I probably say both because one is way cheaper (Kindle Fire) which on the other hand, the iPAD is more expensive but it would seem Great to show off to your Friends that it's made by Apple, Just to be a showoff! I Say The Kindle Fire!!!
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poor ipad users: how does it feel to not have an SD card slot, full sized and micro USB ports, and a full sized HDMI slot? or play snes emulators with a wii more via Bluetooth.. What Apple doesn't approve that? Oh that sucks
And for the record how can you compare an iPad with an ebook reader and a netbook!!?!?!?
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Jhnrcknjr, you'd moan if they used an HDD over NAND FLASH because they break too often, and FLASH is more reliable. What a poor reason to be miserable.
why cant apple make something with a hardive worth the money there selling it for. This a realy big ipod touch: same small hardrive. delicte abd easily cracked or dented, and completly useless compared to how much its spose to be. MICROSOFT FOR LIFE!1
Netbook are slow as fuck kindles are ebooks dumbass and the ipad may have some problems but the quality is so much better then the kindle and i have a netbook and its horrible
@MidgetNachos I, myself own an ipad and a macbook but seriously!!! Netbooks are slow? What the fuck???! "kindles are ebooks" ??? Well I really thought that kindles are ebooks READERS!!!! Let's not be brainless fanatics and let's appreciate whoever is best at whatever they are supposed to do, this was a fair comparison, 'cuz there are peoples out there actually wondering if they should go for a netbook, a kindle or an ipad, this was just some insight for them!!! You sir, are the real dumbass!!!!
get your facts right** iBooks store is availible in all countries, otherwise the iPad would be a no go for the other billion people waiting to get their hands on this marvellous device! hahaha Soulquarium "please god, tell me he didnt just say that" hahaha
Well, I have & love both the Kindle & the iPad. The iPad is beautiful, no doubt... love the color display, especially for newspapers, etc. Also the apps & so many fun features. I also enjoy reading at night with the iPad, because it is backlit. But with that said, I often like to read outside in the sunlight, and the iPad backlit LCD screen makes that near impossible without some type of shade over the screen. The Kindle I can read in sunlight (at the beach, etc.), without glare on the screen.
Obviously the apple salesman here doesn't have a scientific mind. Why,
because the iPad outputs light and is continually on which is harmful for your eyes.
Where the "e-ink" in the Kindle is changed by an electrical current and remains in an off state while reading. So the Kindle only reflects light as a book would so it is not harmful to your eyes like an iPad is.
Don't be fooled by flashy graphics, the kindle is a reading tool where the iPad is more of a leaded plastic toy.
i give ipad two thumbs WAY WAY up! y? well in my case, i love reading. ebooks are probably the coolest thing ever. (if only my school books were ebooks, lighten the load u kno?) anyways if kindle had something like mypad i might reconsider, but with mypad i have been downloading ebooks like crazy. catches my eye? download it. y? cuz its free. y is it free? cuz im a member of mypad.
iPad could use a camera ... I wonder why they did not put one in ... disassembly videos show that there seems to be room for it ... so what gives apple?
i wish it had a webcam. and with the iphone 4th gen rumored to have one i just don't get it. everything else is good. and i dont mind the lack of flash.. who cares, most websites will port over to html5 (many already have) or make apps for the device itself like abc for watching their episodes.
This guy doesn't know what he is talking about, iPhone OS 4.0 is coming to iPad in the fall - with multitasking - and you can use the camera connection kit to connect to a camera via USB or SD card.
I really don't understand the purpose of the iPad. It's expensive, it's not a laptop, it's pretty much like an iPhone/iPod touch but bigger, it supports books.. woo hoo.
Why pay $500-$800 for an iPad, when you can actually physically buy a NOVEL and carry it around.. it will be cheaper, and surely you don't read 2 or 3 books at the same time. Not to mention you have to pay for a data plan for an iPad.
My point mainly, either KINDLE or BUY A FUCKIN' BOOK.
Think of the iPad as a medium sized window into the internet and all that it can do ... with some power, local memory, and excellent battery life and very portable. I test drove both Kindle/DX and I prefer the iPad because I more often want to read in the dark and have to have e-paper to read in bright sunlight on the beach or something.
The Amazon Kindle store I still prefer, and i wish the iPad had a camera. Kindle turns pages really slow, can read faster on the Pad.
"Think of the iPad as a medium sized window into the internet and all that it can do..."
Not true. The iPad doesn't support Flash. That alone is a SEVERE limit on what the iPad can do. Like youtube or google vids? guess what you need to watch them. That's right, Flash Player 7.0 or higher. Fact is, the only visd you can watch are those downloaded directly to the iPad, and with a max of only 64GB, you'd better pick and choose carefully.
Lol. I take back the youtube thing. Apparently, youtube has something going with Apple where you don't need Flash Player. Fact is, iPad still doesn't support it (Flash Player).
