"iPad Snivelers: Put Up or Shut Up"

[sassenach74]

Just read this over at Gizmodo, found it quite interesting, and compared to the uproar over the iPad over the last few days........different??
Thoughts?

http://gizmodo.com/5461485/ipad-snivelers-put-up-or-shut-up?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

 

[miles01110]

Seems like the polar opposite of a logically structured rebuttal. Sounds more like a rant, honestly.

Moan away in your Google browsers on Windows running on your copyrighted Intel processors. You're really fighting the good fight.

If you want to walk the walk, you can follow Stallman's lead and do all your computing on a tiny netbook, interfacing with the internet from a text console running emacs. Let me know how that works out for you.

And the ultimate irony,

Grow the **** up.

Surprised gizmodo actually published this, tbh.

 

[sassenach74]

Surprised gizmodo actually published this, tbh.

I'm fairly surprised to considering they usually (to me anyway) appear to be a bit anti-apple. Maybe I'm wrong about that?

 

[GoCubsGo]

This article is ridiculous.

 

[lee.anderson]

The way some people talk about it, it's like Steve Jobs personally slapped their mother in the face with an iPad. But the article in question is more like a rant to be honest.

 

[MacDawg]

This article is ridiculous.

I didn't bother reading it
I figure I can make my own mind up when it comes out

I don't need someone else telling me whether or not I want one
Especially when they haven't got one anyway

The way some people talk about it, it's like Steve Jobs personally slapped their mother in the face with an iPad. But the article is more like a rant to be honest.

It is the hot topic right now
To be "read" you have to rail on it or praise it as the answer to world peace

Everybody wants to be a part of the hype machine
Bloggers unite!

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[3N16MA]

I'm fairly surprised to considering they usually (to me anyway) appear to be a bit anti-apple. Maybe I'm wrong about that?

Gizmodo is very much pro Apple. I think the editors are bigger fanboys than some people here on MacRumors.

 

[sassenach74]

Gizmodo is very much pro Apple. I think the editors are bigger fanboys than some people here on MacRumors.

I didn't realise that, but then, it's not very often I visit the site, this article just came over via rss and I figured I'd take a look

 

[Dammit Cubs]

I think this article was great in that. I understand that a product has a love it and hate it people. But it's like every topic of that has something related to the iPAD, has someone whining about the iPAD.

It just annoys me in that, it sways away from the main argument of the post and so i have to filter out the people who write "will not buy an iPAD" and look for people who are talking about the topic at hand.

it's like the Kobe vs MJ argument. Anywhere there's a kobe post, there are MJ fans uniting. And anywhere there's a MJ post, Kobe fans unite.

We can't win on the internet. I'm glad he said what he needed to say.

 

[4DThinker]

The real contest won't be iPad VS netbook. It will be iPad VS every other tablet that shows up this year. I've got the Archos 9 tablet, and while it doesn't have the best Touch UI (comparing it to my iPod Touch) it does support flash in the browser, includes a web cam, has a USB port, runs any Windows app I want to install on it, multitasks, and so on.

It also take 2 minutes to boot up, has a smaller screen, uses a hard drive instead of Flash Memory, and weighs 1/4lb more than the iPad. I consider these all as bad points.

The dangerous thing about it is that they got so close. A 64gb SSD in it and a better version of Win7 would have remedied most of it's faults and cost about the same as the 64gb iPad. A company with greater buying power should be able to make a competitive tablet for less. There are several companies with Tablets in the works. One or more will get it right.

 

[SwooshOU]

Excellent article.

It's really all about freedom. Apple is free to create the technological ecosystem they want. And we are all free to join in if we want to.

Likewise, we are all free to complain about it and if Apple thinks it will affect their bottom line, they'll change things.