While most new iPad owners are happily stroking their touchscreens, others are destroying theirs with baseball bats!
This weekend, an estimated 700,000 people bought the glowingly reviewed Apple iPad. Though some consumers voiced reasonable gripes, others chose to destroy, batter, or shred their new iPads (and they chose to literally break their newly bought devices; we aren’t even talking about jailbreaking an iPad here), documenting their mysterious rage on video. Are they reacting to the agonizing hype that preceded the iPad’s release? Have a look for yourself:
Apple iPad: A “Smashing Hit”!
After earning the requisite $500 by shoveling snow, Justin Kocott, 19, of Penn Hills, Pa., smashed an iPad to smithereens with a baseball bat outside a Best Buy store. He told local news reporters that he wanted to be “the first one to break an iPad because I see videos of people breaking things on YouTube like PS3 and Wiis … and I figured this one would be next.” Though he’s been called an “Apple hater,” he says he owns another iPad and “loves it.” The video quickly went viral, and has generated 1,309,274 YouTube hits already. When asked what his motivation was, Kocott only said he wanted to be the first person to smash an iPad.
However, it is not the first time that expensive items have been bought and destroyed for entertainment. Videos on the internet show the trend has in the past been aimed at iPhones, iPods, laptops and computer consoles.
Isn’t it amazing to see that while a group of people are busy doing constructive work (like developing iPad games for the Apple tablet), we have yet another group of people who are finding pleasure destroying it? It is almost a shame that the video of men destroying iPad on launch day becomes internet hit… but with over 1,309,274 views already, it also begs the question — is it actually a cleverly designed piece of Apple’s viral marketing? An Apple spokesman was unavailable for comment.
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Yea they knew it would Go Viral and would make enough money to buy another 5 iPads
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If it wasn’t Apple and if it were those kids who planned all this then, I would imagine that they must be earning much more than the iPad cost from the Adsense ads on that YouTube video!
I agree with you bro! They might have till now recovered the iPad cost!
iPad cost? I won’t be surprised at all if they must have earned enough by now to buy 100 iPads!
Este vídeo puede herir la sensibilidad de los seguidores más acérrimos de la marca de la manzana. También habrá detractores de su último ingenio que lo disfruten con extraño morbo.Mientras miles de ‘techies’ por todo el mundo esperan con ansia el dispositivo y otros muchos estadounidenses hacen colas
ROFL!
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Ankit, I find it amusing to observe that you found this video/news amusing!
If it is a pro bat then the players name is on the bat all pros bats are named with their names on them. You might have a minor league bat then its worth 0 does not sound like you have a pro bat
what does that have to do with anything?
Hi all your video is very great looking about ipad bu i think all is very impressive.
CHeck out there is another video wherein a cat uses iPAD that was really funny too
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Cat using an iPad? Wow, sounds incredible!
My friend mentioned to me your site, so I thought I’d read it for myself. Very interesting insights, will be back for more!
Tsk Tsk and Adobe just announced hey would release flash on apple devices too…
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