It sure is true, and I don't like being called a liar, AH. Flash was a proprietary solution to a problem, and it sucks ... sucks CPU, memory, etc. Like Flash, fine, I respect your opinion, but there is no need to say what I said is not true, unless you are just a total yutz ... and you did note that there is a you-tube app, as well as an ABC app where I watched the last episode of Lost. So what is your real agenda that you would rudely namecall over something you don't know?
Well my real agenda is to get people past the hype campaign. I don't deny the fun factor that iPads have, but I cna't really see them as a work effective tool for this 1st generation model. They lack even simple multitasking ability, and regardless of how bad flash may be, not possessing it is still a downfall. I'm sorry, but from a tech spec P.O.V, I can't take the iPad as seriously as even an average netbook. For fun, sure, go iPad, for work, go anything else.
@AndrewDeLong iPad is not a desktop computer, it's an appliance that works for me. I compare it to a Kindle, email, video, radio, maps, phone w/ Skype. Appropriate & welldone engineering for what exists today. I tried and returned 2 Kindles, but now read on iPad. Your opinion is fine, I have no problem with your choices, but it does not make me wrong, & you were at least uninformed. iPad is middleground-a nano-sixe desktop does not exist yet, its not perfect, but neither is anything else.
But that's just it. Yourself aside, people are comparing it to desktops, and I find it laughable at best that they would do so. Like I said, if you bought it for fun, and don't try to justify it for anything beyond that, fine. But once you ("you" being a general term here) start to TRY to justify it, comparisons will be made, and the iPad just doesn't compare. It is nothing more than an expensive toy, which is fine. Oh, when I read, I read books, no need for batteries :P
People who compare it to desktop are about as relevant as people who would go camping and whine and complain about their camp stove not having a digital light on it, and being able to cook a turkey.
Why are you so desperate to dismiss the iPad, if you don't have one, don't know much about it and are so biased that you have to judge rather that be informed, I'd say you have a real problem. The point for me is that it is not a toy, it is extremely useful, portable internet window.
Actually, I have read numerous reviews on it, looked at all the specs, WATCHED just about every review under the sun. Some PC biased, some Apple fanboy biased, and some neutral. I have just about as an informed opinion on it as I can get w/o blowing $500+ to get one myself. From what I gather, it is merely a larger iPhone or iPod touch. Again, I am biased against the hype, not the product. Even so, some customer reviews I have read are far more critical than I am on it.
As I have said, until this thing can obtain even BASIC multitasking capabilities, I can't take this as a serious, work related product. So far, all that you have said that you do with this thing can be done with any modern cell phone, and for much less money. I'm sorry, but iPad Generation 1 is just a toy. Generation 2 might be different, but with Steve Jobs' failing health and lessened presence in the Apple company, I can't even see how that is possible.
You cant take reading/writing email seriously. how much stuff do you have to do at one time? when i read a book i dont need to do other stuff, or when i watch video, listen to an audio book, music, whatever. the one thing i dont care about is games. i'm farsighted so i dont like cellphones that i can barely see, especially to watch video on. ipad compares well with other devices, i don't need a desktop in it, but eventually it will be there someday. for now i like it.
@AndrewDeLong well you did not know it had a youtube app. but you are not getting my point, i don't care how critical you are, i am not against criticism in the least, i am against incivility and talking without knowing. i was not going to get an ipad for many reasons. i ended up in the apple store for something else and used on a few times, and realized i could use this thing as imperfect as it may be. dont care if others do not buy it, eventually they will as it gets better, for me it works
Well, that's true that I did not know about the youtube app, but I checked immediately after I posted and corrected myself. As for multitasking, well...as I type this I am doing two or three separate things on my computer. This for one, listening to some music, rendering a movie, and so forth. As for email, a cell phone is fully capable of that (for those of us that use them). As for liking it for what it is, good for you, but me, I'll wait for the 2nd or 3rd generation.
You want to be able to render a movie on an iPad and that's your complaint? Sorry that is hard not to laugh at. It is not a computer, its an appliance. Someone could write you an app so you can connect to your home computer via VPN and control the rendering of movies on that, that is the kind of thing the iPad is good for. The iPad does stuff that a phone is not capable of.
I cant email on a cellphone, seeing ? writing is a problem, but I can type fast on the ipad
Oh Good Lord no! I would never want to render a movie on an iPad. Hell, the programs I use, I barely want to touch anything less than a Mac Pro or the PC I'm currently on. My point was, I can multitask on ANY PC, yet iPad users will have to wait until at least Fall of this year to even hope to begin to do that. As for cell phones, I know you said you have vision issues, which is why I said for "those of us that use them" in my last statement. Still, pencil and paper = typing
The point is that no sane person is going to do real "work" on an iPad, it is special purpose device. I don't think multitasking will add that much to it. When I pull out the ipad it is for some reason, read email, book, watch video, ... I don't sit at my iPad and move and forth between things at a frequency where multitasking is really going to help that much. It might be convenient to switch faster between apss, but that is going to cost speed and memory, i don't need it yet
I would kill myself if I had to read books from the iPad. I love the e-ink feature of the kindle and other comparable devices. Unless the iPad comes way down in price, I am not getting one. Too many non-existent features that I would like to have.
