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StreetInsider reports, “On the iPad, the firm’s build forecasts were revised up from 6 million to 7 million, which compares to their iPad shipments estimate of 4.75 million. The firm believes their is upside to the Q4 estimates and CY10 estimates of 13.4 million units.”
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Sorry, I’m a Mac user, I detest the iPad and iOS in general.
Never thought Apple fans would become so divided, but they have.
I liked Woz and his idea computers should be under the control of the user, not advertisers like where Apple is headed now under Jobs.
Woz was the human balance to Jobs total control freak nature.
anonymous coward,
you are the new Zune Tang, I assume? only less funny.
Interesting post. I’d never even thought of that before. Still, I love iOS, although my iMac is still a critical part of my life.
@A. C.
Wow, are you seriously claiming to be a Mac fan that hates iOS? Why do you even come here and make such comments unless you are a masochist who loves being attacked and if that’s the case why aren’t you a Windoze user? I’m genuinely confused.
Snow Leopard – productivity
iOS – everything else
Really enjoying this iPad!
Oh well… We welcome you, Anonymous coward and Woz to the 21st Century…
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“Never thought Apple fans would become so divided, but they have.”
You make the most elegant straw men. All in one post. Kudos.
so we have to take sides between Snow Leopard and IOS
Divide and Conquer!!
(veni vidi vici)
.:.
I still say that Apple should make their products in the US—like they used to.
Sure would help a lot of people out that don’t have work.
“Wow, are you seriously claiming to be a Mac fan that hates iOS?”
Yea, I’m a “Mac fan” not a iOS fan.
“Why do you even come here and make such comments unless you are a masochist who loves being attacked and if that’s the case why aren’t you a Windoze user? I’m genuinely confused.”
iOS is too dumbed down and outright corny.
It’s like when you set up your new Mac and get rid of all the corny stuff, use Tinkertool to turn off that annoying Time Machine pop-up window, set your desktop to something cool, change the icons to something badass, etc.
Except you can’t do that with iOS. Your stuck in corny land.
You can’t stop the annoying ads, you can’t change things if a better way suits you, you can’t, you can’t, you can’t.
Well I don’t like hearing “I can’t” I want to hear “I can”
So this is why I detest iOS and will never ever use it.
@ anonymous coward: I’m a Mac user, too. I’ve got a 27″ iMac quad core i7, a MacBook Pro and a ModBook. On travel, I used to haul around one of my laptops. I rarely do that now, as the iPad lets me do most of the routine chores I need to do, such as email, writing (Pages) and so on. It’s so much lighter than my laptops that it’s a pleasre to carry, and I don’t have to worry about running out of battery power during a long flight.
Is Steve Jobs a control freak? Of course, and I’m grateful for that. I want my computers to be stable and I expect my software to do what I expect it to do.
Have you noticed how much more controlled Leopard and Snow Leopard are, than were Tiger and earlier versions of OS X? Before Leopard, Input Managers were commonly used to develop hack utilities that promised changes to the appearance and/or features of OS X.
I do software support. Those hacks, many of them badly written, were the bane of my existence. They produced countless errors and instabilities in the operating system. Most of those hacks have gone away, as Apple made it more difficult to stick them into Leopard and Snow Leopard. I really, really appreciate that.
Ads in free apps? That doesn’t bother me; I rarely install free apps, anyway. If there’s a free app that provides some income to the developer through ads, OK.
Many years ago I met Woz and Jobs. I liked Woz, didn’t like Jobs. But it has been Jobs who has led Apple into becoming my favorite platform. He’s a visionary, but it takes the control freak side to bring the visions to reality.
“I still say that Apple should make their products in the US—like they used to.
Sure would help a lot of people out that don’t have work.”
Yeah, sure, some of those ‘shovel ready’ jobs. You’d have to be prepared to pay ten times as much. Twenty times, if the unions got involved.
