Before the iPad was released, you crapped all over it. According to your own account, the only reason you have an iPad is that they gave it to you at work, and you still claimed it was just a big iPad Touch. No, you don't bash products because they aren't made by Apple, you bash products because the are made by Apple. You are not in any way an avid supporter of Apple and its products. Quite to the contrary, based on your posting history.
Have the decency to at least be honest here.
Ouch. Called him out there! (Let's see if it makes any differences, though -- I doubt it very much).
These other companies are only interested in building something as cheaply as possible and then making money off it.
While I don't like certain things about my iPad, like the closed file system, no USB port, and the need to sync it with another computer, I do love many things about it like the screen size.
I?m not here to bash the iPad 2?in fact, I?d like to get one. But at the end of the day, which tablet is better for propping open heavy doors on a windy day? Because for every person who wants to make music or play games, I bet there are three people who live in an area with doors and wind.
I don?t think the iPad is thick and heavy enough, and I worry that the ?copycats? are going to go the same route. Thin and light does not always = better.
Seriously funny! I always appreciate good humor. Sorry if #88 doesn't "get it" .... or maybe I just don't get #88. Cheers.
Samsung assembles a product with parts supplied by multiple vendors. Samsung sure as hell isn't going to be able to use the unibody design molding from Apple without being in hot water. LG supplies the Panels, not Samsung. So basically, Samsung chose to be a conglomerate with various businesses; one of them is just being an assembler while others design panels, memory, etc.
The Unibody enclosures are machined, not molded and nobody is ever going to get into trouble machining aluminium. The patent on that particular tech expired quite some time ago - only kidding - it never existed.
Apple assemble products with parts supplied by multiple vendors. What is your point? Are you sure you aren't getting a bit confused? LG supply the screen for the IP4. Samsung makes the screen for the iPad. I doubt Samsung are going to buy panels from LG for their tablet if they can make them themselves.
I'm not saying I disagree with you or agree with the guy your debating on here, but you may recall that Apple released iPad with the hardware ability to multi-task months before iOS was released with that capability.
the clear difference being apple didn't promote the iPad as multictasking only to release it without multitasking,
Last yeat I bought an hp printer that was advertised as an sprint printer. I get it home and there is a piece of paper with a web address to check for a software update to enable sprint that would be out later this year (2010). It sill isn't out and there is no information on when it will be released. I will probably never buy another hp product again because of this. In the case of the zoom, why did they release it before the promised software was ready?
This sort of thing is why apple doesn't want flash. They don't want adobe or any outside developer dictate their release cycles. Had they waited for flash to release the iPhone, they would have waited 3 years.
Before the iPad was released, you crapped all over it. According to your own account, the only reason you have an iPad is that they gave it to you at work, and you still claimed it was just a big iPad Touch. No, you don't bash products because they aren't made by Apple, you bash products because the are made by Apple. You are not in any way an avid supporter of Apple and its products. Quite to the contrary, based on your posting history.
Have the decency to at least be honest here.
It is just a big iPod Touch. I still hold to that comment. Unlike many of you I like the iPad because it is a toy. Listen to music, play games, surf the net and watch videos. If I wanted to do something productive I have to use a MBP because the iPad simply does not support the software I use. Which is the case for most people.
Mouse I am the as honest as they get because unlike you I just don't walk around sucking Steve Jobs nut sack. You are a bias fanboy wuss which doesn't make you honest. Just because you love everything that Apple makes and bash everything else doesn't make you honest in fact it's quite the opposite.
People like you bash Google, Microsoft and everyone else when 99% of the time you haven't even touched their products or services. That doesn't make you honest. At least when I have something negative to say I make an effort to use the product first. My opinion of the iPad still stand its a toy.
Just because it has sold to millions doesn't mean its some great productivity device. If its such a great educational tool like Steve Jobs says then why doesn't it get an educational discount like all other Apple products that are seen as educational tools? Love to hear your answer on that one.
You are one of the most bias people on this forum it's beyond a joke for you to try and call anyone else out on being honest.
Sounds like you guys need to send requests to that company telling them you require the virtual tours in HTML for your clients.
How were your sales staff showing the virtual tours before the iPad existed?
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Originally Posted by alandail
Are you suggesting that this couldn't be done in HTML5? Doesn't everyone win if the developers updated away from a proprietary solution and towards open standards? If they don't, their competition will. These changes are already happening across the board and the driving force behind it has been Apple. Everyone wins except Adobe.
iPads aren't anything we assign to them, it's just something they do on their own. In general, they use Citrix. As for what circlepix does for the builders they host virtual tours for, that's up to them. I am sure html5 can be used, but will they spend the time to do it? Idk.
