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Anyone watch Modern Family this week? For those that live inside cabbages, it's one of the funniest sitcoms to come out the USA in recent years. I know the bar hasn't been set high :D, but it's still funny.

Anyway, what's interesting about this week's episode was that it was based on the lead character's desire for an ipad - including the queueing and hi-5ing razzmatazz of it all. Honestly it was the slickest piece of PR you will see this month.
 
I rephrased the apple comment as to not hurt your feelings. Similarly I made a comment about wirefresh. NEither are "personal" attacks.

I've always been careful not to resort to personal attacks no matter how tempting a prospect you make it at times
 
sumimasen said:
Anyone watch Modern Family this week? For those that live inside cabbages, it's one of the funniest sitcoms to come out the USA in recent years. I know the bar hasn't been set high :D, but it's still funny.

Anyway, what's interesting about this week's episode was that it was based on the lead character's desire for an ipad - including the queueing and hi-5ing razzmatazz of it all. Honestly it was the slickest piece of PR you will see this month.
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Article on Ars about it: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...f-primetime-modern-family-becomes-ipad-ad.ars
 
sumimasen said:
Anyone watch Modern Family this week? For those that live inside cabbages, it's one of the funniest sitcoms to come out the USA in recent years. I know the bar hasn't been set high :D, but it's still funny.
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You are joking, right? It's awful.

Have you not seen Arrested Development or 30 Rock? Both can be ranked up there as two of the best sit-coms ever, from any nation.

2 and Half Men, Everybody loves Raymond - also both great. Frasier is good.

Even How I Met Your Mother is better than Modern Family!
 
Clearly they shipped them a iPad and had a shop all kitted out for it way before it actually was released so they could edit the show in time for the actual release.

How much moola that cost is any ones guess, but Apple just made that back on interest of the cash they have in the bank in the time it took me to write this post.
 
Here's one of the first reviews from a Brit perspective. He's not exactly thrilled like Stephen Fry and he's well miffed with the lack of Flash. The NY Times app fails to impress him too.

Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has been one of the first Brits to spend some time with Apple's iPod device, branding the new tablet PC from Cupertino an 'interim device' and saying that the lack of Adobe Flash on the iPad is just 'perverse'.

These opinions matter far more than those from most other iPad reviewers to date, because they come from the editor of one of the world's most forward-thinking newspapers...

Rusbridger also says that while he was immediately "incredibly excited by the beauty of it when I unwrapped it because it just has that 'wow' factor that all Mac products have" he then went "through a sort of lull and after ten minutes I couldn't figure out what to do with it, I was puzzled by the apps that were there already and I had a sort of 'lack of confidence' in it.

"And then I went home and loaded up lots more apps and after about five hours I began to see the point in it and enjoy it," adds the Guardian editor.

"Now whether I'm going to be completely convinced by it… I don't know… it feels like an interim product… a stepping stone to something else. It may be a little locked up to be ideal."

Rusbridger highlights the lack of a proper word processing app as something that he really missed on the iPad, although notes that "as a typing experience, it is not that bad."

He also sees the lack of Adobe Flash as a problem. It is a "very poor experience" in his opinion. "It does seem to me perverse… I'm sure Apple has their own power-logic reasons for banning Flash… but it does make the browser experience poorer."
http://www.techradar.com/news/compu...is-an-interim-device--682092?src=rss&attr=all
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Guardian video review: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/video/2010/apr/07/apple-ipad-review-alan-rusbridger
 
Rusbridger is a huge cunt whose expertise is limited to "how to be the biggest cunt", to be fair.

I may be being slightly biased in that viewpoint.
 
Rusbridger highlights the lack of a proper word processing app as something that he really missed on the iPad, although notes that "as a typing experience, it is not that bad."
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Ah great, ok. You fucking ponce. The guys a dick :D

Watch his paper jump all over it when it's released in the UK and charge more for the app they have and have a zero flash version of their site... hilarious.
 
Apple iPad is announced

FridgeMagnet said:
Rusbridger is a huge cunt whose expertise is limited to "how to be the biggest cunt", to be fair.

I may be being slightly biased in that viewpoint.
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Why do you say that?
 
To be fair it's not about what he said about the iPad, but it's like having Andrew Neil write a review. This is really getting out of hand.
 
Kanda said:
When people start respecting personal opinions then I may agree with you...
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If posters here started calling someone a 'cunt', a 'dick' and a 'fucking ponce' just for expressing a personal opinion on a product, I don't think they'd last very long, you know.
 
Rusbridger is quite obsessed with the future of journalism & newspapers, and as the iPad has been touted as a potential gamechanger for these industries his views seem relevant to me.
 
elbows said:
Rusbridger is quite obsessed with the future of journalism & newspapers, and as the iPad has been touted as a potential gamechanger for these industries his views seem relevant to me.
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I think "predictable" would be a better match, and he doesn't even talk about that aspect, he just witters on like somebody's poorly-informed dad. My dad could have done lots better than that.
 
editor said:
If posters here started calling someone a 'cunt', a 'dick' and a 'fucking ponce' just for expressing a personal opinion on a product, I don't think they'd last very long, you know.
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You know to ignore that, I'm just a little pissed. Look at the clock ;)
 
FridgeMagnet said:
I think "predictable" would be a better match, and he doesn't even talk about that aspect, he just witters on like somebody's poorly-informed dad. My dad could have done lots better than that.
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Yes well your own admitted bias regarding him makes your opinions on this matter somewhat predictable and besides the point too. He touches on the aspect a few times, not in any great depth but thats pretty typical for short newspaper video stuff.
 
I have to say that I'm still wondering why Rusbridger's opinion of the iPad is any more important than my dad's; in fact I can think of a few why my dad's would be more worthwhile (he doesn't edit an involved publication for a start).

Next up: Sharon Osbourne on the iPad, followed by Nigella's Six Fantastic iPad Recipes.
 
Im interested in all opinions about it, at least as long as the opinions seem new. They dont have to be deeply profound, and I want to hear the opinions from those with vested interests too.

Technology is far too broad a part of peoples lives now for me to discount the opinions of those whose careers are not technology-related.

Im not sure about Sharon Osbourne but Ozzy would make a fascinating useability tester, he couldnt work a tv back when his doctor had him on too many medications, can he work Apples legendary user interface? :p
 
Oops!

"Some owners of the newly-available iPad have reported problems with connecting their devices to wi-fi.

Hundreds have complained about weak signals on the tablet computer.

Apple acknowledged on its support page that "under certain conditions, iPad may not automatically rejoin a known wi-fi network".


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8606727.stm
 
FridgeMagnet said:
To be fair it's not about what he said about the iPad, but it's like having Andrew Neil write a review. This is really getting out of hand.
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Surely the ipad is aimed at non-techies? Andrew Neil should be the perfect person to write a review, or maybe Jeremy Clarkson and his set of hammers?
 
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