Anonymous Coward:
You are the first so-called “Mac fan” I’ve heard who doesn’t like iPads and iOS (must not have even bothered to try them for any length of time) and you alone do not constitute a trend but a very distinct and tiny minority. You iFlatter yourself. Every iPad owner I know, PC and Mac user alike, are GaGa over them. (And I don’t mean Lady Gaga for the pop culture-tards out there.)
anonymous coward:
Dude Woz disliked the Mac, he thought the apple II was more accessible and extensible (and that apple should continue to develop in that vein).
Just goes to show you that being a good engineer makes you above the mean, but an ability to glimpse the future is a truly rare thing indeed.
Everyone (who is not an apple hater) who has used an iPad for any time, falls in love with it.
“I still say that Apple should make their products in the US—like they used to. Sure would help a lot of people out that don’t have work.”
Well when the UAW want’s $75 a hour per line worker and 95% pay even if they are not working, full medical, dental and 90% pension plan, with aims to oust the management whenever the chance, using physical threats and government thuggery as enforcement to eventually take over the company and try to run it themselves with “green death cars” nobody can use on America’s vast highways, all funded with billions of taxpayer dollars, who would expect any corporation wanting to survive to remain here?
Apple is doing better in China with the Chinese Government stealing all their IP instead. Plus they got a brand new market of 2 billion people.
There will be jobs in the U.S. shortly, when the baby boomers retire there will be a lot of diapers and butts needing cleaning.
@iWill
FYI “Veni Vini Vici” really means “I came I saw I conquered”.
Disclosure: Apple long
Apple is set to “divide” its fans one more way, with another GUI for Apple TV, or “iTV.”
Mac OS X GUI – For computers with larger screens, larger than about 13 inches (the new MacBook Air may be smaller). Optimized for use with keyboard and mouse/trackpad, and NO touch screen.
iOS GUI – For mobile devices with smaller screens. Must be used with multi-touch capable touch screen. The screen needs to be relatively small; a 27-inch touch-screen iMac is a usability fail.
GUI for new iTV – Designed for use with a remote control device. I won’t speculate on how such a remote control will differ from the current remote control, except that it may have touch elements, in the same way that Apple’s trackpads use touch. The GUI will have to be different from either Mac OS X or iOS, and be more capable than the current simple “Front Row” interface.
And there’s no problem with that… Apple uses the best possible interface for each product type. Apple is not going to put iOS on Macs, because that fails the usability test (just by thinking about it), just as Apple did not try to put Mac OS X on mobile phones. No one is better at usability design and testing than Apple. Contrast this to Microsoft, who squeezed the Windows GUI into mobile phones by replacing the mouse with a stylus, and wants tablet makers to use Windows 7 (with some touch features tacked on) with iPad-copycat tablets.
“Everyone (who is not an apple hater) who has used an iPad for any time, falls in love with it.”
Well I’m not a Apple hater, used the iPad for a day, and I hate it.
The muscles in my hands and arms still remind me.
I run 9 operating systems across 4 computers, two PC’s and two Mac’s.
I’m not the target audience for such a device. It’s too dumbed down for me.
anonymous coward “Well I’m not a Apple hater, used the iPad for a day, and I hate it.”
Anybody can claim anything, the truth may be a far different case however.
-Steve
Sent from my iPhone
@ iCesar
I knew that “Veni Vini Vici” really meant “I came I saw I conquered”.
(It was an addendum.)
BTW, as for Latin names, isn’t there an “a” in Caesar”, as in “iCaesar”? Just wonderin’..
Can’t wait for the new iPod Touch!
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“I’m not the target audience for such a device. It’s too dumbed down for me.”
I’ll bet Albert Einstein would say the same thing if he were still around. Like they say, great minds think alike.
Hee, hee – great minds. I crack myself up.
@ ac:
If Microsoft had two decent products, they could be divided too!.
isn’t Cesar the cat food?