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4 Sep 2024 07:19:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: iPad: WTF, Apple?  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 4 Apr 2010 17:56:23
Message: <4bb90b07$1@news.povray.org>
On 4/4/2010 9:30 AM, Kenneth wrote:
> John VanSickle<evi### [at] hotmailcom>  wrote:
>> No USB port?  No multi-tasking?
>>
>> Is it me, or is this thing just an over-sized iPod?
>
> I suspect that Apple already has a 'new and improved' iPad, just waiting for the
> 'proper' time to release it--which would be a brilliant (and typical) marketing
> ploy on their part. They *know* that their loyal fans (as well as bleeding-edge
> techno types) will probably snap up this first one. If the price were not so
> high, I'd probably get one too! IMO, whenever Apple releases some hot new thing,
> it seems to be intentionally 'hobbled' to a degree--if that's the right word. In
> other words, not quite at the level that they know to be its true potential.
> Then later, an even *more* amazing version hits the market--increasing their
> profits, naturally.  This first release--quite a nice one in itself--gives them
> a chance to rake in a sizable sum, while judging the market to see what new
> additions folks are clamoring for, etc.
>
> A recent news headline has piqued my interest: "Will Apple's iPad be the
> laptop-killer?" I would guess that that's a logical progression, the final iPad
> iteration that Apple might be planning for the not-too-distant future.
>
> Ken
>
>
Bah.. Too bulky, I want the BSG one, you can fold up and stick in your 
pocket. ;) lol

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