Steve Jobs Steals GDC Thunder with iPad 2 Announcement
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Oh no! Oh no! Apple announced a product which nobody wants, thus stealing the thunder from all those people at GDC making interesting announcements that people care about!
How dare they update their iPad hardware? Nobody bought the first one in the one year they've had, and there's just no reason to bring out a new one in that time frame. Besides, all their competitors have now overtaken them with more reliable (Android) software on less expensive (subsidised) hardware, so it's too late for them to do anything about it as well as too early!
And nobody wants one! And the people who do are just trying to be cool! Clearly no professional or academic institution would adopt it! It can't even play Crysis!
Let me just take a while to reinvent Apple's business model while I'm here because the iPad and the iPhone 4 were such utter failures! They certainly shouldn't keep the basis of the iPad's design because nobody likes it. I know! They should have fold-out tabs with G-clamps to act as stands, the battery should be reduced so that it can be removed with a clip panel, there should be no glass cover on the screen, and it should have an OLED screen because we all love blurry colours which look cool and trendy and it's OLED!! And it should have a slide-out keyboard with a numpad, and it should also have mouse support, and the screen really ought to have a hinge just like a laptop, so that people can more conveniently carry it around. Also they should sell them to break even because we all know that you can't really make money on hardware! Microsoft and Sony proved it!
Right, for every exclamation mark there, I bang my head on the wall.
How dare they update their iPad hardware? Nobody bought the first one in the one year they've had, and there's just no reason to bring out a new one in that time frame. Besides, all their competitors have now overtaken them with more reliable (Android) software on less expensive (subsidised) hardware, so it's too late for them to do anything about it as well as too early!
And nobody wants one! And the people who do are just trying to be cool! Clearly no professional or academic institution would adopt it! It can't even play Crysis!
Let me just take a while to reinvent Apple's business model while I'm here because the iPad and the iPhone 4 were such utter failures! They certainly shouldn't keep the basis of the iPad's design because nobody likes it. I know! They should have fold-out tabs with G-clamps to act as stands, the battery should be reduced so that it can be removed with a clip panel, there should be no glass cover on the screen, and it should have an OLED screen because we all love blurry colours which look cool and trendy and it's OLED!! And it should have a slide-out keyboard with a numpad, and it should also have mouse support, and the screen really ought to have a hinge just like a laptop, so that people can more conveniently carry it around. Also they should sell them to break even because we all know that you can't really make money on hardware! Microsoft and Sony proved it!
Right, for every exclamation mark there, I bang my head on the wall.
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its an interesting piece of tech but I still cant see it as anything more then an overpriced flash player, Ive got an ipad and it seems more like a toy then my ds is... ok it can do some computer like stuff but apple limits your ability to do everything on it to basic shit
What's wrong with Apple catering to a rich population? They have no duty or obligation to create affordable technology, their only obligation is to make money. Apparently they can make money with expensive tablet computers. Whether or not they bring joy to the middle class in the form of extraneous computer/iPod crossovers is not a concern of theirs, nor should it be. Whining about not getting the coolest toy available? THAT is self-indulgence.
Camera on the back? So you can take pictures by holding up the iPad and looking like a complete idiot for not just using a pocket-size digital camera or your phone? I'm almost looking forward to seeing the next idiot on the street "just taking a pic of this" holding that big iPad with both their hands in front of them...
Lol he stole the thunder of a Game Developers Conference with his e-bookreader? Sweet article title bro.
What the hell was Steve Jobs doing at the GDC anyway? He's not a Game developer, and while his company might make devices that can play some very basic games, I don't think that's enough to make him deserve a place there. Alienware make devices that can play far superior games to anything available on an Ipad, but do they get a place? No, because they're not game developers, and neither are Apple!
The announcement of the Ipad 2 had nothing to do with the GDC, and Jobs should be ashamed of himself for hijacking such a great event.
The announcement of the Ipad 2 had nothing to do with the GDC, and Jobs should be ashamed of himself for hijacking such a great event.
ah ah but see the htc is slightly larger in dimensions and doesn't have the apple logo so clearly it is inferior, I mean has jeff goldbloom done any htc commercials? I think not.bringer of illumination said:This picture encapsulates the whole of my opinion of Apple's business-model.
The iPad is an piece of expired crap, and the people who are buing it are throwing away their money.
And yet the Cult of Jobs will buy this version en-mass, prompting an iPad 3 to be announced next year, which the Cult of Jobs will buy en-mass, which will prompt an iPad 4...
If anyone criticizes Nintendo for coming up with new versions of their handhelds every few years and then refuses to criticize Apple for doing the same thing, except every year, then that person is a hypocrite.
If anyone criticizes Nintendo for coming up with new versions of their handhelds every few years and then refuses to criticize Apple for doing the same thing, except every year, then that person is a hypocrite.