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From: JF Mezei on 4 Apr 2010 18:21 Phillip Jones wrote: > Basically it is the same look as an iTouch or iPhone except its about 3 > to 4 times as large. This is the result of Apple ordering some of those magic pills in the internet which caused the ipod touch to grow by 3" on all sides :-)
From: Kurt Ullman on 4 Apr 2010 18:27 In article <4bb910d8$0$14651$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > Phillip Jones wrote: > > > Basically it is the same look as an iTouch or iPhone except its about 3 > > to 4 times as large. > > > This is the result of Apple ordering some of those magic pills in the > internet which caused the ipod touch to grow by 3" on all sides :-) They were blue, right? -- I get off on '57 Chevys I get off on screamin' guitars --Eric Clapton
From: Davoud on 4 Apr 2010 18:46 Davoud: > > a) I'm a Mac guy in my mind the iPad is a Mac. Ian Gregory: > I am also a "Mac guy" and as far as I am concerned the iPad has far more > in common with the iPhone than it does with the Mac. You are absolutely correct. But perception is everything, and in _my_ mind I perceive the iPad to be inextricably linked to Apple and the Mac. I'm not the first to say that no other company on earth could have made the iPad because it would almost certainly have run a version of Windows, and the user experience would have been commensurately horrible. I also can't see people lined up all night to buy a device--let's call it the LPad--that boots to the Linux shell! So, to _me_ it's a Mac. A "think different" Mac, but a Mac. Davoud -- I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that you will say in your entire life. usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm
From: JF Mezei on 4 Apr 2010 19:28 Davoud wrote: > You are absolutely correct. But perception is everything, and in _my_ > mind I perceive the iPad to be inextricably linked to Apple and the > Mac. While I understand this and probably have the same mentality, one needs to remember that Apple dropped the word "Computers" (or is it Computer ?) from its corporate name exactly to start to distance itself from being a Macintosh maker. To those Windows folks who buy ipods to listen to music, or some iphone, they probably associate Apple far more with ipods and iphones than to macs.
From: Priam on 4 Apr 2010 19:40
On 04/04/2010 06:46 PM, Davoud wrote: > Davoud: >>> a) I'm a Mac guy in my mind the iPad is a Mac. > > Ian Gregory: >> I am also a "Mac guy" and as far as I am concerned the iPad has far more >> in common with the iPhone than it does with the Mac. > > You are absolutely correct. But perception is everything, and in _my_ > mind I perceive the iPad to be inextricably linked to Apple and the > Mac. I'm not the first to say that no other company on earth could have > made the iPad because it would almost certainly have run a version of > Windows, and the user experience would have been commensurately > horrible. Well, it wouldn't have run OS X since Apple forbids anybody from using its OS. > I also can't see people lined up all night to buy a > device--let's call it the LPad--that boots to the Linux shell! You can boot to a shell if you want with Linux but, for most desktop users, it boots to a GUI, just as OS X. Your problem is that you're just too used to getting screwed by Jooby. > So, to _me_ it's a Mac. A "think different" Mac, but a Mac. Absolutely! It's really a Mac: underspec-ed and overpriced. |