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I suspect that fluoridation of the water is a communist plot.

Originally Posted by alefor

I suspect that fluoridation of the water is a communist plot.

No, no, no. It's a plot by chemical companies to make money on their toxic waste (fluoride). Everyone knows that ;-)

You never see an iPad user take a drink of water. They only drink vodka.

I thought it was coolaid that iPad users drink...

I think it's Kool-Aid with Vodka,,,that's why they are always so happy!

By the way, are there any other tablets (currunt or future) that have voice or phone capability? I would love to NOT have to carry around a bunch of devices at times.

Dell Streak

Originally Posted by ubergeek

Dell Streak

The Streak 5 has that capability, but the 7 doesn't. Would love to have a PE that I can also use as a phone. The Streak 5 is no better than my Epic...only slightly bigger screen. One thing is nice, my Epic will FINALLY be getting 2.2.1 on Monday!

Originally Posted by guyjack

I think it's Kool-Aid with Vodka,,,that's why they are always so happy!

LMAO! "Kool-Aid with vodka." Sounds like a rap song title.

Alefor, I remember a story from about six weeks ago that was so riddled with errors that it inspired several pages of anti-Apple and anti-NYT comments. I'll try to find it.

But the bigger picture that I find so troubling with the way the mainstream media, The New York Times, in particular, covers Apple is the sheer breadth of coverage (check the NYT tech section daily and you're sure to find at least two or three stories devoted to the iphone or ipad (It's two products, people; do you really need to have two new stories about them in your tech section every day?). Several other stories will mention how this or that is a result of the ipad/iphone. Yet other stories will mention tech products and evaluate them based solely on how they compare to the iphone/ipad, whether that comparison makes sense or not. Then of course, there's the fact they don't actually cover the tech field so much as they cover everything inside the Apple bubble, often ignoring everything else--unless they can compare it unfavorably to the ipad/iphone.

Just imagine if those kinds of media resources were devoted to some other single product, say Kool-Aid, at the expense of coverage of Perrier, Tropicana, Coke, Pepsi?

It's sloppy journalism, and it's sickening.

Addendum: Here's a "fun" exercise: Go to www.nytimes.com and type "iphone" in the search box. You'll get results that show at least two or three stories per day--just in the tech section--that mention the iphone. The results aren't necessarily in chronological order, so if you sift through a bit, you may likely get even larger per-day numbers. Granted the iphone is quite an innovation, but it's not "magic." A nice thesis project for a journalism/sociology student would be to research whether mainstream media covered other recent innovations with similar coverage.

I see the price has stopped @ 579 euros since four months. Where did you find lower prices?