JA2340 16 Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 Ah, the incontinence iPad! Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted February 4, 2010 Author Share Posted February 4, 2010 Interesting interview from way back with Mr jobs here http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/3...teve_jobs/print Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Gotta give the guy some props - you can knock him out, but he'll come back stronger and harder. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 Jobs is so ill, he is about to kick it. Apparently. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 I thought he was recovering. He wasn't quite as gaunt last week was he? Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 As reported in the Telegraph: The survey of 1,000 shoppers also highlighted some confusion among consumers about the purpose of the iPad. When asked before the launch whether, from what they'd heard about the Apple iPad, they felt they needed to buy one, 49 per cent said no, while 30 per cent said they would need to find out more about the device before making a decision. But after the announcement in January at the Yerba Buena Centre in San Francisco, 61 per cent of those surveyed now said that they did not feel they needed to buy an iPad, with 15 per cent still saying they needed more information before making a decision. And the number of people saying they would definitely buy an Apple iPad increased by just two per cent, from three per cent before the announcement to five per cent after the tablet computer had been unveiled. The number of shoppers who were undecided remained the same at 18% Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Chinese ‘iPad’ Maker Threatens to Sue Apple for Plagiarism Quote: A Chinese company is claiming that its iPad knockoff is in fact an original design that has been copied by Apple. The P88 has been on the market in China for six months. It’s easy to recognize: It looks just like a big iPhone. Xiaolong Wu, the president of the Shenzhen Great Loong Brother company that makes the P88, gave an interview to Spanish national newspaper El Mundo. If the iPad comes to China, he says, “We won’t have any choice but to report them,†because “it will certainly affect our sales.†The charge? Oddly, El Mundo reports the crime as “plagiarism,†although we assume it means IP or copyright infringement. Wu says that Apple has not only copied the concept of a multitouch tablet, but also the design of the case and screen bezel. And pre-empting our obvious criticism, that the P88 is just a large-scale iPhone or iPod Touch rip-off, Wu says that “they have nothing to do with it, as they have completely different functions.†As you can see from the picture above, Wu is being rather generous when he describes the P88 and the iPad as “completely identicalâ€. The specs tell a different story. The 10.2-inch screen isn’t multitouch (it uses resistive touch), the P88 uses a hard-drive (250 GB), has an Ethernet port, a 1.3-MP webcam and Intel 945GSE chipset (likely to be paired with an Atom CPU, not listed) with a gig of RAM. It also runs Windows. The kicker, though, is the battery life, low even for a keyboard-less netbook, which is what this is. Without the power cord you get just 1.5 (claimed) hours. The whole story is ridiculous, and most likely a cheap play for publicity. Anyone confusing the two products deserves the P88. What is clear is that the Chinese company squeezed a (very bad) netbook into an oversized iPhone-style case and claimed to have some kind of ownership of this design. Good luck, Mr. Wu. And one final thing. How much do you think this “cheap†Chinese copy might cost? It is $525. Oops. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 At least post pics? Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 Think, big ipod. Or, ipad. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted February 14, 2010 Author Share Posted February 14, 2010 Seriously it did look like a bit ipod, but thicker and a bit bigger than the ipad with connections. Hey but they got their publicity right. So mission accomp. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Any news on this court case? Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 That was all just a publicity stunt wasn't it? Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Dunno - sounded pretty serious. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 Non stater. Publicity grabbing. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 dun bother about it. They're just a buncha knockoff artists. They copied the Touch and made a PC. Everybody thinks they're a joke. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Hey isn't this supposed to be releasd late March? Link to post Share on other sites
r45 4 Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Shipping in a few days in the US? I heard late April in Japan Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 it'll be good to finally see how long that battery lasts. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Where's the big fanfare? Am intrigued to see how many people buy it. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 They probably can't make anywhre near enough of them so a relatively quiet launch. ? Link to post Share on other sites
its-a-clock 0 Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Does that mean you are going to get one soon thurs? Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 I'll wait for the 3G one. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 Reckon probably best to wait for version 2 or 3, 3G. If you can resist! Link to post Share on other sites
Curt 1 Posted April 3, 2010 Share Posted April 3, 2010 3G one out a bit later. First people getting first ipads this weekend. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 Was on the J-news just now. Must admit, if someone offered me one, I wouldn't say no.! Link to post Share on other sites
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