Apple's iPad 2 prompts Samsung to improve 'inadequate' parts of Galaxy Tab 10.1 - Page 6

Waited a year and a quarter for an opportunity to post this downer comment?

I'm not going to quote you, T.SKILL, because I think you might want to reconsider, out of some sympathy for the loss of his daughter. And I will delete this if you revise or delete your post.

Anyway, the point that Dick Appelbaum and jimt are making is much more interesting than your take on what he said. The handheld, big-screen, keyboardless computer is a serious amplification of our ability to understand and communicate. This ain't playing with toys or consuming content.

I'm curious and confused is all. It's hard to see something like that being posted without explanation. I wish to hear his testimony.

Testimony? Youre confused?

Thank you.

I think you're suffering some boundary issues. Your comments are inappropriate.

Sorry...didn't intend the comment to be such a downer. And, no, I didn't wait a year and a quarter for the opportunity. I waited 5 days.

My only intent was to point out that the iPad isn't just for fun and game. But, when she wasn't using the Proloque2go program, she loved to play her Fruit Ninja game

Again, my apologies

Sorry for your loss. You and your family have my deepest sympathies. God bless.

It's unlikely that I'll buy another iPad after my experience with iPad 1.0. However I'm happy that iPad 1.5 will pressurize Android tablet manufacturers to drop the prices. The iPad at $400 is too expensive for what it does. But if I can get wifi Android devices with Honeycomb for around $350-$400, it will be worth the money. At the moment the Nook Color (barely a tablet) and the Notion Ink Adam are the only two tablets that provide value for money. The Samsung Tab and Xoom provide even less value for money than the iPad.

Sorry for your loss -- she is in a better place.

We, as a family, bought this app to help support the company that builds apps for the disadvantaged -- we have no personal use, but the app impresses everyone who sees it.

It is amazing to sit a (non-disadvantaged) young child (or adult) down with the app and tell them that they lost their voice and must use the app to communicate.

It really changes your POV and appreciation for the basic ability to communicate.


“I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet.”


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For those who would try to understand, here are three movies -- if you watch them, you'll never forget them:

Black (2005)

Children of a Lesser God (1986)

Temple Grandin (TV 2010)

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They may not invent allot of things, but they make them practical and in a form that has mass appeal.

Inventing is one thing. Delivering something that is useable and has mass appeal is an entirely different thing. Judging by their financial stats, the mass appeal thing is pretty flipping important.

To watch it sink them as a company?

*sage nod*

I don't think that even Google is that stupid.

Perhaps if Oracle hadn't bought Sun they might have had the hubris to try.. but I think now Google suspects that Android has a 50% chance at being a total loss. I think they honestly thought they were going to take over with Chrome OS based netbooks and therefore didn't really take Android, Sun patent threats or tablets too seriously.

I wonder now if Steve didn't let Eric see the iPhone while holding the iPad back. Steve admits they started with the iPad first, but released the iPhone first.

I think these past three years will go down as the most significant in the personal electronics industry. It's clear Apple has a master plan and is executing against it superbly. It's almost as if they had an embarrassing defeat in a similar platform war and had a few years to plan how not to screw the "next big thing" up

what the hell do you think a flash file is man? interactive flash files are .swfs.

There is no humor associated with my answer, it's the truth which you refuse to acknowledge. You can use flash buttons with touch-based systems.

Since you can not answer my question without sarcasm and ignoring what I have said means you really are a troll and you have no informed answers.

Fandroids are screaming that flash 10.1 works on mobile devices. Yea that is true in theory, but there is zero interactivity functionality when you are dealing touch-based systems.

Check this situation out: This is flat out scary... and devestating to the android community.

"Malware on Android Market ★
Aaron Gingrich, for Android Police:
Openness the very characteristic of Android that makes us love it is a double-edged sword. Redditor lompolo has stumbled upon a perfect example of that fact; hes noticed that a publisher has taken 21 popular free apps from the market, injected root exploits into them and republished. The really scary part? 50k-200k downloads combined in 4 days.
Uh-oh:
Theres another APK hidden inside the code, and it steals nearly everything it can: product ID, model, partner (provider?), language, country, and userID. But thats all childs play; the true pièce de résistance is that it has the ability to download more code. In other words, theres no way to know what the app does after its installed, and the possibilities are nearly endless."

