[Air-L] why iPad

Sun-Ki Chai sunki at hawaii.edu
Thu Jul 15 15:57:16 PDT 2010


Dangerously close to to what 
<http://kotaku.com/5584759/hayao-miyazaki-compares-ipad-use-to-masturbation>Hayao 
<http://kotaku.com/5584759/hayao-miyazaki-compares-ipad-use-to-masturbation>Miyazaki 
said about it 
<http://kotaku.com/5584759/hayao-miyazaki-compares-ipad-use-to-masturbation>.

Sun-Ki

On 7/15/2010 12:45 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
> I find everything about the iPad in my office frustrating.  Before and
> after licking it.  SJ
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:29 PM, live<human.factor.one at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> I'm confused that they would use iPads instead of other more
>> 'modular'(hackable) tablets.
>> There are a ton of tablets out in the marketplace, and soon to be many
>> more....
>> Why get locked into limiting functionalities?
>>
>> That being said, I love my MacBook, so I'm in no way an Apple hater.
>> I just realize the limitations Apple as put on their mobile devices.
>>
>> @SharonG
>>
>> On Jul 15, 2010, at 3:10 PM, Ben Moskowitz wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> Amen!
>>>
>>> On Jul 15, 2010, at 6:07 PM, Barry Wellman wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> After all the hype, I can't figger out why someone (even at Duke) would
>>>> use an iPad rather than a netbook for their research. Sounds like kewl won
>>>> over functionality. If I'm taking notes, I'd rather have a real keyboard. If
>>>> I'm doing other stuff, I'd rather have the plethora of applications running
>>>> on Win7/XP or MacOX than on the little apps running on iPods and iPhones
>>>> with their baby OS. -- I've been using the iPhone 3GS for months now as a
>>>> pocket phone etc and am continually frustrated on what it can't do.
>>>> End iRant. End PodHype
>>>>
>>>> Barry Wellman
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