Thread: iPad

Sigh ..

The Altair was indeed available as a computer before Apple released the Apple 1, but it didn't have a screen or keyboard and was programmable by switches. Also, it was a kit so you had to build it yourself. You wouldn't recognise it as a computer now.

Apple with the 1 (kit computer) in 76 and 2 in 77 were the first computers to have keyboards, colour graphics, open architecture etc and came to dominate the market at the time. (I know there were a couple of others like the TRS80 and Commodore PET). However Apple really took the market - largely by surprise. Their killer app visicalc threw them into the business market.

IBM created the term Personal Computer but they were a long way behind Apple (1981) and were largely a reaction of horror by IBM to Apple dominating the corporate micro market.

Apple then put the xerox PARC technologies they aquired into the micro world with the Lisa and Mac only a few years later, and this is what we are all duly wasting our time posting on this forum with - regardless of whether you are using a PC or a mac.

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

this is what we are all duly wasting our time posting on this forum with - regardless of whether you are using a PC or a mac.

Agreed. Or both, or as I am right now working with a G5 PPC, an MBP with Intel, and a Quadra 650 with a 68040. The PC is switched off at the moment.

But the real focus of this thread has nothing to do with any kind of Mac. It is Apple's move into the area of personal hygiene

Originally Posted by camel_landy

Frankly it's also showing your ignorance for not understanding the target market and the consumer end of the technology market.

Ouch,

I wouldn't say ignorance, I'd say reasonably well-ish informed.

If your happy to pay US$500 for something that browses the internet , (excluding flash sites) and plays movies and music, but not at the same time, then thats totally your choice.

I'm not saying don't buy one, i'm just pointing out the design aspects and IMO I think it's dumb; because someone has a different opinion than yours doesn't make them ignorant.
But it's your cash, your choice to buy or not to buy.
Good luck with your choice of hardware.

Originally Posted by disco2hse

Confused I think. As already said, IBM built the first PCs but didn't see there was a market.

PPC and Intel chips are late in the Mac universe coming well after the Motorola chips had served their purpose very well, but like I said. You are probably too young to know these things from first hand experience.

You know the saying about it being wrong to assume don't you?

Originally Posted by HangOver

Ouch,

I wouldn't say ignorance, I'd say reasonably well-ish informed.

If your happy to pay US$500 for something that browses the internet , (excluding flash sites) and plays movies and music, but not at the same time, then thats totally your choice.

I'm not saying don't buy one, i'm just pointing out the design aspects and IMO I think it's dumb; because someone has a different opinion than yours doesn't make them ignorant.
But it's your cash, your choice to buy or not to buy.
Good luck with your choice of hardware.

Just on that, it does play music in the background, including streaming Internet radio. You can display and use your GPS app l, indeed most apps, while on a call on a non-jailbroken iPhone. Likewise you can receive SMS or IM messages while performing other task, and while it's not multitasking in the windows sense of the word in practice it equates to the same thing.