Love to know what percentage of iPad users do outdoor use like this? Also, if I was there with a hot girl like that, I wouldn't be reading.
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Love to know what percentage of iPad users do outdoor use like this? Also, if I was there with a hot girl like that, I wouldn't be reading.
Perhaps Amazon will make those ads. I doubt Apple would waste their time on a device that will never put a dent in iPad sales.
Then he turns the brightness back up on the iPad, and you see that he could have been reading a book the whole time.
So clearly, the point is this: Buy an iPad and hot, booksmart*, bikini-clad women will talk to you. Right?
*Assuming she's reading something intellegent and not Twilight for the Nth time.
*Assuming she's reading something intellegent and not Twilight for the Nth time.
linux2mac
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I don't understand all the Apple haters. Apple is not for everyone. Just like a Lexus, BMW, or Mercedes is not for everyone. If you want the better car you buy it. If not, then you don't buy it. No need to nit pick with all the Apple fans pointing out the only flaw of the iPad is not being able to read it in direct sunlight and no Flash. I am glad Flash is not on the iPad. Plus many big/small businesses and hospitals are incorporating the iPad into their work flow. I am sure they could care less about the sun's glare on their screen or why buggy Flash is not installed on their new business device.
He probably didn't want to read in the first place, he just brought out the iPad as an ice breaker.
sonictonic
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I own both and love them each for different reasons. 🙂 That said, this was a nice ad. Good work, Amazon.
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I want to see a I'm a Mac and I'm a Pc update
Called " I'm a iPad and I'm a Kindle"
Since they exhausted there resources and windows 7 is finaly what mac was 4 years ago.
Called " I'm a iPad and I'm a Kindle"
Since they exhausted there resources and windows 7 is finaly what mac was 4 years ago.
Quote:
Originally Posted by appleseed76
1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.
80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
57 percent of new books are not read to completion.
(Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)
BUT...
Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14 minutes reading magazines.
(Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker)
Thats not a positive
Why didn't these investment bankers take a poll as to how much time people read newspaper and magazine articles on a computer or some other electronic device?
When I watch a TV program such as NCIS and Rizzoli & Isles, I expect to spend an hour in the story. When I pick up my sudoku puzzles, I can work a few minutes here and there, and I can come back to them. Once I am engrossed in a book, I will want to read until I finish the story. That was Brothers Karamazov. Fifty years ago! But don't take this to mean that was the last book I read because that was prior to college. 🙄
Originally Posted by appleseed76
1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.
80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
57 percent of new books are not read to completion.
(Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)
BUT...
Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14 minutes reading magazines.
(Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker)
Thats not a positive
Why didn't these investment bankers take a poll as to how much time people read newspaper and magazine articles on a computer or some other electronic device?
When I watch a TV program such as NCIS and Rizzoli & Isles, I expect to spend an hour in the story. When I pick up my sudoku puzzles, I can work a few minutes here and there, and I can come back to them. Once I am engrossed in a book, I will want to read until I finish the story. That was Brothers Karamazov. Fifty years ago! But don't take this to mean that was the last book I read because that was prior to college. 🙄
KnightWRX
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Follow it all the way to the beginning and you'll see my original response was to the fellow named Gnasher. You somehow felt involved and replied. Why should I assume your position is different than his ? My responses were in the context that the original argument was that audiobooks were a superior form of books and that reading is not as good as listening to some narrator.
linux2mac
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Its not single task if it has a web browser, plays mp3s, read and mail PDFs, word projects and picture files..
linux2mac
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Wow - that would be great to share digital photos in black and white! The Kindle is pretty much only a reader.
What guy would be reading his iPad by the pool instead of looking at all the talent walking by and sitting next to him?
Buy an invisible shield. $29.99 and you'll not only protect your screen you'll take care of that glare as well.
Also notice in the shots of him looking at the screen that the brightness was about minimum, the autobrightness on the ipad would've cranked it up full.
Nevertheless, well played Amazon.
Also notice in the shots of him looking at the screen that the brightness was about minimum, the autobrightness on the ipad would've cranked it up full.
Nevertheless, well played Amazon.
He was just pretending. In reality he was looking at all that using iPad screen as a mirror 😉
All Apple has to do is release an add showing a guy reading in complete darkness while his wife is sleeping on the other side of the bed...
Such a silly thing to nit-pick.
Such a silly thing to nit-pick.
Pro gay commercial...
Sorry, but the reality in life is that:
1. NO HUMAN BEIGN NEVER takes computers to the beach or to the pool. That thing of "you can edit video or do work even from the beach/pool" is such cheesy and unrealistic statement.
2. Who in their senses is going to be using an iPad having such hot girl in bikini besides him? Unless he is gay or has deep inferiority complex.
So, the scene described in the video is totally unrealistic. I understand Amazon wants to make a point, but even I am Apple's devils advocate, I do not see the Kindle being superior on anything compared to the iPad.
Sorry, but the reality in life is that:
1. NO HUMAN BEIGN NEVER takes computers to the beach or to the pool. That thing of "you can edit video or do work even from the beach/pool" is such cheesy and unrealistic statement.
2. Who in their senses is going to be using an iPad having such hot girl in bikini besides him? Unless he is gay or has deep inferiority complex.
So, the scene described in the video is totally unrealistic. I understand Amazon wants to make a point, but even I am Apple's devils advocate, I do not see the Kindle being superior on anything compared to the iPad.