I was worried about the egonomics and ease of reading on the iPad ... I think it is better. I would rather read in low or dark light than in bright sunlight. How many people really want to read in bright direct sunlight. Epaper is slow and monochrome. I don't want to bash the Kindle, Amazon started something good, but I prefer the Kindle store & iPad myself.
Maybe iPad will do something about Flash, maybe it will motivate sensible people to get rid of it and move to a simple, efficent open source media streaming solution that is non-proprietary and does not use so much power.
Sorry I ran out of space listing all the ways netbooks are superior to the iPad.
You can put your own media players, custom media codec packs, your own videos, your own software. No limits with what you can do or what programs you can install. Did I mention netbooks have Flash? Actual multitasking, a real keyboard. Netbooks have USB ports, HDMI ports, webcams, and mic's for video chat.
The final differance is that netbooks are 200$ to 500$ cheaper then an iPad.
This is bullshit, netbooks dont require maintenance. They have flash, they have longer battery life then an iPad. When you pay 500$ for a netbook you get a 320gb hard drive instead of 16gb's with a 500$ iPad.
Let me see what else is there...
More powerfull CPU, more Ram, more storage space, Option of puting Windows XP, 7, linux or even OSX on it. Pinetrail netbooks get 11 to 14 hours bettery life,
I have an Ipad, it does everything I do when I am on the road. Web surfing and writing. But this guy is an idiot saying the kindle does not support movies, it is an ebook reader. Why not point out that the ipad and kindle and netbooks will not drive your car for you too?
hate spending 10 dollars on ur favorite book? why not pick up an ipd for 500 bucks! youll read the same exact story, and will not need to have that annoying book in ur bookshelve
The kindle doesnt play movies? I dont understand how people compare the Kindle to the iPad for anything other than reading. The Kindle is an EREADER nothing more. If you want to compare it to anything try the netbook. Makes way more sense
It's so gay how the 3G Models bump up the base price. The 16GB iPad 3G should stay at $499; just keep the monthly rates. What's the extra $130 for? Just to beat the fuck out of my wallet and put an evil smile on Steve Jobs's face.
@johnmonk66 Yes it does. It charges like $14.99 for 250MB of data or something like that.. and $30 for unlimited. But why pay this if I already pay $629 for the 3G Model at the beginning? Shouldn't it be EITHER the $130 extra at the base price OR the monthly rates but NOT both?
@youmils03 Apple is not charging 30 bucks a month, the phone company is, why should apple add hardware so the phone company can make money? If the phone company wants to, they can give you your 150 dollar discount when you sign a two year contract.
Your point of view is invalid, why should I pay more for a luxury car when gas is more expensive for it? Lexus should sell cars as cheap as Kia because I will be spending more on gas.....see how it works yet? Your arguement makes no sense
@johnmonk66 Your argument is stronger and more accurate than mine. I now understand your point. The phone company (AT&T) and Apple are not necessarily on the same "financial team". So what's best now is what you said; if you pay for 3G data on the iPad for 24 months (and of course the $629 at the beginning), AT&T should give you the $130 back (AFTER 24 months). Or at least, after 24 months, AT&T should discount the price of their 3G Network (ex: save 25% per month).
@youmils03 Glad you got it, lol. The Iphone is a 600 dollard device, the only reason people get them for 200 is because AT&T pays the difference if you sign a contract. But so far AT&T is not offering any plans for the Ipad, except the monthly no contract plan. But that is good too..get the minimum plan one month, the Ipad will warn you before you go over your limit, then you just upgrade. Or if you travel a lot, you can just pay for the 3g while on vacation and you need it
dang if u don't like it don't watch the video, but i do wish it had adobe flash support and a camera...............but i still think apple has the best touch screens and at that size it is a good price...........i want one
kindle is better for reading as far as i know due to paper view with electronic ink display and long lifetime battery and it encourages pure undistracted reading
all the negative comments...... wow! I would say that technology is good..... Apple has figured out how to make great products, many of you think are overpriced..... life is to short. If you can't afford it, don't hate the products. Ipad might be a waste, but it is very cool.
iPad is con! If you wanna read from an LCD screen, get a netbook. If you don't go for kindle! Hell, get a netbook AND a kindle! it'll still be cheaper!
Good point. The thing of it is Apple always build sleeper technology into their systems. They come back later and sell you a firmware and software update.
The kindle is great if everything you read is in black and white. I would alread have bought one if they had a color screen. I read a lot. But most of the things I read have color drawings or images in the text.
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Hmm..........Kindle vs iPad 2 ?
I probably say both because one is way cheaper (Kindle Fire) which on the other hand, the iPAD is more expensive but it would seem Great to show off to your Friends that it's made by Apple, Just to be a showoff! I Say The Kindle Fire!!!
