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	            <title><![CDATA[iSuppli Peeks Inside Apple's New iPad: Why do consumers enjoy being bilked by Steve Jobs?]]></title>
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	            	            Check out the iPad web site. It's just one relative adjective after another. Who needs quantified nouns when you can have relative adjectives?

"High resolution display" Yeah, right. It's VGA. Back in the day, nobody did any research on what resolution humans actually need for protracted viewing. VGA was just the best they could do with the technology at the time (and that time was a LONG time ago). Now we know better. Opthomologists have known ever since VGA came out that it causes eyestrain in a significant percentage of users who stare at a VGA display for protracted intervals. Yet supposedly one major use of iPads is to read eBooks! And a power-hungry, back-lit LCD? Has anybody seen such a display you can actually read in bright sunlight? Gee, aren't OLEDs the latest, greatest, sharpest, brightest, most efficient, yadda da, yadda da, yadda da, displays?

"Long battery life" 15 hours (hmmm...does the capacity of a Li-Ion battery drop off with use and aren't Li-Ion batteries good for only 500 recharges? Is the iPad battery user-replaceable? iPods and iPhones have no battery compartment.) - good enough for an eBook reader over the weekend, right?

And why do they cost so much, besides just being - as usual - an overpriced Apple product? I mean do a thought-experiment teardown of an iPad and compare the stuff it must have inside vs. a $350 PC. See what I mean?

Chuck Small	            ]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:27:52 -0600</pubDate>
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