You cannot be serious! Internet virals take a bite out of Apple’s new iPad amid widespread disappointment

February 4, 2010 by Infowars Ireland

Apple say the iPad is a ‘magic and revolutionary’ product but already the device is being ridiculed by bloggers and industry insiders.

In the spoof video posted on YouTube, 'Hitler' fumes about the downsides of the iPad

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Company chief Steve Jobs launched the iPad amid great hype on Wednesday and claimed the device would plug the gap between laptops and mobiles.

But, alarmingly for the company which has always been the darling of the ‘geek’ community, the sentiment on the web was distinctly underwhelmed and immediately sparked a wave of ridicule.

There was disappointment that the iPad, available in Britain in March, had failed to live up the hype.

One viral It shows a typical Apple checklist, comparing the iPad to a piece of Blu-Tack. iPad has a ticked box for ‘iTunes store’ but only the Blu-Tack has a tick for ‘Multitask capability’.

‘It was a bigger iPod Touch,’ he told journalists in Tokyo.

There has also been hilarity over the unfortunate link between ‘iPad’ and the common name for feminine hygiene products and many bloggers have been quick to trade time-of-the-month iPad jokes.

‘If you and your friends all buy one, will they sync up?’ one woman asked. While another questioned, ‘Does it come with wings?’

Some female bloggers wryly commented probably didn’t have any women on its marketing team and ‘iTampon’ quickly became a cheeky trending topic on the micro-blogging site Twitter.

A YouTube clip from 2006, now enjoying a fresh surge of popularity, shows the term ‘iPad’ has been ridiculed for years. In the comedy skit shown on the Fox TV channel, two women discuss an Apple period-maintenance device called the iPad.

Another more controversial spoof video on YouTube shows a scene from the film Downfall, which shows Hitler’s last days in a Berlin bunker, with new subtitles.

The video, which has already been viewed more than one million times, shows Hitler shouting at his subordinates after he discovers the iPad won’t support multitasking or have Flash support.

In his subtitled tirade he says: ‘It could have changed the market. It could have single handedly destroyed netbooks. But what do we get instead? An oversized iPod Touch! It can’t even make phone calls!’ Read more…