ipad poll

[Sysman]

It's like Firefox not being able to open a new tab with your homepage without downloading an add-on not to mention the fact it seems to update itself and tell me about it once a week.

Plus Noscript and other add-ons updating themselves.

It's intensely annoying when you just want to look up a bit of info before you go out, and what should be a quick lookup turns into an update and restart.

To be honest it's days on my system are looking numbered. It's just been too much hassle recently.

[Spacecadet]

Plus Noscript and other add-ons updating themselves.

It's intensely annoying when you just want to look up a bit of info before you go out, and what should be a quick lookup turns into an update and restart.

To be honest it's days on my system are looking numbered. It's just been too much hassle recently.

I installed firefox a few weeks ago... only used it once, didn't seem any faster compared to IE8 so I stopped bothering

[NickFitz]

Microsoft used to get 80% of their revenue from Office and selling their desktop OS, they couldn't really work out how to sell a tablet thing even though Bill Gates said they were the future in 2001 because Microsoft simply couldn't grasp that they should focus on the user rather than the computer, and that's why Microsoft are no longer a significant force in the market.

FTF 2012

[Tarquin Farquhar]

iPad pricing

At http://www.apple.com/uk/ipad I see

iPad
Our most advanced technology
in a magical and revolutionary device
at an unbelievable price

...
UK pricing to be announced.

Unbelievable?

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Does it come with Windows 7 ?

Can it seamlessly replace my PC and all my Apps, with exactly the same ones I use on my PC ?

No ?

Pointless then.

ISTM that it doesn't replace anything. Not your PC, not your phone, not your iPod, not your camera, not your books.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Is it 1980 again? In my experience the exec ******* are all sporting a jaunty quiff these days...

Contract rates would suggest so

[TheFaQQer]

I installed firefox a few weeks ago... only used it once, didn't seem any faster compared to IE8 so I stopped bothering

I tried IE8 once - didn't seem to do anything that Chrome or Firefox does, so stopped bothering.

[PAH]

Microsoft get 80% of their revenue from Office and selling their desktop OS, they couldn't really give a flying **** about some gay tablet thing.

I'm amazed they're still managing to flog whichever iteration of Office they're onto these days. From what I can see it was feature complete about 10 years ago.

Certainly seen nothing to tempt me to upgrade from Office XP, apart from Open Office.

[Board Game Geek]

ISTM that it doesn't replace anything. Not your PC, not your phone, not your iPod, not your camera, not your books.

Oh right, I see !

It doesn't replace anything, it just creates a need where there wasn't one in the first place.

You've got to give it to Apple, their marketing department must have access to some seriously mind-bending drugs.

But hey, so long as it's shiny, has the Apple logo on it, people will think I'm cool if I buy one.

Which kind of reinforces my view, that Apple don't sell products, they sell "Lifestyle and Cool Immortality".

Obviously works for them, I guess. And people like it as well.

So everyone's happy :-)

[TheFaQQer]

It doesn't replace anything, it just creates a need where there wasn't one in the first place.

That does seem to be one common criticism out there - the iPhone and iPod actually fulfilled a need, whereas the iTampon doesn't.

As a self-confessed gadgetophile, I keep looking at tablets now (and there are a couple of competing products already) and thinking "oooh, shiny, must buy..." and MrsF keeps saying "BUT WHY?!?!?"

The only answer I can give is that it's been a while since I bought a gadget, and now that I have the prospect of some work, I want to buy something to celebrate.