What nick actually said is correct. Quote 'I still can't see it lasting, although when Apple is ever mentioned people seem to have their common sense disabled. I guess that has to be the real magic involved in the Ipad.' To this date, statistics already shown that 90% of whom who bought ipad are apple supporters. And i will always find apple fans supporting apple for the wrong reasons, and giving totally biased or ignorant replies.

Nick,

If Apple made a round one you could have a singing frisbie.

RFLMAO

You bit on this one too! Lol. C'mon, this one was so transparently a troll, that only the saddest, most insecure Windows-boi would bite.

And you did. Kudos.

Oh for goodness sake Nick, your not trying to tell us that you are actually taking the punctuation’ly challenged seriously? You know perfectly well that spewing vitriol at the wealthy, powerful or famous people or companies/institutions is an ancient British tradition (for others have a look at late 18th century satirists ripping into Prince George), and when you have such eloquent commentators as Bigger_ Luddite, Lord Prof von Drashek (I salute you Sir as do my cryptography challenged brain cells), and Steve T (I know Steve is a Apple (N.B. word selected with care) aficionado and oft time critic but his arguments are intelligent and well presented and I respect his views although I may not agree with them all) to name three (Sorry nEcR0, Hieronymus P. Organthruster etc), what are you thinking sir?

...but for Steve's sake - don't ever ever ever BUY DIFFERENT.

Farrell Godwined you in the last paragraph fanboi. You should hang your head with sham for being sooooo stupid

Yes, there are plenty of legitimate gripes about the iPad (and iEverything), but watching Nick Farell go off like a menopause monkey on PCP is somewhere between sad and annoying.

Is it ironic that an article about the iPad has so much padding itself? Of course the Inq expected the device to fail, but how about some numbers? Remind us of what people were saying when this iPod Touch XL was announced.

I like wit as much as the next guy, but what's the point of an article that doesn't say much more than the headline? Or is the Inq turning into a press-releases-R-us outfit, its articles only containing as much info as the PR guy from the Church of Jobs / Vole HQ / whatever sends in?

Nick, you must be the biggest sucky baby on the net. Yah, you were wrong big time, but rather than admit it honorably, you have a little tantrum. Your problem is you're a hater. You don't analyze the news and products without getting your twisted little feelings involved. You're dismissive for petty reasons. With that attitude you will never have any kind of insight to gain the respect of readership, except for the other shortsighted haters, that is. It's annoying to read the news and watch as the quality keeps dropping. I had a better opinion of INQ before you were so negative. In most jobs that attitude will get you no where except fired.
How about letting go of the sour attitude and actually trying to do a good job at reporting the news? Otherwise you'll continue to get more responses of what a moron you are, how you're wrong yet again, Apple just made you their bitch again, etc. Suck it up, you're an adult not a little school boy.

Gosh Xerkon, fancy you making the point that popularity does not equal superiority in an article titled 'Apple sells three million Ipads in 80 days'. How right you are.

As for PC owners slagging everything off, are you sure about that? I wonder if you're familiar with Apple's marketing strategy, which for years has done its level best to highlight the fact a Mac is "not a PC" rather than simply make a case for the Mac OS. Perhaps the fact the Mac OS just so happens to look and feel like a dated pile of horse shit these days (BUT ITS BASED ON UNIX!!! AND, ER, SOMETHING!!!!) might explain why they lash out with catty remarks about Windows.

Fact is of course, Windows remains the first choice for the overwhelming majority of us, for the simple reason that almost everyone needs a computer to read their email, look at eBay and play fucking FarmVille - and not a lot else. They can either spend £399 on a PC to do this, or they can stick the latest fruit toy on their credit card and claim a victory for independent thinking - a victory shared with several million other must-buy-Apple zombies who think that collecting expensive gadgets is what technology is all about.

I'm proud to be a utterly smug Apple Fanboi. I want an iPad just to have one. You PC freaks are just sooooo jealous you have to convince your self that your microsoft bug ridden, virus laden, crashing, trojan horse, copy-cat, uninspiring bloat ware is actually any good. So you narrow minded tw@ts have to slag everything else off.

Remember, cockroaches outnumber the human species by 10,000 to 1. That doesn't make them the superior species. PCs and cockroaches are the same thing, they infest the planet feeding on sh1t.

Who cares?

I really don't see where Nick is wrong here. He just made one small error on judgement of the census of Apple fanboi's. But other than that, the iPad still remains a niche device that will eventually fall into oblivion, just like the Mac is doing as I type this reply... Think about it.

I have to be honest - I was seriously critical of the iPad (particularly as I have a brilliant Windows 7 64-bit Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet) for a number of reasons, however I've found it to be a useful bit of kit which has augmented my overall arsenal really well.

I don't think it's magical though it does actually work well as an "in between" device. It's a lot easier to carry around than my laptop all day and with LogMeIn Ignition I can remote in to my beast machine for any heavy lifting.

It's great for reading docs on the iPad and writing the notes on my Windows 7 Tablet PC.

I was wrong too, as it actually is a useful device, in the appropriate circumstances.

And keeps kids quiet, which frankly, if you have kids, is worth its weight in gold sometimes :)

Your apple-fanboy-bashing is an absolute delight to read. Keep it up!!!

I, for one, will never leave Inquirer if you keep entertaining me like that.

Seriously just admit you were wrong and moved on.

Love or Hate tham the iPad is a sucess and that £400 minimum x 3,000,000 which I pretty damn sure there is a hell of a load of PC companies wishing they could pull off the same trick!

They have made 1.2 Billion in revenue in 3 months from a newly launched product!

NNBGBE

Couldnt have said it better myself. Pure genius...

"For multiple posts by one or two of the usual smug Apple fanbois telling everyone how right they were and that I was wrong, their daily claim that they are never coming back to The INQUIRER, or how Nick Farrell needs to be fired, see below."