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MrAlfithra 2 months ago
I'm getting the Eken M002 apad. It's affordable and does more than the ipad.
Drrck11 5 months ago
Simple
1. Netbook
2. Kindle
3. iPhone with phone removed
4. iPad
eateroftheflame 6 months ago
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poor ipad users: how does it feel to not have an SD card slot, full sized and micro USB ports, and a full sized HDMI slot? or play snes emulators with a wii more via Bluetooth.. What Apple doesn't approve that? Oh that sucks
And for the record how can you compare an iPad with an ebook reader and a netbook!!?!?!?
eyfhsdksd 6 months ago
IPAD is the best thing that happened to me last 10 years!!!!!!!!
Easy to use
is stable.
Easy.
fast,
I use it when I was in bed, bathroom, lunch, car ....
IPod has made a new history that is only now beginning.
These are the days when the others see what iPad has to offer ....
Rating for Ipad 10 +++++++++
vpilic 7 months ago
gotta be honest, thought the title said "Apple Ipad vs Kidney"
Weslo2 9 months ago
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swagbuckshelper2k11 9 months ago
this video was released on the 29th of jan 2010, so why does the intro,the music and the video quality look like it was from the 90's?
11guitardude 1 year ago
They're "E-Book Readers" Not computers. Keyword there, Book, Book.... Booooook!
Baboonaiih 1 year ago 2
ipad sucks apples
skaterguy1423 1 year ago
why would kindle even be in this... thatsl ike saying... iPhone vs droid vs a dining room table.... they don't do the same things at all...
meachy13 1 year ago 2
@meachy13 More like a dining table and a desk. :)
pepomk123 1 year ago
You're SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DUMB.
IVisionLive 1 year ago
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jerrysrichardson 1 year ago
its a book reader
crazy8279 1 year ago
well the kindle is a ebook reader, and much cheaper, and you say "theres no movie support" of course there isn't.
w7y7a7t7t 1 year ago 15
The downside to the Orange is that there isn't any red skin like Apple.
yannhk 1 year ago
iPad win i one iPad and love it
MyFunny18 1 year ago
Kindle is better
DoodiePunk 1 year ago 3
ipad has LED display...
uNamed2lyfe 1 year ago
@uNamed2lyfe led is basically lcd with backlighting. Thats why the full name is led lcd. dumbass
samklee96 1 year ago
@samklee96 but its better than kindle's display faggot.
uNamed2lyfe 1 year ago
dude wtf the kindle IS A BOOK READER
odair96 1 year ago
comom! man show some enthusiasm!! ur face looks like a robot xD
trujilloking 1 year ago
Jhnrcknjr, you'd moan if they used an HDD over NAND FLASH because they break too often, and FLASH is more reliable. What a poor reason to be miserable.
graymalkin1234 1 year ago
You talk lyk a robot :L
MycomputerMyvideo 1 year ago
why cant apple make something with a hardive worth the money there selling it for. This a realy big ipod touch: same small hardrive. delicte abd easily cracked or dented, and completly useless compared to how much its spose to be. MICROSOFT FOR LIFE!1
jhnrcknjr 1 year ago
Netbook are slow as fuck kindles are ebooks dumbass and the ipad may have some problems but the quality is so much better then the kindle and i have a netbook and its horrible
MidgetNachos 1 year ago
@MidgetNachos I, myself own an ipad and a macbook but seriously!!! Netbooks are slow? What the fuck???! "kindles are ebooks" ??? Well I really thought that kindles are ebooks READERS!!!! Let's not be brainless fanatics and let's appreciate whoever is best at whatever they are supposed to do, this was a fair comparison, 'cuz there are peoples out there actually wondering if they should go for a netbook, a kindle or an ipad, this was just some insight for them!!! You sir, are the real dumbass!!!!
westargentina 1 year ago
netbook ftw!
aaronrocks87 1 year ago
Pause. It at 0:24 it looks like he's possessed or something.
Khoaster 1 year ago
This is like comparing a Ferrari to a Toyota to a Ford. -_-
AWvids 1 year ago
i live in canada and i use ibooks why do people overlook s stupid idiots
basile4567 1 year ago
get your facts right** iBooks store is availible in all countries, otherwise the iPad would be a no go for the other billion people waiting to get their hands on this marvellous device! hahaha Soulquarium "please god, tell me he didnt just say that" hahaha
jordy123pordy 1 year ago
this guys voice is putting me to sleep... and he some of the stuff he's talking about is wrong...
NotLegal 1 year ago
he was reading the entire time. and he is also adopted. so that's funny too.
linkmaster77 1 year ago
The iPad was released in January? what??!!
ksbcrocks 1 year ago
@ksbcrocks ... Announced in January...
CassettePlaya1 1 year ago
Well, I have & love both the Kindle & the iPad. The iPad is beautiful, no doubt... love the color display, especially for newspapers, etc. Also the apps & so many fun features. I also enjoy reading at night with the iPad, because it is backlit. But with that said, I often like to read outside in the sunlight, and the iPad backlit LCD screen makes that near impossible without some type of shade over the screen. The Kindle I can read in sunlight (at the beach, etc.), without glare on the screen.
