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Comment by pieter | Hacker News Reader

The argumentation is as follows:

    * Cutting and pasting doesn't work as nice on an iPad as on a PC
    * Therefore, the iPad is worse than a PC

    * Also, Apple sells a lot of macs
    * Therefore, they must have crippled copy-pasting on purpose

  * Therefore, the iPad 2 isn't better than the original iPad

Doesn't make sense to me.

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When thrown, the iPad 2 is also less aerodynamically stable than a Frisbee, therefore Apple must have secret holdings in a toy company.

This is some powerful mojo. It's like I'm finally seeing the real world.

I don't know if it makes much sense to anyone, had I known it was going to be cringely I'd have not clicked.

My general opinion is that copy & pasting is pretty good in the iOS, it's certainly good enough for my everyday usage.

The cringely.com didn't give it away? :)

Exactly. Never have understood why Cringely gets so much publicity - I rarely see him write anything that's better than a random blogger. Still, though... props for Triumph of the Nerds, it was entertaining.

I take "the iPad 2 isn't even better" to mean:

- Although iPad 2 is good, it would be even better (than itself) if it made copying & pasting easy

- Copying & pasting is more difficult on the iPad 2 than it could be

- Therefore the iPad 2 could be better (than itself)

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