Thread: iPAD vs Tablet PC: Forget the iPAD

^ You should learn how to quote first.

Originally Posted by slackula

The best part is that *if* the things you are touting ever actually make it to market they are going to eat into the netbook niche, not the iPad one.

^ You should learn how to quote first.

I'm responding to the comment, not the poster...

Originally Posted by slackula

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

But then again this is pretty funky and you can choose Android or Windows 7 versions:

It's quite funny. Apple have released (and are selling) something so successfully that you lot are desperately posting links to vapourware products as you flail about trying to prove how bad the iPad is.

ROTFLOL!

It's the same thing - sour grapes syndrome for being ignored, just like any 5 year old, these guys (barracuda, marmite, fred) are just trolling to vent their anger and frustration over being ignored by their betters. Keep 'em on ignore. It's more fun.

Originally Posted by DaffyDuck

sour grapes syndrome for being ignored,

To address the pundit argument of "Who would use one?" or "I don't understand why you'd want / use one?"

Michael D. Shear:

The folks who gather early every morning in the West Wing office of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel have something new in common these days. Practically everyone has an iPad — or will have one very soon.

Originally Posted by DaffyDuck

It's the same thing - sour grapes syndrome for being ignored, just like any 5 year old, these guys (barracuda, marmite, fred) are just trolling to vent their anger and frustration over being ignored by their betters. Keep 'em on ignore. It's more fun.

Cracking post. If you respond to my next I'll green you for it.

So tell me why a device that cost three times as much as my netbook but does a lot less is a better buy.

The folks who gather early every morning in the West Wing office of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel have something new in common these days.

So the Gaza blockade and BP oil spill news must be on Flash sites as well then.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

The folks who gather early every morning in the West Wing office of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel have something new in common these days.

So the Gaza blockade and BP oil spill news must be on Flash sites as well then.

iPad Security Breach Hits Rahm Emanuel, Other Big Wigs

Maybe but they have other things to worry about with their ifads

Just like that, the iPad feels a lot less magical.

A security breach of Apple's hot-selling tablet computer has potentially exposed the private information of approximately 114,000 people to hackers and no-good-nicks, Gawker reports. Specifically, the customers hit were those early adopters who purchased the iPad 3G's wireless subscription plan and signed up for AT&T service.

So whose info has been compromised? According to Gawker, A-listers such as White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer, film producer Harvey Weinstein, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg might be needing to change their e-mail addresses in the near future.

Wireless Industry News said that the hackers were able to crack iPad security within 24 hours after the device first went on sale.

Curse you Mr. Fred, after Daffy proudly told people they should buy an iPad to stay secure, on the "Thunmdrive infection" <sic> thread.

Of course if you want to view your photos on a netbook you just connect the camera to USB or bung the SD card in the card reader built in.

With ifad it's buy the adaptor for $29.
Cheeky.

Originally Posted by slackula

The iPad does what is was announced it would do.

I.e. Not very much.

Originally Posted by mr Fred

iPad Security Breach Hits Rahm Emanuel, Other Big Wigs

Owned by The Mac again !!!

Originally Posted by DaffyDuck

The folks who gather early every morning in the West Wing office of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel have something new in common these days. Practically everyone has an iPad — or will have one very soon.

^ Mactard!

Originally Posted by DaffyDuck

Just to clear up some confusion:

This message is hidden because Butterfly is on your ignore list.

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This message is hidden because Marmite the Dog is on your ignore list.

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Bloody hell half the forum is on ignore.

Bloody hell half the forum is on ignore.

Flounce Flounce stamp stamp pout pout sulk sulk.

Originally Posted by mr Fred

Just quoted it so he sees that.