CameoCorner 1 year ago
there is something wrong with that guy...
aroyalmenace 1 year ago
$699? are they high? you can buy a real tablet pc for that.
serbonbon 1 year ago
u can see from his eyes he's reading somthin so he's stupid dont take what he sais
BoredSharingan 1 year ago
Obviously the apple salesman here doesn't have a scientific mind. Why,
because the iPad outputs light and is continually on which is harmful for your eyes.
Where the "e-ink" in the Kindle is changed by an electrical current and remains in an off state while reading. So the Kindle only reflects light as a book would so it is not harmful to your eyes like an iPad is.
Don't be fooled by flashy graphics, the kindle is a reading tool where the iPad is more of a leaded plastic toy.
THE1CALLEDJ 1 year ago
Some new netbooks now have touchscreen
jupiterscastle 1 year ago
i bought one 64gb
aceraspireoneisthebe 1 year ago
i have not heard a thing about a netbook.
grandtheftauto4123 1 year ago
Ipad is well worth it if its jailbroken...
DJTEVAdotCOM 1 year ago
kindle y did u bring that up?
Fr3nchFR135 1 year ago
i give ipad two thumbs WAY WAY up! y? well in my case, i love reading. ebooks are probably the coolest thing ever. (if only my school books were ebooks, lighten the load u kno?) anyways if kindle had something like mypad i might reconsider, but with mypad i have been downloading ebooks like crazy. catches my eye? download it. y? cuz its free. y is it free? cuz im a member of mypad.
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MrFixyourps3 1 year ago
iPad could use a camera ... I wonder why they did not put one in ... disassembly videos show that there seems to be room for it ... so what gives apple?
themountainviewguy 1 year ago
@themountainviewguy minor upgrade more money,just like iphone from 1st gen to 3g to 3gs.minor useless upgrade that sells millions.
darksharingan723 1 year ago
i wish it had a webcam. and with the iphone 4th gen rumored to have one i just don't get it. everything else is good. and i dont mind the lack of flash.. who cares, most websites will port over to html5 (many already have) or make apps for the device itself like abc for watching their episodes.
YUPnNOPE 1 year ago
It's a new iUseless product...
roylurd 1 year ago
Nope going to wait for 2nd gen hopefully they will make a better one
TheAhemahemahem 1 year ago
Movies???? Movies!!!??? What the hell!? It's an E-Book Reader!!
SuperBoi45 1 year ago
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2:49 - his GF accidentally bit it ; )
maxspar 1 year ago
2:49 - his GF accidentally bit it ; )
maxspar 1 year ago 2
my dad will buy me this, and then i will get the iphone OS 4.0 in the fall
IDK642HALO 1 year ago
This guy doesn't know what he is talking about, iPhone OS 4.0 is coming to iPad in the fall - with multitasking - and you can use the camera connection kit to connect to a camera via USB or SD card.
godzilla8joe 1 year ago
oh man my 50 inch tv is just a bigger version of my 10inch tv, why did I bother buying it.
haji9891 1 year ago 2
IPad Rocks
karunasiri1 1 year ago
Ipad=Ipod touch after eating 50 donuts
Epsilon584 1 year ago
its a sexy device but really... no flash, no multitasking, no USB. fucking complete waist of time
TheChadzzup 1 year ago
i prefer kindle
wing42 1 year ago
I really don't understand the purpose of the iPad. It's expensive, it's not a laptop, it's pretty much like an iPhone/iPod touch but bigger, it supports books.. woo hoo.
Why pay $500-$800 for an iPad, when you can actually physically buy a NOVEL and carry it around.. it will be cheaper, and surely you don't read 2 or 3 books at the same time. Not to mention you have to pay for a data plan for an iPad.
My point mainly, either KINDLE or BUY A FUCKIN' BOOK.
AnatomyofPaparazzi 1 year ago
@AnatomyofPaparazzi
Think of the iPad as a medium sized window into the internet and all that it can do ... with some power, local memory, and excellent battery life and very portable. I test drove both Kindle/DX and I prefer the iPad because I more often want to read in the dark and have to have e-paper to read in bright sunlight on the beach or something.
The Amazon Kindle store I still prefer, and i wish the iPad had a camera. Kindle turns pages really slow, can read faster on the Pad.
themountainviewguy 1 year ago
@themountainviewguy
"Think of the iPad as a medium sized window into the internet and all that it can do..."
Not true. The iPad doesn't support Flash. That alone is a SEVERE limit on what the iPad can do. Like youtube or google vids? guess what you need to watch them. That's right, Flash Player 7.0 or higher. Fact is, the only visd you can watch are those downloaded directly to the iPad, and with a max of only 64GB, you'd better pick and choose carefully.
