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At least for now, if you click HERE you will see a video regarding the Apple iPad that begins with a quote of outstanding douchery [captured nearly verbatim in panel 1 above]. Apple loyalist though I may be, I admit they are not above criticism. And to suggest that “we don’t know how computers work so they must be magical” fails to impress me on two accounts. A) I know how computers work… EVERYONE except my mom knows how computers work, and 2) even people that don’t know exactly how computers work don’t think they are magical like phoenix tears.
I do not see a demonstration of “pinch to zoom” multitouch and immediately avert my eyes from the iPad as not to offend it’s heavenly gaze. I do not slaughter a goat as to make a sacrificial offering to the iPad that it may smile upon my crops in the coming season or bless my family with many strong sons and beautiful daughters (for selling to rich village land owners). Nor to a steal off into the night and paint myself with the goats blood, dance around a bonfire and chew the hallucinogenic leaves of an indigenous shrub in order to work myself up into a trance-like frenzy in hopes of better knowing the will of the iPad. Those are the actions of someone who looks at the unknown and interprets it as magic. C’Mon Apple. That was just dumb.
Tags: apple, fantasy, ipad, mac, tech, unicorns
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January 29th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
The problem is that we are not the target market for the giant-iPod…
January 29th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
The problem is the target market, as it is for all of the Fruit Company's products, is those too gullible to know better.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Best iPad response yet.
January 29th, 2010 at 8:52 am
Apple sucks so hard. I would never buy anything of their over-priced, restricted, DRMed crap.
“Oh, shiny!” may cut it for the fanboys.
I did not watch the vid: “Get Quicktime” … hahaha, yeah right.
January 29th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
I'm planning on getting one, but I'll admit I'm miffed about the time deley between Wifi units, and Wifi+3g units.
It looks like all of your Linux fans have already thrown in their insightful comments as well.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
You're puny British bones DESERVE a beating if you like watching Armageddon!!!!
January 29th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
"Just like it feels right to hold a book or a magazine in your hand as you read it, it just FEELS right to hold THE INTERNET in your hand while you're browsing it."
Uh-huh. Because a rectangular slab of metal, glass and plastic IS the Internet. We've heard this one before, Computer Man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRmxXp62O8g
Also: Does that guy in the iPad commercial who spends a lot of time talking about apps and software look a little too much like Steve Buscemi to anybody else? It was creeping me out, especially whenever he made his eyes widen… yikes.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
"Just like it feels right to hold a book or a magazine in your hand as you read it, it just FEELS right to hold THE INTERNET in your hand while you're browsing it."
Uh-huh. Because a shiny rectangular box that fits in your hands *is* the Internet. We've heard that one before, Computer Man…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRmxXp62O8g
Also: Does that guy in the iPad video who spends a ton of time talking about the apps and software and such look a liiiittle bit too much like Steve Buscemi to anybody else? Because that's who he looked like to me…it was creeping me out, especially whenever he made his eyes widen in sheer gullibility. Yikes.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Ah crap, I thought it didn't post before. Sorry. *ashamed face*
January 29th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Aw come on guys, EVERYONE'S marketing team is like that. They appeal to the LCD. Using Niven's Law was actually a subtle nod to us geeks.
They were being ironic!
Heh.
January 29th, 2010 at 5:59 pm
I was wondering when one of The Afflicted would wander in here and start flailing about, foaming at the mouth, eyes glazed over with sheer amazement at the "magic" the iPad has brought into their vapid lives.
Thank you for not making us wait.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
I am more annoyed by the hyperbole explaining what it is the "best" for…"Best movie watching experience?"
Nope, that'll be my 42inch HDTV hooked up to my bluray player with Armageddon beating my puny British bones into America Lovin' calciumatronics!
January 29th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
I sent this to my buddy that works at Apple. Fucking hilarious! The pissed off wizard and the mer-boobs are full of win!
January 29th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
As a Canadian, how I pronounce ipad, sounds to me how American's in the deap south pronounce ipod. Just making me laugh a bit.
Also, iPad G2 will have wings for your comfort.
January 29th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
I like the thing, but not enough to buy it. If it was the MacPad, maybe, because that would imply that it would run some form of OSX and probably have USB ports. But it runs a version of the iPhone OS, and while it is great for a phone (or iPod) I don't want a tablet that runs like a phone. I want a tablet that runs like a computer.
I detect a distinct whiff of G4 Cube.
January 29th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
You *so* did not just say that.
Apple is the company built on huge marketing events and reality distortion fields. Of *course* everyone else's marketing sucks. But this is what Apple's lifeblood.
Personally, I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm *glad* the iPad seems to be going over like a lead balloon. Consume-only DRMed phones with tight control over what you can do with them? I can live with that. Consume-only DRMed devices with tight control over what you can do with them as replacements for computers (or even netbooks)? Bad bad bad.
January 29th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Obviously not a regular reader that one, otherwise they would know I delete any BS trolling/hateful comments.
January 29th, 2010 at 7:45 pm
Apple loyalists always find themselves having to add the disclaimer: But I don't worship the product and think light shines out of Steve Job's rear. Maybe in the back of their mind they know it's a cult?
January 29th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
I'm offended that In Between Days was used as any part of that advertisement.
