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Gabe Alvaro
United States
Berkeley
California
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Yeah. People are saying this, but the fact is I will be picking up an iPad 3G for a lot more uses than just boardgaming. I already own an iPhone and know several board gamers who do as well. Perhaps not for Scrabble, but I do intend to make this little scene into a reality at some point.
Yours,
Jackass
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Scott Everts
United States
Foothill Ranch
California
MITCHELL!!!
Push the button, Frank!
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That is pretty funny! But I've done stupid things like that myself! I remember buying a Radio Shack Pocket Computer for about $1000 thinking it was going to be some great organizer with its little 1 line display and not so portable printer attachment. It was easier to use a $5 calendar.
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Ralph T
United States
Signal Hill
California
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Well, that's inaccurate.
 If someone owns an Ipad and friends own an Itouch, then there's no jackassery involved. It's not like the only thing these devices can do is play scrabble.
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Kenny VenOsdel
United States
Saint Paul
Minnesota
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The fact that someone is about to spell "Viagra" = priceless
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Royce Hix
United States
Wausau
Wisconsin
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Enjoy your oversized iPod touch that runs a (lol) phone OS.
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Zuperfliegen
United States
Round Rock
Texas
Ride the Snake
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FYI, my words with friends ID is MWChapel...
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Dave Nellis
United States
Denver
Colorado
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kvenosdel wrote: The fact that someone is about to spell "Viagra" = priceless
That would be an illegal play. Viagra is a proper noun. 
And personally, if someone did build that version of Scrabble, or any other game, and made it only work with Apple devices, you'd never get to play it with me! 
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T. S. Higgins
United States
Turlock
California
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Shatner wrote: kvenosdel wrote: The fact that someone is about to spell "Viagra" = priceless That would be an illegal play. Viagra is a proper noun. :p And personally, if someone did build that version of Scrabble, or any other game, and made it only work with Apple devices, you'd never get to play it with me! :devil:
I wonder about this. The word Kleenex can be considered a proper noun, as it is a brand name, but it is also used generically to describe any type of facial tissue, which should be permissible. Viagra as well, is used as a proper noun to describe the brand, and also in a generic form.
I wouldn't play it either... the iPhone was bad enough, I still laugh at people who have $600 phones, while I do just fine with my $20 phone that only costs $5 a month. And I have $580 to spend on useful things that won't be considered obsolete in a few months.
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J C Lawrence
United States
Campbell
California
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I have a pocket computer. It browses the web, does maps, handles personal & work email, runs my personal, work, & other calendars, accesses BGG Via custom client & web (eg this post), handles multiple IM networks, IRC, monitors my servers, etc etc etc. I use it for several hours every day. Oh, and every so often I also use it to make a phone call.
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Dick Leban
United States
Austin
Texas
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I think this will happen, but the sizes are a bit off. I find the iPhone a bit small as the "remote," an iPad-sized device would be much more pleasant to use. The main display would need to be roughly the same size as the main board in the game being played.
Prices should come down although they will take longer than I would like.
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Ryan Johnson
United States
Independence
Missouri
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I wonder if there were similar cartoons back during the plumbing revolution... cause I spent about 4x that amount to 'plumb' my house and I could have just been shitting in a hole this entire time.
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Erik Tietz
United States
Bloomington
Minnesota
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Ryno8 wrote: I wonder if there were similar cartoons back during the plumbing revolution... cause I spent about 4x that amount to 'plumb' my house and I could have just been shitting in a hole this entire time.
You have a hole? Totally jealous!
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Tim Seitz
United States
Glen Allen
VA
Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But God does not take away life; instead, he devises ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from him. 2 Sam 14:14
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djcack wrote: Ryno8 wrote: I wonder if there were similar cartoons back during the plumbing revolution... cause I spent about 4x that amount to 'plumb' my house and I could have just been shitting in a hole this entire time. You have a hole? Totally jealous!
Luxury!
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David Harvey
United Kingdom
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iPads are nothing but technology going in the wrong direction. If we ignored the fact that they were nothing but oversized iPhones (which I have myself and enjoy), they are restrictive to a point of it being ridiculess as well as costing a bloody load.
Could someone, anyone tell me what the benefits are of having an iPad over a Laptop of equal value?
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Zuperfliegen
United States
Round Rock
Texas
Ride the Snake
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Tooooon wrote:
Could someone, anyone tell me what the benefits are of having an iPad over a Laptop of equal value?
12 hour battery life?
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Cameron McKenzie
United States
Atlanta
Georgia
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Darrett wrote: Shatner wrote: kvenosdel wrote: The fact that someone is about to spell "Viagra" = priceless That would be an illegal play. Viagra is a proper noun. And personally, if someone did build that version of Scrabble, or any other game, and made it only work with Apple devices, you'd never get to play it with me! I wonder about this. The word Kleenex can be considered a proper noun, as it is a brand name, but it is also used generically to describe any type of facial tissue, which should be permissible. Viagra as well, is used as a proper noun to describe the brand, and also in a generic form. I wouldn't play it either... the iPhone was bad enough, I still laugh at people who have $600 phones, while I do just fine with my $20 phone that only costs $5 a month. And I have $580 to spend on useful things that won't be considered obsolete in a few months.
As a general rule of thumb, if the word is always capitalized, it's not a valid Scrabble word.
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Tim Seitz
United States
Glen Allen
VA
Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But God does not take away life; instead, he devises ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from him. 2 Sam 14:14
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Tooooon wrote: Could someone, anyone tell me what the benefits are of having an iPad over a Laptop of equal value?
You are more likely to be seen as appealing by members of the opposite sex.
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David Harvey
United Kingdom
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MWChapel wrote: Tooooon wrote:
Could someone, anyone tell me what the benefits are of having an iPad over a Laptop of equal value?
