The self-proclaimed “King of All Media,” Howard Stern recently received a new 64GB iPad Wi-fi + 3G as a gift from Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore. Stern spoke about his new device on his SIRIUS XM show on Wednesday.
Stern said, “It’s very cool but i don’t know how to use it.” Regular listeners will know that Howard seems to always feign struggles with new technology, but he did call the iPad “the future.”
Stern sounds like he needs to spend a little bit more time with his new iPad and begin to undo the ill-habits and user interface assumptions from his years of suffering with Microsoft’s shiteous Windows. Stern’s dependence upon Lotus Notes has kept him from a better life with an iPhone in the past. But, accessibility to Lotus Notes has always been possible through their “webmail-like” portal (using Apple’s Mobile Safari browser) and, of course, there’s now a fully-functional Lotus Notes client app for iPhone/iPad.
Most of Stern’s troubles seem to stem from his particular Wi-Fi setup (“heavy security that I don’t need,” said Stern) and his general impatience with new tech. Once it was set up, Stern proclaimed his iPad to be “pretty cool.” Stern’s sidekick Robin Quivers said she saw one recently and agreed that “it was pretty cool.”
Stern mentioned that The New York Times is delivered to my iPad every morning and explained how he took snapshots of his screen while watching his wife, Beth Ostrosky Stern, on Jimmy Kimmel Live via his iPad’s ABC Player app.
If he’s already snapping shots of his screen to email to his wife, we expect that Stern is well on his way to becoming like the rest of us iPad users: Addicted to iPad.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Joe Architect” for the heads up.]
Oh my.
I hope that iPad is moisture resistant.
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Wow. Quite possibly the three people I have the least use for all together in one article.
This a new low for MDN.
I wonder what type of video content Howard will sync to his iPad?
Chrissy One,
I’m sure you meant a George Takei, ballsy deep,
Ohhhh Myyyyyyyyyyyyyy! A hah hah hah hah hah hah hah!
KingMel,
YouPorn is already encoding videos in HTML5. As porn goes, so goes the nation.
Who is Howard Stern?
I’m required to use lotus notes at work and get my email just through the regular mail apps on my iPhone and my ipad.
Why do really rich people send things to other really rich people that they could otherwise send an intern to the store to pick up ,oh perhaps a whole crate of?
I thought it was NASTY…
A guy who makes $40 million a year (if not more) needs to be “gifted” an iPad that sells for less than a grand? Sheesh.
@WriterGuy: No, it’s a cranky old technophobe with an audience of millions if daily listeners who needs to be given a new lawn so he can tell the “yoots” to get off of it.
Three people I could not give a rat’s ass about.
Lord, is it that slow today?
@LA
why are you asking us? You took time to read and comment about those you give a rat’s ass about.
/tangent>
it’s nice to know there those can still afford to gift iPads.
uhhhh the iPad in actuality was created by the Biavians…uhhhh with the help from the Targzisians…so to speak…uhhhh qua ommsa lagi wan
> Quite possibly the three people I have the least use for all together in one article.
> Three people I could not give a rat’s ass about.
Well, I guess it saves spoiling three articles
According to arbitron, at any given time there are a few hundred thousand people listening to Stern’s broadcast, far below the numbers when he was on the radio.
I wouldn’t give Howard Stern the time of day, let alone an iPad.
@ ChrissyOne
You’re being ambiguous. I still can’t tell if you’re for or against Mr. Stern or his receipt of said iPad.
Howard Stern definitely has a face for radio.
Stern gets an iPad as a gift… So???
Instead of gifting iPads, shouldn’t Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher be on a college campus somewhere protesting the unjust, undeclared war in Pakistan that has heated up immensely during the Obama Administration? Obama may not care for “Drill, Baby Drill!” but he is definitely a fan of “Drone, Baby Drone!” as the left would describe it as unseen and unheard unleashed terror from the sky with hell fire that kills the innocent on the ground!
Are Moore and Kutcher typical of your Hollywood left douchebags that are only offended by certain war from certain presidential administrations? (that was a hypothetical question… we already know the answer.) I guess to them there IS such a thing as a good and necessary war, which one would have thought would have gone against their beliefs. However, when it is being waged by their guy, I guess not! This is typical of the left continuing disillusioned warped view of the world!! What morons!!! – C2
@ Now, Now
Congratulations on being the first to turn an article about Stern into a political diatribe! Well done.
Brilliant! What an idea! And I was there! <i>Now, Now took the idea! He saw it ripe on the tree, he plucked it, and he put it in his pocket. It’s, it’s, dare I say… genius? Ah, no, no! But maybe, ooh! ah! maybe it is! Maybe I’m in the presence of greatness, maybe I just don’t know it. But I saw it…</i>
@Hm…: The sad thing about Now, Now is that he can’t hold his own on political sites, so he vents his pre-cortical synapses here, where most people just want to talk Apple-related tech and can’t be bothered to take him down.
@Bokweb
Yeah, let’s give him the Monty Python fish dance!
Stern is just another media putz. He is the king of the media shitter.
Stern is a dick.