AndrewDeLong 1 year ago
@AndrewDeLong
Lol. I take back the youtube thing. Apparently, youtube has something going with Apple where you don't need Flash Player. Fact is, iPad still doesn't support it (Flash Player).
AndrewDeLong 1 year ago
@AndrewDeLong
It sure is true, and I don't like being called a liar, AH. Flash was a proprietary solution to a problem, and it sucks ... sucks CPU, memory, etc. Like Flash, fine, I respect your opinion, but there is no need to say what I said is not true, unless you are just a total yutz ... and you did note that there is a you-tube app, as well as an ABC app where I watched the last episode of Lost. So what is your real agenda that you would rudely namecall over something you don't know?
themountainviewguy 1 year ago
@themountainviewguy
Well my real agenda is to get people past the hype campaign. I don't deny the fun factor that iPads have, but I cna't really see them as a work effective tool for this 1st generation model. They lack even simple multitasking ability, and regardless of how bad flash may be, not possessing it is still a downfall. I'm sorry, but from a tech spec P.O.V, I can't take the iPad as seriously as even an average netbook. For fun, sure, go iPad, for work, go anything else.
AndrewDeLong 1 year ago
@AndrewDeLong iPad is not a desktop computer, it's an appliance that works for me. I compare it to a Kindle, email, video, radio, maps, phone w/ Skype. Appropriate & welldone engineering for what exists today. I tried and returned 2 Kindles, but now read on iPad. Your opinion is fine, I have no problem with your choices, but it does not make me wrong, & you were at least uninformed. iPad is middleground-a nano-sixe desktop does not exist yet, its not perfect, but neither is anything else.
themountainviewguy 1 year ago
@themountainviewguy
But that's just it. Yourself aside, people are comparing it to desktops, and I find it laughable at best that they would do so. Like I said, if you bought it for fun, and don't try to justify it for anything beyond that, fine. But once you ("you" being a general term here) start to TRY to justify it, comparisons will be made, and the iPad just doesn't compare. It is nothing more than an expensive toy, which is fine. Oh, when I read, I read books, no need for batteries :P
AndrewDeLong 1 year ago
@AndrewDeLong
People who compare it to desktop are about as relevant as people who would go camping and whine and complain about their camp stove not having a digital light on it, and being able to cook a turkey.
Why are you so desperate to dismiss the iPad, if you don't have one, don't know much about it and are so biased that you have to judge rather that be informed, I'd say you have a real problem. The point for me is that it is not a toy, it is extremely useful, portable internet window.
themountainviewguy 1 year ago
@themountainviewguy
Actually, I have read numerous reviews on it, looked at all the specs, WATCHED just about every review under the sun. Some PC biased, some Apple fanboy biased, and some neutral. I have just about as an informed opinion on it as I can get w/o blowing $500+ to get one myself. From what I gather, it is merely a larger iPhone or iPod touch. Again, I am biased against the hype, not the product. Even so, some customer reviews I have read are far more critical than I am on it.
AndrewDeLong 1 year ago
cont....
As I have said, until this thing can obtain even BASIC multitasking capabilities, I can't take this as a serious, work related product. So far, all that you have said that you do with this thing can be done with any modern cell phone, and for much less money. I'm sorry, but iPad Generation 1 is just a toy. Generation 2 might be different, but with Steve Jobs' failing health and lessened presence in the Apple company, I can't even see how that is possible.
AndrewDeLong 1 year ago
@AndrewDeLong
You cant take reading/writing email seriously. how much stuff do you have to do at one time? when i read a book i dont need to do other stuff, or when i watch video, listen to an audio book, music, whatever. the one thing i dont care about is games. i'm farsighted so i dont like cellphones that i can barely see, especially to watch video on. ipad compares well with other devices, i don't need a desktop in it, but eventually it will be there someday. for now i like it.
themountainviewguy 1 year ago
@AndrewDeLong well you did not know it had a youtube app. but you are not getting my point, i don't care how critical you are, i am not against criticism in the least, i am against incivility and talking without knowing. i was not going to get an ipad for many reasons. i ended up in the apple store for something else and used on a few times, and realized i could use this thing as imperfect as it may be. dont care if others do not buy it, eventually they will as it gets better, for me it works
themountainviewguy 1 year ago
@themountainviewguy
Well, that's true that I did not know about the youtube app, but I checked immediately after I posted and corrected myself. As for multitasking, well...as I type this I am doing two or three separate things on my computer. This for one, listening to some music, rendering a movie, and so forth. As for email, a cell phone is fully capable of that (for those of us that use them). As for liking it for what it is, good for you, but me, I'll wait for the 2nd or 3rd generation.
AndrewDeLong 1 year ago
@AndrewDeLong
You want to be able to render a movie on an iPad and that's your complaint? Sorry that is hard not to laugh at. It is not a computer, its an appliance. Someone could write you an app so you can connect to your home computer via VPN and control the rendering of movies on that, that is the kind of thing the iPad is good for. The iPad does stuff that a phone is not capable of.
