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iPad Bashing (Sujatha)

Figurative:

Wi-Fi problems

"Users who rushed to snap up Apple's iPad are complaining within days of
the slate computer's highly anticipated release that they're having
trouble connecting it to the Internet.

On Apple's technical
support Web site, there were 11 pages of comments Tuesday morning on a
post saying Wi-Fi connections were weak or kept cutting out."

Seasoned in the Sun

"..stories are starting to trickle in (and no, we're not talking an avalanche of complaints here) from iPad owners who say their glossy new tablets are going into a high-temperature-triggered sleep mode after being out in the sun for too long — more than an hour in one case, or just 10 minutes in another."

and 

Literal:

A Teen too rich for his own good:

"The American high school student behind a video of teenagers
destroying a brand new iPad with a baseball bat says he just "wanted to
be the first to do it".

The video,
posted on YouTube, shows the US$500 device being smashed outside a Best
Buy store and has attracted more than 450,000 views on the site."

(The said teen justifies his urge to waste the money on buying and bashing in an iPad by stating his family donated over $10,000 last year to charities!)

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4 responses to “iPad Bashing (Sujatha)”

  1. Ruchira

    This is quite hilarious, Sujatha.
    That the young man justifies trashing $500 because his family gave ten thousand to charity is exquisite capitalist spoilt brat logic.

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  2. Sujatha

    Maybe it was a calculated risk: free advertising for his Youtube video which has garnered over a million hits. It might come cheap at the $500 he paid for the smashed iPad.
    The only question is whether this was indeed the right kind of publicity for his future ambitions. I don’t think so, but then, I may be mistaken.’You’ll never go broke underestimating the taste of the American public’ (Barnum or Mencken or whoever it was.)

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  3. Ruchira

    Well, here’s someone who shows no inclination to bash the iPad. I still like it better when they play “real” pianos.

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  4. Carlton

    I’ve also been reluctant after reading some articles on the iPad’s defects. It may not be major but fans and buyers expects a brand like Apple to be perfect. It’s disappointing that both the iPhone and iPad have some defects, hope Apple fixes it soon enough.
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