There is a better one in which the stone gets a point for multitasking thereby making the two equal :D

May be, iPad is a new generation of rock lol

http://i50.tinypic.com/t8ki7o.jpg ?

Aren’t there like 8 versions of this?

Jo-Ken-iPad

The rock rocks. ;)

This is the only other one I’ve seen:
http://www.bannedinhollywood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/ipad_vs_maxipad-588×756.jpg

Well at least Arrington is trying to hint at what a POS the iPad is (unlike another notorious writer, who I will not mention but we all know is a major fanboi.)

However unlike the iPhone vs. Rock joke, the iPad actually has about as much use to me as a rock.

I have a hp mini 311 and it plays REAL games, has a real wireless mouse w/ a real keyboard from which I am typing w/ right now.

I have excel running in the background w/ 4 spreadsheets open.

If I drop it the screen is not exposed so it won’t break.

It plays HD video, and has an HDMI out port, so unlike an iPad noob I can say to my friends “hey want to watch star trek, ON A REAL TV.” Instead of the anticlimatic “hey want to watch Star Trek… on my big ipod touch? :(”

Oh, it has 2 USB ports (holy shit)

And the battery lasts for about 10 hours (INSANE.)

Oh, and it runs Windows 7 and it says HP on the back BITCHES.

Did I mention how I can hook my nexus one up to it and it syncs just perfectly and I don’t have to deal w/ a platform that essentially sucks and is completely closed sourced??

But I guess my stuff is less hyped :\

The rock should get a point for multitasking . You can do stuff with it without worrying about that you gave 500$ for it .

lol, that’s hilarious.
the stone can be used as a weapon, but the ipad is too thin to harm anyone.

A stone can obviously multitask

Haha, this made me laugh! Thank you so much! Really needed it.

Seriously though.. I think it’s soon to be the iFlop?

I think a rock can multitask

That is funny on multiple levels…you should add “Sounds like a female product” to that comparison!

I was watching the australian match then I saw this post.. lol, imagine comparing aRock to iPad — Well I guess, this post is made to raise some humor, huh? :D

iKnow iPad sounds a bit turd seeing iPod – changing one vowel only.. But I’d rather pick this one.. than iSlate.. Although, i prefer iTablet.

More details: http://bit.ly/apple-ipad-advantages

Love it! How did this pass apple quality control? Steve jobs fail

LOL this must be performance art. NO way you’re serious. No one can be that clueless.

What logical step did you take to reach this conclusion?

Clueless to what? You can’t just say “puah you’re clueless, thus making me sound like a genius”

I will seriously STAB you in the face unless you explain yourself.

now do Rock v. Mg Seigler 8)

LOL !

Anyway iPad is a nice Screen with some options and Netbooks are Small Laptops.

iHave had many apple products now iKnow that many of you dislike the iPhone, iMac, iPad, iGottaPiss, but iWould like to turn your attention to the fact that the iPad is different from the rest of the rest of the iProduct line. Who the hell would not want a bigger iPhone? It’s like have a girlfriend with bigger breasts–except with an “i” in the front! Plus, iThink it’s really attractive, iCan show it off to a lot of people, and it makes me look like iHave a lot of money! iWin!! Screw microsoft!!

hahaha indeed! This is their second product in the “alternative to a rock” product line! Funny a$$ image this and the hitler video made my day.

Well, rock does not need battery at all, can possibly do multitasking(?) and ofcourse, you can touch it, reshape it and replace it

Well, the iPad gets another point for

[x] emptying your $$ pockets

That’s clearly one feature more than a stone, then.

You forgot “Deadly projectile”

Best iPad Poster Ever :) http://flic.kr/p/7zeYZt

(Best..well it’s alright)

+1

Hey, Michael, isn’t the iPad what you wanted the Crunchpad to be? Actually, the iPad is a lot more computer than the Crunchpad was supposed to be. Until a couple of months ago, this simple tablet device is all you wanted. Why are you hating now?

steve jobs must be very genius then..he even can sell rock n people are buying

its going to be a huge, huge win.

not hating at all. love the ipad. probably going to buy a bunch of them.

The irony is it’s a lot better than the crunchpad that TechCrunch got screwed on.

I think you’ll want this to do better than the new improved non-TechCrunch Crunchpad. If the Crunchpad does well it will be humiliating as if it wasn’t humiliating enough with the whole world seeing you screw up and have nothing to show for your investment.

I’m sorry but that was just hilarious.

100% with you on this Michael

you’re an idiot. The iPad wasn’t designed to be a multi-tasking laptop. I chuckle at people who use the “It’s just a big iPhone” argument, because THAT’S WHAT MAKES IT KICK ASS. The screen real estate is everything. Imagine a basic app like a multi-touch version of OmniGraffle on it. The iPhone version was lame because it was too small to be actually productive. The iPad changes that. I get giddy thinking of a lite version of Logic running on the thing.

Against a $479 Kindle DX, it’s a no brainer. And most of you morons complaining about its name and lack of features were the same ones claiming you would buy a $399 CrunchPad that did nothing but surf the web. You don’t see the bigger picture. It wasn’t made for the propellor heads, it was made to usher a simple, sexy UI to the masses.

How I know it will be a success: My 60 year old grandma sent me a email with a pic of it attached and said THIS is what she wants for Christmas. She still owns a phone with the antenna that telescopes.

Wow. You guys are slow… Did you even click on the link this was a play off of? Or even read the text Mike wrote?

You guys are bandwagon sheep, laughing at a joke you don’t get.

I think you people aren’t giving the iPad nearly enough credit as a weapon. I’m quite sure that with a week or so of practice, you could launch it frisbee style at a foe, and it would inflict injuries similar to a Ninja throwing star. Hell, being larger, it might even slice them neatly in two. You could score additional damage points by having it play a really bad song during flight, like Barry Manillow’s Mandy or anything by a former American Idol winner.

