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Posted on 04/06/2010 12:16:33 PM PDT by AJKauf
Hint: 30-pin connector. Adapter.
Have fun.
Not in any way to sound offensive to you.........but face it; it’s a crippled product. No excuse for no A) USB, B) firewire connections. Ridiculous. Apple does this. Release 1.0 is crippled; people line up to spend WAY too much to get the new toy. Six, seven months later......release 2.0 comes out with the features version 1.0 should have had, and is hundreds of dollars less expensive.
They’ll have to fight the Jews, the globalists, the Chinese, the Trilateral Commission, the Skull & Bones, the freemasons, the Bilderbergers...
/sarc
Thanks for the link. So I don't know why people would need a USB port on the iPad when it connects to the USB port of lots of other devices.
Give it a rest.
Hey, I'm not saying it's not a cool gizmo. It is. I own 2 iPods and the latest and greatest iPhone. I have some appreciation for the UI. I may even buy one myself around Version 2 or thereabouts. It would be fantastic for watching movies on flights, etc. I'm just saying it's not some huge development in computing. Time and the market will tell if I'm right or I missed it by a mile.
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Give it a rest.
What?! On one of my favorite subjects... no way, Jose ... LOL ...
Time and the market will tell if I'm right or I missed it by a mile.
It's already on track for success as good as the iPhone and it may just exceed the iPhone's success. We'll have to wait a bit to see if it exceeds the iPhone's success. At this point it appears to be just as successful as the iPhone.
Methinks tis a little early for that call, ST. :-)
Methinks tis a little early for that call, ST. :-)
I was just reading a slew of articles on the iPad and it appears that some analysts are upwardly revising their sales estimates right now. And I read another article where another analyst doubled his projections for the next year for iPad sales from just a couple of days ago... LOL ...
So, perhaps it's a little early to really know for sure -- but they've got analysts who are "jumping on it" right now... :-)
I'll see if I can go back and find those articles...
No need to look for the articles, ST. I don’t question in the least the fact that it’s had great initial sales. But no matter how strong the open, that doesn’t mean that will hold up. Not saying it won’t, just saying it’s too early to tell. Right now all the diehard Apple fans are buying it. (I wouldn’t dream of buying the non-3G one; makes no sense to me.)
MM (in TX)
Okay, no problem. I can wait to see the sales, too... but I am surprised that the current sales, as of right now, are on track and maybe exceeding the iPhone by a bit. That’s pretty darned good...
I’m still keeping my original iPhone, that I got just a few days after it was introduced. It’s so good and works great, and in addition, has already been upgraded with more features than when I got it. I can see that the iPad is going to have similar success.
I’ll be in there, too, but a bit later on, because I want to upgrade my laptop first... :-)
Are you kiddin’ me? You have to pay another 30 bucks to have the ability to connect a USB device? .......and you say you don’t know why anyone would need a USB port?
Wow.........did Apple ever see you (and people who think like you) comin’......
I'm reminded of the old lady who refused to have her house wired for electricity back in the 1920s. She was afraid the outlets would leak during the night. Fear is a difficult emotion to overcome.
Very similar to some, not all but some, of those who chastise Tiger Woods for bedding all those good looking women. Most would never have that opportunity but for those who would I wonder if their values would stand.
As this thread disintegrates into another Apple bashing fest, while blaming Mac fans for it, I will speak to the main subject of the thread - the cost of printing and distribution of print matter. The author mentions many factors but one of the most important he doesn't mention. The effect of labor unions on the costs of printing and distribution is large. In major cities there are at least four unions involved - typesetters union, pressman's union, bindery workers union, and the teamsters who drive the trucks. All have salaries and work rules that are a significant influence on costs and efficiency of producing and distributing the finished printed product.
Then there is the cost of recycling the discarded product after it is read. That does not affect the producers but it does affect society. The internet avoids all that.
Very similar to some, not all but some, of those who chastise Tiger Woods for bedding all those good looking women. Most would never have that opportunity but for those who would I wonder if their values would stand.
That is so, so true... a lot more than people suspect. I'm convinced that a whole lot of people in our society are not "limited" or "constrained" by their values -- but rather -- by their "circumstances" and "opportunities".
There would be a whole lot more drugged out people, if a lot of people had more opportunity and more chances. There would be a lot more hedonism if people thought they could "get away with it" with their family and friends and not come into heavy criticism.
There would be a whole lot more of a whole lot of those vices out there in society -- all those things that contribute to the outright destruction of society overall -- if -- people had more "opportunity" and more "money" (perhaps) and more "time" and not as much "criticism" from others and "less oversight" and you name it.
So, I'm convinced that a majority of our soceity is more "constrained" towards "values" by "circumstances" more than "moral choice" ... to be sure ... :-)
As this thread disintegrates into another Apple bashing fest, while blaming Mac fans for it, I will speak to the main subject of the thread - the cost of printing and distribution of print matter. The author mentions many factors but one of the most important he doesn't mention. The effect of labor unions on the costs of printing and distribution is large. In major cities there are at least four unions involved - typesetters union, pressman's union, bindery workers union, and the teamsters who drive the trucks. All have salaries and work rules that are a significant influence on costs and efficiency of producing and distributing the finished printed product.
Now, I don't know about these big publishing houses and perhaps they've got contracts in place that limit them as to what they can do, but from what I'm familiar with in getting a book printed, it seems that it can go from author to editor to an electronic typeshop to printer in short order without a lot of trouble in between.
I'm used to going with an electronic file, and having everything already laid out, on the computer, and going straight to a place that has all the fonts and choices available and they produce that print-ready copy, then it goes to the printer and he does his thing.
Of course there's the shipping/delivery/transportation costs and the store gets their cut -- but it doesn't seem as burdensome as you're presenting. I don't know, though, as I haven't gotten a book out, but I know if I wanted to how I could do it directly myself and go straight to the public, skipping a whole lot of other people in the process.
BUT, I would think that the iPad really opens the door to authors to just go direct to a very select audience, and thus the author would have very low costs for distribution and he could do direct to the people who read his books and have only a place like Apple distributing it through the iPad store... I think he could make a tidy profit that way (of course assuming he's an author that anyone would want to read in the first place, and that's a "consideration" for "making money" doncha know ... LOL ...).
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