Thread: IPAD is a Grossly Overrated Toy/Fad

Originally Posted by Cthulhu

Well, MS appear to be very ineffective, then, at what they do.

well done

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

It's well known that Korean manufacturers don't innovate they copy.

they said that about the Japs in the 50's and 60's, then they started to innovate

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Kim Chi.

What did he invent?

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

It's well known that Korean manufacturers don't innovate they copy.

To be honest I think thats been changing for quite some time. From what I remember of the rambus shitfest many generations of RAM technology ago, the korean manufactures who dominated that market, had already started too do quite a bit of R&D and had quite a few US patents themselves.

Then you have the contradiction of apple and samsung suing eachother with considerable acrimony and yet still trading with each other. It rather suggests that samsung manufacture a lot of components which apple cannot source from elsewhere, generally not a problem when you are buying generic copies.

Originally Posted by hazz

Then you have the contradiction of apple and samsung suing eachother with considerable acrimony and yet still trading with each other. It rather suggests that samsung manufacture a lot of components which apple cannot source from elsewhere, generally not a problem when you are buying generic copies.

I don't think anyone questions that Korean *engineers* are capable of improving costing technology. Hence why Samsung's current chip foundries are able to turn out 32nm and 22nm components, and why, currently Apple is using their fabrications.

I also don't believe that Apple is the kind of company that switches manufacturers, on a whim, because they are pissed, thus only hurting themselves. Apple is currently Samsung's single largest component customer, and thus Samsung needs Apple far more than Apple needing Samsung. Seeing as how Apple is already shifting display acquisition away from Samsung (to Samsung, for which they have just agreed to build an exclusive factory for their components), there's strong indications that Apple is about to take the chip component sales away from Samsung as well (they have been exploring using TSMC out of Taiwan). I believe that once TSMC is able to provide components 32nm and better, at the yields and numbers Apple needs, along with two secondary providers, Samsung will find themselves very alone.

This is no different than Apple's strategy with Google - they haven't abadoned Google resources overnight, but are effectively phasing them out. Starting with iPhoto no longer using Google maps, iOS 6, in a couple of weeks, will use a new maps app, no longer relying on Google maps (also the reason why Google has an emergency event a week earlier, unveiling "a new dimension" to Google Maps); Siri goes to great lengths to recommend results from non-Google resources, as well - now consider that Google makes more money from iOS based search revenues, and I'm sure you can do the math...

(it also makes me wonder that, if Android allegedly dwarfs iOS market share, then why is Google seeing FAR more revenues from iOS, than from its own larger share of Android..? Someone's lying, I think)

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

You know why I think Apple users are fucking retards?

In Dubai Duty free they have a 16Gb flash drive for the iPad.

Now you can get a 32Gb MicroSD card that fits a lot of tablets for $20.

How much is this shiny, white, Apple piece of shit? more than $100, and that's in Duty Free.

And the fucking suckers still pay it.

You have to admire Apple's marketing department. They could market turds as wagyu burgers.

Apple sells no such thing. There is no such thing as a "16GB Flash Drive for iPad" - thus, why are you fabricating stuff? I have no doubt that some opportunist third party company is selling such a thing, over price as well, but that has nothing to do with Apple.

Your ire is thus misplaced, and your "proof" is inaccurate and incorrect.

What brand is that? Apple sells an SDCard adapter for around $30, that accepts standard SDcards, or you can buy some third party cards that do the same for around $20.

Maxxel makes a 16GB flash USB drive *with wireless capabilities* for $140, but that's a specialized device, not by Apple, that provides WiFi access to the Flash drive (kinda "meh" in my opinion).

Apple makes no such thing, nor do they advertise and market it.

Originally Posted by Cthulhu

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

You know why I think Apple users are fucking retards?

In Dubai Duty free they have a 16Gb flash drive for the iPad.

Now you can get a 32Gb MicroSD card that fits a lot of tablets for $20.

How much is this shiny, white, Apple piece of shit? more than $100, and that's in Duty Free.

And the fucking suckers still pay it.

You have to admire Apple's marketing department. They could market turds as wagyu burgers.

Apple sells no such thing. There is no such thing as a "16GB Flash Drive for iPad" - thus, why are you fabricating stuff? I have no doubt that some opportunist third party company is selling such a thing, over price as well, but that has nothing to do with Apple.

Your ire is thus misplaced, and your "proof" is inaccurate and incorrect.

What brand is that? Apple sells an SDCard adapter for around $30, that accepts standard SDcards, or you can buy some third party cards that do the same for around $20.

Maxxel makes a 16GB flash USB drive *with wireless capabilities* for $140, but that's a specialized device, not by Apple, that provides WiFi access to the Flash drive (kinda "meh" in my opinion).

Apple makes no such thing, nor do they advertise and market it.

