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There seem to be a lot of middling responses to yesterday’s announcement of the iPad, Apple’s latest entry into the world of really neat looking mobile devices. A quick look at the front page of Techmeme<\/a> shows the variety of responses, from the iPad killing the PC<\/a> to the lack of a camera killing the iPad<\/a>.<\/p>\nSocial media monitoring and analytics firm Sysomos<\/a> took a look at the responses<\/a> to the iPad over the past days, however, and said that the iPad has received an “extremely positive” response.<\/p>\n Sponsor<\/em> According the the company’s Media Analysis Platform<\/a>, the response to the iPad was an overwhelmingly 83% positive.<\/p>\n With only 17% of the results coming in on the negative end of things, it would seem that we love it. Even if we ignore the neutral, the positive does beat out the negative.<\/p>\n We have to wonder, however, what falls into the neutral category. At 48%, neutral sentiment makes up a majority of the 83% favorability Sysomos arrives at. Perhaps this is the middling response we’re seeing?<\/p>\n Whatever it is we’ve been saying, whether positive, negative or otherwise, we’ve sure been saying it a lot. According to the blog, there have been “477,537 tweets that included “apple” and “ipad” over the past two days; 33,892 blog posts and 7,315 traditional media articles.”<\/p>\n Maybe Apple should just release a product called the iBuzz that we could talk about and rate forever.<\/p>\n Discuss<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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