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

[EvilGuy]

This'll sell heaps .. to the people who love the "ooh, shiny" technology.

Me, I'm waiting for the HP "Slate".

[EvilGuy]

Good non tech review
 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/06/normal_human_being_uses_the_ipad/

"Obviously not the target audience" or,
"Doesn't get Apple" or,
"Obviously an Apple-hater".

That's pretty much the summary for anyone who doesn't buy into the Apple delusion, innit?

[EvilGuy]

Exactly, the desktop box era is fading, we are at yet another fork in the road.  

Really? Then the "fork in the road" was nearly ten years ago when tablets first hit the market. Nothing new here in the iPad.

It's not so much the iPad itself but the idea that the iPad represents.  The Amiga crowd is sounding more and more like Old Farts(tm), opposing every new idea because it doesn't have a boing ball on it...

There's been new ideas here? Where? Not the iPad, or anything Apple has done in the last 25 years. Amiga users of all technology groups should know how dodgy Apple is in appropriating technology.

The surprising thing is the amount of love Apple gets for no real reason from ex-Amiga users.

[EvilGuy]

If you are insisting on comparing this device to a laptop, as others have done upthread, then you propably aren't the target audience.

Everyone points to the iPad as being "revolutionary" for the "everyday consumer" but when an everyday consumer uses it and ponders moving to a netbook they're "not the intended audience".

So, only mindless fanboi's who lapp up everything Apple gives them are the intended audience. Apple should use that for their marketing campaigns..

 
If you want to earn some geek cred, program an OS, or contribute to AROS or install linux or something.

Geek cred, rotfl.

[EvilGuy]

@EvilGuy

History is written by whom? Apple has done for personal computing what The Beatles did for rock and roll. They certainly weren't the first, but they brought it to the masses in a way that made everyone stop, watch, and listen.

EDIT: I shouldn't be not so mean today, if you want to believe that Apple brought personal computing to the masses then good on you.

[EvilGuy]

anyone who pays 500$ for the ability to play tappy touch games, is mental

Mental people with an urge to burn $500 *are* the intended audience! :-)