12 hour battery life?
Can't take the battery out of iPad, but with laptop could easily carry spare batteries (even though I admit that it can be a hastle). Love to know what happens when an iPad freezes, guess your kinda stuck lol
Btw some other things about the iPad:
No Multitasking (can't surf the web, listen to music, or have a document open at the same time, only one thing)
No keyboard (might seem like a good thing, but unless you're lying on the couch with your knees propping it up, it'll be awkward to use)
No HDMI output
No flash (yes no flash videos, games or anything using flash whatsoever)
No USB ports, you need to use a bloody adapter just to use USB!
And if owning an iPad which is me lugging around a massive oversized brick of an iPhone around with me makes me attractive to the ladies, I think it may be time for me to start liking men instead.
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David K
United States
Omaha
Nebraska
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Focused device that does what it does well for 90% of the people who use a computer for.
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vincit omnia amentia
United States
Howard County
Maryland
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Tooooon wrote: Btw some other things about the iPad:
All technology is useful based on your requirements. There's a lot of cool shit the iPad can do, so if you don't need the things you listed, especially if have another medium to access them, and you want the features an iPad has, then it is a fine piece of hardware. This is like the silly mac/windows/linux debate. Depending on what you do, the programs you use, and your comfort level, one will invariably be better than the others.
Also, what moron spends $1700 on a boardgame? You MacZombies will fall for anything.
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Zuperfliegen
United States
Round Rock
Texas
Ride the Snake
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Tooooon wrote:
No Multitasking (can't surf the web, listen to music, or have a document open at the same time, only one thing)
This is not entirely correct. You can listen to your music and surf the web at the same time. the iPod functionality runs in the background.
It is only 3rd party apps that cannot run in the background.
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David K
United States
Omaha
Nebraska
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Tooooon wrote: MWChapel wrote: Tooooon wrote:
Could someone, anyone tell me what the benefits are of having an iPad over a Laptop of equal value?
12 hour battery life? Can't take the battery out of iPad, but with laptop could easily carry spare batteries (even though I admit that it can be a hastle). Love to know what happens when an iPad freezes, guess your kinda stuck lol Btw some other things about the iPad: No Multitasking (can't surf the web, listen to music, or have a document open at the same time, only one thing) No keyboard (might seem like a good thing, but unless you're lying on the couch with your knees propping it up, it'll be awkward to use) No HDMI output No flash (yes no flash videos, games or anything using flash whatsoever) No USB ports, you need to use a bloody adapter just to use USB! And if owning an iPad which is me lugging around a massive oversized brick of an iPhone around with me makes me attractive to the ladies, I think it may be time for me to start liking men instead.
- Yep, no extra battery but if I'm messing around with a laptop over 10 hours between charges I'm probably doing something wrong.
- Most people won't care about multitasking, but I'm with you there. I think the iPad should have multitasking especially since it is not being used as your cell phone.
- It has a keyboard on screen (almost full size) and will work for most people. You can also use a bluetooth keyboard with it.
- I doubt many will care about the HDMI output. Heck, I've never used the video out on my iPhone. Has anyone on this thread?
- Flash would be nice, but if HTML5 is going to do away with it, all the better.
- USB port would be nice, but I don't miss it on my iPhone. At least it is available with an adapter. Not ideal, I agree.
- I can't help you with your sexual preference. 
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David Harvey
United Kingdom
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BagpipeDan wrote: Tooooon wrote: Btw some other things about the iPad: All technology is useful based on your requirements. There's a lot of cool shit the iPad can do, so if you don't need the things you listed, especially if have another medium to access them, and you want the features an iPad has, then it is a fine piece of hardware.
I understand where your coming from, for example the video game console "wars" with each one being good and unique in its own way (even though currently the use for my Wii is to prop things up and collect dust sadly).
But the thing that annoys me in the whole iPad case is that its removed things which are seen today as basic things to have, I mean no USB? Really? I need to carry around a special adapter? And no flash? The only reason it doesn't have flash is so it can sell its application's and thats the only reason. Now I can live with that on my iPhone since its a mobile phone, but for something which is supposed to be a thing to have instead of a laptop, just seems silly.
Also, did you know that Apple has control over things on everybodies iPads, so if they wanted to they could delete things off your own iPad whenever they wanted?
I don't mind fun bits of technology and things which are different and effective, but the whole thing in this case seems to be going towards people accepting things which are limiting and restrictive purely because of a brand and the "shiney things it can do".
Edit: Arrrg i've just realised im basically creating a "Apple fanboy vs Windows/Linux fanboy" flamewar recipe and I honestly haven't meant to do that. Im just expressing my opinion on the iPad and thats all, nothing personal against people who do like it (even though I may question it hehe). If windows or any other company made the same product I would be saying the same thing (even though apple does have questionable practices) ^^
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Gary Bacchus
United States
Altamonte Springs
Florida
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Igglethorpe wrote: Focused device that does what it does well for 90% of the people who use a computer for.
Axiom: The people who use the so-called "90%-er functionality" will eventually find 1% of the other 10% and will forever wonder why they shoe-horned themselves into a device which didn't allow them to do said 1%.
It's called the Internet. People find things there. The only guarantee that this axiom will not befall such a device to remove access to it.
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ErikPeter Walker
United States
New Haven
Connecticut
Uplifting
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Ryno8 wrote: I wonder if there were similar cartoons back during the plumbing revolution... cause I spent about 4x that amount to 'plumb' my house and I could have just been shitting in a hole this entire time.
Clever.
Of course, if there were plumbing comics in the same spirit, they would poke fun at the jackasses who spent five grand to plumb their houses, just so they could play the pipes like a xylophone.
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