“Why blow $500 to $830 on a device that may not be what you expect? Just wait a mere three weeks to see for sure what it actually does and what surprises, good and bad, Apple has packed into the iPad,” Gruman writes.
MacDailyNews Take: Because demand may well outstrip supply and some of us have years of experience buying and being delighted by Apple products.
Gruman continues, “We’ve all seen promising product demonstrations that resulted in major letdown when we finally got a hold of the real thing. Why take that chance? …Maybe I’m wrong — maybe the iPad will be the full ‘magic’ that Steve Jobs promises. Wonderful! If that’s the case, buy one when you know it really is magic — after people not employed by Apple have had a chance to really use it and put it through its paces. Until then, why send Apple your money until you know for sure? Doing so would be, well, foolish.”
MacDailyNews Take: See previous Take and the related articles below that detail hands-on iPad use.
Gruman continues, “It looked like a few people were willing to go online first thing in the morning to order their iPads sight unseen… But only a few. Maybe the infamous Jobs reality distortion field does have limits after all.”
MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, stratospheric limits:
• 120,000 iPads pre-ordered on first day? – March 13, 2010
• 25,000 Apple iPad pre-orders per hour? – March 12, 2010
Gruman continues, “A fool and his money are soon parted, the saying goes.”
Full article – Think before You Click™ – here.
MacDailyNews Take: We remain quite happy to have helped lead the parade as some of the very first fools to pre-order our iPads yesterday morning. We understand Gruman’s fears (he doesn’t sound too experienced with Apple products, so he’s likely been harshly disappointed many, many, many times in the past by PC box assemblers, Microsoft, and the like) and we therefore forgive him for his criticisms, condemnations, and complaints. Hopefully, Galen will be able to get his iPad when he’s thoroughly assured himself that it’s the right move for him.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “justme2” and “Carl H.” for the heads up.]
@Jakob:
Haha. We should register the “Think Before You Click” trademark with the USPTO and then sue MDN for its use. We could follow Apple’s example!
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Bleh. It’s a big iPhone. It can browse the web. That’s what I want. That’s all I need to know for now. And I fully expect other uses and reasons to own one to emerge. So the only “risk” is if I did not order a big enough model.
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I was such a fool to order the i7 sight-unseen at first possible opportunity. Never mind that it’s a magnificent tool that provides me with an unrivaled experience. Just like I was a fool to get the first iPhone and start enjoying it immediately. Other foolish things: The first iPod and other iPods. The first flat screen iMac. The first quad core Mac Pro for my studio, OSX (every version) the first titanium G4 Power book, the first blue and white MacIntosh, the 7100, etc etc.
I’m such a fool that I’m actually convinced it was a smart move in every case.
Gruman is the only fool here.
just shows how much trust Mac users have in apple to bring the best products to the market. I’ve never been dissappointed. can you imagine anyone preordering a new product from dell or maybe hp’s ipad killer, the slate, with winslop 7 installed. never in a million years. that must really hurt.
Gruman’s right. Look at all those people who bought iPhones sight unseen and were terribly disappointed. You could learn a lot from those one or two people.
Galen Gruman is a massive fool.
He thinks the iPod Touch was a PDA?
It’s an iPod. It was marketed as an iPod. It was marketed secondly as a gaming device. I don’t recall it ever being marketed as a PDA.
Looks like PC World is desperate for hits again.
Guess I’m an idiot. I’m still using my original iPhone…..and I’m sure everyone said similar things when that came out.
Yes!
If he were buying a Windows/Dell/Hp product I would HEARTILY agree!!!! 100% It would be STUPID!!! to buy or pre-order ANY product they offer.
Yeah,
I agree. Fools! I’m going to buy the HP slate, iPad killer instead. I don’t know what it does, when it will be available, how much it costs or even what it looks like. But HP says it will be better so that’s good enough for me.
People should stop having babies and just adopt all offspring. Yeah?
Gruman make poor strawman arguments! It’s not “sight-unseen” we all watched the demo, read the notes of those that used it read early reviews. It’s the next revision of the iPod What all the “newness” that he speaks of? This is not new tech it’s a upgrade to existing tech: the iPod/iPhone. Better? yes, but not “from the ground up new” as Gruman would have you believe.