Why Jobs didn’t demo this functionality at the announcement truly boggles the mind.

Free Vs Not free
Unbreakable (or nearly) Vs easily breakable
Get’s someone’s attention quickly :) Vs Get’s attention of only tech lovers (love or hate aside)
Longevity assured Vs Your luck

and…….?

Haha… the joojoo missed their big chance. I wonder how many people are gonna pick a joojoo over iPad at the same 500$ price? none.. so much for their little scam :)

I believe Dave is implying you are clueless because the above image is a play on an original post from 2008. Read the text above the picture for the link. That image was released amidst a huge uproar because the iPhone was missing key features like MMS, Multi-Tasking, etc. Sound Familiar? People predicted it would be a failure because “How could it not have a changeable battery??!!” and the like. 75 million units later, it appears they were wrong. The entire statement made by this point flew completely over your (and what appears to be a majority of the commenters in this post’s) head.

At the end of the day the success of this thing will be determined by 2 things: 1) software, and 2) the speed at which it can deliver the content of that software to its user, not just through hardware, but through the path of least resistance (intelligent UI).

Social networking can be a valuable marketing tool as long as you creating a valuable product.

Dude you’re clueless.

Back to the playground with you, what grade are we in here?

Does it matter? No!
Is it funny? Yes!

You sound like you’re offended by the joke… are you an Apple sheep?

obvious troll, is obvious.

iPad vs. netbook – less funny but IMO more true:

http://kecy.roumen.cz/roumingShow.php?file=ipadvsnetbook2.png

Soon they’ll be a 4G edition.

Ugh…

Thanks for this useful post. ;)

Ooh, Apple sheep. Funny expression!

Okay listen upperz. It would be nicer if the rock/stone got a point in durability. I don’t understand about the multitasking. In that case the iPad is multitasking also.

this is so stupid, that list could go on & on

okay, then.

Baaaaaaaaa….

A rock can multi-task but maybe there should be a different word for simultaneous multi-tasking.

A knife can be a multi-tasker but you can’t cut an onion and crush garlic at the same time.

Easy folks!
If you donnot like it – donnot buy it.
Why bother about happy Apple addicts like I am one since 3 years (after suffering 20yrs with Windows – stupid me).

I will get the top version of iPad asap. And I will just use a fraction of the money Windows did cost me in time and anger in 2 centuries.

Enjoy whatever you like. Focus. Life.

Cheers
Seppm

“Is it funny?”… It was a funny in 2008. 2010? Not so much.

“You sound like you’re offended by the joke” That’s the point. YOU don’t get the joke… and by default, that means YOU are the joke. The joke isn’t the feature comparison of a rock to highlight the shortcomings of the iPad. The joke is that that exact same joke (and same rock) were used to highlight the shortcomings of the iPhone. 2 Years ago. You know, before it became the standard by which all phones get measured against…

In related news, I find it fascinating people so vehemently hate something they’ve never seen or touched. Reminds me of the reaction when 007 fans found out Daniel Craig was playing Bond.

I’m surprised they didn’t list Flash capabilities (or lack thereof).

+1 :)

People touching Daniel Craig before passing judgment on 007 seems kind of creepy.

but how would the ipad fare in rock, paper, scissors (ipad)?

errr…

http://spectio.com/images/troll.jpg

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ALT-PAD is a (unique in the world) BLOG where you can choose the specs of your IDEAL iPad or TabletPC:
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For the naysayers, it’ll take just one incredibly inventive iPad-optimized app to give them a satori moment.

rock-iPad-scissors

iPad covers rock :)

Generally speaking i find apple’s ipad more on the monopoly side since they are not gonna release or even annouce the 2nd gen ipad before the holiday season they are gonna take their royal customers money and in jan’ 11 or feb they are gonna annouce the 2nd gen ipad. I seriously think that people should stand up against stuff like this. Speak up and let apple know that you don’t want their pathetic roadmap anymore.

Did people begin to love Daniel Craig after they began to see and touch him?

Will it blend?

Dang, go rock!

“were used to highlight the shortcomings of the iPhone. 2 Years ago. You know, before it became the standard by which all phones get measured against…”

Other than the camera, those are STILL shortcomings of the phone that you say is “the standard by which all phones get measured against [sic]”

They have a UI designed to be usable by a 2-year-old, from what I can tell, that’s the only thing they ‘revolutionized.’ For those of us that are not too stupid to use an operating system at a 9th-grade level, it’s no revolution at all.

Oh wait, they also revolutionized marketing. They created thousands of unpaid marketers like yourself.

stone is much better

Missed a Major Point- The Rock also is avail in colors

No Standard Video Codec – AVI, WMV, MP3

No external battery!

Apple is offensive!
Steve Jobs = Adolf Hitler Cousin

im so sick of iPad info all over the net!!!

The facts are exactly as this blog states!

The iPad (might as well be underwear or toilet paper)

Ah, as usual the out of touch with reality tech blogger crowd is making a huge deal over the lack of a camera and SD card slots. I’m HAPPY it doesn’t have either of those. I can take it to work and use it now. (I work in secure areas – iPod Touch is OK because of the same reasons)
People were trying to view this thing as a portable Skype device and are all cranky that it didn’t come with all of the features that they expected. The rumor mill was in overdrive for this product, so it’s natural that it was not going to meet everyone’s unrealistic expectations. Yes, tech bloggers, it lacks an SD card slot. Guess what? The majority of purchasers won’t even notice.

If you don’t like it, go back to Windows 7 and your junky little netbook.

