iPass

Newspaper that reads: "Expect most innovative innovation of innovations"

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Newspaper that reads: "The Chosen product to be announced today by Steve Jobs"

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Maya eating pop corn in front of her laptop, saying "hush, it started!" (about Apple's Keynote)

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Steve Jobs says: "I was out of ideas, so I thought, let's mix what we already have. We have a laptop, and we have an iphone. Let's make something in between".

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Hands shown "baking" the iphone "so we took the iphone and we enlarged it like that"

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Person shown ironing the iphone

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And voila! The iPad is born! Incredible!

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Maya, disappointed: "I just wasted this pop corn for nothing!"

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what we learned today: when something requires THAT MUCH marketing before its announcement, it must mean the product in itself is not enough to convince. Steve Jobs must be mocking us - in my humble opinion. iPass this sophistication tool and stick to my dear macbook.

As you can see I was disappointed by yesterday’s announcement, let alone how the name was ridiculed on Twitter later on with the #iTampon jokes. Anyway, I was expecting all this because of all the media buzz. Have a great day! πŸ™‚ And here’s a song for you (that I heard on the radio yesterday and reminded me of the old days :D)



Comments

22 responses to “iPass”

  1. Charbel Saad Avatar
    Charbel Saad

    haha! i totally feel you, maya, i was as excited and as disappointed πŸ˜›

  2. Roba Avatar

    Hilarious! πŸ˜€ Love the roller pin allusion. I am REALLY REALLY REALLY enjoying your blogging. That’s saying something when I work with blogs πŸ™‚

  3. Beshr Kayali Avatar

    I’m disappointed πŸ™
    What about iBooks? is’n it too cool!
    Ya3ni I guess I agree that the name is silly, but the device is cool!
    Not expected != Not cool πŸ™‚
    Ba3den 7aram Steve Jobs ;-(

  4. Ekios Avatar

    Congratulation for your reaction, your not a cheep πŸ™‚

  5. Nahil Avatar
    Nahil

    eno hayde kif badna nsaye3a bl jezden πŸ˜›

  6. Nahil Avatar
    Nahil

    haha ba3den 7abet el roller wel mekweye πŸ˜€ 3anjad maba3rif mn wen btotla3e fiyoun πŸ˜›

  7. Ahmad Humeid Avatar

    Great post.. Nice way to flatten an iPod touch πŸ™‚

    But on the subject matter of this post I would say: not so hasty. I view this as a process of incremental innovation. I think Apple figured that laptops do their job really well.. so why change them and re-engineer MacOS X as a complex touch interface. That would be a “bolt on” solution. They went for a cleaner solution. Now, app developers can (and will) surprise us with what this device can do.

    I think we’re all stuck with “why isn’t it like a laptop” mindset, and we still have not seen all the possibilities of the new device.

    Lack of a camera is inexcusable though!

  8. Ekios Avatar

    Just one point guys, this “thing” ain’t able to run to apps in the same time … you can surf on the web and have a chat app in the main time … common … even the cheapest cellphone can do two things in the same time πŸ™‚

  9. Joe Avatar
    Joe

    I was disappointed as well (Popcorn prepared as well)
    Though you should admit its a nice product nevertheless!

  10. Varun Avatar

    I just loved your post !

    100% agree with you.

    Did you see the promo video .. So much of marketing for the product in the vid too .

    Good products sell themselves . Bad Products need marketing πŸ˜›

  11. Taline Avatar
    Taline

    i can’t believe it!!! hahahaha… yesterday i was like this product is mam3ous using el shawbak. and lyoom i seeeee that you illustrated the same! hahhaha so cool so weird!!!
    love ur work πŸ˜€
    p.s.: i was showing my friend in class one of ur illustrations and he was like ANH she’s my friend! and the guy was johnny abi allam πŸ™‚

  12. rouba Avatar

    very smart as always πŸ™‚

    I wasn’t on twitter when all this happened & I was shocked today to learn iTampon actually trended!! I watched a few videos on YouTube and yes, unfortunately it does look like one big iPod, which I already own πŸ˜› will I buy the bigger version? mmmh… lol

    (I won’t lie, hubby was thinking about it… but he hasn’t yet read anything & I have a feeling the geek within him will be quite disappointed :P)

  13. theFool Avatar

    Even though I own most of their products, call me a sucker for also getting the iPad. Just package it in glitter red, and make it useful while facilitating my life, and I’ll give them my clothes.

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  15. mc Avatar
    mc

    did you know that :

    “Steve Jobs est fils d’une mΓ¨re amΓ©ricaine, Joanne Carole Schieble, et d’un pΓ¨re syrien, Abdulfattah John Jandali, professeur de sciences politiques, il est nΓ© Γ  San Francisco en Californie. Il fut adoptΓ© peu aprΓ¨s sa naissance par Paul Jobs et Clara Jobs vivant Γ  Mountain View en Californie. Ses parents biologiques se mariΓ¨rent un an plus tard et eurent un autre enfant, l’auteur Mona Simpson.”

  16. Ahmad Osman Avatar
    Ahmad Osman

    Oh I have just noticed the new – what do you call it – bookmark for the website. You know, that asterisk. Most appropriate.

  17. FARAH AWADA Avatar
    FARAH AWADA

    AMAZINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN…..
    BUT THE FUNNY THING IN ALL THIS IS THAT I ACTUALLY LIEKD THE I PAD
    OOOOOOOOPS πŸ™‚

  18. Bassem B. Avatar
    Bassem B.

    Everyone I know with some common sense had the same reaction. This is sillier than the Macbook Air.

    Dear Apple, please page me when you make a version of this that lets me run multiple apps at the same time.

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  20. rebghb Avatar
    rebghb

    it’s just that yesterday my friend tagged me in a photo for the ipad, he is a mac freak, and i hate mac, weird, if u consider the timing πŸ˜€ totally agree, lets make it general as u’ve said…

  21. Rabih Avatar
    Rabih

    Maya do you seriously sit like that? crossing your legs? Coz i’m the only person I know who sits like that on a chair πŸ˜€ I even sit this way at the office on an office chair, which takes some acrobatic moves to achieve πŸ˜€

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