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03-18-2011, 04:09 PM | #1276 |
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In his defense, he can open, edit, and safe the file from his USB drive, so that is easier that the extra step of emailing. Using google dice with gears and desktop gives you similar functionality to what he seeks though.
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03-18-2011, 05:20 PM | #1277 |
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I thought the lack of each was really stupid on Apple's part the first goround. And I still can't believe they didn't add it to the iPad2. There's plenty of room inside for it.
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03-19-2011, 02:57 AM | #1278 |
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Every time I start thinking I really want an iPad, I come and read this thread. Thanks Austinchief for keeping me from jumping too early.
The only thing that really sucks for me is the money I already have invested in apps for my ipod touch. Of course, that was apples plan all along. Get you monetarily hooked to the product.
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03-19-2011, 07:35 AM | #1280 |
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You're just sore because you know I'm right. Besides, why are you hanging out in this thread anyway. It's going to be a long time before you find that tablet that completely replaces your laptop.
But for giggles, let's take a short trip down memory lane. Remember almost a year ago when AustinChief said this: Quote:
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You realize that there's ALWAYS going to be something better just around the corner, right? I assume that since you post on this board, you are at least awake. As a result, you have to have noticed that technology is improving at an exponential rate. It's not going to slow down. There's always going to be a better tablet, a better smartphone, a better iPod, six months away. If you keep waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting for the 'next one that'll be awesomer to the max times a millions!' you're gadgetless. People who want these devices are gonna have to accept that they're buying something that'll be antiquated in a few years if not months. But deal with it. Or go without. Just stop bitching.
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And I stand by my previous posts... As someone who has actually used almost every type of tablet on the market... I have found the iPad to be the best form with the least function. Mostly due to its lack of FLASH support... and the various apps that are meant to supplant FLASH functionality ... simply don't. Let me give you a PERFECT example that happened ALL THE TIME with my girlfriend and I. She had an iPhone and later an iPad that I bought her. I had a Win7 tablet and an EVO 4G. While driving I would think of some obscure song I wanted her to hear so I would search for it on Google. OVER HALF the time there would NOT be a version that would play on Youtube's mobile app. SO if I sent her a link she couldn't play it on her i-devices yet I could play the video just fine on mine because I could choose to play via FLASH and not use the mobile app. Do you have any idea how supremely annoying it is when half of your searched results won't play? It isn't about an iPad killer, Apple's ridiculous policies have made the iPad a half-functional novelty and nothing more. but you can certainly do LESS for LONGER with its amazing battery life! Over the course of last year a bunch of BETTER tablets came out... they ALL SUCKED but they were still better because they actually worked. Over the course of this year a ton more will come out that are ALL better and may also not suck. The Wifi Xoom with Flash and SD CARD support should be out in a week and at $600 it is easily the best tablet on the market... I'm not a huge fan because I still think it will be overpriced but I challenge anyone to tell me why an iPad is better at that point? It will have better hardware specs, same price, better OS and lastly FLASH! Feel free to drink Apple's koolaid and CHANGE the way you use the web to suit their device.. personally I would rather have a device that actually tries to fit what I want and not the other way around. |
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OK, AustinChief, you keep banging that drum.
But why have you been talking about the wonders coming a year or two from now instead of proclaiming victory with all the better-than-ipad tablets on the market today?
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The Xoom is better than the iPad... but neither is worth buying IMO. Now do you get my point? That is why I keep talking about what is on the horizon. I currently have a Win7 tablet that is head and shoulders more functional BUT it is bulky and has crappy battery life. SO, I don't consider it a true tablet.... but I simply couldn't take 10 steps backward in functionality for the sake of a thinner device with a better battery. |
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