It is an insidious process. It is sort of like Tolkien in reverse. Whereas, Golem wore the ring and became progressively more obsessed and deranged, Apple does <ahem> something similar to their customers and this results in a fervid devotion to every Apple creation in tarnation and a poisonous antipathy to those not similarly afflicted. The parts of the brain where the spelling of common words are stored are some of the last to go, so I would say he has it bad. It is sometimes necessary to exorcise the sufferer by rubbing them with a Microsoft product until the demons are expelled from their pitiably wracked forms.
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Come on, let me have a little fun with all the iPad killing fortune tellers around here. They are so entertaining.

Since the day apple released the iPad wise men has predicted it' s death. There is even a dedicated iPad Killer site:

http://www.ipadkiller.net/

Welll, so far every alternative to the iPad has failed to kill it and no predictions have even come close to reality, so what makes yours so different? And even if there were a decent alternative (which there isn't mainly due to the lack of apps) , how can you wise men know that this would mean the death of the iPad? The PC did not kill the MAC, did it? It just meant more choices. Case is that every prediction of death of the iPad and banruptcy of apple really seems like infantile wishful thinking in the light of experience. To this you can add the immaturity of the tendency to think you can only appreciate one product/company if it is on the behalf on another.

Dream on Nostradamus!

Most sane iUser I've ever witnessed. Thank you. I'd like more people to be like you.



Btw. an IOS and Apple user here too(and sane). Thrilled at the possibilities a Win8 tablet can bring. Exact same apps on desktop and on the go! Revolution!

I don't give a f*ck if the iPad lives or gets killed. I know that for the time being *I* do not need one, so it doesn't make a difference to me (hell, I was reading right now that Google is supposedly revealing a Nexus 7 tablet for $199 soon and I thought "if that's the case I'm finally getting a tablet" and then immediately thought "what for? f*ck that!" so draw your own conclusions).

It's just that your tone was so flame-baity I had to comment.

Well, I am a part-time troll all right but not necessarily an iTroll. If someone had proclaimed the sudden death of Android tablet due to a not yet released windows tablet, I would have made fun of that too.

Cheers

I use both iPads and other tablets as well..for work and play..

I'd love to see what this will do...

The $85 does mean something, because that's what it costs for OEM's for each RT tablet, according to sources. The link is provided earlier in the thread. If it's wrong, then we'll find out. But I kinda doubt we'll see $200 Windows tablets. MS doesn't really want to play in that space anyway.

I find it amusing there's people on each side, either defending the iPad or proclaiming it's death. Like I said earlier, that's ridiculous. There's room for everyone.

I'm quoting Game of Thrones here: "What is dead may never die"

As tech evolves, the market is diversifying. The PC isn't dead (yet) and I hope I'll still be saying that for the forseeable future. Though I'm not enamored of Apple's computer-as-appliance trend, if I had the money an iPad would be fun for drawing and for trips, which I can no longer afford.

Something interesting from the NYT on why MS has launched its own tablet.

Analysts lay cables on the Surface. Bad Zune arisin' apparently.

For an unitiated, this is just as enigmatic as the Da Vinci Codex

One hand washes the other