First let me say I'm one of those that supports the desire for a USB port and an SD slot. It is a minor disappointment that iPad 2 apparently has niether.
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I still say another tiny hole or two beats a buncha fugly, tangled, easily-misplaced, overpriced, dingle-dangle dongles all hangin' outta the bottom and switching adapters to switch devices.
Adapters that Apple taxes heavily because of the iPod connector tax. Beyound that many adapters are forced to tie themselves with a specific piece of software. All this ends up meaning one thing, expensive I/O.
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If I'm writing docs or editing pics, I wanna print 'em. Upload from my cam. Display on my HDTV or monitor. Listen on my better speakers. Charge. Sync. (Bluetooth will do for the keyboard - which I'm gonna have 'cos I write alot.)
These are all good reasons to want to have a USB port. I've never understood why people dismiss these and others out of hand. Or worst offer up the kludge of the camera connection kit.
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And with all the productivity, photo-editing, music and other apps on the iPad, you're telling me the iPad - which can be used and transported in so many ways - is not for me? Who made you commissar of iPad needs? (Well, Steve and Ives are that, I guess - you're just a proxy for "the Apple Way." I mean you won, I lost. But I shall continue to rant nonetheless. If only for the hell of it. Which means I may be starting to understand Apple Insider forum speak.)
There is ample justification for rants due to the missing SD slot and to a lesser extent the USB port. The SD slot should be a no brainer and further cost Apple very little in the way of battery life issues.
USB on the other hand is admittedly a more complex issue.
Put that port in and many would expect profile support and drivers for everything. Currently there is no mechanism that I know of to install those drivers so that is a problem. Beyound that there is a real problem of power usage. Even with these negatives and others., I still think Apple could provide a reasonable amount of USB functionality. Even with TB USB will be around for just about ever.
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I understand that TBolt's not gonna happen because the iPad isn't a PCI-E device,
I think you could be wrong here on a couple of accounts. One is that TB needs low-cost end points to be successful, so either Apple or Intel must be working on a less involved solution. That is a TB chip that handles the interfacing of the PCI - E stream to other bus structures.
The other issue is that Apple could easily add PCI Express lanes to the A5 or latter versions. In fact PA Semi was noted for their serial I/O lines. The point is just because a system doesn't have PCI - E today doesn't imply it won't be there tomorrow.
Finally if they do support TB in a future model it will likely be when they can integrate directly into the SoC. That could imply a limited functionality end point. No matter what the software development is non trivial.
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but I can't believe including a single USB port and maybe an HDMI is either a technical hurdle or that costly.
Electrically and mechanically it is no big deal.
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And that USB port would work with every peripheral I have.
This isn't the case at all. Many USB devices require drivers, many from third party sources. I believe one of the reasons Apple calls the USB dongle a camera connection kit is simply that they don't want to support anything else. By calling the dongle a camera connection kit and not a USB interface they are not under any obligation to support other devices.
In the end supporting USB hardware is trivial. Support USBs software requirements isn't at all.
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Including charging (and transferring media from) my cell phone and cam (and, blush, charging my e-cigarette battery) with a minimum of bricks (and adapter cables) in my bag, i.e., one for my iPad.
(PS: After the first 10 minutes I wasn't planning to spend a lot of hours looking at the side to see if it looks "cluttered.")
I honestly think these cries of cluttered come from people with simple minds. There is a massive untouched potential in iPad and iPad like devices. Some of those potentials require communicating with the outside physical world. If a person doesn't see beyond what is provided to him than obviously flexibility and adaptability is seen as clutter.
After a few minutes of use nobody would even notice the port. Beyond the software and marketing issues the port isn't a big deal.
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Anyway, I think that would look less ungainly and cobbled together than what we got. Oh well.
In some ways I'm very pleased with the new iPad. I'm more bothered by Apples sleazy hide the specs game. Especially the important one related to the RAM and to a lesser extent the lack of details with respect to the processor. As to looks I will have to see it in a store before I pass judgement. I know with iPad one picking up the unit in the store and playing with it changes your opinion very quickly.
In any event I just wanted to point out that TB could very well be in the running for future iPads. The lack of a PCI Express facility on current hardware means nothing.
I see two orientations for the Smart Cover. How does that work? Are there two types of Smart Cover, one that folds along the long side and one that folds along the short side? Do I need two covers if I want to be able to use it as a stand in both orientations?
