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

[Arkhan]

if i had spare cash id stand in line for it
then Id color on it with a marker (permanent), and go HOW DO I ERASE MY NOTES i TOOK?


then when someone goes OMG YOU RUINED IT YOU IDIOT, ill go OH DARN, and sneeze on it so it breaks in half like all of Apples cheapass products
:flame::destroy:

[Arkhan]

lately it seems like all apples doing is going HMM, What new doodad can we slap a dumbed down OSX on and sell to people, proclaiming that its the next big thing.

[Arkhan]

uh...only since 1982:smack:

aw well, in 1982, I wasn't even on my way out of my dad and into my mom.... >_>

[Arkhan]

Might be of interest for some:  http://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/358/how-my-499-ipad-purchase-became-a-1170-credit-card-bill/

whats funny is, the person made the choice to spend all that.   None of it was required.

[Arkhan]

Is he filled with peanut butter or just a hollow hunk 'o burning love? lol

I just devoured one filled with marshmallow.   It was so good i forgot to breathe!

[Arkhan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGUppxoJUVg


And that, is how you use an iPad


I watched some videos of these things in use, and I don't see any point.   Its a buncha people pokin around at the internet and looking clumsy while doing it.   When/where is the footage of them being used like hi-tech covert ops espionage devices.  

Someone explain!

[Arkhan]

Somewhere out there, children are actually starving to death.  And this is what these guys are spending their money on...

so?  Thats kind of a silly statement.   That would mean everyone that spends money on some form of entertainment should instead mail the cash to charity-funds, or hand out whatever it is they bought to the less fortunate.  Next time you buy ice cream, give it to a hobo.  :hammer:

3) Gamers.. Especially younger gamers that aren't interested in simulations that have entire keyboard overlays to play. This thing will become a force in the gaming community for simpler, cheaper games than Nintendo, PS3 and Xbox. A new gaming niche.

No!  Its already a joke in the gaming community, lol.  Apple doesn't focus on the same games that the actual gaming world does, and a giant 500$ device with such crummy gaming specs is sure as hell not going to do much.  For 500$ you can get a wii and a ton of simple, easy to get into games.  

Ever go on the WiiWare, PSN Store, or xbox live arcade?  Tons of cheap, hella easy games, on a real console, not some goony pad that you have to sit and poke.


I tried someones at school today.  over 1000$ for it + stuff, and all he had on it was his powerpoint notes.   I poked around, laughed, and showed him my equivalent: Pencil + paper.  

Sorry but I've yet to see any computer doodad top that as far as ease-of-note taking.    Theyre all clumsy and don't quite fit the bill.

[Arkhan]

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....

You must not be very hip to the current gaming scene.  Plenty of young people know what joysticks are, and the iPad doesn't have the same capabilities as an actual gaming rig, be it a PC or console.    Games changing to fit the device means the games will probably be crap, since usually the device is made to adapt to the GAMES.  Console/PC gaming has evolved nicely over 3ish decades now, and both young and old people alike realize whats up.

introducing a new platform for gaming and having the games "adapt", again proves that Apple is out of sync as far as the gaming world.  The gaming feature often seems tacked on.   I would love to see a game as impressive as Metal Gear Solid 4 on the iPad, and have it be perfectly playable with the touch screen.  

Noone who is serious about gaming, and enjoys having an actual controller with nice, tactile response, is going to really enjoy fingering up their screen trying to play some substandard game on a 500$ clipboard, especially when for <500$ you could get a PSP AND DS, or buy a PS3 and a dickload of games....  also, Wiping the cheeto dust off a controller is alot easier than cleaning it off a touch screen also.  

There is no confinement to the backwater, or old amiga farts pining away in norway.  Its gamers realizing that the device is ill suited for gaming.  Just like the 360 is ill suited for surfing the net, and storing notes/crap.


Trying to defend the iPad as a gaming platform is like trying to defend a baseball cap as a crash helmet.

[Arkhan]

@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.

well then don't lump actual gamers in with them and take petty jabs at Amiga fans.

[Arkhan]

What defines an "actual gamer" ?

people who want more than pokey clicky pseudo browser games.

cmon youre posting on an Amiga forum, have a username like Runequester, and are asking this?    The gaming community at large, and the underground gaming scene of today, is not in line for iPad

[Arkhan]

Just in case, it really is all.... I'll take the opportunity to point out that "real gamers" do pen and paper. Electronics are so 1980's. Man..

what about table top mini games?



the point that was made is that the ipad is some new contender in the world of gaming, and it isn't.  anyone who pays 500$ for the ability to play tappy touch games, is mental, especially since most of what you find in the app store is a respun version of some free browser game thats out there.  

Its a nice side feature, just like how noone buys Windows explicitly for Solitaire, and hearts games.