Amazon just did a big facepalm when jobs announced iBooks
 

:Oh crap

:1orglaugh

yah no shit. gave me wood.

can't wait to get all my magazines on this thing.

Aaaaaaaahahahaha!

No doubt and they already have publishers lined up. A lot will depend on the price point of the iPad as it really is just a full color kindle that can surf the web and answer email. Then again if you can download books to your kindle from iBooks they really are in for some competition.

i dont think so. they're product is a lot less then Apple's iPad will be, plus its a reading device only and my guess is Amazon will have a lot more ebook titles available

WOW Apple releases an overpriced POS with proprietary crap and somehow people love this shit. AMAZING. God forbid one could get their material from somewhere else other than Apple. See Mr Jobs this is why I don't buy your shit. See me the device. IF your price on the content is competitive I will buy. Don't rape me into buying your shit. GOOD products NEVER have to do that.

/facepalm

Why the facepalm? Amazon made it to market first.

Mac stuff is not as entrenched as people think. I was a huge iPod fan, but have since started using my Phone as an mp3 player, and haven't bought music from iTunes in a year(I use Amazon). I actually gave away $60 iTunes gift cards I got for xMas.

I know several other people who have gone the same route. Don't be so sure that everyone's just going to jump ship from Kindle because Apple came out with something.

Because no price has been announced yet. Calling something overpriced without knowing the price is idiotic.

Not sure WTF you mean by that?

Fact is why should I buy this is I am FORCED to get by shit from Apple? When I buy a car can I not get gas anywhere or just where the car manufacturer tells me to go?

It's an Apple product. Show me ONE Apple product that hasn't been overpriced.

The iPad will be available with just wifi or with wifi & 3G too.

Pretty good deal for 3G.

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no one is making you buy it, im sure they will do just fine without your business.

all of the iPad 3G models are unlocked, and they use the new GSM microSIMs

iPad pricing starts at $499 - that will sell!

Some people don't look at price.

:2 cents:

How about an iPad at $499. That is the price. Seems reasonable to me. :thumbsup

I like the pricing

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GatorB, when you've stopped dining on your foot I'd be interested in your opinion on the price. The base model is only $10 more than a Kindle DX, offers 16GB instead of 3, is in color, and offers a LOT more than books.

:2 cents:

And that classic book wall looks sick :thumbsup

I imagine you will be waiting for a while.

It's cool. Little haters like him are needed to balance out Jobs' Reality Distortion Field.

I want an iPad though.

sounds like a very competetive price then :thumbsup

Somehow i doubt it replaces the kindle, the ipad doesnt have digital ink which makes it something a bit different than kindle. If anything i see the gadgets as allowing some overlap, there will be people who own both and those that own one or the other.

IPad looks cool but digital ink supposedly offers a superior reading experience.

They should have called it Facepalm instead of ipad ewww

LOL.. If Apple made an iCar... you'd have to get your iGas from the Apple store...

I can't believe how everyone loves being locked in.

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Where do i buy one:upsidedow

What's the appeal of this thing? Isn't it just a giant, overpriced Ipod touch?

Hell, they are talking about how it is the best way to browse the Internet, and the piece of shit doesn't even support flash.

This is what I clicked on those thread to post :thumbsup

The iPad may be many things, but it is not a digital reader.

No kidding.

The incredible hypocrisy is that it's the same idiots who cried about Microsoft years ago who are now happily buying into Jobs' gadgets. It's all about the packaging, I guess.

Not if you've seen how bad AT&T's network is.

I can testify to that the att network sucks rocks, but at least this one is no contract so thats not to bad :2 cents:

Where is the facepalm pics?

I guess the whole 'smarmy douchebag' thing sells.