Dell to launch 7-inch tablet in 'next few weeks' to challenge iPad - Page 4

Originally Posted by nealg

I think there are some who treat the platform wars like religious differences. Their ideas have to be right so everybody else, no matter what the evidence, is wrong. Pretty silly whether you are an Apple nut or a Msft nut. Ignoring the best tools for the job without good reason comes at a price.

If people have an Android device and have a good number of apps purchased, it may not make sense to try to go with an iPad if the android tablet does what you
want it to do. To not buy an iPad because Apple makes it, I would agree, doesn't make alot of sense.

Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton

It's ready for the day man evolves an eleventh finger... Or perhaps masters the use of an extra appendage (ahem)

Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton

I suppose so. I personally don't benefit if they buy an iPad, but they made the decision to not like Apple for some ideological reason, then everything Apple does seems to be interpreted through the lens of their prejudice. Ironically, my friend who complained about the App Store being "closed" just got the Samsung Captivate, which (surprise!) doesn't allow sideloading of apps. And AT&T duplicates many of Google's apps with their own inferior versions. Saying he doesn't like Apple's control over Apps and then buying an Android phone that requires rooting to free it from AT&T's control...maybe they should call it the Samsung Ironic

Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton

I can't say I grasp the rationale behind an anti Apple stance. Most of the people that I know personally who hate Apple aren't speaking from experience because they've never owned an Apple product. They're convinced Apple is <insert-negative-affectation>. For example, one friend says he doesn't agree with the "closed nature" of the App Store, and I'll ask for how that specifically negatively affects him, and he can't say because he doesn't own any Apple products, but he's opposed to it in principle. He doesn't "want Steve Jobs to choose which Apps I can install". OK, I say, are you against having Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft approving games produced for their completely closed console platforms? Are you against Wal-Mart, Netflix or Blockbuster not selling porn? No, he doesn't oppose it when other companies restrict his choices, just when Apple does. Another friend of mine was dissing iPods as closed: he believed that iPods only worked with iTunes Music Store purchases and therefore could not playback unencrypted MP3 files. Jeez, if one is going to be anti-Apple, at least take the time to get the facts straight! Anyway, I don't think Apple has done anything to deserve the kind of hate they get, particularly those who just repeat the negative press they hear but aren't speaking from personal experience. That kind of rubs me the wrong way, because it isn't a fair judgment, IMO.

Let them own Dells, if That's what they want.

Originally Posted by axual

Dell can't possibly compete with the iPad ... they do not know how. I hate to say that, but they just don't know how.

Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum

That's quite interesting, and fits Apple's MO.

Do you have any links?

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