• The Meme That Will Never Die: Hitler Debunks The iPad

    Thursday, January 28th, 2010

    Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily for the blog. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to a thriving... → Learn More

    While everyone is raving about the iPad, one person who doesn’t like it is Hitler.  The YouTube parody above takes the now all-too-common final scene from the movie Downfall and replaces the subtitles with a rant against the iPad. It’s the meme that will never die (there are at least 50 Hitler parodies using the same scene with different subtitles, here’s one about Facebook buying FriendFeed).

    So what exactly does Hitler have against the iPad?

    • “The iPad won’t support multitasking”
    • “They didn’t give it a camera, fine. But it’s on AT&T!  How am I supposed to use their crappy network?”
    • “eBooks?  If I wanted eBooks, I’d buy a Kindle.”
    • “It could have single-handedly destroyed netbooks.  But what do we get instead? An oversized iPod Touch!”
    • “It can’t even make phone calls!”
    • “I wanted to watch videos of lolcats while laying on the couch. But no, they won’t even give it flash support.”

    Somehow, it’s funnier when Hitler says it. Watch the video.

    Product: iPad
    Website: apple.com
    Company Apple

    The Apple iPad, formerly referred to as the Apple Tablet, is a touch-pad tablet computer announced in January 2010, and released in April 2010. It has internet capabilities running on either WiFi or 3G, and offers an optional dock with a full size mechanical keyboard. The 3G is provided by AT&T, but comes unlocked with microsim cards on the GSM network. The 3G does not require a long-term contract. The iPad is a line of tablet...

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