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Quote: Originally Posted by lkrupp I believe you are wrong on this. The iPad will indeed kill the sales of possibly millions of PCs. Most of the people you see in WiFi locations with laptops or netbooks don't really need a PC. Email,...
I think the market for iPads is far more like the market for iPods than the market for iPhones. There are no subsidies, no contracts and you're not tied to specific carriers. It's going to be much more difficult for Android to maintain...
Unless Android 3.0 is a rewrite and the Android Market gets a complete overhaul none of these tablets is going to be "as good or better" than the iPad.
I think the iPod touch shows that Apple considers two cameras standard for FaceTime on mobile devices. The camera on the iPod touch is clearly not intended for photography (Apple didn't even say whether it could take stills when they...
Quote: Originally Posted by addicted44 Actually, thats not true. HTML, etc. are standards, and not technologies per se. You can have different execution technologies that reads those standards differently. I still think that WebOS...
It's odd to see him position WebOS's reliance on web technology as somehow 'futuristic' when web technology is, in fact, completely antiquated. HTML, javascript, etc, are lowest common denominator technologies we're stuck with because...
I tried it out. Very easy to use. Not sure how flexible it is. I don't know if this portends new HTML5 tools. Let's not forget they made Dashcode for creating Dashboard widgets and later promoted it as a way to create iOS web apps (iAd...
Just wanted to add. The people who are usually taken to be the target audience for cheap Chrome OS-based netbooks (lightweight users who don't need a full computer) are exactly the people who benefit most from the kind of user experience...
The real problem with Google's Chrome strategy, as I see it, is that the web has always been a second-rate experience for apps and not really suited to anything but document reading. (Actually, it has always been a second-rate experience...
Quote: Originally Posted by gwlaw99 In all fairness, all this chart shows is the spike in sales after the iphone 4 release. Sales always spike in the quarter after the year's new model is released. A spike is something that goes up...
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