“First off, she announced that the iPad is her ‘number one favorite thing ever,” Rao reports. “She says about the device, ‘words cannot describe how I feel for this device.'”
Rao reports, “She then gifted each member of the audience an iPad [275 people, according to Fortune]. We’re also not sure what type of iPad she’s giving her audience but because Oprah’s such a generous gal, we’re assuming it’s the $829 64GB with Wifi and 3G).”
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Disgusting. Do something good with the money. She should give the audience a stack of cash and they must decide right there which charity to give it to. Instead those people who don’t look at all like they are hurting for money scream and cry and shake because their idol gave them a bunch of stuff none of them needed to be given for free.
Words cannot describe how I feel for this disgusting person and her audience.
I guess she is addicted to Angry Birds too. This is good for Apple, word of mouth is the best advertising, and she has the most trusted mouth.
You can bet Apple paid for this. Great marketing. Go back under your rock, Chuklz.
That lard butt is pure gas bag
There is nothing I like better than to tell someone else what they should do with their money.
Those grapes sure are sour, aren’t they?
The iPad is a very special device indeed. Oprah, whether you like what she thinks or not, is a thinker. The iPad is a device built from the ground up for thinkers.
For as long as I can remember I’ve called computers “mind augmentation devices.” The iPad power and portability take that concept to a new level.
I know I have mine with me from the moment I hear the first MDN “bloop” in the morning until I pass out reading on it at night. Throughout the day I use it for nearly everything that I might use a laptop for, unless I need sheer CPU horsepower. Then I go to my MacBook Pro.
With 4.2 on it, fast app switching makes it even more useful. Email, VOICEMAIL, Voip, Faxing, writing, remote computer support, network monitoring, reading documents, books, using the web, and omg the news sources an apps for an info-junkie are just intoxicating.
This is one area in which I completely agree with the big O. The sense of affection I get from my iPad is close to the way I felt about favorite toys as a child.
There is no wonder that competitors cannot successfully copy it, because that’s all they can do is copy it. Everything we’ve seen so far has been nothing more than a copy and a mundane copy as best.
I feel so fricking owned by Apple because even with their insidious method of feeding us a couple features per release (god knows this device should have had a camera to begin with) they know that it is so good that I will grumble and bitch down to the Apple store, grumble and bitch while standing in line, and grumble and bitch while buying iPad 2.0.
I don’t watch her as she is not “my favorite thing”, however I did that day out of curiosity and noticed she is a big Apple user as well as her staff so all in all it’s good PR for Apple considering she has a huge following and generates alot of business for Apple products.
When iPad 2.0 does appear, by the way, the current iPad will become the most sought after hand me down in history me thinks. I’ve already got people asking, “What are you going to do with your existing iPad when the new one comes out?”
And I actually put thought into it. Who will I influence most by handing down my existing iPad? I know a certain anti-Apple office manager that needs a mental adjustment that the iPad is oh so good at triggering.
I like the apple’s all product, i phones. i pad, everything, because it is believed are worth.
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Proof that you can’t always be wrong. Now if Ballmer could only prove that too. May he is just an outlier.
I’m sure you give a lot more to charity than Oprah.
It would be my favorite thing too if I wasn’t required to buy an HP printer to work with it. You’d Apple would at least support AirPrint with their own AirPort base stations.
You’d THINK Apple…
Oprah has earned the right to do WTF she wants with her money, whenever she wants to do it.
A woman of color becomes one of the most powerful persons in the world and she does it in America. That’s like swimming the English Channel with both hands tied behind your back.
You go girl!
And yes, Apple most defiantly paid for this.
“Volkswagen donated all the cars, plus money to cover taxes and fees for all of the audience members, the automaker said”
http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/22/autos/oprah_winfrey_vw_beetle/index.htm?hpt=T2
I thought it was Ben and Jerry’s?
AirPrint, just give it time. I think more printers will get supported as drivers get updated, etc.
As for Oprah, she’s doing her best to stimulate the economy.
@Chuklz
I would be willing to bet that Oprah in any given week gives more to charity, and affect more lives positively, than you will in your entire life.
Hate only hurts you. I hope you learn to see that.
