Nada. Scratch. Zero. Goose Egg. L’ouef. Bupkus. Nil. The Empty Set.
The whole echosphere is up on it’s back legs howling about the iPad. Now that they’ve seen it, it’s not as good as something that does all the things is does and runs Flash, has a camera, and runs on Verizon.
Compared to something that doesn’t exist except in the bored minds of basement dwelling hacks, the iPad is clearly inferior.
Just like the iPhone was a couple years ago. Also, just like the iPhone, the iPad will fail utterly.
This is kind of like reporting that if you give the person with earrings at the first window some money, the person at the second window will give you a bag of carbs and lard, and a container of iced, carbonated industrial chemicals.
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I have on good authority that the St. Louis Cardinals will not spend their first round draft pick on Steve Jobs. They’re hoping to pick him up as a free agent after the draft.
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Grand Funk Railroad is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
That’s retarded.
Most “on target” post I’ve seen on the iPad yet.
http://speirs.org/blog/2010/1/29/future-shock.html
Here’s my challenge question for your readers; How many months will it take for the unit sales of the iPad to exceed laptop unit sales?
Here’s another good one:
http://blurbomat.com/archives/2010/01/29/whos-gonna-buy-that/
Excellent articles Tory, thanks for those links.
And the R&R Hall of Fame has always been retarded in it’s selections.
I love the speirs link, tory, but I can’t get blurbomat to open. It isn’t one of those IE6 sites, is it?
Nope. Blurbomat opens right up in Safari 4.0.4 for me.
Okay. I’m trying it again.
My computer is choking on it.
“completed 10 of 12 items”
Then it sits there, looking at me…. like I’m going to bribe it with a fucking dish of ice cream or something.
Huh. Just blurbomat.com works fine. Okay. I’m reading.