iPad: guess what I found?

[Simalacrum]

So, as everyone and their mothers (literally in my case) know by now, Apple has revealed its latest gizmo, the iPad.

Now, one of the only cool new features of this iPad is the iBook store - allowing people to buy and read books on the iPad, similar to an eBook reader.

Me being a student and needing a lot of books and all, I thought this could be quite useful - afterall, despite it being rather bulky its still better than carrying about 10-15 books in my bag all day.

BUT!

Reading through the Apple's page upon the iPad, I came across a little titbit of information within the fine print. What did it read, you ask? It said:

"iBooks only available within the U.S."

...yay, I live in England.

It didn't say if/when it would be comming to other area's. Sooo for an unspecified amount of time, one of the most interesting looking points of the iPad will be unavailable to me or anyone in Europe/Asia/Africa/you get where I'm getting at.

How does everyone else feel about this? Unfair? Couldn't care less?

edit: heres the link for the fine print in question. Just scroll down to the bottom of the page to see it. http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/

 

[Pimppeter2]

Damn us Americans hogging all our technologies.

We've had hover cars for years!

 

[delet]

Damn us Americans hogging all our technologies.

We've had hover cars for years!

And Jet Packs! And rocket boots! I'm not sure why we need both!

 

[metalhead467]

Damn us Americans hogging all our technologies.

We've had hover cars for years!

And Jet Packs! And rocket boots! I'm not sure why we need both!

Because both are DAMN COOL.

Also to rub it in those Brit's faces.

 

[madcap2112]

Well, America is pretty awesome. What more can you say about America other than fuck yeah?

Don't answer that.

 

[oppp7]

I've never had an iPod, Mac, iPhone, Zune, or ebooks, but I see no reason for this to be limited to the US.

 

[DoctorNick]

I've never understood country-specific licenses and release dates.

Here's an OFFICIAL DoctorNick promise to you all:

If I ever become a media mogul of some sort, regardless of it being movies, games, music, books or whatever, if I'm going to release something in multiple countries it will be available for sale in all of them on THE SAME DAY.

 

[BigG520]

Huh, i live in America so this doesn't effect me but thats still an interesting bit of trivia.

 

[Jaranja]

Well, America is pretty awesome. What more can you say about America other than fuck yeah?

Don't answer that.

But... I so want to!!!!!

Anyway, I don't really mind. Apple ain't my kind of company.

 

[ResonanceSD]

I've never understood country-specific licenses and release dates.

Here's an OFFICIAL DoctorNick promise to you all:

If I ever become a media mogul of some sort, regardless of it being movies, games, music, books or whatever, if I'm going to release something in multiple countries it will be available for sale in all of them on THE SAME DAY.

We Australians will love you for this.

 

[DoctorNick]

I've never understood country-specific licenses and release dates.

Here's an OFFICIAL DoctorNick promise to you all:

If I ever become a media mogul of some sort, regardless of it being movies, games, music, books or whatever, if I'm going to release something in multiple countries it will be available for sale in all of them on THE SAME DAY.

We Australians will love you for this.

Yay!

But really, there's no good reason for this as far as I'm concerned.

So take the example of an obscure band from Japan or something. Would I expect them to put their CD's in physical brick-n-mortar stores here in the States when they don't really even sell that many in their home country to begin with? No, of course not. But the usual course of matter for these things right now is they won't even allow internet sales to other countries either!

Why? WHY? Are they just afraid of, I donnow, making more money or something?

 

[Nickolai77]

Ha, stupid Brits.

Still haven't discovered nano-manufacturing, faster-than-light travel and good dental care.

Get with the times, man.

....And good dental care!?!? Seriously were you do guys get this impression that the Brit's have bad teeth? Why would we have bad teeth anyway? We don't have to pay to visit the dentist! XD

Oooh, maybe it's just because we know how to make proper chocolate? Or know how to make proper food in general really...

Tell you what. If you don't give us that nano tech and your faster than light travel and what not, the Queen will not be amused and we will forced to stop exporting actors to you (so you can wave good bye to Dr House, besides we want him back for a Blackadder remake ) And you will no longer be allowed to watch any more Monty Python.

Edit: This is the Queen when she is not amused

Spoiler

 

[Laughing Man]

A massive who gives a fuck, really.

The technology is the most tenth weight waste of time you could waste your cash on. It isn't like an MP3 player where you can have all your music on a single device the size of a USB stick. Okay yeah you can have all your books on it but unlike the MP3 which has only advantages ebooks and ereader are just portable computers for reading on.

I hate studying anything complex on a computer screen, and that's a decent high res gaming monitor not some cheap as chips piece of shit that apples beans counters have stuffed in to their ipad. Try and navigating from one section of a complex engineering / electronic text book to another using a traditional text book and then try doing the same thing with a computer screen, ebook, ereader, ipad. I am willing to bet having to scroll back and forth will get real tired real quick.

Anyway that's generalising the ebook part of the Ipad. The device as a whole, again, so fucking what. Ipad = big Iphone and since the Iphone is about as exciting as... well what's slightly less exciting than watching paint dry?

 

[madboy1234]

americans need to read more anyway

 

[2wenty6ix]

Penis castle

I think he's got it

 

[Simalacrum]

Damn us Americans hogging all our technologies.

We've had hover cars for years!

grrrrr, we'll get you one day you yan-waaaaaiiit a minute...

Americans

...didn't you say you were Greek?

 

[DemonicVixen]

I WANT THAT DAMN THING!!! no idea why...

 

[Grounogeos]

so you can wave good bye to Dr House

Over my dead body.

OT: I don't even see a point to the iPad, when you could just get a laptop.

 

[havass]

I vote couldn't care less.