“Since I bought [my iPad 2] just under 2 months ago, that means it’s new enough to still have that ‘new car scent,’ but old enough to have to given me enough time to have a bona fide opinion of it,” Stephen Chapman writes for ZDNet.
“Alright, so, I know I’m a little bit late to this party and the iPad 2 is old news to many of you, but I’m only just now discovering the sheer awesomeness of this device and exactly what it is that every other tablet manufacturer out there is up against,” Chapman writes. “My iPad has shown me that I’ve been making uninformed statements for far too long now where anything coming close to competing against it is concerned.”
Chapman writes, “As some of you may recall, I wrote a fairly definitive piece a while back in regards to why I’m not a tablet guy. I came to that conclusion after deciding to get into the tablet market on-the-cheap by purchasing a Nook Color, installing CM7 on it, and seeing how I fared from there. If I felt compelled to step up from there cost- and hardware-wise, then I would have. Well, after about a week-and-a-half or so, I found myself not using it at all. As such, I sold it and said, ‘That’s it, I’m not a tablet guy!’ Then, I bought an iPad 2.”
“My iPad has totally destroyed the perception of myself as an individual who wouldn’t make use of a tablet device,” Chapman writes. “It has also totally destroyed my opinions of any other tablet out there standing a chance of competing against not just the device, but the app ecosystem and iOS on a tablet device.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
Boom baby!
“My iPad has shown me that I’ve been making uninformed statements for far too long now where anything coming close to competing against it is concerned.”
It takes courage to admit you were wrong. But failing to do so would have been ignorant.
No. Being ignorant simply means you don’t know things.
Failing to admit being wrong is just stupid.
Ignorance is curable. Stupidity is terminal.
But how do you help someone who is simply arrogant? ‘Uninformed statements of products pretending to come close? How much time did this guy spend with the original iPad?
Or was he one of those, ‘It’s just a big iPod’ loons spilling bilge because they couldn’t stand Steve or Apple overhauling a market again?!
This guy loves his iPad, but is ashamed of using Apple products… His audience is anti-Apple… and he covers himself with the final admonition to let this be a “dirty little secret.”
I’m sure Apple is not perfect… But I just don’t understand why the strong anti-Apple sentiment… Perhaps the cost? Is it really so locked down, that it cannot be used? Or is it an anti-establishment thing? The anti-Apple crowd has been around for a long time. I really don’t quite get it…
Most of anti-apple sentiment comes from geeks that don’t want non-geeks to enjoy technology. They want to be in a special club, a club where they can still be the only ones that can fix your computer or whatever. It’s all they have, and Apple is taking it away from them, so they lash out.
Poor dears. Take it easy on them.
Yes, it’s the only way some of them can get laid.
I had some Computer Science housemates like that when I was in University.
It didn’t help.
“Apple hate” has always puzzled me too. Like many long-time Mac users (in my case, since 1985), I’ve put up with ill-informed commentaries from tech writers in my local newspaper, snickers from colleagues in the cafeteria, and rolled eyes from the pimply youths at the computer accessories counter.
But it’s the attitude of IT departments that I’ve found most disturbing. I can accept the reasoning that Microsoft provides more tools than Apple for managing large networks. But the lengths my various IT departments have gone to in an effort to crush my workplace Mac out of existence have convinced me that the issue is more personal to them. Manbearpig is essentially correct. Mac users invariably don’t need IT support, and we’re accordingly perceived as a threat.
My IT department would let my Macbook Pro on the network if I was a contractor, but employees can’t connect personal devices to the corporate net except through VPN. I told them it’s their loss. I used to do a lot of work on line in my off hours voluntarily. Never again.
When did Apple become the ‘Establishment’?
I find the anti- Apple sentiment genuinely bizarre, I bought my first Mac in 2006, and had been craving one 1 or 2 years prior. Back then the arguments were; they’re so expensive, you can’t use Outlook, i don’t wanna leave Windows.
iPod was picking up momentum, otherwise they had a small marketshare and we’re considered a niche product, even the underdog.
I was a Mac advocate and fast became a ‘gusher’ excuse the phrase.
5 years later, their computers are some of the most advanced off-the-shelf machines, their integrated software & hardware and associated technology is second to none (think multi touch etc). They are easily the most well designed-from-the-ground-up and aesthetically pleasing. (IMHO)
Their computers are not the cheapest still but their value for money (if you value ingenuity, aesthetics, form, and build quality as well as tech specs and performance) is dramtically better, they now run windows, outlook and their new iOS devices, which work on the same SW/HW principles, are now hard to touch price wise.
They have pushed new tech forwards, prices down and put devices in more hands than any other tech company. Why the hate?
What did they do that incites such negativity and hatred?
Oh for Fck Sake Chapman!!!! GIVE ME A BREAK!!! It’s ANAL ists like him that make my BLOOD BOIL!!
I have known the Greatness of Apple since 1978!!!!!
Only NOW!!! This guy Chapman GETS IT BECAUSE OF THE iPad2?!
Good LORD! What a PUTZ! Go back to your PC hole where you belong. We don’t need or want shitheads like you in our camp.
…no one told me we were camping.
LOL. Somebody pass me the marshmallows.
Geez, relax, will ya? Your tone is coming across as totally fanatical and infantile with the unnecessary name-calling. The columnist is late to the party, but is honest enough to own up to his change of heart. Or are you one of those people who don’t believe people are allowed to change their opinions in life? Take a chill pill; this isn’t religion we’re discussing here, but technology.
Not fanatical nor infintile.
The ignorance of the Windows IT mindset in the enterprise must be bliss. I have never fallen for, nor caved into the Windows smoke & mirrors act. ie. not a single PC in this household or my businesses.
