To say the experience was horrendous is an understatment. I won’t bore you with the details, but watch out if you purchase anything in an Apple store and its turns out to be defective. Everything must be returned to the store that you bought it in!! No exchanges, no swaps. They also have a 14 day return policy for DOA equipment. These unexplained policies lead to several visits to various Apple stores and over 300 miles of traveling.

In the end I had to stand in the middle of the store making an utter prat of myself to get the manager to refund my money.

As far as Apple is concerned they can stick it where the sun don’t shine. After that experience I built a Hackintosh downloaded Requiem, unlocked all my DRM’d music and now buy my music from anywhere else.

I think dizzy sums up the iPAD quite sucinctly
http://dizzythinks.net/2010/01/ipad-review.html

an iPhone for window lickers

If only they could do something about the battery life *sigh*…

lol.

If Apple made trainers would they be iPeds? Apple cooking book with recipes for iPuds.

Put a mouse and keyboard on it and you have a mini iMac. It’s a digital photo frame sized web tablet e-book reader thingy. It is aimed at a slice of several different markets and should be all things to all men-enough to get a lot of people interested.

It is also the iPhone Dom Joly has been waiting for.

I do not like iPods as you cannot operate them as a drag and drop device like the Sansa Clip or other similar devices.

Apple are like Sony, in that they try to lock you into proprietary software and hardware. Best avoided other than for novelty interest.

‘For shame’ – someone doesn’t worship at the alter of St Jobs, and it is ‘for shame’ – forsooth, Libertarianism is a broad church, it encompasses the Apple worshippers as it doth comfort the PC brigade….

Yea, let us all purchase an iPad & then perhaps the Lord Our Jobs can afford a new pair of tRousers.

The iPad’s not powerful enough for me. I write more than can comfortably be tapped on flat glass. But most people don’t. At the very least it’s an elegant glimpse of the future. If no-one but Stephen Fry and my wife wants to buy one, n0-one suffers but Apple’s shareholders. So what’s your beef? As for why you think Steve Jobs wants you to bow before him, that’s really between you and your shrink. Frankly, it sounds a little like the usual British envy that one comes to libertarian blogs to avoid. For shame, sir.

I am off to buy a ‘magic mouse’ and it will be awesome.

For me, Kindle and its followers represent a real breakthrough: use anywhere no matter what the light is, and potential for a keyboard that’s practical.
I love it when we talk techie.
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Took me quite some time to warm to the iPod and now having owned around three of them I do think they are pretty good. It was a natural progression for me to then have an interest in the iPhone but once the initially mad rush had subsided for the 3G version. Again, it’s an excellent bit of kit and my train journeys are actually more pleasant because of it, as long as the bloody train turns up.

Problem with iMacs and powerbooks: no right click. End of.

Now this iPad, I’m not going to be camping out in front of stores to get one and right now I couldn’t justify the need for having one. Also I am not going to get one simply because it’s the new toy to have. In principle I think it has appeal but the practicality of the device I’m not so sure.