‘New Apple iPad Does Little to Fend Off Rivals’ Advance’

‘New Apple iPad Does Little to Fend Off Rivals’ Advance’:

Even Research In Motion Ltd.’s much maligned BlackBerry PlayBook has seen some recent success after several discounts and promotions.

(Via Daring Fireball)

Seriously? They’re that eager to malign the new iPad that they try to make the PlayBook seem worthwhile? The sentence that leaped out to me from the article was this:

“The new iPad is quite possibly the best tablet on the market today. We have just come to expect more of Apple.”

The article vociferously bashes the new iPad throughout before quietly acknowledging it’s ahead of every other tablet–and then uses that info to bash the iPad even more.

I’m probably not going to get a new iPad–I don’t use my iPad 1 very much, and I sold my HP TouchPad, because when I’m on a computer I’m writing code and tablets don’t do that nearly as well as my MacBook Pro. To dismiss the new iPad’s amazing screen and faster processor, though, like this:

“Frankly, if battered RIM had launched a new device with a similar set of incremental upgrades, the company would have been greeted with scorn and derision, rather than a worldwide media blitz.”

reveals someone who shorted Apple big time and is desperate to cash in.