I'll let ya in on a "secret": SJ and Apple are NOT in a spec-sheet race. They are in a "user-friendly" and "experience" race... and by all accounts, they are winning "The Race" by a long mile.
A product that is short on RAM can not give you the positive experience you claim Apple is after. Further it isn't very user friendly to have software fail because there isn't enough RAM to open a document.
The whole point in sitting here focusing on the cloak and dagger business with installed RAM, is that it does impact the user experience in a big way. Especially on iPad where the is no VM for user data. If you are looking at iPad 2 one of the things that should concern you is the ability to do things the old model couldn't do because of the lack of RAM.
It is a simple parameter to publish. If Apple had stated on their spec sheet that the new model has 512MB of RAM I would know immediately that user apps now have about 3times the RAM available to them. With Apples nonsense it is all guess work.
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"The Race" = who can get the next revolution of computing devices, at an affordable yet profitable price-point, into the hands of as many people as possible, and make them say, "WOW!... how did I ever live without this great gadget before".
It is 5:00 in the morning here maybe you are dreaming.
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Horse-bet: 1:1 odds Apple sells 40 mil in 2011... 1:1,5 - 60 million.
I really don't care if Apple sells a hundred million, if Safari can't do what it needs to do for me then the device is useless. Apple being forthright about the installed RAM just makes considering the new version easier. As it is now one has to find a trusted source for info Apple should supply. That to simply determine if the device will give the user experience needed.
I see two orientations for the Smart Cover. How does that work? Are there two types of Smart Cover, one that folds along the long side and one that folds along the short side? Do I need two covers if I want to be able to use it as a stand in both orientations?
First let me say I'm one of those that supports the desire for a USB port and an SD slot. It is a minor disappointment that iPad 2 apparently has niether.
Adapters that Apple taxes heavily because of the iPod connector tax. Beyound that many adapters are forced to tie themselves with a specific piece of software. All this ends up meaning one thing, expensive I/O.
These are all good reasons to want to have a USB port. I've never understood why people dismiss these and others out of hand. Or worst offer up the kludge of the camera connection kit.
There is ample justification for rants due to the missing SD slot and to a lesser extent the USB port. The SD slot should be a no brainer and further cost Apple very little in the way of battery life issues.
USB on the other hand is admittedly a more complex issue.
Put that port in and many would expect profile support and drivers for everything. Currently there is no mechanism that I know of to install those drivers so that is a problem. Beyound that there is a real problem of power usage. Even with these negatives and others., I still think Apple could provide a reasonable amount of USB functionality. Even with TB USB will be around for just about ever.
I think you could be wrong here on a couple of accounts. One is that TB needs low-cost end points to be successful, so either Apple or Intel must be working on a less involved solution. That is a TB chip that handles the interfacing of the PCI - E stream to other bus structures.
The other issue is that Apple could easily add PCI Express lanes to the A5 or latter versions. In fact PA Semi was noted for their serial I/O lines. The point is just because a system doesn't have PCI - E today doesn't imply it won't be there tomorrow.
Finally if they do support TB in a future model it will likely be when they can integrate directly into the SoC. That could imply a limited functionality end point. No matter what the software development is non trivial.
Electrically and mechanically it is no big deal. This isn't the case at all. Many USB devices require drivers, many from third party sources. I believe one of the reasons Apple calls the USB dongle a camera connection kit is simply that they don't want to support anything else. By calling the dongle a camera connection kit and not a USB interface they are not under any obligation to support other devices.
In the end supporting USB hardware is trivial. Support USBs software requirements isn't at all.
I honestly think these cries of cluttered come from people with simple minds. There is a massive untouched potential in iPad and iPad like devices. Some of those potentials require communicating with the outside physical world. If a person doesn't see beyond what is provided to him than obviously flexibility and adaptability is seen as clutter.
After a few minutes of use nobody would even notice the port. Beyond the software and marketing issues the port isn't a big deal.
In some ways I'm very pleased with the new iPad. I'm more bothered by Apples sleazy hide the specs game. Especially the important one related to the RAM and to a lesser extent the lack of details with respect to the processor. As to looks I will have to see it in a store before I pass judgement. I know with iPad one picking up the unit in the store and playing with it changes your opinion very quickly.