Rude response.

wait, i have another one…

the ipad vs the crunch pad

ipad: does exist and will seel
crunch pad: ???

I’m just gonna point out that if your 60 year old grandma is able to EMAIL you a photo of the just-released iPad, then she can’t be THAT out of touch with technology like you were implying. :)

…and Godwin’s Law kicks in again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin‘s_law

This link will work better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law

motion computing tablet

you can even get one that uses the same finger you use to pick your nose if that will make you cool:)

I have two with the pen and they are the bomb software rocks scope rage

I don’t want inferior wireless (AT&T I don’t live in a city and I really travel not just once a month) and if AT&T comes up with a better service then I can move to it if I want freedom is choice:) I want to be able to print and use it to access servers and have full access to any devise I run into anywhere.

I guess some day I will be cool and own something with a apple on it till then I like evil MS for function and open source for fun. Hoping soon to do OS for everything then I will be really cool in my little world of one.

The iPad is a such an unimaginative, lazy product. I don’t care how many units it sells, it’s one of the biggest technological blunders of this century.

Just compare it to the (still vaporware) Microsoft Courier. Would anyone have imagined 5 years ago that Microsoft would put out the more innovative product? Again, the iPad might sell well, but selling well doesn’t make a product good. The iPad is a rock.

iPad is a great product. I will buy one when it’s out. And i will probably forget my laptop because 90% of the time i switch it on just to browse the web. Another 10% – to watch movies and do other stuff.

I also travel a lot. Laptop will likely have to stay at home. Even for business reasons, 90% of what i do on business trips with my mac is emails and keynotes. I am wondering if i could replace it with iPad?

And i also like the simplistic approach of one window – one application. I am a male and can’t do 5 jobs simultaneously :) Still, i hope the next version will at least allow for some multitasking like listening to the music while browsing the web.

When widescreens became popular, i hated them. The only use of the widescreen is to watch movies. But for all other tasks like browsing the web or photos it sucks. Really, usually when you browse the web you don’t need such a screen width, but the small height makes reading blogs a pain. On iPad i could do so even vertically.

Well! this whole thread would’ve been different if Jobs
had just named it iRock.

The real rock would still win!!!

What really decides the success of the product is the fanatacism of the user base.

The iPod and iPhone both brought revolutionary changes to the industry. The iPod with an MP3 player you could operate intuitively with 1 hand, and the iPhone with an easy UI and access to a ridiculous number of applications for a mobile device.

The iPad offers nothing new. If it had multitasking things might be different; particularly if they’d used an x86 processor and OSX. But then their concern was probably that people would expect the device to perform like a MacBook.

The iPad needs *something* to make it better than an iPhone / iPod Touch besides a bigger screen. Currently that’s all it is, and while it will sell in ridiculous numbers because of Apple fanatics, it doesn’t do anything revolutionary, or even anything on par with competing tablets (other than run Apple’s apps). Regardless, it’ll sell by the millions because of the mindless Apple fanatacism.

Hey, if your mom or your grandma wants a tablet that isn’t too complicated or expected to do more than one thing at once (or even stream Flash video), by all means, the iPad is perfect for her.

::Struggles not to make a tampon reference here::

AAAhhhahahahaahahahahahahaah! Who is out of touch with reality?!

Most netbooks can easily outperform the iPad in every way… and other tablets on the market (and coming to the market) can too.

The point of SD card slots isn’t just upgradeable memory, it’s limitless memory. You can load up 1 SD card and switch to another if you choose. You can use one to hold all your music and another to hold all your photos, etc, and better yet can be done without having to connect the iPad to your computer, since sometimes it’s just easier to use an SD-card reader built into the front of your computer than digging around for a cable.

So yeah, if you want a device that doesn’t do much of anything other than run Apple apps on a big screen… the iPad is perfect.

Would have been funnier yet if they would have called the “stone” a “tablet” or used a pic of the ten commandments ‘lol’

Please define “REAL games”.

those Apple guys would never hire you, you’re not convincing anyone, specially with the 60 yr old grandma argument

The crazy thing is if Apple were selling a rock for $500 there would be plenty of fan boys lining up to buy one!

I would also like to point out that the stone is much older than 40,000 years BC; unless it’s an igneous rock formed during a volcanic event.

Wait… am I trolling?

:: Waits for someone to tell him that the rock is, in fact, from 10,000 BC… ::

:-p

No way I am carrying around that stone in addition to my phone and laptop. That thing probably ways 10 lbs!

Er, “weighs”. Why can’t I edit my posts?

sending it “to” us

Well, if you think about it, there’s a company called Apple whose consumers often have that same mindless fanatacism that we saw in the 1940s…

Hey, I didn’t say it, I implied it. Does that count?!

I know a lot of this is in jest, but still.

Everybody slams the iPad because it’s so easy to make up jokes. Like everyone here is some product designer with years of experience and know duds when they see them.

I heard all this same crap about the iPhone. Neither is a perfect product, but damn – every time I see a Kindle, and then Kindle 2.0 I think, “how f*ckin hard it it to give me a color screen?

Apple is moving the ball forward. How many people have NON-iPhone smartphones now because Apple made the category relevant?

I can’t even read this site there are so many ads on it.

I think this is (maybe) in reference to the iPad Downfall spoof,

@elif, the minute you start denying that the iPhone revolutionized the cell phone market, the debate just becomes stupid.

It’s like trying to discuss clean energy with someone who denies global warming.

wait… are you saying he’s like a stone or that he can’t multitask?

Actually I’ll use Windows 7 on my perfectly portable Macbook, Janey. You can enjoy your pointless piece of vanityware.

Expect FusionGarage to claim the iPad as their own. srlsy

or the rock for that matter.

yea mike should change it to this one, in all fairness to the stone…

Brilliant!!!