I'll reserve judgement on my irate reaction as I didn't look at it closely and realised i was talking about the iPad, a device about which I know little as I wouldn't touch it with a shitty stick.

The Apple Store is indeed full of massively overpriced Flash drives, probably for the Muckbook.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

despite supporting two different religious technology

Has Jobs been resurrected yet?

Originally Posted by DrAndy

Has Jobs been resurrected yet?

he never died, he was simply called back in heaven

Since he was a fucking Arab, he's probably got a 72-year old virgin for company.

^ never miss a chance to show the world how much of a proud British racist you are

not like those Arab loving Frenchies

or those chip loving Belgians

Originally Posted by Butterfly

^ never miss a chance to show the world how much of a proud British racist you are

French or Belgian isn't a race. It's just an obnoxious bunch of garlic munchers that the world hates.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Since he was a fucking Arab, he's probably got a 72-year old virgin for company.

This was quite uncalled for - if you have a rational point to make, make it. Otherwise, you just come across as just as irrational a zealot as the Butterfly.

Your rant about the flash drive just seems to confirm that - it wasn't about being familiar with the iPad, it's about you claiming that Apple makes some sort of shitty product, when in fact the product you are complaining about has nothing to do with Apple and isn't marketed by them. Your rant was just that, and irrational bashing attempt.

Originally Posted by Cthulhu

when in fact the product you are complaining about has nothing to do with Apple and isn't marketed by them. Your rant was just that, and irrational bashing attempt.

told you, you two were going to love each other, you are the same people from 2 different tech religion. Harryxbox is the equivalent of your typical angry apple fan

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Butterfly

^ never miss a chance to show the world how much of a proud British racist you are

French or Belgian isn't a race. It's just an obnoxious bunch of garlic munchers that the world hates.

ah the joy of being a miserable islander, paranoid and xenophobe

Originally Posted by Cthulhu

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Since he was a fucking Arab, he's probably got a 72-year old virgin for company.

This was quite uncalled for - if you have a rational point to make, make it. Otherwise, you just come across as just as irrational a zealot as the Butterfly.

Your rant about the flash drive just seems to confirm that - it wasn't about being familiar with the iPad, it's about you claiming that Apple makes some sort of shitty product, when in fact the product you are complaining about has nothing to do with Apple and isn't marketed by them. Your rant was just that, and irrational bashing attempt.

Shut up you sanctimonious prick, this is TD you're on, not TV.

Anything Apple puts its mark on is overpriced shit.

Like the "Camera Connection KIt" for example. Why should you need to waste extra on functionality as obvious at that?

Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit - Apple Store (U.S.)

Originally Posted by Butterfly

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Butterfly

^ never miss a chance to show the world how much of a proud British racist you are

French or Belgian isn't a race. It's just an obnoxious bunch of garlic munchers that the world hates.

ah the joy of being a miserable islander, paranoid and xenophobe

Ah the joy of being British as opposed to a cheese-eating surrender monkey.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Cthulhu

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Since he was a fucking Arab, he's probably got a 72-year old virgin for company.

This was quite uncalled for - if you have a rational point to make, make it. Otherwise, you just come across as just as irrational a zealot as the Butterfly.

Your rant about the flash drive just seems to confirm that - it wasn't about being familiar with the iPad, it's about you claiming that Apple makes some sort of shitty product, when in fact the product you are complaining about has nothing to do with Apple and isn't marketed by them. Your rant was just that, and irrational bashing attempt.

Shut up you sanctimonious prick, this is TD you're on, not TV.

Anything Apple puts its mark on is overpriced shit.

Like the "Camera Connection KIt" for example. Why should you need to waste extra on functionality as obvious at that?

Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit - Apple Store (U.S.)

Hey Buttplug, are you going to watch the Royal Air Force fly past tonight?

Oh, I forgot, in France you call yours an "Escort Service".

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Shut up you sanctimonious prick, this is TD you're on, not TV.

I see. Again, uncalled for. You sound more and more like a more Anglicized version of this Butterfly character. Pity, that.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Anything Apple puts its mark on is overpriced shit.

I thought we established that the object of your earlier rant is not a product that "Apple puts its mark on", as it isn't an Apple product.

Trying to deflect your earlier mistake by now pointing out another unrelated product does not efface your earlier mistake.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Like the "Camera Connection KIt" for example. Why should you need to waste extra on functionality as obvious at that?

$29 Dollars - yes, interesting .... albeit that product, and the price it commands, appears *identical* to:

Samsung USB & SD 2 Connection Kit for Galaxy Tab 10.1
OEM Samsung USB & SD Connection Kit for Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 / 10.v / 8.9 VersioMobile.com

Indeed, why would you be expected to "waste extra on functionality as obvious at that?" when you have a Samsung Galaxy Tab.

Please explain.