... And I must admit, it looks nice. It's a giant iPhone looking thing but has HD tv capability etc.

But, conservationist is right. it's almost as gay as opeth

http://www.engadget.com/ is dead from people refreshing it.

http://i.engadget.com/2010/01/27/live-from...apple-tablet-latest-creation-event/

armageddon draws ever nearer...

30 years ago technology was progress, now it seems to be nothing but regression.

I want one..

I've grown quite fond of keyboards.

i can't wait to listen to opeth on one of these things while getting friendly with some dudes.

Hold on guys, let me just set my iPad background to a picture of Morrissey and crank some Blackwater Park.

All right, show me your cocks.

basically every single status update on fb is about this.

you must be friends with a lot of fags

I see exactly zero words about this on my popular social networking site account.

It's literally ALL OVER Twitter.

"What this device does is extraordinary. You can browse the web with it. It's the best web experience you've ever had." -Jobs

Reality: No flash support, no widescreen, no gps. This thing is just an oversized ipod touch FFS.

You guys make me sick. Get off that shit

And I'm guessing the battery isn't replaceable by mere mortals and also like the iphone, doesn't support multitasking.

No Flash support is fail

It's cool but it's a lot of, hai guise we steam rolled the iPhone and quadrupled the price. I can say quite comfortably that I will never be able to afford this as long as it's still relevant.

truth

bennyhillifier

you are my fb friend...

If that is true, i'm not buying one.

i knew you were going to say that

I don't understand people's obsession with technology, especially useless entertainment technology.

Funny that you are complaining abou that while using a computer or cellphone to post on a webpage. oh the ironing.

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actually I look more neolithic than that.

but all in all, I am mostly against useless profitable for companies technology...like cell phones, the quality still sucks on them.

computers on the other hand are useful.

500-800 bucks for these?

Yep....there's a big difference between consumer electronics (Apple) and real technology.

This thing is useless.

real technology today = nanotechnology

Shit I was hoping they'd announce iPhone os 4.0..

bennyhillifier

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO PLAY BLOONS?

The worst thing about this is it's entirely DRM-controlled. It's literally a step backward for computing.

And there's people out there that will buy it not even knowing what it does, or that it has a monthly fee.

It has a monthly fee?!?!

I think it only has a monthly fee if you get constant connectivity for it through a cell phone company (I think I heard Verizon will be the provider)....I could be wrong though

AT&T will charge $30/month to use their 3G network, you can use it on wifi otherwise.

GIANT IPHONE WITH NO SNOW LEOPARD ≠ TABLET COMPUTER

meh

why..

i mean seriously... what is the POINT? I hate people.

This piece of shit ipad is more proof that Apple blows and has no clue what they're doing. iPad is nothing more than a giant ipod touch with the same exact capabilities(including the fact the platform is closed to 3rd part software). The only difference is the ipad as a giant screen.

Oh and the lowest price point is $499 LOL

I wanted more snow leopards! I love those things. best defense is a good offense I always say. The more I read about this, the more it looks like a lump of turd, but the more I'm convinced it will sell like wild.

most retard yuppies and hipsters will most likely be suckered into buying one since its the cool, newest, hippest thing to have not fit in your pocket.

Well, I would love one of them if they did what I originally thought they did. I'm about to buy a $2K laptop (it's got to last me 5 years) and I don't want to always carry it with me. I was thinking that a 10" tablet like this to do some ssh'ing, some emailing, and some other java applications would rule. $500 to not always drag around my lappy would be great. but this thing sucks.

it would be more appealing if it had more functionality and a lower price point.

a lower price point will never happen because its apple but i definitely expected this to have more functions than just literally being a novelty sized ipod touch.

Don't worry. Just like the iPod, in 3 years apple will have a much "better" functioning ipad that's smaller... Oh, wait.

lol you just reminded me of something aril. it seems like we're going forwards in technology but backwards in asthetics. remember when cell phones were the sizes of bricks? LOL

here's your god damn fucking ipad bitch

its just a huge ipod touch whats the all the shit talk about? did you think it would be cheaper? Apple always sells new shit for a billion dollars... the iphone used to be 600 buck WITH a plan remember? Not condoning this by any means but i dunno wtf we would do with a 9.7 inch 1024*768 hand operated tablet running the Finder. It would be impossible to use. Also wtf is this multitasking bs. You can multitask on it its os x with a new interface... Itunes runs in the bg while u browse etc etc... I agree that program management needs changing but that will change with the 4.0 os update. Also this has the fastest mobile device chip on the market atm I just question its stability. Wait for the 2nd or 3rd revision if you are considering this. I on the other hand am happier with a tiny screen on my iphone.

ps if were apple i would have waited a bit to release this but we all know they can take this shit talk and then get ahead in the end by screwing the rich fanboys 1st

i wonder if i'll get one of these for free.

i doubt you will get one for free, they stopped doing that when they gave out the first iphone to their employees and havent done much of that since. What store do you work at?

STILL no flash support and the obvious, no camera facing the user to support video chat.

Once again, Alex wins the internet.

You are a fucking liar.