“The iPad needs *something* to make it better than an iPhone / iPod Touch besides a bigger screen.”

No, It doesn’t. And that’s what no one gets. But they will. When they are controlling their house lights from the couch on it, they will. When they are on the train using a soft synth with FULL sized drum pads, they will. When Hulu releases their App, they will. When doctors are reading FULL SIZED CT’s on a patient, they will… You’re quote is erroneous because… with the exception of Hulu (which has already expressed an aggressive stance as it relates to an app on the iPad, and would make a killing selling an app for the pad at 2.99)… all of those apps already exist! Just are too small to be useful in an iPhone sized world. Bump the area an app can play in, and the value to the “iPhone OS” becomes exponential. Why should it make phone calls? The iPhone does. Why should it multi-task? A laptop does. Think Bigger.

Bah, he is hating.

Lets see. Should we get an iPad or a JooJoo?

lol

The iPad is much better than a vaporware Crunchpad, don’t you think?

iPad reminds me of something in my Girlfriend’s monthly shopping list. Period!
Its-
Ultra-thin front to back.
Disposable. Whenever you buy the next Gen.
Four wall protection against Leaks. memory and rumor?
Wearable computing without a belt !

Stay worry Free for a Period of wearable computing.

Am glad iPad can run all the Google productivity applications.
Now since windows 7 is as good as Oh.yeS.eX, people anticipating better tablet computers should switch to Windows eh?
Its not too long before you see a stream of ads like “I am a Tablet PC: iWin, and I am a tablet mac, iRock”

I know it wont multitask, does that also mean no tabbed browser? i.e. only one web page open at a time?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/dinoi/a-comparative-chart-between-two-tablets-dj0

Slightly different one.

Actually… Some rocks have Standard ports.

-1 This blog has officially become convoluted to an Apple bias. I have not read A SINGLE article about the uproar of NEGATIVE feedback, disappointment, and lack of enthusiasm from the MAJORITY.

C’mon Mike, you used to be critical, and objective. Now you just sound like MG.

I have been reading this blog for more than 4 years, and I am about to hit unsubscribe because it just feels like there is NO ONE at TC that knows anything about real gadgets, real innovation, and something other than a shiny brand.

Not to mention you used to talk about START-UPS…

The iPad can multitask. There is nothing stopping you from chewing gum while you be using it.

i am tired of ithis an ithat we want great products not falling 4 there marketing bs anymore they must think istupid

No matter if it’s pretty the same than a stone, knowing how people thinks, almost all of us will end with a stone in our pocket and our money in Steve Jobs pocket’s

No camera:
– video calling not big in NA, many parts of world.
– video calling/chat would overwhelm ATT.
– push VoIP to help break carriers, add video calling later.
– taking images with a 10″ x 8″ slab is stoopid.
– reason for early adopters to upgrade iPad next year.
– sell you or use your connected iPhone w/imager.

No Multitasking:
– Apple is being ruthlessly principled about home button hub & spoke model for IA.
– mixing different vendor’s UIs and interaction models most likely result in poor UX.
– having to standardize user task patterns to allow useful multitasking would restrict individual developer’s UX freedom.
– users tend to forget about backgrounded apps, then wonder why the battery is shot.
– this is a mobile device, not a desktop plugged into the wall to you morons who complain about these things while your pasty thighs are glued to your vinyl, sperm-covered recliner.
– have we not learned anything from Symbian S60?

No changeable battery:
– if you buy this thing, then you probably like going to the Mac store once in while, say at least once in 4 years, by which time you will have gotten a new one already…
– if you are in the boonies, and you do have to mail this back (like the MBA), then yes this is a drag, but since you are Michael Arrington, you have several on hand, so this is not a problem.
– the tradeoff of course, is since Apple made this decision, it allows them to eliminate lining the battery compartment thereby decreasing overall device thickness.
– what would you rather have – a thinner device in your hand everyday, or the that one day (should you ever get there) where you have to deal with a dead battery in your now ancient and crusty gen 1 iPad?
– speaking of crusty and something in your hand everyday, …by not having a battery compartment, with all the seams and such… this prevents foreign materials, such as your spunk from gumming-up the internals of the device… because you will be holding the iPad with one hand everyday.

No standard ports:
– if you are not bathed in at least 6 different protocols of wireless connectivity, you have no business thinking about buying any such bleeding-edge device.
– as soon as you start hooking this thing up with all manner of peripherals, it ceases to be a mobile tablet to go from room to room and out the door you morons. Save that shit for your desktop, docking station or poor laptop.
– it will accept a BT keyboard and you have wireless printing don’t you? …what else do you want to hook to it? HDV? A scanner? A sterolithographic CAD/CAM prototyping station?
Oh, I know, you want to violate it with a USB key or some storage card you have to handle with tweezers and a loupe.. well fuck that shit. There’s no file system. This is the beginning of the end of the OS as usual.
This isn’t about the the fucking slab, it’s about the end of the mouse, the end of file systems, the end of 1400 different ways and things to update on you computers, it’s about the end of being your own IT department, it’s about giving this thing to a 6 year old and having them create a better sales presentation than the one you gave yesterday in the boardroom, it’s about the content stores & the DRM, the ecosystem, the developers, it’s about marginalizing the web itself to some degree (or at least GOOG) by improving the UX, IT’S ABOUT THE CONTENT AND THE EXPERIENCE.

The broken flash plugin in nytimes.com was shown on purpose, a big f-u to those losers. Why? To set up the NYTimes app – the way content should be presented. Notice it looked like the PRINT NYTimes. A print Times with embedded video. Now that is convergence.

Like maybe. Like why?

you can make fire out of stone, stone scores one more point.

