Posts by Capnbob

Quote: Originally Posted by robkowa As a regular reader of the usual Apple sites (being an Apple fanboy myself), one regularly gets to read gleeful stories about how "RIM CEOs didn't see X coming", "Ballmer didn't see Y...

Quote: Originally Posted by Joseph L That is an amazing claim. Never heard that one before. Got any evidence that Apple paid a premium for iPad parts? As in, more than normal market price? Hard to believe. No it isn't. As well as...

Quote: Originally Posted by paxman That's impressive. If you were a dictionary author I'd be super impressed! As awesome and shambolic as English is, don't we all write the dictionary? It just takes a while for the new stuff to get...

Quote: Originally Posted by AdonisSMU Naturally Apple's Macs grew more than PCs. They have less market share. There is nothing natural about it. Being very sub scale enables you to have crazy growth rates like Android did in the early...

Quote: Originally Posted by Orlando Not necessarily anti-Apple but if you already own an Android phone (and apparently lots of people now do) would you buy an iPad or an Android tablet? Anecdotally, a fair number of the Android phone...

Quote: Originally Posted by Steven N. It will be an "Android device" but not supported byt he Google eco-system. 1) It will have its own map system. Bing or Map-Quest. BOth are better that Google Maps that is woefully out...

Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Funny, but when the issue was whether MacBooks were too expensive, people like you were denying numbers like that. Now that it's convenient, you are suddenly sure that the numbers are real. You're...

Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Where did you come up with $200? At $28 per month, the crapbook is $1,008 over 3 years. That's far more than a much faster and much more capable Windows laptop. See the examples I gave above. Heck,...

Quote: Originally Posted by Shrike It has 16 GB of local storage. In my travels, and in my home, I can get network access through wireless cards or WiFi, but it's obviously not the same performance as the local network. In fact, most of...

Quote: Originally Posted by Shrike I work in an MS Office and Exchange corporate environment. My email archive is hundreds of GBs. We basically email multi-MB PDF, Powerpoint and Excel files multiple times everyday. Just Joe Regular...