maybe that evens out all the poisonous shit they keep selling the rest of the world,

so in other words they are for people with more money than sense becasue anyone who buys an ipad just so they can read a book is a fucking idiot! books are more portable, don't need to be plugged in or charged and above all you could buy a hundred books for the price of an ipad.

Like I said before elsewhere on SYG, I would like some kind of DRM-free e-book reader so that I can scan, store, and read at my leisure from the box full of photocopies of articles and chapters in my other room.

I don't know if that is possible with any readers on the market but goddamn I want it.

also, does no flash mean no youtube?

Yes.

I can't really grasp the concept behind this. Old fashioned books and newspapers have pretty much the ultimate user interface, having been developed several centuries.
I think digital paper, as in an intelligent and interactive material with paper -like feel and characteristics, does have potential. if the technology will ever be developed up to that point. I remember reading an article about super thin printed electronics that had something do with that stuff.

unless you go with the html5 version of youtube.

I have no intention of buying an electronic reader thing at the moment - they're too pricey for me, and I'm not convinced that the literature is out there. I would say, however, as a very low-level academic, the idea of being able to download a cuntload of .pdfs/ sections from books and whatnot and have an interface that is designed for that (in-screen notepads and so on) is more appealing than continuing to use my laptop, flipping between windows, still copy-typing passages. Just since yesterday I've made two trips to and from the library with a shitload of books that I only need to read bits from. I haven't looked at what the ipad does, and I've no doubt that it's still inadequate for my actual needs, but I hope it's paradigmatic of more practical ways for me to exist without having to put my back out cunting books halfway across town in the shitting rain.

EDIT: HOWEVER, the first person I see with one of these will be mentally labelled a 'poncey cunt'

Incidentally, has anyone noticed that shit versions of Cure songs are EVERYWHERE in advertising at the moment?

there is an ipad advert on in this very fucking room

Just read about this thing. Seems like annoying bullshit. Never owned a cell phone either.. pointless.

haha.

you dont need a Steve Pad. sony makes a reader-- way cheaper than the Steve pad-- sold at barnes & noble here in the u.s.-- i'm sure there's a limey equivalent, if k-mart or whoever owns b&n hasn't invaded yet. amazon has had the kindle for what, a couple of years now-- (with whatever partner that actually handles the electronix). but if you're willing to wait a little, i think either samsung or LG are testing out some kind of electronic paper-- yes-- a sheet of fucking paper that will display whatever text you wanna.

the real object of the ipad is to attach you to the noose of the itunes store. it's nice andit could be a great device if it was-- freer. a sort of "laptop light". but fuck them and their monopolistic ways-- really.

re: flash support (for those who complained about it)-- i think it has more to do with battery life as it eats up resources (or so they say). video is going html5 anyway and many people are making stevePad apps-- they KNOW people are going to buy this in troves just based on hype alone, regardless of the merits of the thing itself. hence, "apps". isn't there a youtube app on the fucking iphone already? more is coming. 1 steve to rule them all. fuck that shit.

but that shit is peanuts compared to the death of net neutrality--here in 'merica anyway-- looks like we're going to a system of feudal tollroads on the internet-- i hope the rest of the world doesn't follow-- DIE FUCKING COMCAST DIE. bitthrottled!

ha ha ha. i own an old battered prepay. i use it maybe 3 times a month. why do i need to be checking email every 15 seconds? why do i need to be reachable *everywhere*? leave me the fuck alone. seriously.

It's interesting that ya'll don't do the cell phone's but are as connected and active in a forum as a mutha'fuck. maybe the Forum is ya'lls "cell phone"? to each his own, maybe?

wow, someone took our personal choice to un-phone personally!

"y'all" must be in need of validation from the herd.

and this is my vomitorium.

inhale deeply-- you'll feel.

Yeah, I don't think checking a message board 3 times a day is the same as being glued to a phone 24/7.

Mobile phones are not entirely useless, it's people who use them when there is no need for them who are. Also, you can connet to the internet via a mobile phone. Duh.

i like a full keyboard so i can type the crap you read here. tons & tons of it.

just looking-- isn't fun. gotta fling that poo-- which requires full keyboard-- for HEFT, you know? and speed--



a good splat.

I can post, read, listen to music, watch videos, pictures and download from my phone.

sounds genteel.

of course you CAN, nobody said you can't, but i have a comfortable chair, my feet up, a drink on my side, a sufficiently big screen, a large chunky keyboard i don't need to henpeck, and i can swap screens and run shit simultaneously and don't need to be looking at a fucking 2x4 cm screen or whatever-- plus i don't need to pay "data charges" or whatever the fuck on top of the phone rates, fuck the cellphone companies, i'd rather spend my money on booze, and a fat unlimited internet pipe that doesn't throttle and lets me watch HD movies on the bigass TV.

also i like to listen to music on big fucking speakers-- those shitty little earbuds fuck me up. otherwise i enjoy silence.

then again i live on a cave that i rarely exit. i have last seen the sun maybe 2 weeks ago. nah, that's not true. i was out today but ran back inside when the sun scorched me. no that's not true either.

actually, when i need a cellphone call i ask my wife to make it. she handles the little gadgets & the social connections, the facebook, all that annoying crap that bugs the fuck out of me-- i really don't like people much--or should i say, i like them, but in small doses-- a few friends is all i can handle comfortably. also she has the ipod touch (iphone sans the phone) and it's annoying. i like a few, fundamental things--- the rest is noise and irritation. firewall: UP.

The lack of free updates and the general shitness (yet curious ubiquity) of itunes would definitely stop me buying it. Don't get me wrong, I can't imagine me joining the hordes of macfags any time soon, I was just getting in that 'this sort of thing' could broadly be quite useful to me. Specifically this thing, however, probably won't.

i'm still not that sure what it is.

someone told me today that using an ipad you can not put attachments on your emails

Same here. I feel that if what it does can't be summed up in a couple of sentences then there can't be anything about it that would improve my life any.

I've heard loads about what it doesn't do mind.

There are DPs who use the iPad as a camera monitor on film sets.
Way cheaper than any current 5" lcd screen on the market.

Other than that, I can't think of much use for it.

Nothing personal at all, just ironic that the folks that have shunned the use of cell phones are the most digitally, socially glued to a forum.

I bet both of "yous guys" would shit yourself if you couldn't get to a forum in a habitual manor.... so couldn't you spare the self-righteous rant? Is one better than the other, really?

At least cell phones allow people to be mobile, as in, get out and do things, go places.... Forums are a more stagnant way to pass time.

I personally don't care if you use cell phones or not, I don't care that you live in a forum, but if you're going to shun one over the other, you might hear contrary opinions, eh? I also would be willing to bet that either of you spend more time socializing on this forum than anybody here does talking on their evil cell phones.... so, to each their own....

...and $@fuck#*face#*, if you're implying that my posts is get approval or "validation" from the herd, that's about as backwards as your cellphone logic.... why would I be calling "you" out? track my post, I think it's clear, I'm not here to kiss anyone's ass and can't help but speak my mind, sorry. Isn't a little pretentious to assume someones trying to validate themselves just by questioning one of your post?

Was thinking if it would be useful for me with it's code editor app and FTP, but just as transportable & stealable as my macbook. Gadget consumption is so out of hand these days