The operating system *is* multi-tasking. But the user is not allowed to run applications concurrently. So technically allowing multi-taskign is dead easy – but this is Apple and they will only allow it once they figured a way to do it without making it confusing for the normal user (they dont care much about the small cliq of agressive, vile and abusive technerds which represent at most 1-2% of the market, the technerds belong to the pc-era which is now going away (ipad or no ipad))

LOL, ipad=shit = true= $$=toilet= people will buy because they are materialistic and base themselves on what they have and not who they are in actuality. (self)

they shouldnt call it a PC

AND WHOEVEE SAID THE IPHONE REVOLUTIONIZED BLAH , NO IT DIDNT, MY PHONE I HAD PLAYED MUSIC AND DID ALL THAT SHIT, ALL THERE ARE IS STUPID APPS FOR YOU TO PAY MONEY FOR OR FREE ONES THAT DONT DO ANYTHING USEFUL. THANKS BYE!

Go lie down.

Have you used an iPhone?
Tabs are separate windows, the overview of which is accessible via target at the bottom of the window. You can have up to 8.

Does anyone really think this is funny, regardless of what you think about the iPad. This is certainly the stuff kindergarten kids do, not grown adults.

The only time I would be worried about this thing failing, is if the same people who are tearing it down now, were actually praising it. That would mean it had met their expectations.

You can listen to music an browse the web. You can do it now with the iPhone too.

I think critics are missing the point of the iPad, that it’s made for people like me. Here’s what I mean:
http://bit.ly/9auPOH

The chewing gum one is the best…….

http://2tu.us/1ht1

Best statement prompting me to possibly buy an Apple product EVER.

lol. don’t be mean. the valley airhead response to his question is so unnecessary. my mom says it’s sad that people (young people) talk in that manner, dropping like’s wherever they please.

anyways job i’ve seen 4 other versions of the rock joke since the ipad dropped. i’m actually looking for better isLate or itampon jokes.

it’s not an iphone though. it’s more like an ipod touch.

Like that yummi Satori Noodles down at the local Chinese restaurant?

seriously. you sound like a loon. and yeah i’ll go back to my pos laptop that runs windows and has viruses and blue screens of death because we know everything apple makes is always perfect and the people who buy apple are somehow enlightened or ahead of the curve. please. anyways the reason why people are not happy with it, and it’s not just being panned by tech people but normal people like me and my friends is because this ipad is missing some basic features you can find on other products, apple or otherwise. apple purposely, as is their norm, built this ipad this way because they have an update system where they introduce various aspects/tools/updates to their forms and expect people to give them money. so that’s fine. people seem to be okay with that and like giving apple their money so w/e. the fact that this thing is supposed to allow you to play games and read books on a 10 hour battery life is really something because you know 10 hour battery life is soooooo amazing. and you’d be surprised how much stupid people aka the regular people who are apparently so dumb they don’t get tech and need to have things dumbed down for them, will notice is missing in this ipad. it’s not getting flack from just techies/nerds.

I wonder if they ever filed an answer to Arrington’s lawsuit. I bet they haven’t.

also as if an sd slot and a camera would prevent you from being able to take this ipad to work. uhm then why do so many people use laptops at work/school?

@yeah… not really. You can’t browse the web while riding the bus on a iPod.

yeah apparently it’s for the mums, and children, and lazy people overall…

if i was apple pr i wouldn’t want that notion going too far and i would stick with the whole “it’s for everyone” message. there’s a reason there’s a $500 version.

grade 1 or kindergarten?

lol. +2

ipad cannot break a rock, but a rock can definately break the ipad. :)

trhis one is hilarious. but how do you know apple won’t offer a different color option?

comeon matt. really jobs as hitler’s cousin, isn’t that a bit strong? did you see the moses tablet pic they had in the apple ipad presentation? that one was hilarious. is steve jobs god, or jesus, or moses? what’s the better gig. people need to leave apple alone. it’s first gen. it’s to be expected. people shouldn’t have their backs up. i mostly agree with all the sentiments and that they should have changed the name to something else. it’s not really a tablet, but it’s also not really a full entertainment platform. i’m sure apple is looking to the future with this product and will provide actual updates that people give a fuck about, and maybe it will revolutionize the market, providing another tech gadget for people who don’t like to think.

woah. dems fighting words: “I don’t care how many units it sells, it’s one of the biggest technological blunders of this century.”

Here is my take on why I think (THINK, not KNOW :) ) the iPad will succeed in a short blog post: http://jeffreyrosenberg.typepad.com/mkt/2010/01/two-primary-reasons-the-ipad-is-going-to-succeed.html

Wait for 2 months and get your hands on it then who knows maybe iphone OS 4 will be on it
It makes me sick how people want to knock tech that isnt even in there hands and released.
Get over it people get a life and stop bleating about stuff.
I reckon the perfect device for some people would have everything possible spec in it and be dirt cheap. 25 usb 3 ports a sliding expandable screen. 4ghz 8 core processor 64 gb of ram a 1 tB SSD card. and cost $499 still.
Wait till its out and if you dont like it dont buy it.

So if the iPad beats paper, and paper beats rock, does the rock beat the iPad?

That’s the Rosetta stone btw.

I don’t think the real story is iPad lacking some features – it’s how everybody is acting as if there haven’t been tablets before?

anyone preordered this worthless piece of ^&@#!$ yet? I searched Pricequest http://www.pricequest.com and they show it for preorder for cheaper than Apple cause I guess they have some special deal or something! OMFG I think I’ll end up buying this thing just cause all my other “friends” did so! I need to get me some new friends, anyone?

Said the fella who hasn’t touched the product…. to the fella who spent time actually designing a similar one.

yours is a lot less funny.

iPad (2010, Apple): $499.99
Rock (40,000 BC, eBay): $18.35 Buy it Now
Brick (2009, Home Depot): $2.19

so that means I have to change my rock?

