Apple takes over 50,000 iPad orders in first two hours

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No wonder! The product is new and looks impressive. It's mobile and it's touch-screen. They said that it doesn't enable flash (one mockery that I've heard), I wonder why, does it have a different OS for not having the capacity to use flash?!... Touch-screen phones consume battery fast hope iPad is an exemption.
 
The marketing juggernaut powers on..and on.

Apple continues to make the worst crippleware ****.

If I pay the registration fee, can I get my REAL iPhone, please? That I can run whatever programs I want on? Can I get the REAL iPod, that I can use as an external hard drive?

Apple cripples their consumer electronics devices to make harder to use for anything other than their primary purpose of mindless entertainment.

Yeah, I really despise Apple. I don't care how slick their stuff is.

Think different, or simply don't thing?
 
It's not that surprising people. The iPad is a cool product with a relatively low price. It is also made by Apple, who makes very high quality products. I admit that doesn't give them a reason to overprice some of their products as much as they do, but I don't believe the iPad is overpriced. Yes it lacks some features like flash support, but if you think about everything else it has like hundreds of thousand of apps, or the best multitouch technology,or even Apple's customer support, you can see why so many people would want to buy it. People keep on complaining about what it "should have" or what it "doesn't do", well maybe these people saw what what it does have and what it can do and decided this was a product that they could use.
 
There we go! I didn't excepted number like this, but sure that I was thinking that this going to be big hit on the market. Apple made it again.
 
Yes it looks impressive ... but is it? There are so many comments that are more negative than positive.

Maybe iphone users will do what a friend of mine has done. He is an avid MAC fan and has an ipod. He bought a new MAC computer a year ago and has already sold it because the ipod does everything he needs right now ... he is studying in the medical field and he has all the applications necessary for his studies, too.
 
If it wasn't for Microsoft windows Macintosh would be a far larger company today. I think its great that they are finding new ways to control the market without needing to be a one trick pony.
 
I stay away from apple out of principle. I don't like how restrictive they are on their products. Once you buy something you should be able to play with it out ever you want, but they want to start suing people for using items they have purchased.
 
50,000+ orders in two hours. Wow! NOT really. This is all about marketing and people just felt for it.

Let us imagine a shallow river flowing normally. Now put a dam to stop the water from flowing. Eventually, the dam will increase the water level on one side. When you removed the dam, this shallow river will flood temporary.

When Steve showed people the iPad, but told them that it was not available yet, then the people that wanted it would most likely have to wait. Just like a dam that stops the water from flowing. Now, Apple tells people that they can pre-order now, hence removing the dam. Of course, Apple would have 50,000 + orders in just two hours (a temporary flood). What did you expect?

And no, I will not get the iPad because the price/value doesn’t make since for me.
 
I use an iPhone, my family all use Macs and love them and I love my iPhone to pieces but i'm going to keep my PC and i'm going nowhere near the iPad.

First of all the name is the most unimaginative thing on earth.
Second it's just a big iPhone except with the phone ripped out, that's really convenient, now you'll need a phone and a pad and I they want them to be an iPhone and an iPad which is not only a waste of money but a ridiculous thing to do.

The only use I see for this is as a thing to have in the lounge room to casually read a book or browse the web, but for me, the iPhone is good enough.
 
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but not supporting Flash? What are they thinking? I find it difficult to browse the web and not run into a Flash page.

I agree it is ridiculous, but good *will* come from this in time.

Adobe wants their player on Apple products. Both companies are posturing right now, but this is Apple's way to force Adobe to improve the performance of Flash. In the end, this is actually good for all of us because Flash adds quite a bit of unnecessary overhead on encapsulated content and there certainly has to be way to make it better. With Flash 10, Adobe has actually increased performance by 10-30% in some areas, so there are obviously gains to be made and I'm sure the pressure from Apple has been part of that.

As pompously arrogant as it is, Apple needs Adobe less than Adobe needs Apple. Apple knows this. If Adobe doesn't do more to cave into pressure (and soon), HTML 5 is going to really hurt continued Flash development. It's a slippery slope from there and both companies know it.
 
Apple fans... Honestly, this doesn't appeal to me too much. I'd much rather spend the money on something like a netbook or macbook. The iPad is a toy, a very fancy toy.
 
I was about to say Apple is more sexuality in lieu of creativity, but that's not it. It's more aesthetics in lieu of creativity. I will not shell out money I don't even have on a big Ipod Touch. Jeebus!
 
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