iPad Parody

How many notebooks can you buy for $500 and get the same functionality as the iPad?

The New Apple iPad...Another Letdown

Sure, Apple makes truckloads of money each year with their "new" technology, but for the drones to just sit back & say this new tablet is revolutionary is plain naive. Yes the original iPhone & its 3G versions are great & innovative from their first release dates, but this new device cannot cover or replace what you already have in a phone or netbook. Look a little deeper...

It has too much of an overlap. It can't take place of your phone/laptop/netbook or whatever portable computer you use. Why? Where is the multitasking with the new processor (which might be nVidia's second generation Tegra chip)? Where is at least one camera for video conferencing? It can't take place of your phone...simply because it's not a phone. Yes it might become a possibility to make calls from this device using a VoIP application(like the one available just last night) but I can't see this actually being held up either someone's head or used through a Bluetooth device.

The only big selling point with the larger screen size is being an e-book reader. The transition between pages makes it look & feel like you're turn the pages. Some productivity applications will be nice but who knows yet how frustrating work will be with the lack of physical keyboard?

So, what is the new iPad then? Combine the two things below:

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It seems that they've made another "device" to add to everyone's collection who are doing just fine with what they have already. This device is just an iPod Touch placed on the lame All-American diet of McDonald's making an overweight oversized Ipod with less features. You'll pay a minimum of $500 for the 16GB version & a maximum of $830 for a 64GB version with 3G. That's all before the cost of accessories that should come with it...a $40 VGA cable, camera kit for reading images, then the overpriced keyboard dock.

Apple should be aiming higher than what they provided yesterday to avoid any chance of being over shadowed by a much more capable device. Their only chance of delivering on their promise of a useful device is to come through with features that we don't know of yet or applications that will only be feasible on the large screen of the iPad. Basing it on yesterday's showing, it's not worth the price.

If you want to branch out from the large corporation holding you in to their standard, check out something like MSI's 10" tablet coming this year. They showed it off at CES recently. Specifications will be optional to the consumer...how it should be.

[For more information, read Engadget's full editorial on their take from yesterday's offerings from Apple's event]

Wasteful Pelosi! New Administration Please!

Cafferty explains just how lame house speaker Pelosi is along with congressmen in wasting more money that the USA doesn't have to spend. By the way, this is CNN...not Fox News.

You Know What I'm Saying?

Be declarative!

Sal Avoids Purry Duty

Boston, Jan 10 - Have you ever heard a cat receiving a jury call? A cat called for jury duty sounds quite unnatural but it is true. It has happened with a Boston cat, named Sal Esposito. In a recent report the owners of the cat, Anna Esposito and Guy Esposito stated that their cat has been summoned for performing a jury duty in March. The couple had been extremely surprised when they received the letter in the name of their cat and wondered how this thing happened.

After considering several facts, they realized that they had entered the name of their cat during the census. The feline was listed as a family member but not as an animal. They insisted that they had categorized Sal Esposito as pet cat and never expected that the call for jury duty would come in his name. The surprised couple tried to save their cat from the jury duty and tried to get exemption. However, as per the last report, the cat has not yet been granted any kind of exemption and if the issue is not sorted out before the scheduled date, then the owner of the cat would have to take it to the Suffolk County Court to perform its duty.

A feline called for a jury duty is quite strange and media sources tried to contact the officials to know their comment in this case. However, the officials have not yet made any comment on the issue. Therefore, the reason for this mistake is not yet clear. If the cat is not disqualified from the list then it would have to visit the court for performing his duty.

Engagement Snaps

This past weekend, Shannon & Company traveled with me to China Grove to set in place many details for our special date, May 22nd. On Sunday afternoon before we headed back to Fayettenam, I asked Shan's mom to shoot some pictures for me to edit later. Check them out...