I cant email on a cellphone, seeing ? writing is a problem, but I can type fast on the ipad
themountainviewguy 1 year ago
@themountainviewguy
Oh Good Lord no! I would never want to render a movie on an iPad. Hell, the programs I use, I barely want to touch anything less than a Mac Pro or the PC I'm currently on. My point was, I can multitask on ANY PC, yet iPad users will have to wait until at least Fall of this year to even hope to begin to do that. As for cell phones, I know you said you have vision issues, which is why I said for "those of us that use them" in my last statement. Still, pencil and paper = typing
AndrewDeLong 1 year ago
@AndrewDeLong
The point is that no sane person is going to do real "work" on an iPad, it is special purpose device. I don't think multitasking will add that much to it. When I pull out the ipad it is for some reason, read email, book, watch video, ... I don't sit at my iPad and move and forth between things at a frequency where multitasking is really going to help that much. It might be convenient to switch faster between apss, but that is going to cost speed and memory, i don't need it yet
themountainviewguy 1 year ago
@themountainviewguy
Well, at least we both have a shared definition of sanity! Lol :P
AndrewDeLong 1 year ago
I would kill myself if I had to read books from the iPad. I love the e-ink feature of the kindle and other comparable devices. Unless the iPad comes way down in price, I am not getting one. Too many non-existent features that I would like to have.
MrC0MPUT3R 1 year ago
@MrC0MPUT3R
I was worried about the egonomics and ease of reading on the iPad ... I think it is better. I would rather read in low or dark light than in bright sunlight. How many people really want to read in bright direct sunlight. Epaper is slow and monochrome. I don't want to bash the Kindle, Amazon started something good, but I prefer the Kindle store & iPad myself.
themountainviewguy 1 year ago
IPAD Should DO something ABOUT FLASH!!!!!
FLASH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT AND MANY WEBSITES USE FLASH!!!
Its a very Big DOWNSIDE for IPAD....
Till that time stop comparing with near to NoteBOOK!!! please
iqbali4u 1 year ago
@iqbali4u
Maybe iPad will do something about Flash, maybe it will motivate sensible people to get rid of it and move to a simple, efficent open source media streaming solution that is non-proprietary and does not use so much power.
themountainviewguy 1 year ago
Already got one
iDiggMGL 1 year ago
" The downside to the Kindle DX is that there isn't any support for movies". Please God, tell me he just didn't say that.
Soulquarium 1 year ago 76
@Soulquarium Well it's actually very very exciting to watch a movie in e-ink xD
Professornobrain 1 year ago
@Soulquarium haha
PatchworkRobots 1 year ago
Ur looking fucking scary....!
KillUAllDudes 1 year ago
@ocbeach11
Sorry I ran out of space listing all the ways netbooks are superior to the iPad.
You can put your own media players, custom media codec packs, your own videos, your own software. No limits with what you can do or what programs you can install. Did I mention netbooks have Flash? Actual multitasking, a real keyboard. Netbooks have USB ports, HDMI ports, webcams, and mic's for video chat.
The final differance is that netbooks are 200$ to 500$ cheaper then an iPad.
TheKevin9000 1 year ago
@ocbeach11
This is bullshit, netbooks dont require maintenance. They have flash, they have longer battery life then an iPad. When you pay 500$ for a netbook you get a 320gb hard drive instead of 16gb's with a 500$ iPad.
Let me see what else is there...
More powerfull CPU, more Ram, more storage space, Option of puting Windows XP, 7, linux or even OSX on it. Pinetrail netbooks get 11 to 14 hours bettery life,
TheKevin9000 1 year ago
I have an Ipad, it does everything I do when I am on the road. Web surfing and writing. But this guy is an idiot saying the kindle does not support movies, it is an ebook reader. Why not point out that the ipad and kindle and netbooks will not drive your car for you too?
johnmonk66 1 year ago
hate spending 10 dollars on ur favorite book? why not pick up an ipd for 500 bucks! youll read the same exact story, and will not need to have that annoying book in ur bookshelve
Jooma008 1 year ago
The kindle doesnt play movies? I dont understand how people compare the Kindle to the iPad for anything other than reading. The Kindle is an EREADER nothing more. If you want to compare it to anything try the netbook. Makes way more sense
RocMerc 1 year ago
It's so gay how the 3G Models bump up the base price. The 16GB iPad 3G should stay at $499; just keep the monthly rates. What's the extra $130 for? Just to beat the fuck out of my wallet and put an evil smile on Steve Jobs's face.
youmils03 1 year ago
@youmils03 yes..because you don't have to put anything else into the ipad for it to receive the 3G signal..it works on magic!
JetPixi 1 year ago
@youmils03 You think it costs nothing to ass a 3g antenna? Apple doesn't charge monthly rates
johnmonk66 1 year ago
@johnmonk66 Yes it does. It charges like $14.99 for 250MB of data or something like that.. and $30 for unlimited. But why pay this if I already pay $629 for the 3G Model at the beginning? Shouldn't it be EITHER the $130 extra at the base price OR the monthly rates but NOT both?
youmils03 1 year ago
@youmils03 Apple is not charging 30 bucks a month, the phone company is, why should apple add hardware so the phone company can make money? If the phone company wants to, they can give you your 150 dollar discount when you sign a two year contract.