January 29th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
Boobies!
Also, the iPhone 4g will be released as the iPad nano.
January 29th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
To be honest, I'm in. I don't have a smart phone, and I like magazines so this will fill the place nicely. At the same time though, I see it for what it is. If I'm reading, that's all I need to do. If I'm playing a game, not doing anything else. If I'm on the couch having a trivia debate, I can verify it there. If I want to browse 8 webpages at once, I'll go on a real computer.
By not having multitasking, it makes sure I won't ignore the human beings that are around me right then. When my best friend checks his email "just for a second" he'll open 3 other pages for something to look at while other pages load. Good luck having a conversation for the next 1/2 hour, on the couch, while hanging out.
January 29th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Two comics in a row with nudity. Is this a new direction for HE? Speaking of new directions, everytime I hear the phrase "new directions" on Glee, I think they are saying "nude erections".
January 29th, 2010 at 9:24 pm
I think this comic is funny, and am sharing it with Apple employees. They also think it's funny.
January 29th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
http://www.smosh.com/smosh-pit/articles/ipad-made...
I'll just leave this here…
January 29th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
The Ipad… sounds like a feminine hygiene product..
January 29th, 2010 at 11:30 pm
As dumb as that comment may be, there's probably a reason they don't let that guy talk the whole time. And frankly, I came into this not wanting one and now I'm almost out the door rushing to be the first to own it. God damn you, Apple.
January 30th, 2010 at 12:11 am
"Those are the actions of someone who looks at the unknown and interprets it as magic."
Umm… no. Arthur C. Clarke, who invented satellite telecommunications among other things, said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
I didn't watch the talking head advert, so I can't comment directly on the speaker's potentially buffoonish aspect.
January 30th, 2010 at 12:43 am
The first thing I thought of when I read the "magical" blurb on their homepage: Steve Jobs has spent a little too much time at Disney.
January 30th, 2010 at 12:50 am
Also, speaking of douchebaggery and Jobs' ownership of Disney, ABC's World News aired a big ol' mash note to their Fearless Leader as their final "news story" tonight. I mean, they weren't even trying to disguise their real motives. Either the guy's got one hell of an ego problem or someone was bucking for a big promotion.
January 30th, 2010 at 12:51 am
Hey now… I like Armageddon. Liv Tyler is HOTT and Bruce Willis is bad ass! Don't forget Steve Buscemi and those crazy eyes!
January 30th, 2010 at 12:52 am
No kidding…I can see how apple pushing the tech is good for everyone but the fanboys do go WAY overboard. Also I refuse to watch anything that makes me install quicktime. thats why I just went to youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnHG79fWMfI
January 30th, 2010 at 12:52 am
No kidding…I can see how apple pushing the tech is good for everyone but the fanboys do go WAY overboard. Also I refuse to watch anything that makes me install quicktime. thats why I just went to youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnHG79fWMfI
January 30th, 2010 at 1:00 am
*cheers*
January 29th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Gnome gives you the finger? There'll be an app for that.
January 29th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
its all tits and dongs from here on out.
January 29th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
good to hear. thanks!
January 30th, 2010 at 3:09 am
Yes, yes we do. Well freaking done, sir.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:45 am
Whoa, that is one risque tiny mermaid!
January 30th, 2010 at 6:36 am
He looks like he's gonna fellate that iPad in the second panel…
January 30th, 2010 at 10:31 am
easy there boy.
January 30th, 2010 at 3:59 pm
Methinks the HE threads have taken a wee turn for the controversial of late, dare i say argumentative.
January 31st, 2010 at 6:03 am
I'm in heart with Jonathan Ive, so he gets a 'Get out of Douchebaggery free' card.
January 31st, 2010 at 6:10 am
He needs to buy the iPud attachment first.
January 31st, 2010 at 10:30 am
So you refuse to watch something that makes you install Quicktime, but you're fine with something that makes you install Flash, as YouTube would if you didn't have it already?
It's just a codec, mang. I think you're taking your hate of Apple a little too far here.
January 31st, 2010 at 6:23 pm
No because there is no reason to install ANOTHER video program when I can simply use flash or windows media player (which are both extremely common online) and watch the video on some other site besides Apple's. I like to keep my computer system clean and not have hundreds of programs I only use very rarely. I think you must be a fanboy if you think because I don't want another program cluttering up my system I "hate" Apple. Like I said I think Apple serves its purpose in the market to push the tech envelope.
February 1st, 2010 at 8:18 am
Okay, so it's a bigger itouch/iphone , that's great. Anyone feel like the people in the video seem surprised the product they developed actual does what they wanted it to do? Just found that funny. Wow, I just built a bike ,and the pedals work. You can even ride it too. It just feels like a bike should, as you pedal and ride. You can even add the "motorbike" sound app. Just by adding the clothespin and card.
I don't hate apple or anything. I like their products. But the way they went about explaining the ipad can be applied to anything. If you build it, and it does what its intended to do, it magic.
February 1st, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Im an apple fanboy, But even i gotta admit the Ipad kinda sucks.
February 1st, 2010 at 10:18 pm
Here ya go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS439jCOoEg
February 2nd, 2010 at 7:16 pm
I wonder if its original name was the iPod Maxi.