Why I Don't Want an iPad for Christmas

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Genius - Kinda sums it all up for me...

Yes!! I goof around enough without having to pay to join Apple's club. They ought to be paying me to have me associated with their product.

All good points -- except for Flash. Flash really is fuckin' garbage.

Yeah, but being unable to deal with it means you're gimping around the internet like a cripple. FAIL.

Not really. What are the two sites people go to to watch Flash video? YouTube and Hulu. Oh, guess what...

Sounds more like sour grapes from Apple. Flash has to work (at least somewhat) with every parts-built computer in the shop and Apple can't be bothered to get their hands dirty on even a minimal level?

Or quality control.

The iPad is a glorified, over-priced toy. Not only is it expensive, but it's also heavy! It's uncomfortable to hold, and it looses its appeal very quickly.

Instead I'm getting the iPod Touch for Christmas. It'll do everthing the iPad does, but it's more portable and half the price.

I wouldn't buy one for many of those reasons, but if someone gave it to me as a Christmas gift I would be quite happy.

Well, I'm oh, so glad Apple told us about this honkin' problem with Flash instead of just NOT giving us the option or maybe providing some workaround.

There is a workaround. Apps and HTML5. As for Flash, only Adobe can fix that. And it's not like you can't get Flash-enabled browsers if you just can't live without the instability and battery-vampirism.

The iPad is 18 months ahead of its nearest competitors.

I don't want an iPad because I have no real use for it. Maybe I will someday, but I've got enough gadgets for now.

It must be hitting the hard drive(s) for some reason for it to make that big a difference in battery life. I know people don't want it to grab memory and hang on to it forever but if it's going to be that busy for something this relatively frivolous there's got to be some way of keeping it from getting written and re-written by the OS. That, my friend, is just what Apple is supposed to be getting the big bucks for figuring out, not just a catchy marketing slogan.

On the other hand, what was Apple's alternative to this kind of content? Was there one?

Their "alternative" is to arrogantly tell you that you don't really need access to Flash content.

FUCK Apple.

my 3 year old calls it a tar

I mostly agree with the article, which is why I am waiting for CES and the iPad2 before deciding on a tablet. It isn't for everyone, but it actually does enough for my work to be useful (and fun).

Without playing any pre-Christmas cards here too early, let's just say my wife and I had already taken some of the advice in the article to heart this year and planned accordingly.

I'm expecting a "What did you give for Christmas" thread in a few days and I'll spill the beans there.

I'm a fairly big fan of Apple, but I don't want an iPad. Something about it just seems . . . not right.

Yeah, that's what Skin is waiting for, the 2nd generation. Seems like the author of the article has just a touch of latte-sipping art-faggot going on, but it is a good idea to wait, considering the new features being rumored.

What? You know the kind of people Skin means. The beret-wearing art-house-independent-foreign-film-watching listening-to-weird-ass-music-that-sounds-like-total-shit crowd, the 20something college puppies who bash anything that happens to be popular because that's the only way they can differentiate themselves from the crowd, because excellence as a means of standing out is beyond their reach, leaving pretentious conceit as their only option.

Those are the people everyone associates with Apple, but the association is out of date. Those assholes only preferred Apple because it wasn't Microsoft. Now they prefer Google because it isn't Apple.

I don't buy apple products simply because by the time I'd get one, it would be obsolete, apple comes out with new versions of it's products every 3-4 months, get some product stability, Apple, and then I MIGHT be interested in what you're selling

I was pointing and laughing at you for mocking him agreeing with you.

One of the hard lessons I've learned over the years is that "trendy" doesn't cut it in my head. If I like it or there's a good reason for it, then it goes. I've got to live with myself at the end of the day. So just calling something a name isn't likely to sway my opinion too much unless I'm already of the opinion it's not worth my time.

You're right about Google being the nouveau riche, though. Impossibly young and that stinking rich is a noxious combination. At least Jobs has some seasoning on him.

Apple is for fags.

Trying to keep it all for yourself, huh? Greedy, greedy.

Anyway, Skin can prove that Apple products ain't for fags.

So since there are no takers, Skin will prove that Apple products ain't for fags anyway.

What's the basic spirit of the complaint UA and others have about Apple products? They ain't manly.

So by implication, they prefer to be cheek to cheek with somethin' that's manly.

Apple products ain't for fags. It's the fags who hate Apple products.

Actually, my complaint is that they're trendy, overwrought, overpriced fashion accessories that don't do anything I don't already get elsewhere at a much lower cost.

distills down to:

Not manly.

Fag.