In a couple of years it'll be obsolete...
...just like the wankers that would buy such a thing.
If you're an Apple fanboi with $19,999 burning a hole in your pocket, why not spend it on The World's First Diamond iPad? Doing so would greatly please John Mervis, Digital Strategist for Mervis Diamond Importers, a third-generation family business in the Washington DC area. As Mervis told The Reg: "We've always been trying to …
I have criticisms of the iPad including not understanding why I would want one (I have the same argument against netbooks) but I'm not sure price is a fair criticism. You think $499 USD is expensive for a touch device like an iPad? My 13x19" ink jet printer cost more then that and I'd say the iPad is a bit more sophisticated. Heck my first smartphone (a Samsung SPH-i500) cost more then that.
...The arrival of a bling-ed up apple product is even more predictable than my bowel movements.
Instead of reporting this, we - as reg readers - should be able to safely assume that tatty tasteless expensive shite that only appeals to rappers and other various 'talents' will be on sale approximately one week after the general release to the hoi-polloi, thus freing up your journalists to write about something proper.
"If you're an Apple fanboi with $19,999 burning a hole in your pocket, why not spend it on The World's First Diamond iPad?"
Because if the battery dies, you're shafted!
Apple don't replace the battery on your iPad, they send you a refurbished model - there goes your $20k, that's if they even accept it in the first place since it's been modified.
http://www.apple.com/support/ipad/service/battery/
Anon, because the iPad is taking a beating, and every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
I'll get someone else's coat so they can't find me.
Funny, but I thought the obscenely rich did not need to be "fooled" by this traditionally stupid practice of trying to make the price look lower. You know, why the hell does something cost $9.99 instead of $10?
Or even worse, my favorite pet peeve the gas station: are they going to give me $0.002 of change if the gas cost $10.998 and I pay with $11 (yup, ride a motorbike, isn't that grand)? OK, so they don't even display that third number on the price you pay at the pump anymore, but the stupid thing is there in the advertised price, e.g. $2.659 per gallon.
Anyway, how will they do if the iPad's battery croaks and they have to send the thing back to Apple, just to pay $99 and get a different unit?
...little shop alongside the Old West Highway, we would frequently mis-input prices by leaving out the cents (00) when inputting even dollar prices to out cash register.
Ending prices in .95 forced us to enter the proper number of digits, although not necessarily the correct digits.
the glory of celebrity bling.
may as well have written "is coated in low-grade machine-cut trash we couldn't sell through a diamond-centric market but feel we can get more selling it to stupid E! Celebs* rather than bunging it in the industrial market."
* Kardashians, Paris, every other vapid whorebag I see on TV whose sole reason for celebrity is somehow just "being famous"
Paris for obvious.
this would appeal to its target audience even more if they were certified conflict diamonds from the Congo with actual blood sticking to them.
Why doesn't someone build a touchscreen device with a sapphire screen: my watch is still beautifully scratch-free (well apart from the steel case) after years of abuse, and a phone that you could treat similarly with impunity would go down a treat. Maybe it'd be much more expensive because you'd have to _develop_ someting rather than just embellish an existing product by dipping it in glue and then rolling it in a plateful of diamonds, like for a fish fillet with egg and breadcrumbs.
The tastefull use of diamonds, in say, a piece of siver jewelry, can ben quite appealing. But
frankly , seing any object covered completly in diamonds , makes it as plesant to look at as if it were wrapped in tin-foil.
I think Id rather spend the 20k creating a custom touch screen device.
that can do flash
and has built in phone tools.
and a front and rear facing camera.
etc