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

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Ah, the Apple haters come out to play.  Apple will sell 300,000 today.  X1000 if it ever comes out will sell 300 total.  Apple succeed on the same basis (hardware tied to software) that Commodore/Amiga failed.

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Which happens to be more powerful and cheaper than the recently announced SAM 460EX.  People in glass houses should throw stones....

Mac haters? Perhaps, but...
 
This is just another overhyped, underpowered piece of closed hw/sw apple mac(in)trash.
 
I see nothing good about mac, expect perhaps running morph os on one.
Otherwise, I'm not interested.
 
Steven

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I managed to snag one the them, though not standing in a queue, and it's not even released in this country yet, but they let some of us in on an early deal.  Still the same price, just early...

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They hate it because it's a closed source hardware tied device that succeeded while Amiga on the other hand is a closed source hardware tied device that failed.

The device needs improvement to be sure.  Multitasking is a big missing piece, the "keyboard" has no tactile feel, they need to work on their upscaling of iPhone apps, the fonts look bad.  And the thing needs at least two cameras.  But overall I'm pleased with it.  Oh and iWork needs a button on landscape to get to the save pages, it sort of silly to have to turn it portrait to get the save button....

Oh did you figure out how to put iWork documents in folders?  I can't seem to find a way to do it.

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Retro gaming, most people aren't retro.  You don't get this.  The device isn't for the Amiga user pining away in the fjords of Norway.  There will always be a niche for the retro fans.  The X1000 and the SAMs are proof of that, boat anchors to 99.99999% of the world, they will always sell to the true believer.  iPad is about the rest of the world, who couldn't give a s**t about operating systems and just want to do things.  There is talk of virtual reality games when the next version with a camera comes out.  Games will change to fit this device, not the other way around.  Understand that we live in 2010, a lot of young people don't even know what a joystick is.

You either embrace the future or confine yourself to a backwater.  You are free to choose, but don't complain when others don't choose to follow you into the backwater....

There you are wrong, touch screen can never replace gaming with a keyboard/joystick. The feeling using it can't be the same as real buttons. however you do it's still a display, no depth also it's easy to slip onto another "button" on the touchscreen since there is nothing that stops your finger from moving. we all know when playing a fast game after hours in row and you are "in the game" you would slip quite easy on a screen, and that would make anyone angry!

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

This may be the future too:

http://gizmodo.com/5280273/hybrid-androidxp-tabletlaptop-looks-nice-has-me-confused

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...

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@Arkhan

There is the gaming community and then there are people who just play games.  The former are not the target of the iPad, that latter are.