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03-19-2011, 03:34 PM | #1291 |
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they still need to bring the price point down though. I can buy a halfway decent extremely functional laptop for what these tablets are going for right now.
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03-19-2011, 03:39 PM | #1292 | |
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Right now, my three kids are sitting on the couch working through math problems and just finished an app that has them learning states/capitals. Earlier, I was watching the tourney on the MMOD app. Last night I played a pretty damn cool game, Dead Space. My wife really enjoys Facebook/email on the device. 2 night ago, I watched a movie on the Netflix app. Not having flash has been a nuisance exactly once for me since I got the device. These are all things that are apparently below your line, but I find them somewhere between invaluable and quite cool. Worth my $500? Well, yeah, it is. I really appreciate your insight on the coming tech landscape, but the line of thinking that only idiots would actually buy an iPad because of its inferiority is getting old. |
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03-19-2011, 03:55 PM | #1293 | |
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The fact that your entire family is enjoying the device makes it worth the $500 for you. I would never begrudge you that fact. There are other specialized uses for an iPad that make sense as well. |
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03-19-2011, 03:59 PM | #1294 | |
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The apps will catch up, so will battery life.. in the end it will be aesthetics and marketing that keep the iPad afloat. The other factors are not matters of opinion.. they are quantifiable entities. You can claim to like a 3MP more than a 5MP.. but it's kinda silly. Same with a 1024x768 screen vs a 1280x754... 256 Megs of Ram vs 1024... |
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03-19-2011, 04:03 PM | #1295 | |
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I'll agree with you that some of the things, like screen resolution, not including Retina display, and the piss-poor excuses for cameras on the iPad 2 shouldn't be issues; Apple should have dealt with them better. But seriously, 256MB of ram? That used to power fairly advanced computers back in the day... How much memory can a tablet application possibly use? At a certain point it's overkill, isn't it? At least, right now?
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And no, Apple will NOT be able to keep up with the pace of development. Not on the OS front and not on the hardware front. Their monolithic model is fundamentally flawed in this regard. Hell, the Xoom proved this point... with a full year head start.. the iPad2 is only better in regards to battery and number of apps (and aesthetics, but let's leave that purely subjective aspect off the table) Apps is a non-issue since we all know that you hit a certain critical mass where it doesn't matter if you have 5 or 5000 apps that fulfill a certain need. Maybe Apple will prove me wrong with a major leap forward with the iPad3... but I find it unlikely. |
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03-19-2011, 04:30 PM | #1299 |
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03-19-2011, 09:14 PM | #1300 | |
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Wow. Have you read any if the xoom user experiences? They're miserable. Crashes repeatedly. Lags like crazy. Slow even running only google apps after a short period of uptime. To parse that to only two "minor" problems in comparison to the iPad is laughable. Bro, wake up. Evidently making a tablet run right isn't easy and Apple is way way ahead of the competitors in fielding a workable model
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Huh? I posted a benchmark earlier in this thread that showed the hardware on the iPad 2 blowing away the Xoom in some tests, and only lagging behind in one. I'd say that it's better than in more than those aspects you mentioned.
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Even if processor power is a wash... the Xoom kills it in EVERY OTHER aspect... memory, storage, screen, cameras.. Jesus, what was Apple thinking by putting two CRAP cameras on the thing when it would have been easy to actually put decent ones on. |
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We bought two Zooms through Verizon last week. So far the Teams love them.
No crashes. The screen is amazing. PS sucks. The other Team chose the iPad II. I think the Zoom is better. We'll see.
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