In any event I just wanted to point out that TB could very well be in the running for future iPads. The lack of a PCI Express facility on current hardware means nothing.
Wow! What a great post that dealt with every point I raised. I feel like I've just been to iPad seminar! Thanks for the education..... ...I'm always as happy to be wrong but now corrected as I am to right in the first place. Altho' I know enough that I really should've considered the driver issue.
Once again, Apple gets it right and judging by some of the comments that I've been reading on various sites, the Apple haters and other forms of lower species are all apparently losing their minds and they're getting pretty desperate now. I find the whole spectacle rather hilarious.
Those who are old enough to have been following Apple from the beginning have seen it all and heard it all before. It's the same old tired and recycled comments, coming from people who haven't got the faintest clue as to why Apple's products are successful in the first place.
It's about the whole user experience and it's about the marriage of the hardware with the software. That's always been the case with Apple and it didn't just start with the iPad. Besides a few pimply faced trolls on message boards, nobody really gives a rat's ass if you can root your phone or your tablet and the average consumer doesn't give two shits about technical specifications.
What they care about is how the product feels and works when they're holding it in their hands and they're actually using it. That's what people care about. The iPad is more like an appliance than a computer. That's why the iPad is such a success and the iPad 2 builds upon that success by making various improvements which means that millions of more people will be buying an iPad in 2011. Meanwhile, the competitors and the haters will all be scratching their dense heads and wondering why nobody is buying (insert inferior copycat tablet here).
Actually the original iPad has all sorts of problems directly related to the amount of RAM installed. IPad really has a UNIX like OS running below that GUI goodness, thus it can easily make use of that extra RAM. If it is there.
Contrary to some opinions here I don't think iPad 2 is that bad of an upgrade. That is if RAM has expanded to the desired 512 MB. Of all the things that Apple has done with iPad marketing I see the sleaziest as its refusal to divulge important parameters like RAM size.
Besides that iPad really comes up short when doing one of the things it should do well. That is surfing the net with Safari. The extreme lack of RAM in iPad one leads to excessive page reloads which slows the machine and expands data usage. It is almost as if Apple configured IPad to use you data allotment excessively.
I was going to post a reply, then I thought why bother, any logic would be lost on you.
What's amazing is how much they were able to jam into this thing, while making it thinner and lighter.
Oh, and keeping it the same price.
But I'm not getting one, since it doesn't have a touchable hologram of Taylor Swift. I mean, that's what I was counting on Apple delivering, and they were obviously too cheap to really "go for it."
I fail to see how the Xoom is overpriced. I paid $829 for my iPad. The Xoom costs $799 without contract.
I also remember the lack of iPad native apps available when I powered up my iPad on day one.
The bickering back and forth makes me laugh. I love my iPad and wont give it up till Apple makes one with 4G and MORE resolution. Having said that I am considering purchasing a Xoom to play with.
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How much will a 32GB memory card cost, to bring the Xoom up to 64GB of memory?
Seeing as you chose to base your comparison on the 64GB iPad.
$65 for a 32gb microSD. Making the Xoom WAY overpriced by $35 unless you purchase with a contract bringing it down to $165 cheaper than the iPad. I should mention I have the data plan from AT&T since day one so we are comparing apples to Apple sort of.
Dual core CPU sounds like a marketing gimmick - since, unlike Android, iOS cannot multitask, second core will just sit there idle all the time.
Wrong multi cores are not just used just for multitasking but to optimize currently executing tasks, smart programs can distribute the work on multiple cores for better performance and that's exactly what's going to happen with the use of GCD.
Wrong multi cores are not just used just for multitasking but to optimize currently executing tasks, smart programs can distribute the work on multiple cores for better performance and that's exactly what's going to happen with the use of GCD.
Not to mention that he's wrong and there is multitasking to be found in iOS, so dual core can help reduce the load on the core being used for your currently viewed app.
Here in Japan the cover is getting an interesting reaction: it reminds people (I've talked to a few who said the same thing today) of the cover for baths in the home which are quite common due to the culture of sharing the bath here. I wonder where Apple got the idea...
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I still say another tiny hole or two beats a buncha fugly, tangled, easily-misplaced, overpriced, dingle-dangle dongles all hangin' outta the bottom and switching adapters to switch devices.
Adapters that Apple taxes heavily because of the iPod connector tax. Beyound that many adapters are forced to tie themselves with a specific piece of software. All this ends up meaning one thing, expensive I/O.