@reg4c “There is a better one in which the stone gets a point for multitasking thereby making the two equal :D”

Is that killing 2 birds with 1 stone?

Real artists ship.

They should have named it the Tampod.

I compared it to a beach instead: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scobleizer/4317207778/

lol… I think what is even funnier is how lonely your humor has to be to get a good laugh at this.

I’ve used Macs for over 20 years, but I think Apple missed the target big time with this. In addition to the unfortunate name, I see the following:

First, they apparently want you to purchase all content from Apple. They don’t mention that you can download free content. No thanks, no way. Then, no flash capability, no USB port, likely no user-replaceable battery, and a really ugly bezel. What was Steve thinking?

What does it do that a normal tablet PC won’t do? Even one several years old and available for far less? Or a used netbook, for that matter. Show wide-screen movies? Not very well with the 4:3 screen dimensions they use.

My ten y/o Walkabout HH3 tablet pc holds my 800+ free ebooks, shows my videos, pictures, has GPS, wifi, and cost a lot less. Did I mention it’s waterproof rugged, and almost indestructible?

I see that there are only two things of positive note with the iPad. That it uses an Apple-designed chip, and an SSD drive. Both went almost unnoticed in the hype. The SSD drive will soon be the industry standard and Apple doing their own processors should be a wake-up call for Intel.

Other than those two items, I see a big worm in the Apple.

Shouldn’t all Apple products be compared according to size? I think it goes:
iPod Shuffle vs. Sand
IPod touch vs. Pebble
iPod Classic vs. Gravel
iPhone vs. Rock
iPad vs. Stone
MacBook vs. Cobble
iMac vs. Flagstone
MacPro vs. Boulder

Seriously, some may want to bash apple products, but the phenomenal sales growth to the still growing masses of purchasers (whether you think of them as mindless apple fans, or enlightened serious creative innovators, or more likely the full gamut or humanity), is proof of the desirability if the products. I am not sure Apple management and stockholders care what anyone compares it to… Why not compare it to a cow patty? The patty could get points for being fertilizer or being able to burn in a campfire :-)

Heyyyy the rock is multitasking… ;)

Which failed.

I think it’s kind of dumb, just another “sour grapes” thing put out by another jealous Apple hater.

>seel< must have wrote it on an iPhone. Maybe you meant, it will seal, like seal a leaking boat

iPad – Future Shock or Present Schlock?…

Apple Fanbois are not happy that Other People do not love the iPad sufficiently, and at first reading I thought Fraser Speirs was going down this line: one can’t help being struck by the volume and vehemence of apparently technologically sophisticated…

I think rocks have been around longer than 40,000 BC. hahaha

No, it won’t Macboi.

Have you heard of the hibernate function on laptops? Fully functional laptop in 10 seconds.

Also, how many HD movies will you put on your 16GB iPad? If you want the 64 gig version, it’s the price of a well-specced laptop.

Let’s not start with multi-tasking, expandable storage etc…

That was great, tx!

“mum’s, children and lazy people overall”

Not only do you fail at stating a well defined position, you show yourself to be an arrogant, ignorant prick.

lol! This is so interesting competition. Very creative!

I recently read a column by Mark Morford entitled “Why are you so Disappointing?”
He writes about how we have all become completely un-pleasable, (if that’s even a word). He also dares anyone to pull up any blog on any topic…I-pad, Health care, dog breeding, your grandmother’s cookie recipe, and read the comments. Every blog is filled with mean comments these days. Seems this one is no different. We have become a mean spirited race. No one is nice to anyone anymore. Sad… Enjoy the carnage.. goodnight….
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/01/29/notes012910.DTL

I recently read a column by Mark Morford entitled “Why are you so Disappointing?”
He writes about how we have all become completely un-pleasable, (if that’s even a word). He also dares anyone to pull up any blog on any topic…I-pad, Health care, dog breeding, your grandmother’s cookie recipe, and read the comments. Every blog is filled with mean comments these days. Seems this one is no different. We have become a mean spirited race. No one is nice to anyone anymore. Sad… Enjoy the carnage.. goodnight….
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/01/29/notes012910.DTL

post here instead of being a spamming troll masterlinkbator…

u r stoopid – lookie @ how u spell an uze pronunshiation an shit

glimmerblocker & clicktoflash

I CAN’T HEAR YOU AND I HAVE TO SHOUT BECAUSE I AM LISTENING TO RHIANNA AND THE BACK STREET BOYS ON MY PLASTIC SONY ERICSSON PIECE OF DOG SHIT!
OKAY CYA! L8TR!

A soft synth on a train
Full sized CT’s

Thanks for helping me out here. You’ve clarified things for me (really, you have).

Seems like these special individuals (like Bill Clinton, for example) do some of their best work when they’re more or less forced to compromise with others.

OS X is totally awesome, I think. But it’s a lot of people that have had input into it.

This iPad is out of balance in that sense. Why go the route of Sun? You’ll see where that got them. There’s already a Tegra, dual core Atoms paired with the Ion, (which is very nice), Windows 7 which is actually an OS. There’s a lot of things wrong here.

Your post has enlightened me, and I thank you for that.

When the day comes that one CHOOSES to use a soft synth on a train, with drum pads (I dunno about full size there unless you had several iPads, one for each) instead of in a studio or at home, when the day comes that doctors CHOOSE to view CT’s on an iPad as opposed to a 27″ display (or even larger), I just don’t know about that.

Don’t get me wrong, I do think that OS X is an awesome OS, and that Bill Clinton is an example of a president who was a Democrat that was able to do some positive things in an effective way.

