This speaks for itself. Thanks to Phil Santoro for creating it and sending it us (a play on the iphone v. rock joke).
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There is a better one in which the stone gets a point for multitasking thereby making the two equal
http://i50.tinypic.com/t8ki7o.jpg ?
yea mike should change it to this one, in all fairness to the stone…
yours is a lot less funny.
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?
or other new touch tablets on the way…
i have seen and used tablets. apple tablet seriously lacks the basic functionality.
That’s not the Rosetta Stone. This is what the Rosetta Stone looks like: http://www.uncg.edu/rom/courses/campo/511/RosettaStone3.jpg
They were referring to the second link, which does in fact contain a picture of the Rosetta Stone.
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?
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
maybe the rock can kill somebady.but useing iPad only can kill your wallet
How many people are you incarnating just to spam for your contentless site ?
Is it working at all, maybe I should try that too
@Yahel, judging her site from your site. I’ll prefer the former.
Well, the iPad gets another point for
[x] emptying your $$ pockets
That’s clearly one feature more than a stone, then.
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.
Does it matter? No!
Is it funny? Yes!
You sound like you’re offended by the joke… are you an Apple sheep?
Baaaaaaaaa….
“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.
People touching Daniel Craig before passing judgment on 007 seems kind of creepy.
Did people begin to love Daniel Craig after they began to see and touch him?
“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.
Rude response.
@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?
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.
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.
I’m surprised they didn’t list Flash capabilities (or lack thereof).
you can make fire out of stone, stone scores one more point.
I am pretty sure an iPad can burn. And the fire could’ve been started by using a rock.
So the rock is compatible with the iPad? Synergy!
@reg4c “There is a better one in which the stone gets a point for multitasking thereby making the two equal
”
Is that killing 2 birds with 1 stone?
I compared it to a beach instead: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scobleizer/4317207778/
That was great, tx!
May be, iPad is a new generation of rock lol
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.
Free Vs Not free
Vs Get’s attention of only tech lovers (love or hate aside)
Unbreakable (or nearly) Vs easily breakable
Get’s someone’s attention quickly
Longevity assured Vs Your luck
and…….?
Aren’t there like 8 versions of this?
Soon they’ll be a 4G edition.
Like maybe. Like why?
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.
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 :\
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.
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.
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.
those Apple guys would never hire you, you’re not convincing anyone, specially with the 60 yr old grandma argument
it’s not an iphone though. it’s more like an ipod touch.
@yeah… not really. You can’t browse the web while riding the bus on a iPod.
@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.
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).
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::
“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.
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.
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…
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.
Dude you’re clueless.
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.
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.
Actually I’ll use Windows 7 on my perfectly portable Macbook, Janey. You can enjoy your pointless piece of vanityware.
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.
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?
Please define “REAL games”.
You know, the stuff that requires you to upgrade your video card every six months.
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)
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?
its going to be a huge, huge win.
100% with you on this Michael
No, it won’t Macboi.
For the naysayers, it’ll take just one incredibly inventive iPad-optimized app to give them a satori moment.
Like that yummi Satori Noodles down at the local Chinese restaurant?
-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…
Said the fella who hasn’t touched the product…. to the fella who spent time actually designing a similar one.
Which failed.
@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.
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.
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.
“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.
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?
Can someone please compare iPad to CrunchPad?
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
I think a rock can multitask
That is funny on multiple levels…you should add “Sounds like a female product” to that comparison!
Back to the playground with you, what grade are we in here?
grade 1 or kindergarten?
Love it! How did this pass apple quality control? Steve jobs fail
now do Rock v. Mg Seigler
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!!
Well, rock does not need battery at all, can possibly do multitasking(?) and ofcourse, you can touch it, reshape it and replace it
You forgot “Deadly projectile”
+1
Best iPad Poster Ever
http://flic.kr/p/7zeYZt
(Best..well it’s alright)
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?
not hating at all. love the ipad. probably going to buy a bunch of them.
okay, then.
Bah, he is hating.
Lets see. Should we get an iPad or a JooJoo?
lol
@Michael Arrington,
I would still go in for a $200 crunchpad as against the $500 JooJoo or $800 iPad
steve jobs must be very genius then..he even can sell rock n people are buying
The irony is it’s a lot better than the crunchpad that TechCrunch got screwed on.
I think you’ll want this to do better than the new improved non-TechCrunch Crunchpad. If the Crunchpad does well it will be humiliating as if it wasn’t humiliating enough with the whole world seeing you screw up and have nothing to show for your investment.
I’m sorry but that was just hilarious.
I think you people aren’t giving the iPad nearly enough credit as a weapon. I’m quite sure that with a week or so of practice, you could launch it frisbee style at a foe, and it would inflict injuries similar to a Ninja throwing star. Hell, being larger, it might even slice them neatly in two. You could score additional damage points by having it play a really bad song during flight, like Barry Manillow’s Mandy or anything by a former American Idol winner.
Why Jobs didn’t demo this functionality at the announcement truly boggles the mind.
+1
Best statement prompting me to possibly buy an Apple product EVER.
lol. +2
Haha… the joojoo missed their big chance. I wonder how many people are gonna pick a joojoo over iPad at the same 500$ price? none.. so much for their little scam
I wonder if they ever filed an answer to Arrington’s lawsuit. I bet they haven’t.
Social networking can be a valuable marketing tool as long as you creating a valuable product.
obvious troll, is obvious.
Obvious fanboi is equally obvious.
iPad vs. netbook – less funny but IMO more true:
http://kecy.roumen.cz/roumingShow.php?file=ipadvsnetbook2.png
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