@ Hifler
“I don’t watch her as she is not “my favorite thing”, however I did that day out of curiosity and noticed she is a big Apple user as well as her staff so all in all it’s good PR for Apple considering she has a huge following and generates alot of business for Apple products.”
So is Rush Limbaugh. See how the cosmos takes care of balancing the extremes on the left and right.
Makes me feel so good I’m going to gorge myself on high fructose corn syrup.
Apple doesn’t pay for tv placements. Trust me.
Chuklz …..you are a sore loser
@rosalinaro: Please spam elsewhere.
@Chuklz….what everyone above said…..not much more I can add…dork
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” Albert Einstein
I can not think of a single political pundit who has done more hands on charity work than Oprah Winfrey.
Winfrey’s show raises money through promotion of her public charity and she personally donates more of her own money to charity than any other show-business celebrity in America.
In 2005 she became the first black person listed by Business Week as one of America’s 50 most generous philanthropists, having given an estimated $303 million. Winfrey was the 32nd most philanthropic. She has also been repeatedly ranked as the most philanthropic celebrity.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Oprah created the Oprah Angel Network Katrina registry which raised more than $11 million for relief efforts. Winfrey personally gave $10 million to the cause. Homes were built in Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama before the one year anniversary of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Actually Oprah’s “number one favorite thing ever” is looking at herself in the mirror and telling herself how great she is.
@tentortoise comment
If she did buy 275 iPads at $829 a pieces that comes out to:
$227,975 (plus sales tax)
That’s roughly 0.0008% of the money she donated to charity up to 2005. There’s a whole 5 years not added to that data, in addition to the 250 men she’s put through college and the countless other things that Oprah has funded. Did you know that Oprah also paid for the administrative costs for her foundation? Allowing all of the money donated to actually go to the charity.
That being said, I don’t like the “tabloid TV show” genre in particular and don’t care about her show, or any show based on the same concept. But, to claim she’s ‘disgusting’ because she dropped $250,000 (an insignificant pittance compared to past donations) on her audience is a bit disingenuous.
Her stipulation with her “favorite things” is that everyrhing must be DONATED by the manufacturers. She doesn’t buy a thing. The manufacturers get exposure and goodwill PR out of it.
Sorry that should have said @Chuklz
Fatty.
Orca has a iPad?
Man that is COLD!!
stop insulting Orcas
There are some nasty comments about Oprah and her ovary exploding audience here. Apart from the girls carrying on like 10 year old schoolgirls, Oprah gives millions of dollars to charity every year. Much more than the average bear and I would bet a lot more than some of the folk who have bagged her in this forum.
Leave the lady alone you wowsers. It is who she is, and what she does.
An endorsement from Oprah is worth a billion. iPads should sell like the proverbial hotcakes for a while longer as a result.
So. What you’re saying is that she ‘gifted’ out free ipads— that were DONATED by Apple.
In my hometown we sometimes here of an activity like this. It’s called RE-GIFTING.
And, yes she donates a lot of her own money to various charities. This can only be expected from someone as wealthy as herself. Her charity work is needed in the community, and she certainly helps.
But, I don’t like her at all. And, my wife absolutely can’t stand her. She is of the same ilk as Jerry Springer. People forget that.
@Chuklz
The audience members for her favorite thing shows are chosen for the good work they do. I think the first show it was teachers and the second (iPad) show it was volunteers. I have my issues with Oprah but, she does try to better the world in her own way.
Chucklz, I’m not an Oprah fan, but your criticism of her generosity is typical liberal mindset sitting in judgment waiting for handouts u did nothing to earn! Oprah’s act of kindness is her business and her money that she earned. Again, none of your business what she does! I’m sure everyone in her audience agrees with me! Free iPad?! Hell yeah!
Hey bud, why did you have to go and make a bigoted political smear of literally millions of Americans just to knife the idiot Chucklz one more time.
I agree, Chucklz iz a mean little troll, but everything ins’t political, & everything isn’t drawn with a line in the sand between con & lib.
I mean really. And painting with a broad brush the “typical liberal mindset” is really just a puny way of making a fantasy straw man that you can knock down. It really doesn’t sound very thoughtful.
I always wonder why, when there are plenty of real substantive things to complain about in our government, Silly knee jerks like you prefer to shadow box with hyperbole & fantasies. Sad really.