I don’t like what I see here — what purpose does it serve other than to make Apple look good? All of the things you can do on the iPad you could do on an iPad that ran OS X.

There’s no reason “ann app for that” couldn’t be “an exe for that” or “a dmg for that” or even “a deb for that”. This is not the world we live in.

Maybe Steve Jobs feels that he brought Apple into this world, and therefore he’s entitled to take it out as well?

I dunno.

I am pretty sure an iPad can burn. And the fire could’ve been started by using a rock.

or other new touch tablets on the way…

@omghax… which was murdered. By greed. And ego. On what appears to be both sides of the isle. For something to fail, it must first exist. Real artists ship.

but it is great for giants! http://schwiz.net/blog/2010/macs-ipad/

maybe the rock can kill somebady.but useing iPad only can kill your wallet

Well, sure. It’s just $500 and it’s a bigger ipod. People buy every new iPod that comes out and they will buy this too. But it’s not revolutionary, it does not allow us to do more, it restricts us from what other devices offer. I mean crunchpad for sure had front camera for gmail video chat, right?

You know, the stuff that requires you to upgrade your video card every six months.

Hope you don’t need to print boarding passes when you travel. Lol. See it’s because of these little things that people are upset. It really looks awesome, and suggests that you might be able to use it, but eventually you will still need to carry a real laptop for those occasional cases when you need to print something or hookup to a projector. Or any USB device. Or if you wanted to see your kids over vc from a hotel room. Yeah.

So if anyone else out there is listening, alienware, htc, anyone, bring us win7 or android or chromeos that can do these basic tasks.

Rock breaks ipad, scrissors break ipad, rock breaks scissors. Rocks rock, ipad lose.
Those cavemen still have an edge on us.

i have seen and used tablets. apple tablet seriously lacks the basic functionality.

Technically, the stone is also a touchscreen since you can write on it, draw on it, etc..

@Michael Arrington,

I would still go in for a $200 crunchpad as against the $500 JooJoo or $800 iPad

I dunno — I don’t really see whats so bad about the iPad. I can see it as being very useful for a fairly large demographic of casual users. I think it has a lot of potential to change the ebooks marketplace

How many people are you incarnating just to spam for your contentless site ?

Is it working at all, maybe I should try that too :D

I’m surprised nobody mentioned this one:

iPad vs Kindle vs Rock

http://visualoop.tumblr.com/post/359564710/ipad-vs-kindle-vs-rock

Cheers
@TSSVeloso

Ok, youngluck, I’ll give you credit… you’re hilarious.

Perhaps not intentionally, but still, your slavish dedication to the School of the Lonesome Ranter is highly entertaining: “FOOLS! You’re all blinkered idiots! You’re not allowed to decide for yourselves why you think a joke is funny; only I’M allowed that privelege! Everybody’s wrong except ME! But someday… SOMEDAY you’ll see how right I was! And then you’ll BEG me to forgive you for disagreeing with me here today!”

By all means, do carry on. I’ll just go grab some more popcorn…

Obvious fanboi is equally obvious.

I would also like to point out that the stone is much older than 40,000 years BC; unless it’s an igneous rock formed during a volcanic event.

lol the best chart and review of iPad I’ve seen so far. Quite true as well, iPad is nothing more than an over size iPod that was loaded with e-reader features then ingeniously marketed. I would still choose to keep my iPhone 3Gs…on second thought Nexus One looks promising.

OK lets just be a little serious here , the
ROCK is a very fascinating option but the point is that the features are being neglected the iPad does have soe features which the iPad “LOVERS” are going to love
and i guess the only thing that differentiates the iPhone lovers from the iPad lovers is the big screen

there not much difference … but still the big screen counts.. you cant see a movie on a ROCK can you .. (unless its been smeared with a reflective coating of iron or anything like that.)

note: i dont have a single apple product with me,
an i really dont intend to spend my hard earned 500$ on an iPad .

That’s not the Rosetta Stone. This is what the Rosetta Stone looks like: http://www.uncg.edu/rom/courses/campo/511/RosettaStone3.jpg

@Yahel, judging her site from your site. I’ll prefer the former.

BRILLIANT!

I know the Mac Heads will take offense to the bashing of Apples latest and greatest… But, come on!

No upgradable memory, sealed battery, no standard ports…

If the iPad is looking to be a sleek e-book reader, then they have succeeded.

But, it’s nothing more.

The “other word” is “multipurpose”..

turns out that you have to pay $ 600 just for touchscreen? :D

haha funny stuff. nice share

That’s hilarious. The funniest part is that since the Kindle doesn’t have a touchscreen, its worth the same as a rock :)

touch screen way to funny

Nice parody of the iPod vs rock joke. My guess is that it will achieve similar success.

(The iPad not the joke)

I get how simple is good, but what makes the iPad so much better than the Asus eee tablet?

Ummm… the rock is water resistant. That kind of even’s the odds. One and One.

Can someone please compare iPad to CrunchPad?

They were referring to the second link, which does in fact contain a picture of the Rosetta Stone.

well .. without the basic feature ,… this product cant be a success… and yes it can be a success for students .. just to save paper … otherwise its a fail ..
Apple you should revise its product .. and add some basic features to it .. which we use in our daily life … if Apple has not provided Camera .. it still would have been fine .. but there are no USB ports as well … no flash .. its not multitasking …

I would rather prefer buying a laptop again rather then wasting money on ipad ..
And lets watchout for islate .. and what revolutionary change it brings in the market .. after Apple ..

Regards,
Daina

A nice gadget but in my opinion there ist no real need for this thing. it´s a big iphone…

ROFLMAO

Uh, yeah. My doctor can already read full-size CT scans on the tablet PC she’s been carrying around with her for years.

