Cubansaltyballs: GreenAdder: I can tell that article is a lie. Nobody thought of the tablet before he did.

Exactly!! Too bad he can't sue the f*ckers that stole the idea from him and did this:
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That would be former Vice President (and Apple board member) Al Gore's handwriting.

Guys, seriously... I've downloaded and read the book. You can quit greenlighting half-paragraphs of it now.

I'm surprised his wife stayed with him.

"honey that blowjob sucked, and I don't mean in a good way, it was terrible, it was shiat... did you steal that? I hope you didn't steal it cause that was a really bad rip-off. now get off my mattress and go sleep in the room with the European washing machine it took us 16 years to buy"

More and more and more it seems to be that Jobs stole others ideas, made other people improve on them and in the end made it seem as if he invented everything with nobody's help. What a great legacy.....

Also, you're damn slow readers.

Fark It: Steve Jobs was an obsessive designer and ruthless businessman. We get it. This lionizing needs to stop. Steve Jobs didn't change the world, he figured out how to make lots of money by monetizing digital content and making sure people who bought his hardware bought their content through a walled eco-system.

Other did the same thing before him, he just did it better because of slick design and snazzy marketing.

Which made him wealthy and his products popular, thus changing the world...

The computing world without apple wouldn't be nearly as refined because most tech engineers dont think about such issues.
Jobs popularized alot of things that failed or meerly smoldered on the market before he came along. We should give him credit for doing that much at least.

So, Steve Jobs is still dead?

Okay, good to know. I'll check back tomorrow for the next pointless greenlight fellating his lifeless, bloated corpse. Still not buying the book though no matter how much Drew got paid to shamelessly push it.

/ unless it comes in a pretty case and costs twice what it should, because a functional book just isn't awesome enough for a great guy like me to be seen holding

And instead he gave us an oversized cellphone that can't make calls.

Autistic. The more we find out about Steve Jobs the more I'm convinced he was a high functioning aut.

And that is what inspired him to invent the rectangle.

haemaker: coco ebert: I started seeing keyboards made for tablets now, so... how is it different from a netbook computer besides the fact that it's marginally lighter and a netbook computer can multi-task?

No mouse...

So yea, it is worse than a Netbook.

Certainly not an incorrect statement. My partner picked up an iPad. I was reluctant about them. I still wouldn't buy one for myself, but for him it is an ideal little device. He carries it with him everywhere. It keeps his notes, reference material and dozens of books. He watches YouTube and streams videos on it while he's lounging on the couch. It's got a decent selection of games.

It's a fascinating and fun little device. It's not a Netbook. Comparing it to one is almost an apples to oranges comparison. As for the keyboard, it's optional and I could see the benefit. Use the tablet as a tablet, but if you do need to edit text you could do it with ease instead of buying a Netbook as well.

/Still too expensive though :-\

HotWingConspiracy: And that is what inspired him to invent the rectangle.

Ahem. The rectangle with rounded corners!

Cooper420: More and more and more it seems to be that Jobs stole others ideas, made other people improve on them and in the end made it seem as if he invented everything with nobody's help.

Thank you! Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who knows this. Like everyone else is on crazy pills or something.

RexTalionis: Can we stop it with stories from Jobs' biography? It has been out for weeks and is a best seller. I am sure everybody who cared about this already bought a copy and read it.

Slaves2Darkness: Autistic. The more we find out about Steve Jobs the more I'm convinced he was a high functioning aut.

Oh, he definitely had a case of Appsberger's

Galvatron Zero:
It's a fascinating and fun little device. It's not a Netbook. Comparing it to one is almost an apples to oranges comparison. As for the keyboard, it's optional and I could see the benefit. Use the tablet as a tablet, but if you do need to edit text you could do it with ease instead of buying a Netbook as well.


They serve two different niches, although there is some obvious overlap. The iPad (any tablet, really) is a media consumption device. It is for playing games, watching films, and reading websites. It is not intended to be used to manipulate spreadsheets, program routers, code up a new application, etc. You're exactly right when you say it's like comparing apples to oranges. Apples and oranges are both fruit and they're both edible, but that's about where the comparison ends.

Kar98: HotWingConspiracy: And that is what inspired him to invent the rectangle.

Ahem. The rectangle with rounded corners!

With optional concave corners for only an additional 100 dollars each.

I see the Apple haters and trolls are out in force today.