I have been subjected to arrogant, narcasistic, Windows IT admins and their ignoramus self rightous corporate executives for 25 years. I have one last thing. RIMM Job.
I am a seasoned IT professional across multiple platforms… The end of the Microshaft era could not come soon enough.
Take a close look at the TCO and EOL of Wintel vs. AAPL over the period of one year.
Some people just don’t get the bigger picture. It has taken until today, for Chapman to come to his revalation? Can you understand why I say to you…. the blind leading the blind over the past 20 years?
I am very relaxed & content to know that Apple is the World leader in tech today. I alson don’t see Apple relinquishing it’s tech title anytime soon. What would you do if you were the CEO of Apple Michael? I ponder we all know how that statement turned out for Mikey.
Oh! One more thing. Palm who? Motorola what? No k ia can’t compete? Zune to be dead? RIMM … Need I say more or give more examples of such well run uninventive companies and the schlockwear they pedal to corporate IT imbeciles?
I am also glad to see Apple succeeding after years of being somewhat on the ropes, but I would caution you against reading benevolence into any corporation’s motives. Apple makes great products, but it’s overiding imperative is profit for the shareholders (of which I am one). It’s why Steve Jobs thought that Google’s professed mantra of “Do no evil” was total BS. Don’t take the IT wars personally.
@IJah400
@Guy Jones
IJah400 I think you are wrong in your approach . I think Guy Jones is correct.
In real life not everyone reaches what some may call enlightenment at the same time.
I know well the slings, arrows and smirks that being an Apple fan produces in the unwashed.
That said Chapman has crossed the river at least regarding the iPad. He certainly gave it a strong endorsement.
Having a guy like Chapman admit he was wrong in his opinion and express his amazement at the iPad is somewhat analogous to the iPhone’s back door entry into the business and corporate world. The iPhone also lead to increased Mac sale.
Chapman will lead others following him into the Apple world. He will have credibility with readers who come from where he was.
So yes we do want him in the Apple tent, even if he currently uses some non Apple products. It will be interesting to see what he does when iPhone 5 is released after a year with the iPad.
Man I was just about to post the same thing. Its like in order for these supposed tech journalCysts/ANALCysts to look at something other than a dumb-ass windows product it takes an act of God. What did he do get locked in a room and was forced at gunpoint to use the iPad? I will say that I use every type of product. I do have PC’s, Macs even have a Android tablet and an Ipad1 & 2 I need them because I need to be able to talk intelligently about the tools my customers use. It seems that the same is not true for sudo journalCysts/ANALCyst at these magazine companies. They had better actually start doing their homework because they are fast becoming irrelevant. No one reads the drivel they write because its all marketing quid pro quo for the junk peddlers who advertise in their rags.
Print is dead and so are your shitty poorly written magazines. They wont last. When an innovative Jobsian comes forth and actually prints what is and is not in an honest way and valid information is given for a change, look out. Then the final subscriptions can go away.
BTW no one buys that rag anyway. People get it for free because their circulation sucks. So give away 95% professional free subscriptions and charge the junk peddlers more for their fake pieces in their rags for the illusion of subscribers.
Problem is only the parrots are reading it right before they poop all over it.
I bought my iPad right after I bought my iPhone 4, about 2 months after actually. You know there are a lot of jokes made about the iPad being a larger version of the iPhone. But that’s a good thing in my view. The learning curve was unsurprisingly shallow and I made the leap to being productive in a matter of minutes. Everything looked familiar. After owning the iPhone and iPad for about 5 months I decided to buy my first Mac. I didn’t get the Mac metaphor at first, being a Windows conscript, but after using the iPad for that length of time OS X became more apparent in that I understood why Safari and other OS elements behaved in the way they did.
So the iPad isn’t only a useful learning tool, it smooths the transition to OS X by enabling the understanding of its underlying design principles. As the iPad is available at a purchase price that is cheaper than the cheapest MBA by a factor of two, you can begin to see why the spin up effects to the Mac universe are so enticing. Get an affordable iPad first to dip your toe in the Apple universe then go the whole hog in to OS X.
What surprised me after switching (circa 2007) was how long it took me to unlearn bad PC habits and use the Mac’s better design and tools. That’s muscle memory for you — even as I was in mid-stream performing the old behaviors my mind was screaming “don’t do it that way anymore!”
If your iPad is running iOS 5, for some more fun, try some of the Lion (10.7) gestures on the iPad (iPad 2 only).
Just the start of his full and complete conversion.
Yes, it speaks volumes that the blogger feels a need to flog himself for actually liking and recommending an Apple product. Sad really.
There is no other electronics purchase I have made that I have gotten more value out of than the iPad, and I am still on the first version. At $1000 it would still be a steal! It indeed became my gateway drug to all things Apple.
Yeah, and he is a tech winter, what a dumbbell brain fart!
M$ / Google thrives on these idiot retards.
89% of the planets population still to go… Where s Darwin when u need him. Can’t there be some flood or plague or some other form of natural selection be happening?
Jail breaking it?
Jail breaking is something that people who won’t pay for software do. I would guess that an overwhelming number of people who do it are recently new to Apple products and have a ‘nodding’ relationship with honesty but prefer to keep that relationship at arms length.
His next major acquisition will be an iPhone 4S. And then maybe a MacBook Air.
The slippery slope effect on potential Windows to Mac switchers is steeper than Ballmers head. All it takes is one iPad or iPhone purchase and it’s game over for Microsoft in another household. The jobs halo effect touches everything
Everyone who switches, whether they are late or took a circuitous route to get there should be welcomed into the fold.
More importantly, what this guy had to say between the smaller 7″ devices and the iPad ring true. If you want a superior, all-around usefulness experience, you have to get the larger device.
There actually is real research to back up what Steve Jobs said about the smaller devices.