Seriously. The guests would be much better off with Nexus tablets.
Some people might point out that if you gold plate a turd, it is still a turd.
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Burj Al Arab in Dubai Introduces Gold-Plated iPads for Guest Use
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Seriously. The guests would be much better off with Nexus tablets.
Some people might point out that if you gold plate a turd, it is still a turd.
What is it with rich people liking tacky stuff like this?
It's as if they just say "Let's make something really expensive by adding gold" and do it indiscriminately. It looks like *****!
It's as if they just say "Let's make something really expensive by adding gold" and do it indiscriminately. It looks like *****!
Comes with Angry Birds 24K edition, where the gold coated birds can't destroy the pigs because they keep breaking the slingshot with their weight. Also comes with a menial servant to play the game for you.
Well, I've been a resident of Dubai for over six years and I can tell you, it's all about the bling. I'm just here to make the tax-free money so I can afford my home country one day (Canada). But having observed the life here for so long, it's amusing to hear the comments from the ignorant back in the US and Canada.
Dubai doesn't have much oil. You aren't importing oil from Dubai. Abu Dhabi, maybe. But the US is on track for energy self-sufficiency possibly in a few years. So then you can blame your own corporations for getting gouged, not the Middle East. As it is, the US only imports 15% of their oil from the ME. Most of it comes from Mexico and Canada.
I agree the gold-plated iPad is tacky. But it's only a marketing gimmick. Just like the "seven-star" rating, which is made up. (I've had dinner at the Burj al Arab, it basically looks like an Egyptian whorehouse). Believe me, there are tons of people for whom such a thing is just a trinket, a nothing. The average middle-class westerner just cannot fathom how much wealth there really is floating around. Hint: less and less of it is in the West.
btw, the whole "starving in Africa" thing is a bit dumb as well. Most African nations far surpass the West in certain things like mobile phone usage and access, for example. They just skipped the whole landline phase and use their phones for absolutely everything, for cheap. Canadians and Americans get raped by their cell phone companies in comparison.
Not all is as it appears.
Dubai doesn't have much oil. You aren't importing oil from Dubai. Abu Dhabi, maybe. But the US is on track for energy self-sufficiency possibly in a few years. So then you can blame your own corporations for getting gouged, not the Middle East. As it is, the US only imports 15% of their oil from the ME. Most of it comes from Mexico and Canada.
I agree the gold-plated iPad is tacky. But it's only a marketing gimmick. Just like the "seven-star" rating, which is made up. (I've had dinner at the Burj al Arab, it basically looks like an Egyptian whorehouse). Believe me, there are tons of people for whom such a thing is just a trinket, a nothing. The average middle-class westerner just cannot fathom how much wealth there really is floating around. Hint: less and less of it is in the West.
btw, the whole "starving in Africa" thing is a bit dumb as well. Most African nations far surpass the West in certain things like mobile phone usage and access, for example. They just skipped the whole landline phase and use their phones for absolutely everything, for cheap. Canadians and Americans get raped by their cell phone companies in comparison.
Not all is as it appears.
What? No diamonds? I'm amazed at the cheapness of this place...
They have replaced the Gorilla Glass screen with sheets ground from a secret stash of enormous diamonds. It won't scratch but the glare under a well positioned halogen spot light is very distracting...
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These iPads probably cost more than the 13 year old bride the user just bought for himself: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57584506/syrian-refugees-sell-daughters-in-bid-to-survive/
I've been inside the Burj Al Arab during one of my visits to Dubai (for a 'tour' mind you - I have not spend the night there). The tour itself was approx. €100,- and offered a tour through the hotels as well as a beverage in the top floor restaurant.
So I can surely imagine this being offered to the guests there. Well, everything there is beyond .... (fill in the gap), so this is fairly ok.
So I can surely imagine this being offered to the guests there. Well, everything there is beyond .... (fill in the gap), so this is fairly ok.
Gold plated iPad
then i pulled off my iPad back cover , looked at it and didn't put back the cover on
then i pulled off my iPad back cover , looked at it and didn't put back the cover on
"Don't get up in my George Foreman"
I love that line
You know Elvis was a hero to most, but....
You dont need any, you just buy a new one. Your not thinking with the goldplated ipad mindset.
Well those other people are wrong. Asia is Asia. And yes, they should have waited for the 5
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Seriously, why are you here? Do you own or even plan to own a single Apple product, or did you just come for the other news?
Maybe that's why they didn't chose a Nexus tablet.
My guess is that they just went with the most popular tablet.
More likely someone is making whole new special enclosures. Like those shops that make them in red, blue etc
The first computer I used, in the late 1960's, was a timeshare using a Teletype and punched tape for memory. I learned Basic on it. The first programming class I took was Fortran. The first Apple product I bought was a //c, back in the mid 1980's.
Were you even born then?
Oh dear, no there aren't. It's a massive marketing con, which judging by people like you, has been a success. As I work in the travel industry, I know to laugh at this claim.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_rating#Six-_and_seven-star_hotels
