"hotness"

ha!

Meh

You have your iPad. I'll have my life.

Get out and live a little instead of drooling over a <strike>piece of technology</strike> toy..

"you already know how to use it" from the advert

I walked up to my boss and my opposite number (does the Winblows stuff.) They were stuck trying to get it to do something. I said, "but you already know how to use it..." and went for a coffee.

I can see that my kids might like one. The older one could land Harold on it and the other one would love to chew on it.

When the battery is flat someone could use it as a poor vanity mirror I suppose.

Pah

Appletards!

Down with Apple!

Talk about ...

... stating the obvious.

They're six times more likely to be "wealthy, highly educated and sophisticated. They value power and achievement much more than others. They’re also selfish, scoring low on measures of kindness and altruism/"

In my world the flowery language wouldn't be heard, they'd just be known as selfish turds who value form more than substance. Their mothers would be so proud.

Well, I had to ask Steve whether owning an ipad made me an asshole...

"Yes, your an asshole. Not that big a deal.

Steve

Sent from my Flying iCar"

So Much For Surveys

I am "interested in video games, computers, electronics, science and the internet", I don't own a single polo short or pair of jeans and I wouldn't be seen dead in a pair of 'sneakers' but I own an iPad.

I also think all this fanboi nonsense (in either direction) is pretty tedious in the main.

"quantitative qualities"

Anyone else spot the oxymoron?

(Mines the duffle coat with the penguin in the pocket)

Spooky

"They prize self-direction, shun conformity, and are interested in video games, computers, electronics, science and the internet,"

"iPad Critics do tend to be young men. To add even more colour: they tend to have no children and little interest in family."

"One of the strongest single indicators of being an iPad Critic is a preference for the Linux (a do-it-yourself operating system for super geeks) over Windows or Macintosh."

For someone that shuns conformity, I conform scarily close to their profile of an iPad hater. I do have one spanner to throw in their works, I still love my iPhone 4...

You asked the question:

"Meanwhile, not all the Reg hacks at Vulture Central have properly fondled an iPad yet. So what does that make us?"

Immune to hype. A fine effort sirs.

because you are yet to be sober?

"Meanwhile, not all the Reg hacks at Vulture Central have properly fondled an iPad yet. So what does that make us? "

Just a possibility. :o)

I know

Someone with an iPad and he sure fits into the 'selfish elite' box since he's the factory owner's son.

Nothing he likes doing more than wandering around the place with his iPad trying to look important, which is why I written a special routine into one of the robots that it will snatch it up and jam it into a 10 ton power press if the stupid git leaves it lying on the bench near the robot.

As for El reg's iPad, surely you can forgo a lunchtime drinking session in order to save enough money to buy one of your own?

GWB Quote

That GWB quote is taken from the Al Smith Dinner - an event where the Presidential candidates joke and banter for the evening. Poor form from El Reg to quote it completely out of context..... especially when there are myriad legitimate examples which could be used!

Full Disclosure

"Meanwhile, not all the Reg hacks at Vulture Central have properly fondled an iPad yet."

Leading to the obvious question: How many of you have improperly fondled one?

... so what does that make me?...

I'm a geek, I used to shun conformity, then decided I just couldn't be bothered trying so hard to shun conformity that I ended up conforming to non-comformity.

Now I just don't care.

I'm not selfish. I just got an android based phone. I have a MacBook Pro, a bashed up ubuntu based laptop & use windows at work. It's all good.

If someone *gave* me an iPad, I'd enjoy tinkering with it till I got bored. I just can't see it being useful to me.

I admire it as a polished bit of hardware with an excellent GUI. I don't hate it, don't love it, couldn't care less.

Whilst I'm a geek, I enjoy gardening, dead-tree books, walking, photography.

Hmm, I think I just ticked a lot more geek boxes there ... ;)

I also have a life, so that's a box unchecked.

That's the problem with these polls - tiny market segment + people lie.

... also, as a 40-something, struggling to pay bills bloke with a partner, but no kids, I don't actually fall into any desirable marketing demographics...

... which is really rather wonderful.

Make mine granddads pad & pencil ... I'll get my coat...

sex appeal

Angelina Jolie is SO sexy... she reminds me of an ipad.

Meh, outliers

I fit the 'hater' profile - although, actually, I loathe Linux, the real open source is BSD - but I love my ipad, it has virtually replaced my home computer. Yes, it's an oversized, overpowerful ipod touch, but the increased size makes it actually usable for all sorts of things. I've read more books in the month I've had it than in probably the last year.

Yes, it's locked down, but you have an awesome browser and being a web programmer, I've written many many web apps utilizing the increased size of the fondlepad. No-one ever bitches that their monitor isnt open source, or that they want to jailbreak their keyboard. For me, its an interface to cloud systems, including my own cloud.

Uber geek? No friends? Yes, but that was true before I had an ipad.

Yep

It's all true, I love my iPad. I'm also wealthy, successful and value power. It means I'm the one that gets to palm off the shit jobs to the typical lowly IT gnomes that post bitter anti Apple rants on the Reg.

Man, I love doing that shit.

But lack of kindness? Not true, I positively adore kittens and puppies.

"Self-direction"

The "self-direction" comment is interesting.

I suggested to an iPhad owning friend that he must have voted Labour, since he prefers to be restricted in what he does by someone else and that nanny looking after him is better than finding out for himself.

He wasn't impressed (in fact he got quite upset), largely because he fits into the category of wealthy, educated and appreciates power. He is though, to be fair, quite friendly.

And also a staunch Tory. That's probably what upset him.

Click Tarts

A quote from the orginal MyType authors' website: "MyType is a personality based social networking application that allows you to explore your personality using several popular personality assessments such as the Jung Typology and and a survey with questions drawn from the International Personality Item Pool. Please keep in mind that MyType is an entertainment service and is in no way a substitute for the services of a psychological professional. You come to MyType to have fun and, perhaps, to learn a little bit about yourself and your friends."

Another soft-science statistician's meaningless drool-fest, but this time linked to a commercial site. Why is it so hard for even 'professionals' in this field to come up with good science? Perhaps they are not taught cause and effect - Like if you have the traits "wealthy, highly educated and sophisticated", and "value power and achievement much more than others" and are "selfish, scoring low on measures of kindness and altruism" you actually have money to spend. Are you likely to have made an effort to makea lot of money if you are "interested in video games, computers, electronics, science and the internet"?.

I run a couple of Debian boxes, a MacBook Pro and an iPad. so I must be a wealthy/sophisticated/selfish/independent/young geek. What might get up some geeks' noses, is that when this retired old/fat/bald slob whips out his iPad, it (but alas, not me) is a girl-magnet.

The iPad is lovely. It, or its successors, are likely to be what most people will actually use.

Jake Humphrey has an iPad

He carries it around with him during every Formula 1 race, although he never seems to use it...