Comments on: iPad is Bad http://www.richardcleaver.com/2010/02/08/ipad-is-bad/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:39:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Richard Cleaver http://www.richardcleaver.com/2010/02/08/ipad-is-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-49891 Richard Cleaver Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:27:22 +0000 http://www.richardcleaver.com/?p=3567#comment-49891 And seven years ago, Jobs was right. Microsoft tried to get a tablet going back then and it never caught on. Time and technology has changed. I suspect the iPad will do well for the folks at Apple. I am looking forward to giving one a workout. And seven years ago, Jobs was right. Microsoft tried to get a tablet going back then and it never caught on. Time and technology has changed. I suspect the iPad will do well for the folks at Apple. I am looking forward to giving one a workout.

]]> By: Capo http://www.richardcleaver.com/2010/02/08/ipad-is-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-49890 Capo Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:25:26 +0000 http://www.richardcleaver.com/?p=3567#comment-49890 "during a 2003 All Things Digital conference [Jobs stated that] Apple was not working on a tablet -- because the keyboardless form factor was a recipe for failure, according to a second-hand account. "There are no plans to make a tablet," Jobs was quoted saying to Mossberg. "It turns out people want keyboards. ... We look at the tablet, and we think it is going to fail." http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/17/steve.jobs/index.html?hpt=C2 “during a 2003 All Things Digital conference [Jobs stated that] Apple was not working on a tablet — because the keyboardless form factor was a recipe for failure, according to a second-hand account.

“There are no plans to make a tablet,” Jobs was quoted saying to Mossberg. “It turns out people want keyboards. … We look at the tablet, and we think it is going to fail.”

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/17/steve.jobs/index.html?hpt=C2

]]> By: bigfoot http://www.richardcleaver.com/2010/02/08/ipad-is-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-49672 bigfoot Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:44:41 +0000 http://www.richardcleaver.com/?p=3567#comment-49672 This is good news. Means I won't have to wait in line to get mine. I'll be getting the loaded version... the maxi pad, if you will. I for one am looking forward to it. This is good news. Means I won’t have to wait in line to get mine. I’ll be getting the loaded version… the maxi pad, if you will. I for one am looking forward to it.

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