It’s fine that Apple designed this thing so that it wouldn’t be either like an iPod Touch or a Macbook. But since you can actually do more things on either an iPod Touch or a Macbook, why in the hell would anybody want this thing?

Oh, that’s right. Because it’s an Apple product, and everyone is on Apple’s nuts.

So the rock is compatible with the iPad? Synergy!

@mattrix

60 isn’t that old.

My parents are 55. Dad is a programmer and Mom uses a computer constantly.

AOL was hitting the Windows 3.x market almost 20 years ago. A 60 year old would have been 40 at that time and well within the age range of their users.

When did the iphone revolutionize the cell phone market? It didnt bring anything ‘new’ to the table, and it didn’t ‘bring radical change’ to the market like the world revolutionize means. Apple followed pretty much basic market strategy… and the iPhone itself wasn’t a game changer, and didn’t have any features that phones before it didnt have. Basically it’s just an ipod mixed half-assedly with a nintendo DS and a smartphone.

Just because something is popular doesn’t make it revolutionary. Lada gaga hasn’t revolutionized music just because she’s popular. Actually, she’s exactly opposite of revolutionary.

Now, the Android is a totally different story. It is revolutionizing the cell phone market by offering an open platform. Something greedy Apple would never do.

YOU missed the joke. The joke is that we can say the same thing about the iPad as the iPhone, and still be right about it. But no matter how plain we make it to people that it sucks, dumb asses like you are still going to buy it and defend it.

Using my iPhone to tether internet to read/respond to this article.

I own exactly 1 apple device amongst the dozen or so tech gadgets in my life. Its the one that collects the most dust. Funny, that’s always been my experience with apple. Just sayin.

I’ve seen all the photos like this one. I think it’s a little bit exaggerated. Sure the iPad doesn’t to all the things we thought it could (and maybe would) do. I get that, but comparing it to a rock is just another Apple-hating tactic.

It’s smooth and sleek, it’s not terribly expensive, it’s got great battery life. There are over 140k applications for it. You use your iPhone for all these things. Now you get to do it in a larger format that is more comfortable to read and with some additional touch capabilities at the same time.

It has shortcomings though. No camera is a mistake. Staggered release for the different versions really sucks also. Multi-tasking would be nice but this isn’t a laptop or a netbook so we couldn’t really expect that.

Just remember the first iPhone – no app store, didn’t do much at all. But what it did… it did well. This is the same case and future generations will be all everything you hoped for.

Even the first gen is better than a rock. Stop being a hater and grow up. See it for what it’s worth. Maybe noting to YOU, but it’s not nothing overall.

Ive heard that the rock is more stable, and correct me if I’m wrong… supports Flash.

awesome!

In recognition of the sheep who will buy anything Apple puts out, Apple is officially changing the name of all iProducts to iWank.

“What do you call that thing?”
“iWank”
I know you do, but what do you call that thing?”

-ekb-

That’s rude and mean. Bye bye. :)

actually Apple is planning to combine all the features of the iPad, a rock and the ’90s Compaq iPaq in its next unnecessary and expensive product,…. tentatively called iRAQ (TM).

Best iPad Jokes…

ShareApple iPad is a comedy gold mine. There’s an increasing long line of of iPad parody videos, the iPad has inspired unprecedented ridicule worldwide, even for an Apple product. Here’s the jokes I could find about iPad. If I missed anythi…

Actually, Apple DID revolutionize the Mobile market — did you forget about the AppStore?

That’s something that even your *revolutionary* (lackluster) G-Phone has copied.

>>> “if Apple were selling a rock for $500…”

…lol, that is the funniest comment on the page.

iPhone *did* revolutionize the cell phone market. It showed that hoards of people will sacrifice decent phone service for a cool touch interface, and a little bit of that “Mac” person mystique.

It is now proven that you can draw a lot of people to a horrifyingly bad service provider by offering them a nifty pda that can also make phone calls (sometimes).

Ok. Well maybe “horrifying-ly” bad was a little strong. I mean, ATT service is probably better in some places… I’ve only tried Earth.

You can actually write on the stone and it doesn’t require a battery

iPad is a great product. I will buy one when it’s out. And i will probably forget my laptop because 90% of the time i switch it on just to browse the web. Another 10% – to watch movies and do other stuff.

Well! this whole thread would’ve been different if Jobs
had just named it iRock.

The real rock would still win!!!

Actually I like the comments section. Some comments were rude and useless, but some were informative and useful. I use an HTC Tilt, but I can see why my wife wants the iphone. I occasionally remove and replace my memory cards, for example, and she does not. The iPad does not look like anything I would carry around, but someone else might feel the exact opposite.

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YOUNGLUCK,

You are correct in 100% of the things you said. My grandmar is 71 and she travels round Australia 4WDing and she sends emails all the time. An iPad it like having a girlfriend with bigger boobs, who wouldent prefer that??? It may not mulit task but with a 1GHz proccesor running iPhone os I’m expecting it to go preaty fast. It will also be fun seeing what amazing apps people come up with.

hi there one thing nasa is going probaly use ipads for deep space travel when we go too the moon mars and beyound becuase of the realy low power consomption nasa going have deep space space ships runing on all ipads

This joke is getting pretty old seriously.

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not really fun, but at least you didn’t do the traditional “pad” jokes…as if there was a “think” pad or 101 other products with the word pad in it…

so are there still people out there hating on no interchangeable batter…10 hours and you need to to swap the battery?

just like my iphone and macbook pro any money with an average IQ can put in a new battery…

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+3 .. agree .. but stone is good in tht way too.

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Rock is FREE~! Nuff said lol

Awesome Post, The stone can be used as a weapon, but the ipad is too thin to harm anyone and the rock should get a point for multitasking.