What would get you to by an iPad?

[mirgro]

TheRealMafoo said:

mirgro said:

TheRealMafoo said:

mirgro said:

$300 dollar price tag, costs $260 to be made so APple can go fuck itself until it costs lower
Output ports, USB for sure, HDMI or VGA as well.
Multi tasking

This is the big one right here,
Having it be an open platform. I don't want to be restricted by Apple, plain and simple. If I want porn on my iPad, then who the fuck are they to say no? If I want to spend $2000 on an app that only gives me an icon, who the fuck are they to say no? Who do they think they are to try and sell me services which I get free online, even when the iPad IS online? Fuck that shit.

Since Apple is a horrible company, the last one will probably never happen and I will just get some form of tablet that doesn't suck balls down the line, just like I did with the Android phones after returning my iPhone months beforehand. Other tablets will come out, and they will be better than the iPad, I can guarantee that.

lol. You never owned an iPhone.

And I hope you never buy video games. I mean they cost, what, about 25c to stamp out the DVD, and maybe 40 cents for the packaging. With it costing less then a dollar to make them, all the game companies can go fuck themselves until it costs lower.

I used to use the older iPhones, not first gen, second. I gave up on Apple as a company recently and now I am all about Android. It truly is a better experience. I also may not have been using the iPhone as much, but I didn't have all that many apps on it and I have found nothing to be lacking on the android phones, in fact the free GPS directions and all is absolutely sweet and multi tasking are absolutely sweet.

As you put it, it's about how much the content inside it is worth, and as it stands, the content of an iPad is about $300, and I don't see it going up unless the platform is fully opened. Doesn't have to run windows, but it has to be fully open without any of the shit from Apple.

Glad you like your phone, but your expectation of Apple is unreasonable.

Apple is a company that innovates. This means they fail a lot. The Newton, Apple TV, Mac Cube, and the Pippin are are great examples. In order to afford to make the kinds of mistakes that comes along with innovating, you need to make sure you turn a good profit on the ones that work. If Apple did not have this kind of business model, you would not be enjoying the Android phone you have today. When Apple came out with a touch only phone, people called it the stupidest thing they had ever seen. It takes a lot of vision and risk to do something like that. Thanks to them, things like App stores and Androids exist.

For the iPad, they had to do years of user acceptance testing, secure vendors, purchase companies, develop applications and an OS, design dozens of models that never see the light of day, just so they can bring a product to market that could fail. They need to spend money on stores, and the cost of proving world class customer service. All of this cost a great deal of money.

You then want them to sell a product for $40 above hardware costs at the launch of a new product? Sorry, if that's they way they ran there business, there would not be a business at all.

I want to see their total costs for doing the iPad. If they were at $40 profit they are almost about to hit over $40mil from sales, it's half way to a million already. I would greatly love to see their expenditures on this, because I really don't think it's that great. This product is not nowhere near as groundbreaking as the iphone was.