He's got you on ignore. Therefore the things you quote will also be on ignore for him.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

^ Mactard!

iPad gives Apple 11.5% of Japanese portable computing

iPad selling 3X faster in Japan than iPhone 3G did

Apple's strong Japanese iPad launch may have given it a large piece of the entire local computer market, analysts at BCN discovered today. If the tablet is counted as a computer, it would almost triple Apple's market share in Japan from 3.5 percent in April to 11.5 percent in May. The spike would help Apple overtake Sony's 9.3 percent and make it the fourth largest computer company on the island nation.
Toshiba, Fujitsu and NEC still have significant leads at 22.1, 17.4 and 16 percent each, but all of these will have declined due to the iPad's presence in the market.

Despite making estimates, BCN didn't detail the exact numbers. As context, however, it explained that the iPad sold about three times as quickly in its first 10 days as the iPhone 3G did when it first reached Japan in 2008. It also hinted that real figures might lean more in Apple's favor as these didn't include iPad or iPhone sales at Apple's own retail stores or those at SoftBank, both some of the most important outlets for the devices. It did say that 55 percent of the sales were of the 3G version despite the Japanese iPad's SIM lock and the higher price.

Why Japanese have adopted iPads in disproportionately high numbers isn't known but may reflect both on a halo effect from the iPhone and local culture. Japanese have historically been more responsive to small computers and have been much more likely than most Westerners to depend solely on a phone or similar device for e-mail. The iPad is still dependent on a computer for backup and sync, but its compact size even compared to a netbook, along with its ease of use, may be important factors.

iPad gives Apple 11.5% of Japanese portable computing | Electronista

This is too good to pass up - as clueless pundits are already jumping on this, while only showing their ignorance on 'how things work' :-)

Don't blame Apple for AT&T's security ineptitude

As was reported previously, a technology tabloid has published a sensationalist article blaming Apple for AT&T's security problems. Email addresses and the "ICC-ID" of 3G iPad users were compromised due to a flaw in AT&T's servers. Some prominent people in business and government had their email addresses exposed. These email addresses were stored on AT&T's computers.

So why is this Apple's fault? Because Apple has teamed up with AT&T, and therefore -- through the transitive power of magical thinking coupled with a deep desire for web traffic and Digg hits -- Apple is responsilbe for ensuring that AT&T doesn't make any mistakes. Apple is supposed to "patrol" AT&T's network.

Did you follow that logic?


Imagine if you go to the Department of Motor Vehicles and get yourself a driver's license. The DMV requires that you put your address on your license, and they require that your car be registered with the Registry of Motor Vehicles. Now let's assume that the people at the DMV are very smart people, and very security conscious. Let's further assume that the people at the Registry of Motor Vehicles are nimrods who forget to lock their doors, and one night someone breaks in and steals all of their records.

Are you going to go to the DMV and blame them for this? Unless you've been dropped on your head, the answer is "of course not." You are going to blame the RMV.

The only exception might be if the people at the RMV are so notoriously inept that you know anyone who hears this story is going to roll their eyes and say, "Of course those idiots did it again." No one is going to pay any attention to that. But if you blame the DMV, who have a reputation for being very smart people, oh, then you might get people's attention.


Look, we all know what this is, right? A website offering wild interpretations of the facts in order to get attention, and a couple of bloggers desperate for traffic.

What is the actual damage done? The exposure of the ICC-ID numbers has no demonstrated risk associated with it. A lot of email addresses were exposed. A bunch of people are wishing that they had used their Gmail addresses instead of their actual work addresses. Is there a rational expectation that anything worse will happen?

Look, I'm happy to criticize Apple's choice of AT&T. I'd be glad to see the iPhone and iPad available on several different networks in the USA. Competition would lower rates, not to mention spreading out iPhone and iPad users among several carriers would ease the bandwidth burden.

But let's not forget that Apple got AT&T to agree to host the iPad without a contract. That's still a very big deal, and will have a much better long-term effect, not only in the USA but across the world.

"AT&T screwed up" is a "dog bites man" headline. "Apple screwed up" is a "900+ Digg/4300+ retweet" headline.

Don't believe the hyperbole.


Don't blame Apple for AT&T's security ineptitude