[citation][nom]MDillenbeck[/nom]And yet how often do we here popular media and Tom's echoing overinflated claims. Read the headline for this blog post - if it is remoting into another machine, then it is not news. After all, us stupid PC users and linux users have been doing that for some time. If it is native on the iPad, then you pointed out the problem - it is obviously an overbloated and even outright false claim.[citation]...So stop the "boo hoo" crap, seriously. It's old. It's dead. You whining crying over zealous PC elitist guys have killed any humor whatsoever in any gripes or complaints you even remotely have, whether justified or not. Your just not satisfied in your smug self-righteousness enough in beating the horse til it expires.. you have to beat the dusty remains of what used to be bones. Get over it and do something productive instead of whining.. Because, as far as I'm concerned, pretty much everyone that has shown hate towards this article, doesn't have, or isn't using their brain...[/citation]Which brings me back to the above point. No longer daily, and maybe even no longer weekly, but at least monthly we see an article that is "An iPad user does ______" by the media. It doesn't matter if _______ has been done by my convertible tablet PC for the past 5-10 years, it doesn't matter that my convertible tablet PC can do it better. Apple is a beloved brand like Coca-Cola, so the Pepsi paradox applies (thanks Cracked).What is this mysterious Pepsi paradox? When given a blind taste test, people prefer Pepsi to Coke. When you put the cans out, people prefer Coke to Pepsi. I bet if people were listed the hardware specs and the types of programs a device could run (not specific program names, but things like "full HTML web brower", "spreadsheet program", "database program", "instant messenger", "sound player", "multimedia player", etc - generic and non-identifiable names) then most people would never choose to buy an iPad at its price. Then you take out these devices and place them on a table, I bet you people would choose the iPad despite their knowledge that it is less powerful and more expensive than a netbook.So, yeah, we are sick of hearing how the iPad is a miracle device because someone did a finger painting with it when our tablet PCs were running ArtRage and Painter for over half a decade and producing far better art. We are tired of the media being slack-jawed and pretending that the iPad is doing something new. These are old tricks, but because the dumb blonde with big tits in the room did them, the media acts like its a novel idea instead of a trivial one.Thus we rage against those who buy into Apple's propaganda. Heck, I bet if Apple made an on-device WYSIWYG app creator and people started programming it, the media would say "look, with an iPad you can do this new thing called programming a computer!"[/citation]
No doubt there is tech out there that is readily available to consumers in general that can do the above just as well, and in cases where the hardware is better.. Could do more, and faster, and possibly more efficiently at that. You will get no arguments from me there. However, where I will say hold on a sec, is when the iPad is bashed the way it is. The second the iPad's technical specs were listed.. The bashing began instantly. It didn't matter what it
could do.. It only mattered what it
couldn't do. It didn't matter what was in it, because it wasn't the fastest hardware known to man. It didn't matter what type of experience that apple designed it for, and the hardware they put in it being more than sufficient for that purpose.. It never mattered at all. All that mattered, is that it was made by Apple, and that Apple sucks, because they are evil, and are slower to use newer tech than PC enthusiasts, and that the iPad is just a "Big iPod Touch".
And that's not the point. That's completely not the point at all. Maybe to you guys (and I'm a PC user myself) but not to the world in general. In the electronics world.. Bigger, for the most part, has always been better, when it comes to viewing platforms. TV's started off small.. Should we call 60 inch plasma's nothing more than "Big 13 inch TVs"? No. That's just rediculous, and frankly, immature. And I would love to be able to think that a crowd of people smart enough to build their own computers, and who are, in general, more savvy at what is going on in the tech community would be less fanatical and mature, and would just accept what is available for it's merits, instead of it's faults. I'm throughly convinced that Apple could come up with something a full 5 years ahead of the competition in all areas, and the general consensus wouldn't change at all. Apple would still only have their small market share, and the PC elitists would still be looking for something else to yell at them about.. Even if the only things they had was the Apple Tax to yell about.
It's just nausiating you know? Sometimes, I really get the urge to just smash my 7n7 rig at home into electronic dust, rather than be associated with this kind of "name calling". It's like, honest to god.. are people honestly this brainwashed into the brand? I mean.. I've sat back and watched the same thing happen with even more than Apple vs Microsoft. I watched it happen twice with ATI vs Nvidia. Back in 06-07 when Nvidia was god, and everyone was laughing at ATI(basically) and then again when Nvidia majorly dropped, and subsequently lost, the ball.
I mean, I get it when you guys say there are cheaper alternatives, but that doesn't require the flood of hate. It's not funny watching this site bash the other side.. when you guys literally, are no better.. and quite possibly, much, much worse.