If I'm writing docs or editing pics, I wanna print 'em. Upload from my cam. Display on my HDTV or monitor. Listen on my better speakers. Charge. Sync. (Bluetooth will do for the keyboard - which I'm gonna have 'cos I write alot.)
These are all good reasons to want to have a USB port. I've never understood why people dismiss these and others out of hand. Or worst offer up the kludge of the camera connection kit.
And with all the productivity, photo-editing, music and other apps on the iPad, you're telling me the iPad - which can be used and transported in so many ways - is not for me? Who made you commissar of iPad needs? (Well, Steve and Ives are that, I guess - you're just a proxy for "the Apple Way." I mean you won, I lost. But I shall continue to rant nonetheless. If only for the hell of it. Which means I may be starting to understand Apple Insider forum speak.)
There is ample justification for rants due to the missing SD slot and to a lesser extent the USB port. The SD slot should be a no brainer and further cost Apple very little in the way of battery life issues.
USB on the other hand is admittedly a more complex issue.
Put that port in and many would expect profile support and drivers for everything. Currently there is no mechanism that I know of to install those drivers so that is a problem. Beyound that there is a real problem of power usage. Even with these negatives and others., I still think Apple could provide a reasonable amount of USB functionality. Even with TB USB will be around for just about ever.
I understand that TBolt's not gonna happen because the iPad isn't a PCI-E device,
I think you could be wrong here on a couple of accounts. One is that TB needs low-cost end points to be successful, so either Apple or Intel must be working on a less involved solution. That is a TB chip that handles the interfacing of the PCI - E stream to other bus structures.
The other issue is that Apple could easily add PCI Express lanes to the A5 or latter versions. In fact PA Semi was noted for their serial I/O lines. The point is just because a system doesn't have PCI - E today doesn't imply it won't be there tomorrow.
Finally if they do support TB in a future model it will likely be when they can integrate directly into the SoC. That could imply a limited functionality end point. No matter what the software development is non trivial.
but I can't believe including a single USB port and maybe an HDMI is either a technical hurdle or that costly.
Electrically and mechanically it is no big deal.
And that USB port would work with every peripheral I have.
This isn't the case at all. Many USB devices require drivers, many from third party sources. I believe one of the reasons Apple calls the USB dongle a camera connection kit is simply that they don't want to support anything else. By calling the dongle a camera connection kit and not a USB interface they are not under any obligation to support other devices.
In the end supporting USB hardware is trivial. Support USBs software requirements isn't at all.
Including charging (and transferring media from) my cell phone and cam (and, blush, charging my e-cigarette battery) with a minimum of bricks (and adapter cables) in my bag, i.e., one for my iPad.
(PS: After the first 10 minutes I wasn't planning to spend a lot of hours looking at the side to see if it looks "cluttered.")
I honestly think these cries of cluttered come from people with simple minds. There is a massive untouched potential in iPad and iPad like devices. Some of those potentials require communicating with the outside physical world. If a person doesn't see beyond what is provided to him than obviously flexibility and adaptability is seen as clutter.
After a few minutes of use nobody would even notice the port. Beyond the software and marketing issues the port isn't a big deal.
Anyway, I think that would look less ungainly and cobbled together than what we got. Oh well.
In some ways I'm very pleased with the new iPad. I'm more bothered by Apples sleazy hide the specs game. Especially the important one related to the RAM and to a lesser extent the lack of details with respect to the processor. As to looks I will have to see it in a store before I pass judgement. I know with iPad one picking up the unit in the store and playing with it changes your opinion very quickly.
In any event I just wanted to point out that TB could very well be in the running for future iPads. The lack of a PCI Express facility on current hardware means nothing.
I'll let ya in on a "secret": SJ and Apple are NOT in a spec-sheet race. They are in a "user-friendly" and "experience" race... and by all accounts, they are winning "The Race" by a long mile.
A product that is short on RAM can not give you the positive experience you claim Apple is after. Further it isn't very user friendly to have software fail because there isn't enough RAM to open a document.
The whole point in sitting here focusing on the cloak and dagger business with installed RAM, is that it does impact the user experience in a big way. Especially on iPad where the is no VM for user data. If you are looking at iPad 2 one of the things that should concern you is the ability to do things the old model couldn't do because of the lack of RAM.