Adding to your excellent description of the Flash issues ... I noted that it is a battery hog as well ... instead of 10 hours of delightful use, maybe 1-2 hours. Same for 4G. Phone users are finding it also is a power hog... maybe a couple of hours of usage, then dead. Multitasking is another area that is a power hog, but I don't know the details.

The bottom line is if you want a long battery life so you can get something done, or enjoy reading, watching movies, or having fun making a home movie with the new iMOVIE app, then stick with a proven system. It is in the experience, not the specs. My dear wife could care less about customizing the look and feel ... in fact she wouldn't even think it was necessary.

Profanity, bashing is not only a lot of self pity, it communicates nothing. In fact it is just the bully way of trying to intimidate. You're not effectively selling anything.

You may call the iPAD a toy ... your choice of words. Many homes are full of wonderful toys that bring enjoyment and satisfaction. Your point is more that you wanted an iPAD that could replace your power hungry Notebook... enable you to do what you want on a powerful PC tower system... and you wanted all this for a very low price.

You would be well, to keep the nasty stuff away from your thought processes .. we certainly don't deserve your crap. You have made some intelligent remarks ... Keep doing that ... Stop the crap.

You have hit the nail on the head. I use Apple stuff, I have built (assemblied many PC towers), I have three printers (good ones, epson for photo stuff), plus a nice scanner. I have a nice Core2 duo with Vista that hasn't been used for almost a year. I didn't bother with Windows 7 ... I just got a mac-mini and use the monitor and keyboard. I don't get viruses. My printers are in trouble because of lack of use. I move data around on flash drives,and networking vs printing and now I am developing a private blog for our family because Facebook is so dangerous. So bye, bye paper. As soon as iPAD2 is available (just in a week or so) my dear wife will finally be able to do her thing, enjoy pictures of the grandkids, making jigsaw puzzles from them and having fun, learn how to use the internet (she says the PC and all that OS stuff is so confusing), she likes to read, watch a movie or two while camping (try that with your laptop that dies after 2 hours) and is back lit so it does not need outside lighting (sorry Kindle ... who reads in direct sun light anyway ... get out the sun burn lotion). So it is the EZ with to use the iPAD that is so intriguing ... also the security.

When Apple can get the publishing community (books, magazine, papers, etc) to join the party, then all the students( we are all students) can enjoy up to date book material, turn in their papers digitally ( forget printing all that stuff) and have all their valuable files saved on a cloud server... then the transformation will be as significant as when we finally got automobiles for transportation instead of reliable hay burners. Go iPAD, Go ... then for those that need so-called power get a MacBook Pro or Air ... the Air is a real winner also ... go for it.

Please just multi-quote, particularly when they're all about the same thing.

You have my deepest sympathies. There is no need for you apologise for anything. The poster with autism probably should, but probably wouldn't recognise the need to do so.

Ha ha -- this is not the first time someone has suggested this process is a regular process...

If what you are saying is correct, pls explain the following:

- Why is it that there is no other manufacturer using Unibody construction techniques for anything else. In any industry. Forget computers, even high end defense and aerospace equipment where strength to weight ratio is very important, use casting followed by precision finishing. Nowhere else do they start with a block of Aluminium and finish with the final product.

- Secondly, there is a clear video from Apple, showing the process used to make the Unibody iMac. The "hole" where the screen is, ends up as two unibody keyboards. Can you tell me any machining procedure that can cut out these holes - leaving behind big solid chunks of Aluminium to cut out the Keyboards from? Or do you think Jon Ive is lying through his teeth in that video?

- Thirdly, Aluminium can be recycled cheaper than it can be made - but still, if Apple converts blocks of Aluminium into 95% by weight of scrap in each round, then this process would be WAY TOO EXPENSIVE. Every tonne of Aluminium will end up getting melted about 20 times! Or is it your case that Apple's costs/margins are high enough to absorb the expense of melting the Aluminium 20 times??

Get real - those links you posted are nothing but speculation - people are guessing Apple's processes as much as you and I are.

Would love to see your responses to my points - if you have any!

His judgement is obviously clouded by his hate for Apple or he's bot smart enough to realize that a process to make a process more efficient can be a rede secret. In fact, if we go back to early production of steel I-beams we can see this very thing (I forget the person who oneness it).

I wonder why he thinks Apple is able is able to mill the Mac Mini case and the top case for the MBA display and yet so few vendors are able to copy Apple's lead here except in a minimal way. I bet he doesn't think Google didn't invent their search algorithms simply because they didn't invent the first algorithm.