Apple iPad and related items

[Kanda]

toff and iFan? really fucking hilarious...

If it was a camera you liked, you'd pay a premium. You wouldn't say it was priced for toffs.

May have been an attempt at humour. Not a very good one and a very tired one at that

 

[elevendayempire]

They're talking about this magic box like it's going to blow all the e-readers away, save the newspaper industry etc etc... but surely if it has a backlit screen, it'll have the same problem that all computers do; it'll cause eye-strain.

 

[magneze]

Apple have a deal with Specsavers already worked out. There's an app for it.

 

[skyscraper101]

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Hahahhahahha! Fucking great!

 

[ChrisFilter]

*snore*

Really fucking boring.

Oooh, alright touchy!

 

[maldwyn]

What time GMT will his Appleness address us?

 

[Kanda]

6pm.

7 hours, 5 minutes

 

[editor]

What time GMT will his Appleness address us?

The Lord Jobs will be coming down from the Mount clutching the Messiah tablet at:

08:00AM – Hawaii
10:00AM – Pacific
11:00AM – Mountain
12:00PM – Central
01:00PM – Eastern
06:00PM – London
07:00PM – Paris
09:00PM – Moscow
03:00AM – Tokyo (January 28th)

 

[editor]

Here's what we know:

 

[Kanda]

Number 11 is our own Editor!!

 

[maldwyn]

I'm going to be in oxford circus at 5.30pm - I try and watch it big screen at the Store for the full 1984 effect - bet it's invite only though . Still, if I hang around outside I'll be able to tell my grand kids where I was when IT was announced.

 

[editor]

Number 11 is our own Editor!!

Yes! That's why I've said I'd probably buy one if it was reasonably priced!

Yet another Kanda humour fail.

I'm going to be in oxford circus at 5.30pm - I try and watch it big screen at the Store for the full 1984 effect - bet it's invite only though ..

Are they really doing that? There's probably a queue out there already.

 

[Kanda]

No humour fail here, my name has been bought up enough in this thread about have I ordered it, will I buy it etc and I've said fuck all. Then you call it toff pricing? Sly dig at me? Could be construed as such.

Then you can't take a joke yourself...

 

[Kanda]

I'm going to be in oxford circus at 5.30pm - I try and watch it big screen at the Store for the full 1984 effect - bet it's invite only though . Still, if I hang around outside I'll be able to tell my grand kids where I was when IT was announced.

Never known them to do that before.

 

[editor]

Then you call it toff pricing? Sly dig at me? Could be construed as such.

You're fucking paranoid, mate. It was nothing to do with you AT ALL. Got that? Nothing.

It was just a light hearted comment about the pricing - which we know nothing about - and taken in context you would have seen that I was just saying that I'd probably be getting the thing unless it was outrageously priced.

I reckon you owe me an apology because you've really got the wrong end of the stick here.

 

[maldwyn]

Are they really doing that? There's probably a queue out there already.

They usually do - or the last time I happened to be there on release days that's what happened - they have a theater/lecture space upstairs.

As an aside, I haven't seen much coverage regarding the opening of the massive Covent Garden branch in February.

 

[tarannau]

Yeah, everyone always gets the wrong end of the stick when it comes to you and Apple, eh Ed. Remarkable that


The toff stuff remains entirely unfunny fwiw, notwithstanding the fact that the without contract iphone cost isn't massively different from competitors.

 

[grit]

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I reckon you owe me an apology because you've really got the wrong end of the stick here.

nevermind

 

[Pie 1]

I reckon you owe me an apology because you've really got the wrong end of the stick here.

Ok, you have got to be taking the piss now.
Because you never get the wrong end of the stick when it comes to 'light hearted' banter do you? Oh no.

 

[editor]

Ok, you have got to be taking the piss now.
Because you never get the wrong end of the stick when it comes to 'light hearted' banter do you? Oh no.

Funny thing is that no one here actually knows the price of the Tablet and I didn't actually say it was priced for toffs.

But keep those knee jerks coming!

 

[editor]

Here's another supposedly leaked prototype shot showing the size of the thing.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/is-this-the-apple-tablet/

 

[Kanda]

You're fucking paranoid, mate. It was nothing to do with you AT ALL. Got that? Nothing.

It was just a light hearted comment about the pricing - which we know nothing about - and taken in context you would have seen that I was just saying that I'd probably be getting the thing unless it was outrageously priced.

I reckon you owe me an apology because you've really got the wrong end of the stick here.

I said 'could be construed as such'

Didn't say it WAS construed as such...

 

[Pie 1]

I didn't actually say it was priced for toffs.

But keep those knee jerks coming!

Whatever.

 

[Badgers]

But.....would Hitler buy one?

 

[Kanda]

So.. non iSlate predictions for the media event?

I predict Editor going on about it's crazy that they bring the Apple store down just to launch new products

 

[editor]

I predict Editor going on about it's crazy that they bring the Apple store down just to launch new products

Well, that clearly is daft, but I rather like the Inquirer's take on things:

...Only Apple expects a frenzy of speculation and discussion for the launches of its products. When the day arrives we will also be treated to the shameful display of US press people standing up and applauding the appearance of Steve Jobs trying to hawk his latest product as if it is the cure for cancer.

In fact Apple has already seeded test gear to a few newspapers and tech magazines but only those who will praise it to the skies. We will not see a balanced review until the machines start to hit the shops in a month's time. By then Apple will have whipped its fanboy base into becoming early adopters and they will queue outside stores to give the impression that there is a movement to buy the product.

Then a month afterwards when the gear starts to crack, or develop faults, Apple will quietly ignore the problems while the tame press bangs on about the "new phenomenon sweeping American".

You might wonder why Apple gear does not sell so well in Europe. It is because the European press generally does not allow itself to be used like a cheap whore by a cynical proprietary company as a tool to screw more cash out of the generally IT illiterate customers. In countries where the media coverage is balanced or, like Russia, anti-Apple, Jobs Mob fails to do so well. It seems to rely on keeping people ignorant and the US tech press does that job for it.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/opinion/1587641/apple-starts-whip-black-shirts

 

[tarannau]

Oh come on that's a shit take on things. The last paragraph is clearly cobblers. Why would you want to cut and paste something so half thought through?

 

[elbows]

Im not sure the UK press is immune, the BBC in particular usually gush over Apple stuff, especially in recent years.

 

[tarannau]

it's a spectacularly daft opinion piece to be fair, one that gets more removed from reality the more you read it.

There may be a hint of a point there, but it's a poorly written hamheaded piece of copy at best.