It is a simple parameter to publish. If Apple had stated on their spec sheet that the new model has 512MB of RAM I would know immediately that user apps now have about 3times the RAM available to them. With Apples nonsense it is all guess work.
"The Race" = who can get the next revolution of computing devices, at an affordable yet profitable price-point, into the hands of as many people as possible, and make them say, "WOW!... how did I ever live without this great gadget before".
It is 5:00 in the morning here maybe you are dreaming.
Horse-bet: 1:1 odds Apple sells 40 mil in 2011... 1:1,5 - 60 million.
I really don't care if Apple sells a hundred million, if Safari can't do what it needs to do for me then the device is useless. Apple being forthright about the installed RAM just makes considering the new version easier. As it is now one has to find a trusted source for info Apple should supply. That to simply determine if the device will give the user experience needed.
I see two orientations for the Smart Cover. How does that work? Are there two types of Smart Cover, one that folds along the long side and one that folds along the short side? Do I need two covers if I want to be able to use it as a stand in both orientations?
You see wrong. It's long side only.
First let me say I'm one of those that supports the desire for a USB port and an SD slot. It is a minor disappointment that iPad 2 apparently has niether.
Adapters that Apple taxes heavily because of the iPod connector tax. Beyound that many adapters are forced to tie themselves with a specific piece of software. All this ends up meaning one thing, expensive I/O.
These are all good reasons to want to have a USB port. I've never understood why people dismiss these and others out of hand. Or worst offer up the kludge of the camera connection kit.
There is ample justification for rants due to the missing SD slot and to a lesser extent the USB port. The SD slot should be a no brainer and further cost Apple very little in the way of battery life issues.
USB on the other hand is admittedly a more complex issue.
Put that port in and many would expect profile support and drivers for everything. Currently there is no mechanism that I know of to install those drivers so that is a problem. Beyound that there is a real problem of power usage. Even with these negatives and others., I still think Apple could provide a reasonable amount of USB functionality. Even with TB USB will be around for just about ever.
I think you could be wrong here on a couple of accounts. One is that TB needs low-cost end points to be successful, so either Apple or Intel must be working on a less involved solution. That is a TB chip that handles the interfacing of the PCI - E stream to other bus structures.
The other issue is that Apple could easily add PCI Express lanes to the A5 or latter versions. In fact PA Semi was noted for their serial I/O lines. The point is just because a system doesn't have PCI - E today doesn't imply it won't be there tomorrow.
Finally if they do support TB in a future model it will likely be when they can integrate directly into the SoC. That could imply a limited functionality end point. No matter what the software development is non trivial.
Electrically and mechanically it is no big deal. This isn't the case at all. Many USB devices require drivers, many from third party sources. I believe one of the reasons Apple calls the USB dongle a camera connection kit is simply that they don't want to support anything else. By calling the dongle a camera connection kit and not a USB interface they are not under any obligation to support other devices.
In the end supporting USB hardware is trivial. Support USBs software requirements isn't at all.
I honestly think these cries of cluttered come from people with simple minds. There is a massive untouched potential in iPad and iPad like devices. Some of those potentials require communicating with the outside physical world. If a person doesn't see beyond what is provided to him than obviously flexibility and adaptability is seen as clutter.
After a few minutes of use nobody would even notice the port. Beyond the software and marketing issues the port isn't a big deal.
In some ways I'm very pleased with the new iPad. I'm more bothered by Apples sleazy hide the specs game. Especially the important one related to the RAM and to a lesser extent the lack of details with respect to the processor. As to looks I will have to see it in a store before I pass judgement. I know with iPad one picking up the unit in the store and playing with it changes your opinion very quickly.
In any event I just wanted to point out that TB could very well be in the running for future iPads. The lack of a PCI Express facility on current hardware means nothing.
Wow! What a great post that dealt with every point I raised. I feel like I've just been to iPad seminar! Thanks for the education..... ...I'm always as happy to be wrong but now corrected as I am to right in the first place. Altho' I know enough that I really should've considered the driver issue.
You see wrong. It's long side only.
Indeed, I paused the movie at the end and it is long side. So, no stand for portrait mode? Too bad. Still an ingenious and elegant solution.
Those who are old enough to have been following Apple from the beginning have seen it all and heard it all before. It's the same old tired and recycled comments, coming from people who haven't got the faintest clue as to why Apple's products are successful in the first place.
