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Comment on The iPad is Not a Netbook by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:19:54 +0000

Wow, that is probably the most biased and dumbfounded article I have ever read.
Congrats on being the world’s biggest fuckhead, you just explained how it’s not the iPad that’s wrong, it’s just everything else!
Because it’s a specialist, not a generalist, of course.

Comment on The iPad is Not a Netbook by David Davidson

David Davidson — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:53:29 +0000

It also allows me to “consume digital media”, as you so eloquently put it.

Comment on The iPad is Not a Netbook by David Davidson

David Davidson — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:50:03 +0000

I just got a netbook off Ebay for $80, and it can do internet, movies and music, books, and apps/games.

Along with Flash support, more storage, multitasking, camera and multiple USB ports for connecting other devices.

Why buy an iPad, which costs 6 times the price of that netbook?

Comment on The iPad is Not a Netbook by You're an idiot

You're an idiot — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:43:31 +0000

Obvious shill for apple is obvious. How much are you paid?

Comment on The iPad is Not a Netbook by pfft

pfft — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:32:36 +0000

If Im going to pay $499 for this thing, it had better do just as much as a netbook.

All the games it has are shovelware and simplistic flash games.

Specialists go extinct easily.

Optical media is dying? What?

Comment on The Apple Tablet Business Model? by Alan

Alan — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:52:34 +0000

I feel like the professional publishers (People like the NY Times, et. al) are tired of giving their content away for free. The NY Times already has stated they they’re going to begin charging for their content, and I expect many other publishers to follow suit. The Apple Tablet is going to make this “OK” with the consuming public. It’s kinda like with music, we had physical media (records, CDs), then we had MP3s, and music was free for a few years. Then, we had Apple come in with iTunes, and because the experience was so much better than trying to download music through P2P, people were OK paying the $1 per song. Let’s face it–free websites are obnoxiously loud. We’ve got ridiculous ads all over the place, crowded interfaces, slow loading times, scripts, flash, etc. all running all over the place. What ever happened to just words and pictures? The Tablet is going to return the elegant design that print media is famous for, without all the noise, and I think that’s worth paying for–especially since the content is excellent quality than much of the stuff out on the web.

Comment on The Apple Tablet Business Model? by MD

MD — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:53:39 +0000

The problem here is: so what? Isn’t “ads” what the web does already? How different is this content?

The key is to get people to pay for content. If Apple uses ITunes store to do so, THEN they will have hit the gold mine. Nobody has really done that yet, except in very specialized circumstances. But even if I pay $7 for The Economist or Scientific American or Atlantic or People magazines, will I pay even half that for an electronic copy? Will it be portable, or will it (like iTunes today) need to be sufficiently unlocked that I can read it on any of my 5 computers of various makes and my iPhone too?

The people who paid $20 for a CD will pay iTunes $10 for an electronic version; but usually prefer $1 for a single tune. Will iTunes sell individual articles out of New Yorker or Altantic? For what? 50 cents each? A dollar? Does this mean the equivalent content will disappear from the “free web”? Which of New Yorker’s 50 pages of ads will appear with my article? Or will dynamic user-to-ad matching be one of the included iTunes services?

If Jobs can pull it off, good luck to him, much as I would hate to see the free web disappear!

I still have not paid for single online song, let alone ring tone or movie. I still buy the occasional CD and buy or rent DVDs frequently, but I dislike paying almost the same amount for content that it know cost the supplier significantly less.

Really – what is the real value of a file downloaded (no different than a picture or video on a free web site) vs. shipping a disc through 3 layers of wholesalers and sitting it on a store shelf for a week or 10? I just don’t see the “worth” of downloads.

Comment on Just got a new Macbook Pro… by Donita

Donita — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:17:21 +0000

hey..like you I have duts around on a PC long enough. Sad to say I can’t no way under the yellow sun afford a brand spanking new baby! So, after 5 hours looking and sweat pouring off I found an old geezer in VA willing to sell to me..Probably my age now that I think about it. A used Imac G5 20″ screen for $500.00 and let me tell you peanut butter is going to sound wonderful the next 6months! Love your writing!