Anyone going to stand in line for this thing? Just wondering

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Last time I checked, Bill Gates owned 40% of Apple.  Has that changed?

B Gates has never owned an Apple Stock (though he might have some stock in investment funds managed by other people)... Microsoft owned a small amount in the late 90's.

Anyway, I like the iPad, I can't see how it fits into my life... but it certainly is the first tabletPC to get it right. All the other units have simply stuck a desktopOS on a touchscreen device which needs a stylus... totally impractical.

I'll probably pick up a unit cheap second hand

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@Lando

So, that's a no, then is it?

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"I'll put you down as undecided, then..."

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Probably because most apple fans are brainwashed idiots. Apple fanboyism is like a religion for some. You cant really compare a small company and a hobby platform with one of the biggest companies in the world.

You are worse than the Apple fanbois though... at least they have real products that work and are innovative.

I don't like Microsoft, but I can't deny that they managed to basically get everything right with their spreadsheet package for example, that is something no one else managed to do... I won't talk about the latest version, as they did something horrible with the interface... but my point is, you don't have to like Apple to submit that they are really good at some stuff. The iPhone, wasn't the fastest, most feature rich phone when it was released, but it ticked all the right boxes and totally changed the smartphone market... the same for the iPod, and even the original Mac (think the Amiga would have been GUI based without Apple?).

I don't need an iPad, there is no really gap in my computing life that needs filling with such a device, I'm a computer guy, you're a computer guy, we adapt to technology. But it is easy to see where it would fit in to the average person's life, someone who doesn't want to move to the technology, they want technology to come to them and make their lives easier.

Also, Apple have let me realise a dream I've had for nearly 20 years... It's not much, but I have had a game published and is now available to 75Million people! The iPhone made that happen.

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Ohh No. A bigger screen!! does this mean MORE puny humans to squash..?

Ohh the humanity !!

Gertsy

Hahahahahaha! Yeah, actually I got a terse email form Apple last night, stating that in my next update I must disable the vibrate function when the apps runs on the iPad... I didn't know it couldn't vibrate!

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All the mac hate is pretty hilarious on an amiga forum.

What I find really funny is how much some of the comments remind me of sitting in a pub when I was 9 years old with my Grandmother, and while I was drinking my coke and eating my cheese and onion crisps... I could hear three old guys on the table next to us complaining about "how terrible music was now". The funny thing is that you don't have to like the iPad, you have had your computing life... Now technology moves on, an the next generation will adopt the new paradigms, mobile, easy to use, energy efficient, ultra secure always on, persistently connected, touch screen devices will replace most of what we call "computers"...

The desktop metaphor is 30 years old, and been mainstream for at least 25 years... The keyboard must well over 100 years old... These old work flow models will be replaced just as the GUI replaced command line interfaces... Of course there will still be a place for these older concepts, but the mainstream will move on to the new "MultiTouch" display.

You either sit there and bitch about it, or get on with it and work it to suit your own needs... But never for get that you are now one of the old blokes sitting in the corner complaining how music isn't as good as it used to be.


For the record (pun intended), I AM now the old bloke in the corner insisting that music isn't as good as in my day... I don't get modern music, but I don't have to, I have my vast music collection and I just ignore 90% of the drivel that the record companies churn out.

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So you are saying that if you don't embrace the Apple Maxi-pad that you will be left behind ?  That's  a very short-sighted view

I specifically avoided mentioning the iPad, but yes, I believe that it is the first of a new class of computing. A class that might not feel natural to us, just as people resisted GUIs in the mid 80s, but is now here to stay. Ok Apple's mk1 iPad might not appeal to you and I... Maybe their mk2 or some other manufacture's device will, but it doesn't matter, as we are now the old blokes in the pub moaning about the new fangled music that's basically just noise

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Ok, I have had a play with an iPad now... and it really is a great device!

Here is a video of my App running on it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C0PNrUC9jE