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Larry

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Jul 13, 2009, 1:28:56 PM7/13/09
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http://www.thestreet.com/video/10541659/apples-tablet-will-be-an-iflop.html

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Larry

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of the last cleric.

Your Name

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Jul 13, 2009, 5:09:54 PM7/13/09
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"Larry" <no...@home.com> wrote in message
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http://www.thestreet.com/video/10541659/apples-tablet-will-be-an-iflop.html

As usual Larry is spouting unintelligent crap concerning something he knows
absolutely nothing about. :-\


Davoud

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Jul 13, 2009, 8:24:53 PM7/13/09
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Your Name wrote:

> As usual Larry is spouting unintelligent crap concerning something he knows
> absolutely nothing about. :-\

Give him a break. If he wrote what he knows about he wouldn't write
anything at all.

Davoud

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Your Name

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Jul 13, 2009, 9:22:22 PM7/13/09
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"Davoud" <st...@sky.net> wrote in message
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> Your Name wrote:
>
> > As usual Larry is spouting unintelligent crap concerning something he
knows
> > absolutely nothing about. :-\
>
> Give him a break. If he wrote what he knows about he wouldn't write
> anything at all.

And we'd all be thanking every God known to man and alien. :-)


Larry

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Jul 13, 2009, 9:50:21 PM7/13/09
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"Your Name" <your...@isp.com> wrote in
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I didn't spout a damned thing. I pointed out a webpage I was not
responsible for....

Davoud

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Jul 14, 2009, 9:39:19 AM7/14/09
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Your Name:

> > As usual Larry is spouting unintelligent crap concerning something he
> > knows absolutely nothing about. :-\

Larry:


> I didn't spout a damned thing. I pointed out a webpage I was not
> responsible for....

That's the point. Steve Jobs said in his 2005 commencement address at
Stanford:

"Your time is limited, so don�t waste it living someone else�s life.
Don�t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other
people�s thinking."

At issue is an _imaginary_ Apple tablet PC. Sounds like the guy in the
video who is doing your thinking for you wants to compete with John
Dvorak. "The iMac will fail." "The iPod will not sell. "Nobody will buy
an iPhone." Dvorak, at least, gets paid to troll. It has to be the
ultimate in laziness to point to someone else's troll--as you
did--rather than fabricate your own.

So exercise your creativity. Spend some time envisioning this
(non-existent device) and give us your own review of its (non-existent)
features and your own assessment as to why the (non-existent) device
will or will not sell. Skip over the part about it being crash-proof
and malware-proof; Maccies already know that the (non-existent) device
will be that.

Davoud

Davoud

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Jul 14, 2009, 2:28:53 PM7/14/09
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In article <140720090939190373%st...@sky.net>, Davoud <st...@sky.net>
wrote:

> So exercise your creativity. Spend some time envisioning this
> (non-existent device) and give us your own review of its (non-existent)
> features and your own assessment as to why the (non-existent) device
> will or will not sell. Skip over the part about it being crash-proof
> and malware-proof; Maccies already know that the (non-existent) device
> will be that.

it would be awfully clever malware if it could infect a device that did
not exist.

Your Name

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Jul 14, 2009, 5:21:30 PM7/14/09
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"Davoud" <st...@sky.net> wrote in message
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>
> At issue is an _imaginary_ Apple tablet PC.
<SNIP>

"Imaginary"?? Maybe, maybe not.

Your basic point is correct that Larry and his idiot cronies spouting
garbage about a device that they (and almost everyone else on the planet)
know nothing about is standard practice for them. They're simply brainless
morons.

BUT,
there are rumours about Apple soon releasing a netbook / tablet which is
basically a larger iPhone. The rumours have been around for quite a while,
but are gaining ground for a release just before or after Christmas with
Asian manufacturers reporting Apple's orders for device with a 9.5" touch
screen.


Davoud

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Jul 14, 2009, 6:00:19 PM7/14/09
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Davoud:

> > At issue is an _imaginary_ Apple tablet PC.

Your Name:


> "Imaginary"?? Maybe, maybe not.

Until such a product is announced it remains imaginary. Conjecture,
guesswork, estimates, predictions--all involve trying to imagine
something that one has not seen, and that may not exist to be seen.
Thus, for now, an Apple tablet PC is an _imaginary_ device in my
lexicon.

Your Name

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Jul 14, 2009, 9:16:10 PM7/14/09
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"Davoud" <st...@sky.net> wrote in message
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> Davoud:
> > > At issue is an _imaginary_ Apple tablet PC.
> >
> > "Imaginary"?? Maybe, maybe not.
>
> Until such a product is announced it remains imaginary. Conjecture,
> guesswork, estimates, predictions--all involve trying to imagine
> something that one has not seen, and that may not exist to be seen.
> Thus, for now, an Apple tablet PC is an _imaginary_ device in my
> lexicon.

Being unannounced doesn't make it "imaginary", simply unreleased. Imaginary
would imply the product doesn't exist at all. The actual product may well
exist within Apple's walls, even if only as a prototype. Apple has had many
unreleased products over the years, as well as many patents for ideas they
never make.

An unannounced Apple product has actually been showing up on website
statistics for a little while (due to testing), but I'm not sure if that was
the "iTablet" or the iPhone 3Gs.

Davoud

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Jul 14, 2009, 11:39:51 PM7/14/09
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<your...@isp.com> wrote:

Davoud:


> > Until such a product is announced it remains imaginary. Conjecture,
> > guesswork, estimates, predictions--all involve trying to imagine
> > something that one has not seen, and that may not exist to be seen.
> > Thus, for now, an Apple tablet PC is an _imaginary_ device in my
> > lexicon.

Your Name:


> Being unannounced doesn't make it "imaginary", simply unreleased. Imaginary
> would imply the product doesn't exist at all. The actual product may well
> exist within Apple's walls, even if only as a prototype. Apple has had many
> unreleased products over the years, as well as many patents for ideas they
> never make.

"...may well exist..." The corollary is that it may well not exist. You
don't see that you are filling in with your _imagination_ !?

> An unannounced Apple product has actually been showing up on website
> statistics for a little while (due to testing), but I'm not sure if that was
> the "iTablet" or the iPhone 3Gs.

One might _imagine_ that it's a tablet, however, mightn't one?

Davoud

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