[cosmicgadget]

A thing about the internet: if it makes people laugh it will be repeated many, many times.

The ipad jokes were about its name, not the product itself. See also the Nintendo Wii.

[arjie]

Indeed. But the jokes about 4 iPod Touches glued together were also repeated many many times and that is about the product itself.

Online ridicule is meaningless. People ridicule everything that goes on to be successful. They also ridicule everything that goes on to fail.