Gruman bemoans the early days of iPods as a very possible risk that we may experience buying a iPad. What?! That logic make no sense at all. How can one draw the conclusion that this next revision of the iPod will be worse that the first version iPod?
What I really sense is a unskilled tech writer that like to push peoples buttons to get clicks. Take him with the grain of salt that his opinion is worth.
In the end Mr Gruman it’s called a “RETURN POLICY” If you don’t like the iPad simply get a RMA from Apple and send it back for a full refund. So simple a unskilled tech writer should be able to do it. Jezz
Apple really love you guys. You’d all have pre-ordered a Newton if you had the chance.
@me
If I could send it back if i didn’t like it and get my money back? Why not? Even the shipping is free!
@me
Yes, I bought a Newton on the first day it came out. It was a wonderful piece of technology, years ahead of its time. That’s what killed it. No other devices could communicate with it, making it almost obsolete. Also, the price was higher than most would want. The iPad fixes these two problems and adds a whole bunch of features. On April 3rd, I’ll be the proud owner of a 64 GB Wifi iPad.
“me” is an desperate troll and a pathetic idiot.
me:
“Apple really love you guys. You’d all have pre-ordered a Newton if you had the chance.”
Wash the lotion from your palm for your latest accomplishment.
GALEN GRUMAN USED TO BE AN EDITOR AT MACWORLD MAGAZINE! He now claims to have had a “love-hate relationship with Apple for many years. Either his editor, or he himself, is a hit-seeking sensationalist with no integrity or soul. I used to look up to mim as a mac speacialist with a desktop publishing background- now he’s a turncoat and a hack. He should know better than to call any tech enthusiast an idiot- whose language is that? His, or his boss’s? This is objective journalism? With “friends” like this, we don’t need Enderle or Dvorak- oh, right, I used to be a regular follower of his backpage column for MacUser Magazine! Who’s next?- Pogue? Could be, could be…
How in the hell are we not “familiar” with the iPad? all the haters have been screaming it’s HUGE IPOD since Jan 27th. I use an iPhone, so I know exactly what I’m getting. Any additional bonuses apps bring to the iPad to increase it’s uses is a bonus.
@auramac
Why or why am I NOT surprised and that info! Gruman seems to be just a hack/has-been looser that wouldn’t know fact if it hit him upside his empty head. I am a PC user and most of my gear is windows based (job ya know). I love Apples iPod! I’m often heard claiming that the iPod is the coolest device I’ve ever owned. With Gurman’s totally unsubstantiated claims in his article and crude statement that we’re all “Idiots” I have read my last PC-Word article.
Gurman your a crude unsophisticated jerk and should be fired for insulting PC-World readers!
Actually I thought this guy was a moron when I read the headline, but after reading the article he has a point that why not wait at least to see it and hold it before buying. The worst thing that would happen is you’d have to wait a few weeks to get one. He isn’t saying the iPad sucks or Apple sucks he’s just saying why not at least SEE it before dropping 500+ on it. In fact he sounds interested in seeing how the iPad will change things.
Probably the only thing he is guilty of is writing a ridiculous flame-bait headline. And truth is a lot of times the writer of the story doesn’t come up with that the editors do.
PC World aka M$ World.
Sight unseen it may be, but not unexpected.
iPhone and iPod touch already trained people how to use iPad. If you still have no idea what an iPad is, either you are beyond stupid or you’ve lived in a cave in an uninhibited island for the last couple years or simply totally uninterested in technology.
Apple’s got a long history of denying widespread and heinous hardware problems (especially in first-gen products). This guy’s right.
“A fool and his money are soon parted, the saying goes.”
OBVIOUSLY this TechnoTard has never bought anything from Apple. People like him get paid to write ignorant garbage. And they say amateur blogs are bull. (o_0)
Even if Gruman pleads ‘1.0 Syndrome!’ he’s wrong. The iPad is running on a platform that was proved brilliant years ago. We’re also talking about buying a new product from THE company with the best tech support rating in the business many years running. So
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