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ismnotwasm

(41,999 posts)
Sun Mar 10, 2013, 09:16 PM Mar 2013

Finally, a tablet simple enough for a woman to use </sarcasm>

The ePad Femme: for women everywhere who have no interests except their own bodies and having babies, which is apparently all of them.
At long last, a company has designed a tablet fit for the use of an entire gender that has, thus far, apparently gone unserved. The ePad Femme, designed and distributed by the Eurostar Group, is an eight-inch tablet that comes pre-loaded with apps concerning yoga, grocery shopping, and cooking. Thank the heavens, ladies may never trouble their pretty heads with such difficulties as finding and downloading their own apps ever again.

The tablet was first announced back in October but received a marketing push in February as “the perfect Valentine’s Day gift,” noted one site. The tablet runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, or as a woman might call it, “the Android screensaver.” Eurostar calls the ePad Femme "the first tablet specifically for ladies."

Several sites highlight that the tablet “comes in light pink.” Despite our best efforts, we’ve failed to find an image verifying that the actual body of the tablet is pink, so we assume this is in reference to the home screen wallpaper. Just as well, since what woman is going to figure out how to configure that, am I right? Settings, right? What even are they?

Speaking to the Jerusalem Post, Eurostar associate vice president of marketing Mani Nair said that the tablet comes with the preloaded womanly applications so the user can “just turn it on and log in to cooking recipes or yoga.” He went on to state that the ePad Femme “makes a perfect gadget for a woman who might find difficulties in terms of downloading these applications and it is a quick reference.”



http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/03/finally-a-tablet-simple-enough-for-a-woman-to-use-sarcasm/


Heh.
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Finally, a tablet simple enough for a woman to use </sarcasm> (Original Post) ismnotwasm Mar 2013 OP
glad I wasn't drinking anything--that name brought to mind sanitary napkins niyad Mar 2013 #1
Now that you pointed that out... ismnotwasm Mar 2013 #9
oh looky a Stepford wife tablet... Kalidurga Mar 2013 #2
Oh well yeah, it's very difficult to download apps gollygee Mar 2013 #3
Jackpine Radical Mar 2013 #4
The preloaded apps cracked me up. MadrasT Mar 2013 #5
dear goddess, I was hoping you were joking about the pink!! sadly, having just read the whole niyad Mar 2013 #10
I have a couple of friends from Israel ismnotwasm Mar 2013 #6
But wheres my Epad Man? quakerboy Mar 2013 #7
In tartan? ismnotwasm Mar 2013 #8
Chrome. quakerboy Mar 2013 #11
Purple and Gold up here ismnotwasm Mar 2013 #12

niyad

(113,532 posts)
1. glad I wasn't drinking anything--that name brought to mind sanitary napkins
Sun Mar 10, 2013, 09:21 PM
Mar 2013

what an insulting product, and an even more insulting marketing campaign

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
2. oh looky a Stepford wife tablet...
Sun Mar 10, 2013, 09:21 PM
Mar 2013

Where do they come up with this stuff. I can't imagine any reason for a tablet to not be gender neutral. But, then I don't know a single woman that would find this tablet useful either.

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
3. Oh well yeah, it's very difficult to download apps
Sun Mar 10, 2013, 09:22 PM
Mar 2013

and we women folk might have trouble right? /sarcasm

Sigh.

We don't need a woman version of everything. For underpants? Sure, I can see that. But for most things, one version will work for everyone.

I hate most how they assume we're too stupid to use something as ridiculously simple as the Apple operating system.

MadrasT

(7,237 posts)
5. The preloaded apps cracked me up.
Sun Mar 10, 2013, 10:18 PM
Mar 2013

Yoga, grocery shopping, and cooking.

I don't have a single app for anything like that.

Don't even get me started on the pink.

niyad

(113,532 posts)
10. dear goddess, I was hoping you were joking about the pink!! sadly, having just read the whole
Mon Mar 11, 2013, 12:27 AM
Mar 2013

article, you are not.

there was a discussion in a thread earlier in the week about the genderization of objects. I was annoyed with the barbie pink computers and crap for girls, not to mention pink tools, etc. this. . . . .disgusting.

I hope the idiots who thought this up go broke.

ismnotwasm

(41,999 posts)
6. I have a couple of friends from Israel
Sun Mar 10, 2013, 10:32 PM
Mar 2013

Women I work with. I can hardly wait to show them this article, just so I can hear their reaction. NOT shy women, these friends of mine.

ismnotwasm

(41,999 posts)
12. Purple and Gold up here
Mon Mar 11, 2013, 12:47 AM
Mar 2013

Or perhaps Seahawks blue and green. The Mariners are similar. Not much diversity when I think of it. Even the Seattle Storm has green in it.



I must think on this.

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