"Analysts Ask if the iPad Can Live Up to Its Hype."
I usually just stop with the headlines because the articles are usually filled with inane details that I either misrecall or forget later and there's nothing less amazing than telling someone an already boring story and then citing half recollected statistics and quotes to prove something that is almost completely meaningless in the first place so I've determined that the best thing to do is to just make up fake facts and fake quotes to approximate whatever I feel the other person is expecting to hear. For instance as evidence of the expectations for the product, the real article states that
"On the day this month when Apple made the completely unsurprising announcement that the iPad would go on sale on April 3, the stock jumped nearly 4 percent."
This makes absolutely no sense. If its an unsurprising announcement then the stock movement of 3-4 percent has nothing to do with said "unsurprising announcement" and is just part of the random walk. The article also talks about how Apple's stock is up 10% since the end of January when the iPad was unveiled. Do you know what else is up exactly 10% in that exact time frame? The entire fucking stock market.
Those last couple of overly long sentences are of course completely besides the point because what actually confuses me is how the fuck there is anything even closely resembling "Hype" surrounding the ipad. I'm positive that in two years people are going to be able to cite this as a reference to my idiocy regarding technology which incidentally is a topic that should never be discussed and isn't even nearly as valuable as your autistic seven year old's view of Kierkegaard's influence on Nietzsche. Regardless, Apple says that the iPad uses all the same apps as the iphone and itouch so its users are supposedly already familiar with its interface but what I'm going to tell people is that the Times had a video link of an Apple employee using the iPads best application of all - as an expensive warm glowey cutting board.
Here is a link to a video of another promising iPad app.
It involves a golf club and o shit I bet you'll never guess what happens!
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