How to get a £130,000 iPad for just £880
By Nicole Kobie in Editorial
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Some have been complaining that the Apple iPad will — as ever — cost more in the UK than in the US.
Others, it would seem, aren’t too worried about such common concerns as cost.
Stuart Hughes is the Liverpool based… artist? designer? bling-er? who is responsible for dipping the iPhone in gold and coating it in diamonds, so it’s really no surprise he’s gone and done it again with the iPad.
His version of Apple’s tablet is “for the most elite individual”, he says. “Elite” is one word for it. The Supreme Gold Edition iPad has a 22 carat gold body with the Apple logo made up of 53 diamonds. Of course, the iPad in question is the 3G 64GB version.
Just 10 of the things are being made, and they’ll ring in at £129,995.
If you can’t afford the price but like the look, here’s my five steps to getting your own blinged out iPad for just £880.94:
Step 1: Spend too much on an oversized iPhone/keyboardless netbook. (£699 here.)
Step 2: Carefully coat it in gold paint. (£2.25 here.)
Step 3: Let dry. That stuff stains.
Step 4: Glue sparkles to the logo. (Glue gun, £11.69 here; semi-precious rhinestones, £168 for 53 here.)
Step 5: Look like an idiot every time you pull your iPad out in public, but like less of an idiot than someone who paid £129,114.06 more than you to look just as tacky.
Anyone have an iPad they’re willing to let me test this out on? No? Didn’t think so.
Rated: 73.33% (3 votes)
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Apple vs Gizmodo: What does freedom really mean?
By Nicole Kobie in Editorial
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A Gizmodo writer has posted an exchange between himself and Steve Jobs regarding the Apple vs Adobe Flash debate, and the wider issue of “freedom” on technical devices.
Blogger Ryan Tate was inspired to write to Apple’s chief executive - who famously actually responds to such emails from time to time - after viewing an iPad ad referencing the “revolution”, which Tate took issue with, saying revolutions are about freedom — not gadgets.
“Yep. Freedom from programs that steal your private data. Freedom from programs that trash you battery. Freedom from porn. Yep, freedom,” Jobs responded.
This battle — between opening Apple’s products up to firms like Adobe or creating a protective walled garden — really comes down to how you describe and define the idea of “freedom.”
There’s freedom to do something, and freedom from something. Freedom to speak one’s mind, freedom from hate speech. Freedom to choose one’s health care provider, freedom from being ill. Freedom to travel and cross borders with ease, freedom from terrorism and attacks.
The difference in that idea is what Tate and Jobs are arguing about, whether they’re aware of it or not. Tate wants an iPad that has the “freedom to” run Adobe Flash; Jobs wants to offer his users “freedom from” data stealing, battery draining programmes — and porn, for some reason, Jobs doesn’t want you to use your iPad to look up naked people.
Tate sees openness as an important ideal; Jobs points out it’s his platform and he’s free to do what he wants. But here’s where this argument differs from the aforementioned ones: Jobs may seem a dictator to many, but he’s only in control of Apple products, and nothing else.
While it’s the ideas of openness and freedom are worth contemplating in tech areas like the internet and even gadgets like the iPad, there’s an even more important thing to remember, one many seem to be forgetting lately: No one has to buy anything from Apple. Ever.
Want Flash? Don’t buy an iPad. Wait for the HP, Dell and Google tablets soon to arrive this year. Want a tablet without Flash? Uh, buy an iPad.
We already have freedom of choice, you see.
Tate notes that such a setup means developers must create different versions of sites and apps — a Flash and say, HTML5, version of a site, for example.
While that is a bit of a pain, it’s not much different from what mobile developers must do already, developing for Android, Apple iPhone OS, Windows Mobile and whatever else they want their programme to run on. Sort of how programmers have had to create their software for both Mac and Windows, too.
In other words, it’s hardly new, and it’s hardly a big deal.
Rated: 100% (1 votes)
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