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I have an iPod that was given to me, I've never liked using Apple computers, and I sometimes shake my head at the Apple fanboys, but I'll be the first to admit that THAT :



...is one of the most important milestones in the history of personal computing. That's when people started thinking of computers as appliances, and not as horribly complicated tools used only for work or by friendless hobbyists. It's the computer that made it cool to have a computer.

stuhayes2010: I see the Apple haters and trolls are out in force today.

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Dude, what can you do if the modtards greenlight another "here's a link to a blog referingg to a post about half-paragraph snippet from a book that has been out for a damn month now and will you please stop farking doing that, I've already read the damn book, thank you very much." thread.

You can troll.

Cooper420: I'm surprised his wife stayed with him.

"honey that blowjob sucked, and I don't mean in a good way, it was terrible, it was shiat... did you steal that? I hope you didn't steal it cause that was a really bad rip-off. now get off my mattress and go sleep in the room with the European washing machine it took us 16 years to buy"

More and more and more it seems to be that Jobs stole others ideas, made other people improve on them and in the end made it seem as if he invented everything with nobody's help. What a great legacy.....

That's my move! I stop short!



/that episode was on last night

padraig: I have an iPod that was given to me, I've never liked using Apple computers, and I sometimes shake my head at the Apple fanboys, but I'll be the first to admit that THAT :

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...is one of the most important milestones in the history of personal computing. That's when people started thinking of computers as appliances, and not as horribly complicated tools used only for work or by friendless hobbyists. It's the computer that made it cool to have a computer.

I know I didn't have the most typical childhood, but I thought Gateway and its cow colored boxes were exciting growing up, knowing we had just gotten a new computer that came in like 8 boxes. Putting it together with my dad and then playing games on it. Getting to play Day of the Tentacle, Aces over Europe, Descent: Freespace. I remember installing a 2x CD-ROM drive for blazing fast speeds. When I saw the iMac G3 come out I didn't understand the praise, computers had always been toys to me.

/sneaking downstairs to boot up the computer (which had really loud beeps at startup) to play some wheel of fortune, reader rabbit, mario teaches typing, operation neptune off 5 1/4 inch floppy disks and MS-DOS before we got Windows 3.1

Babwa Wawa: The Courier would have changed the world.

The Courier was an imaginary piece of hardware. It would have been uncomfortable to use, and of limited use. No one goes around sketching or jotting notes down on a device.

BroVinny: Cubansaltyballs: GreenAdder: I can tell that article is a lie. Nobody thought of the tablet before he did.

Exactly!! Too bad he can't sue the f*ckers that stole the idea from him and did this:
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That would be former Vice President (and Apple board member) Al Gore's handwriting.

Yeah, just like Gore invented the internet too, right?
Anyways, I have an iPad and am using it constantly in school. All my textbooks and crap are on there, plus it's a better gaming device than my cheap laptop. I find it extremely useful.

Ah, he was a tweaker... that explains a lot. Not cancer, not liver disease, the dude was a farkign tweaker.

Gates looked back at Jobs calmly. Everyone knew where the windows and the icons came from. "Well, Steve," Gates responded. "I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."

BWA-HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

It does sound like Jobs was an asshole, but then again, what successful businessman isn't? You don't have to like the man (and I don't), but you have to be impressed at what he did with the companies he ran.

/Android & Windows user
//Also has the device that had the first iPod interface, the Creative Zen :-p

Babwa Wawa: The Courier would have changed the world.

Fark you, Ballmer. Fark you right in the ear.

Not to defend Ballmer but it was Gates that killed it...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/11/03/killing-the-courier-t o -save-windows-8/

padraig: I have an iPod that was given to me, I've never liked using Apple computers, and I sometimes shake my head at the Apple fanboys, but I'll be the first to admit that THAT :

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...is one of the most important milestones in the history of personal computing. That's when people started thinking of computers as appliances, and not as horribly complicated tools used only for work or by friendless hobbyists. It's the computer that made it cool to have a computer.

Meh.

StoPPeRmobile: Meh.

"Meh" what ? I had a C64. It was a hobby computer. Play videogames on it mostly, maybe play little mother ? Whose mothers used a C64 ? What kind of non-geek decided to buy a C64 ?

swaxhog: Babwa Wawa: The Courier would have changed the world.

The Courier was an imaginary piece of hardware. It would have been uncomfortable to use, and of limited use. No one goes around sketching or jotting notes down on a device.

Really? Maybe you haven't heard of PDAs?

Hell, resistive screen tablets and phones let you do that still. I know, because I take lecture notes and annotate my books on my Entourage Edge dual screen tablet.

padraig: ...is one of the most important milestones in the history of personal computing.

The fark are you talking about?