Your point of view is invalid, why should I pay more for a luxury car when gas is more expensive for it? Lexus should sell cars as cheap as Kia because I will be spending more on gas.....see how it works yet? Your arguement makes no sense
johnmonk66 1 year ago
@johnmonk66 Your argument is stronger and more accurate than mine. I now understand your point. The phone company (AT&T) and Apple are not necessarily on the same "financial team". So what's best now is what you said; if you pay for 3G data on the iPad for 24 months (and of course the $629 at the beginning), AT&T should give you the $130 back (AFTER 24 months). Or at least, after 24 months, AT&T should discount the price of their 3G Network (ex: save 25% per month).
youmils03 1 year ago
@youmils03 Glad you got it, lol. The Iphone is a 600 dollard device, the only reason people get them for 200 is because AT&T pays the difference if you sign a contract. But so far AT&T is not offering any plans for the Ipad, except the monthly no contract plan. But that is good too..get the minimum plan one month, the Ipad will warn you before you go over your limit, then you just upgrade. Or if you travel a lot, you can just pay for the 3g while on vacation and you need it
johnmonk66 1 year ago
Anyone with a little knowledge about netbooks will never buy an Ipad.
2MakeTheDifference 1 year ago
I'd rather have a kindle.
qkholster 1 year ago
What do you mean there's no support for movies on the Kindle?
It's a BOOK READER!
What is wrong with you?
Tomoe1868 1 year ago 86
@Tomoe1868 Hmnn... seems some BOOK READERS "do" support movies nowadays, as well as music and apps.
I wonder if that's what the phrase "Paradigm Shift" means?
overvision 1 year ago
@Tomoe1868
He's a Jackass! Probably has no idea what a book is. ...LOL
islandpics 1 year ago
@Tomoe1868 no. he is saying that the dx and the ipad cost the same but the dx is limited in what it can deliver. at least that's how I took it.
ddsharper 1 year ago
dang if u don't like it don't watch the video, but i do wish it had adobe flash support and a camera...............but i still think apple has the best touch screens and at that size it is a good price...........i want one
deathbydouble 2 years ago
i am getting one. It has far better browsing and email than a netbook and it also has iwork (hell yeah!)
1996kostas1996 2 years ago
2:47 WTF?
Gregerlindstrom 2 years ago
kindle is better for reading as far as i know due to paper view with electronic ink display and long lifetime battery and it encourages pure undistracted reading
TTARJ2008 2 years ago
Ipad may prove a good tool for students.
glowingdarkmatter25 2 years ago
all the negative comments...... wow! I would say that technology is good..... Apple has figured out how to make great products, many of you think are overpriced..... life is to short. If you can't afford it, don't hate the products. Ipad might be a waste, but it is very cool.
crzegreg 2 years ago
ipad sucks for reading(radiation) so i go with the kindle know what im sayin.
coNsPirAcy083 2 years ago
>radiation
There's no radiation emitted from that device. That's crazy talk.
sc0pl355 2 years ago
ipad sucks period why would i pay money for an overprice ipfone device on steroids.
coNsPirAcy083 2 years ago
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> why would i pay money for an overprice ipfone device on steroids.
Yet you paid money for a kindle.
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sc0pl355 2 years ago
@sc0pl355
Is there any iPad video you haven't visited son?
zonexll 1 year ago
@zonexll
Look at you stalking me. Are there any iPad vids that you haven't trolled IN ONE DAY?
sc0pl355 1 year ago
Well, then don't... It's a free country... :-)
macpipkin 2 years ago
Radiation from a LCD screen? WiFi?
The iPad and the Kindle share a 3G connection.
What radiation do you speak of?
macpipkin 2 years ago
iPad is con! If you wanna read from an LCD screen, get a netbook. If you don't go for kindle! Hell, get a netbook AND a kindle! it'll still be cheaper!
darkprinciples 2 years ago
@darkprinciples
Good point. The thing of it is Apple always build sleeper technology into their systems. They come back later and sell you a firmware and software update.
Maxburst 1 year ago
Down with iPad! What about Iriver?!!!
ajwconsulting 2 years ago
But ? ... Is Kindle better for reading, because of its monochromatic screen?
plaina 2 years ago
@plaina not at all
MasterHasbar25 2 years ago
What makes you say that?
plaina 2 years ago
not at all??? you dont know shit about ereaders... kindle has e ink of course is better for reading, ipad is not for an ereader
bryoneill11 2 years ago
@plaina
The kindle is great if everything you read is in black and white. I would alread have bought one if they had a color screen. I read a lot. But most of the things I read have color drawings or images in the text.
Maxburst 1 year ago
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