Yeah, but unless you only stream all your content (which I doubt you will), the 16GB capacity will vanish basically the moment you turn it on. At least it would if I bought it...
@EtherGnat Just read the first initial comments, and I only found one negative comment about the Apple TV. Most of the comments were pretty enthusiastic. And, as I said before, look how it did.As far as the iPhone is concerned, do you forget the uber-Dugg article by Maddox entitled, " The iPhone is a piece of s**t and so is your face "? It got 17,819 diggs with 1205 comments -- mostly in agreement with Maddox.<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/apple/The_iPhone_is_a_piece_of_s**t_and_so_is_your_face" rel="nofollow">http://digg.com/apple/The_iPhone_is_a_piece_of_shi ...</a>Let me remind you the iPhone became a hit, and the Apple TV did not. This isn't just true for Apple products, but other products as well. Diggers love Zune HDs, but they don't sell. Diggers hate the Wii, but it sells like gangbusters. Diggers don't know a good consumer product when it hits them because theey're geeks who like to customize and modify their devices -- and Joe Consumer does not.This isn't revisionist history. This is actual history.
@atomicpoetFrom the top of the most dugg comments list on the Apple TV launch: #1: For only $100 more, you can buy an XBox 360 (when it launches IPTV) and have the same functionality AND play kickbutt cool games as well...#2: neat, but $300 vs $20ish for a connector cable from my laptop? eh, no thanks.#7: pfft ... iTV ... hardly revolutionary. I'm disappointed with Apple in putting out something that other devices have done for 1+ years. Now ... if this device had a CableCard slot in it and a tuner ... it would be a serious home run. This from a so-called Apple "fan-boy".#10: I'm not that smart. Someone please explain to me how this Apple TV box is superior or even competitive with the media features you get from an Xbox 360 or a PS3?I looked through about the first 100 comments and didn't find anything that was wholesale praise for the Apple TV. Now looking for comments overtly positive or negative from the iPhone release thread: #3: WOW!#6: so long zune#11: now switching from Verizon to Cingular!#13: Tears of Joy#15: Somewhere Bill Gates is crying right now. When Ballmer throws a chair an iPhone gets its wings. Point is this think is freakin sweet. Now if it only streamed to the Apple TV.#16: Cingular just made an ass-ton load of money.I had to go down to #19 to find a comment that was overtly negative, and even then it was just complaining about the price, not the phone itself. Now let's look at the most dugg comments for the iPad launch for overtly positive or negative comments: #1: Looks like basically an oversized iPod touch so far... (OK, you could interpret that as not negative)#2: Anyone else kinda disappointed with its near-square shape as supposed to a more wide-screen format? #4: 2001 called, they want their tablet PC back.#6: great, another way to look like a huge douchebag in public#7: Why the hell would you buy this when you could just get a netbook that does more for less money?Summary: If you're looking at the comments which were actually dugg up, the iPhone launch thread was quite positive, the Apple TV launch was pretty tepid, and the iPad was downright brutal. If you don't agree you must be reading different threads than I am (or you're not sorting by most dugg).
Top 10 Reasons Why Apple's iPad Will Put Amazon’s Kindle Out of Business:1) The multi-functional capability: It’s sooooo much more than a reader, it’s a whole-life device.2) The screen: Full color, multi-touch screen, gestures, and more.3) The compatibility: iPad supports ePub out of the box.4) The iBookstore: Apple goes beyond Amazon to create a shopping experience.5) The experience: Apple’s creation goes beyond, to make the experience fun and cool.6) The economics: Publishers have been deeply concerned about price erosion with Amazon’s $9.99 pricing.7) The apps: With iPad, ublishers can go beyond e-books, and create an app using one of the world’s most popular SDK platforms.8) The marketplace: Sales of the iPad will mean exposure to so many more consumers than Kindle... Amazon won’t even release the number of Kindles sold, because the number of consumers buying its device pales next to Apple’s reach.9) The price: For $10 more than a Kindle DX, consumers get an incredible ebook reader, and so much more with iPad.10) The Apple factor (a.k.a. “sexy”): Amazon just doesn’t have that. As Jason Kottke says, "The iPad makes the Kindle look like it’s from the 1980’s."
@Boondoggle: With everyone bitching about the fact that the iPad runs the iPhone OS instead of OS X, there is obviously some demand already in place for a tablet that runs OS X. For someone who would prefer to use OS X on a portable, but doesn't want the bulk of a full laptop, the obvious choice would be a netbook or tablet running OS X. Why would you expect someone partial to OS X to go out and buy a netbook that runs Windows 7? That isn't a 1:1 replacement, as preference plays a big part in choosing an OS.Currently there is one option for someone who wants an ultra-portable device with OS X, and that's buying a netbook and hacking OSX86 onto it. How is my suggestion any different than that?
