier this month

US technology firm Apple has offered to refund Australian customers who felt misled about the 4G capabilities of the new iPad.

The country's consumer watchdog has taken Apple to court for false advertising because the tablet computer does not work on Australia's 4G network.

Apple's lawyers said they were willing to print a clarification.

However the company does not accept that it misled customers.

Australia's Competition and Consumer Commission said on Tuesday "that Apple's recent promotion of the new 'iPad with WiFi + 4G' is misleading because it represents to Australian consumers that the product can, with a SIM card, connect to a 4G mobile data network in Australia, when this is not the case".

The watchdog then lodged a complaint at the Federal Court in Melbourne.

At a preliminary hearing, Apple lawyer Paul Anastassiou said Apple had never claimed the device would work fully on the current 4G network operated by Telstra.

Apple says the new iPad works on what is globally accepted to be a 4G network.

The matter could go to full trial after the Easter break.

BBC News - Apple offers refunds for new iPad in Australia over 4G

Apple misleading its customers ? no, that must be a first

Originally Posted by baldrick

there is an IR port on the tab 7+

Not in Thailand or most SE Asian countries there isn't.
That IR Blaster is aimed straight at the Fat Yank Market

Originally Posted by Kwang

Originally Posted by baldrick

there is an IR port on the tab 7+

Not in Thailand or most SE Asian countries there isn't.

yes there is - Samsung P6200 Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus - Full phone specifications

and when I looked at one in Pantip it had one I am sure

Originally Posted by Kwang

That IR Blaster is aimed straight at the Fat Yank Market

that buys istuff - not samsung galaxy tab 7+ devices

Mine (P6200) doesn't have the sensor and there is no Peel app on it, which is used for the remote control.

I installed the Peel app today and this is what comes up



I'm not really bothered, although i have emailed the Samsung CEO

IPAD is a Grossly Overrated Toy/Fad

lol... trollbate.

Originally Posted by inthaiguy

IPAD is a Grossly Overrated Toy/Fad

lol... trollbate.

Seems the majority of respondents who have an iPad seem quite satisfied with it - while there's desperate poo-poo'ing in this thread by a bunch of left-behind dinosaurs...

That, and iPad accounting for 95% of "tablet" web-traffic, seems to indicate that millions of others are equally satisfied with iPad, while only 1.2% use Samsung tablets.

Hmmm.... Yeah, must all be fanbois....

Originally Posted by Perota

Not always true. I was in Hua Hin last week and we trusted one of these website to try a Mexican restaurant that was highly rated. We found out it was popular with western students because of their margarita but the food was crap.

Yeah, you actually have to read the reviews to find that out...

Originally Posted by Cthulhu

Originally Posted by inthaiguy

IPAD is a Grossly Overrated Toy/Fad

lol... trollbate.

Seems the majority of respondents who have an iPad seem quite satisfied with it - while there's desperate poo-poo'ing in this thread by a bunch of left-behind dinosaurs...

That, and iPad accounting for 95% of "tablet" web-traffic, seems to indicate that millions of others are equally satisfied with iPad, while only 1.2% use Samsung tablets.

Hmmm.... Yeah, must all be fanbois....

No, just simple people using a simple device.

Why do you think there are so many Sun readers? Because it's the best newspaper?