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

[runequester]

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

[runequester]

People always bring up this stuff. "My laptop is way more powerful than an Ipad", "my 360 is way more powerful than the wii" blah blah blah

And in the end, nobody cares. Console games outsell PC games, The wii outsells the 360, the ipad will sell tons of devices, PC's beat the amiga back in the day and the most sold console is a handheld nintendo.

The average user does not give a crap if he has the most powerful machine, as long as its easy to use and does things he wants to do.

[runequester]

"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?

If you are insisting on comparing this device to a laptop, as others have done upthread, then you propably aren't the target audience.
 
 
Not to you in particular, but it cracks me up whenever Apple puts something out, and people are rolling over themselves on the internet to decry how its terrible and nobody should buy it etc etc
 
 
If you want to earn some geek cred, program an OS, or contribute to AROS or install linux or something.

[runequester]

If Apple or the Blackberry or Droid folks would get smart and offer reasonable cell service plans for folks who don't eat, breath and sleep with a cell phone hanging out of their ear, I would happily cough up the full price for one of their phones. But I'll be damnd if I will pay $500 a year for a service that I would only use for a few minutes, once or twice a year.

Those costs are determined by the wireless carrier, not the manufacturer.

[runequester]

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.  

Most people don't care about the visuals. The best selling gaming machine is the nintendo DS for crying out loud.

"casual" games that people love to sneer at are outselling "hardcore" games.

Most people don't want to spend the hassle of buying a thousand dollar PC, try to figure out if the current version of windows actually happens to support their video card, find the correct drivers on the internet, and then hope the damn thing actually runs.
Good luck figuring out the 21 keyboard shortcuts so you can actually play the damn thing.

People want to just toss in a disc or cartridge, pick up the controller or touch the screen and make things happen.


I am willing to guarantee that at this very moment, as I type this post, more people are playing Bejewelled than there are people who will ever play Crysis in the history of the human civilization.

That "gaming" is somehow confined to the drivel the PC game industry sees fit to vomit forth is laughable if you have any idea of how the industry works.

[runequester]

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

What defines an "actual gamer" ?

[runequester]

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

The gaming community went out and bought 360's and wii's.

Its funny because I dont even have a dog in this race, but you guys are cracking me the hell up.
A bunch of guys running the absolute default, zero-thought mainstream OS that came with the computer when you bought it, talking about "real gamers" and making sure to mark off their territory and point out how some people are not "gamers"

And they are making fun of Apple and the people who buy Apple products because they happen to sit in another box.


Is this for real ? Did April 1st get an extension as part of the new health care reform in the US ?


People are so self-identified with their gadgets and electronics, that they feel any slight against it or any inch conceded to another platform must be an affront to their personality.

Is that really all there is to it anymore?


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..

[runequester]

I agree with this statement, I have heaps of fun playing pictionary or artillery games where you get to chat with people at the same time. Also It would depend on the age group, oldies play the strategy games the younger ones play shooters.
Somebody needs to do a marketing study I think, it might improve things.

Half the reason I dig old amiga games still is because they have two player. Even a crap game like Dogs of War becomes a lot of fun with a mate and a beer or two.

The social aspect is one that tends to get missed a lot.