It's about the whole user experience and it's about the marriage of the hardware with the software. That's always been the case with Apple and it didn't just start with the iPad. Besides a few pimply faced trolls on message boards, nobody really gives a rat's ass if you can root your phone or your tablet and the average consumer doesn't give two shits about technical specifications.
What they care about is how the product feels and works when they're holding it in their hands and they're actually using it. That's what people care about. The iPad is more like an appliance than a computer. That's why the iPad is such a success and the iPad 2 builds upon that success by making various improvements which means that millions of more people will be buying an iPad in 2011. Meanwhile, the competitors and the haters will all be scratching their dense heads and wondering why nobody is buying (insert inferior copycat tablet here).
Actually the original iPad has all sorts of problems directly related to the amount of RAM installed. IPad really has a UNIX like OS running below that GUI goodness, thus it can easily make use of that extra RAM. If it is there.
Contrary to some opinions here I don't think iPad 2 is that bad of an upgrade. That is if RAM has expanded to the desired 512 MB. Of all the things that Apple has done with iPad marketing I see the sleaziest as its refusal to divulge important parameters like RAM size.
Besides that iPad really comes up short when doing one of the things it should do well. That is surfing the net with Safari. The extreme lack of RAM in iPad one leads to excessive page reloads which slows the machine and expands data usage. It is almost as if Apple configured IPad to use you data allotment excessively.
All that power and still gimped multitasking.
That cover looks really cool. Seriously.
I'buy one leather cover for week-ends only and maybe two made of polyU for the week.
I'buy one leather cover for week-ends only and maybe two made of polyU for the week.
Nice.
I definitely want one of those leather ones. I just think it's a kick-ass idea.
Pretty much what was expected" - An incremental 'Update'.
It would have been nice to have:
- A higher resolution display
- A bump to 128gb at the high end
- Higher resolution cameras
- Built-in Stereo speakers
- An SDHC/XC card slot for transferring pictures etc.
- A dock port that allows the connector to sit flush writhe the device.
- A design that didn't force one to buy all new cases/accessories.
Overall, this really is what the device should have been at the beginning, and I'm sure it will sell very well.
I was going to post a reply, then I thought why bother, any logic would be lost on you.
I was going to post a reply, then I thought why bother, any logic would be lost on you.
What's amazing is how much they were able to jam into this thing, while making it thinner and lighter.
Oh, and keeping it the same price.
But I'm not getting one, since it doesn't have a touchable hologram of Taylor Swift. I mean, that's what I was counting on Apple delivering, and they were obviously too cheap to really "go for it."
All that power and still gimped multitasking.
So buy something with "real" multitasking.
I also remember the lack of iPad native apps available when I powered up my iPad on day one.
http://obamapacman.com/2010/04/over-...d-launch-date/
How is 1000 apps on day 1 a lack of native apps?
I fail to see how the Xoom is overpriced. I paid $829 for my iPad. The Xoom costs $799 without contract.
I also remember the lack of iPad native apps available when I powered up my iPad on day one.
The bickering back and forth makes me laugh. I love my iPad and wont give it up till Apple makes one with 4G and MORE resolution. Having said that I am considering purchasing a Xoom to play with.
How much will a 32GB memory card cost, to bring the Xoom up to 64GB of memory?
Seeing as you chose to base your comparison on the 64GB iPad.
$65 for a 32gb microSD. Making the Xoom WAY overpriced by $35 unless you purchase with a contract bringing it down to $165 cheaper than the iPad. I should mention I have the data plan from AT&T since day one so we are comparing apples to Apple sort of.
Dual core CPU sounds like a marketing gimmick - since, unlike Android, iOS cannot multitask, second core will just sit there idle all the time.
Wrong multi cores are not just used just for multitasking but to optimize currently executing tasks, smart programs can distribute the work on multiple cores for better performance and that's exactly what's going to happen with the use of GCD.
Wrong multi cores are not just used just for multitasking but to optimize currently executing tasks, smart programs can distribute the work on multiple cores for better performance and that's exactly what's going to happen with the use of GCD.
Not to mention that he's wrong and there is multitasking to be found in iOS, so dual core can help reduce the load on the core being used for your currently viewed app.
TUAW has it:
http://www.tuaw.com/2011/03/03/new-i...bath-tub-lids/