I see what you're saying but the fact that you can't multitask on a device that is basically a computer in the year 2010 is just down right silly to me. There's a lot more astroturfing coming from the Apple fanboy crowd then there are jokes and downright shenanigans in the comments section coming from the haters.The being said. Agreed. The maxipad joke is elementary at best.
nosynJan 27, 2010
Yeah, but unless you only stream all your content (which I doubt you will), the 16GB capacity will vanish basically the moment you turn it on. At least it would if I bought it...
atomicpoetJan 28, 2010
@EtherGnat Just read the first initial comments, and I only found one negative comment about the Apple TV. Most of the comments were pretty enthusiastic. And, as I said before, look how it did.As far as the iPhone is concerned, do you forget the uber-Dugg article by Maddox entitled, " The iPhone is a piece of s**t and so is your face "? It got 17,819 diggs with 1205 comments -- mostly in agreement with Maddox.<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/apple/The_iPhone_is_a_piece_of_s**t_and_so_is_your_face" rel="nofollow">http://digg.com/apple/The_iPhone_is_a_piece_of_shi ...</a>Let me remind you the iPhone became a hit, and the Apple TV did not. This isn't just true for Apple products, but other products as well. Diggers love Zune HDs, but they don't sell. Diggers hate the Wii, but it sells like gangbusters. Diggers don't know a good consumer product when it hits them because theey're geeks who like to customize and modify their devices -- and Joe Consumer does not.This isn't revisionist history. This is actual history.
ethergnatJan 28, 2010
@atomicpoetFrom the top of the most dugg comments list on the Apple TV launch: #1: For only $100 more, you can buy an XBox 360 (when it launches IPTV) and have the same functionality AND play kickbutt cool games as well...#2: neat, but $300 vs $20ish for a connector cable from my laptop? eh, no thanks.#7: pfft ... iTV ... hardly revolutionary. I'm disappointed with Apple in putting out something that other devices have done for 1+ years. Now ... if this device had a CableCard slot in it and a tuner ... it would be a serious home run. This from a so-called Apple "fan-boy".#10: I'm not that smart. Someone please explain to me how this Apple TV box is superior or even competitive with the media features you get from an Xbox 360 or a PS3?I looked through about the first 100 comments and didn't find anything that was wholesale praise for the Apple TV. Now looking for comments overtly positive or negative from the iPhone release thread: #3: WOW!#6: so long zune#11: now switching from Verizon to Cingular!#13: Tears of Joy#15: Somewhere Bill Gates is crying right now. When Ballmer throws a chair an iPhone gets its wings. Point is this think is freakin sweet. Now if it only streamed to the Apple TV.#16: Cingular just made an ass-ton load of money.I had to go down to #19 to find a comment that was overtly negative, and even then it was just complaining about the price, not the phone itself. Now let's look at the most dugg comments for the iPad launch for overtly positive or negative comments: #1: Looks like basically an oversized iPod touch so far... (OK, you could interpret that as not negative)#2: Anyone else kinda disappointed with its near-square shape as supposed to a more wide-screen format? #4: 2001 called, they want their tablet PC back.#6: great, another way to look like a huge douchebag in public#7: Why the hell would you buy this when you could just get a netbook that does more for less money?Summary: If you're looking at the comments which were actually dugg up, the iPhone launch thread was quite positive, the Apple TV launch was pretty tepid, and the iPad was downright brutal. If you don't agree you must be reading different threads than I am (or you're not sorting by most dugg).
valenciaoleJan 28, 2010
Its really AWESOME! But too expensive!!!
brownrecluse888Jan 29, 2010
Top 10 Reasons Why Apple's iPad Will Put Amazon’s Kindle Out of Business:1) The multi-functional capability: It’s sooooo much more than a reader, it’s a whole-life device.2) The screen: Full color, multi-touch screen, gestures, and more.3) The compatibility: iPad supports ePub out of the box.4) The iBookstore: Apple goes beyond Amazon to create a shopping experience.5) The experience: Apple’s creation goes beyond, to make the experience fun and cool.6) The economics: Publishers have been deeply concerned about price erosion with Amazon’s $9.99 pricing.7) The apps: With iPad, ublishers can go beyond e-books, and create an app using one of the world’s most popular SDK platforms.8) The marketplace: Sales of the iPad will mean exposure to so many more consumers than Kindle... Amazon won’t even release the number of Kindles sold, because the number of consumers buying its device pales next to Apple’s reach.9) The price: For $10 more than a Kindle DX, consumers get an incredible ebook reader, and so much more with iPad.10) The Apple factor (a.k.a. “sexy”): Amazon just doesn’t have that. As Jason Kottke says, "The iPad makes the Kindle look like it’s from the 1980’s."
nikobertJan 29, 2010
Yeah...What even happened to the iPod part? That might have been innovative at least.... :(
Closed AccountJan 29, 2010
@Boondoggle: With everyone bitching about the fact that the iPad runs the iPhone OS instead of OS X, there is obviously some demand already in place for a tablet that runs OS X. For someone who would prefer to use OS X on a portable, but doesn't want the bulk of a full laptop, the obvious choice would be a netbook or tablet running OS X. Why would you expect someone partial to OS X to go out and buy a netbook that runs Windows 7? That isn't a 1:1 replacement, as preference plays a big part in choosing an OS.Currently there is one option for someone who wants an ultra-portable device with OS X, and that's buying a netbook and hacking OSX86 onto it. How is my suggestion any different than that?
diggdeanJan 29, 2010
A Fresnel lens, like in Brazil? Or 12 Monkeys?
imalebowskiJan 29, 2010
i said complement a notebook. did you finish reading? or did you base your comment off of the earlier dude who also can't read?
digitalisakujinFeb 3, 2010
I see what you're saying but the fact that you can't multitask on a device that is basically a computer in the year 2010 is just down right silly to me. There's a lot more astroturfing coming from the Apple fanboy crowd then there are jokes and downright shenanigans in the comments section coming from the haters.The being said. Agreed. The maxipad joke is elementary at best.
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