Last year, Apple took its first public step into a whole new product category amid a lot of criticism and snarky comments. Tablets products have been around for quite a while - and while they have always seemed to be a neat idea with lots of potential, they always turned out to be a reformatted PC, with no real niche in the real world - other than being more portable, with all the downsides that a really portable PC might have. Those existing tablets also carried the burden of also sharing the overarching evolutionary path/goal that PCs have - which is to say none. So most people were critical of Apple venturing into this very blind alley of technology.
So, Apple cut out a bunch of the dead-end features, tapped into its "closed" but very open-ended development platform and App base and presented the iPad. Nobody, not even Apple seemed to know if it would work out. It seems that it did - at least for 90% of people who never could quite fit themselves into the PC world and make the PC a value add contributor to their life.
The mystery to me is, "Why cannot any of these other companies do the same?" Why didn't they? Where are all the announcements and visions of the future of computing for the real world? All the "roadmaps" I see are pretty bleak (almost 100% technical) and are seemingly based on Moore's Law, which is just updates and upgrades of yesterday. Tools making more tools, faster.
Making tools is fine if you are selling to businesses. From a marketing view, that is like shooting fish in a barrel - and surprisingly, the fish love it. Enhancing peoples lives is a much harder proposition - but as Apple has shown, it does have a monetary upside. These companies have some incredible talent working in them - it seems they should be able to do better - or even something different.
I prefer to be treated like a person, not a customer, not a client, not a user (with or without the drug double entendre ). It is a mystery to me why so many companies do not do this and continue to addict and not enable.
the iPad 2 is just a copy cat product - and Apple shamelessly claims that it is better in every way than the iPad that Apple sold last year - oh wait, can you copy cat yourself? and if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then a lot of folks in the tech world have been flattering themselves a bit too much - oh wait there I go again, can you flatter yourself? (and if you do, will you go blind?)
Did I just read that a high ranking Samsung executive used "Inadequate" and "Galaxy Tab" in the same sentence?
This is either a horrible verbal gaffe or some Engrish mangled misinterpretation. Regardless, any executive of a company should really learn how to stay on message.
Who gives a shit. Like I was the only one that had an opinion on the iPad before it was released? Are you guys serious. Get a life.
Let me restate my opinion. The iPad is still in my view a toy. Also if its this great business and educational device then why doesn't it get the business and education discount like all other devices that Apple sees as being used for business and education?
When the iPad has an actual file system, can print to more then a few select HP printers that no one uses and doesn't need another system to truly work correctly then it will be on the road to not being a toy.
No need to wait for Samsung 10.1 when you can get Motorola Xoom with much better spec then iPad2.
Xoom has additional HDMI support over Samsung 10.1, otherwise Samsung looks comparable.
Here is the breakdown of Xoom/Samsung(No HDMI for Samsung) vs iPad2
I have Motorola Xoom and loving it and iPad2 is still huge downgrad from Xoom.
-No USB!!!
(Some will argue that support comes with dock, so not only you spend extra for dock, for hdmi dongle etc but you have to carry that crap all the time with you)
(Some will argue what use usb for!!!,
USB on the Xoom is good for tethering as I don't have 3G/4G on a tablet when my phone will be able to do that, but goot to have 3g/4g capability as backup so no need to spend extra for upgrdage )
(Some will also argue for wireless tether, but then your battery gets killed that way for both devices)
-No Flash, (for tablet, you need this for full desktop browsing experience which is coming in March)
-No SD Slot,so if memory gets full, spend extra money for new iPad LOL
(with all this HD video ability, you are going to run out of space fast on an iPad )
-No 4G support for iPad2 (Need new iPad3 for that,spend more money on i*!!!, LOL)
(Verizon will have 70% 4G coverage by end of year)
-No Widgets which are much more usable for tablets.
-RAM is only 256 or 512MB for iPad2 compared to 1GB for Xoom.(This may limit/control future iOS upgrade for sure)
(I think gaming is going to be a big thing on both the iPad and any Honeycomb tablet and you surely need bigger ram for that)
(The iPad2 has as much ram as the original Droid, which is 2 years old... ancient in the tech world)
-Display resolution inferior to Xoom and same as iPad1
-Extra money for HDMI dongle while is is part of Xoom
(Yes you will spend extra $40 for hdmi dongle and have to carry with you OR some fanboy will ask what is the use of HDMI LOL)
(HDMI out is huge for presentations, movie/tv show watching. A ton of people will use this, and unfortunately cough up the extra $40 to do it. )
-No WiFi hotspot like Xoom
-Heck, Xoom has dual flash LED for night shots.
Everyone talks about apps, but seems to ignore that ipad was out about a year ago and honeycomb came out only few weeks ago.
Within no time most of the android apps will be upgraded by developers to use for tablet OS.
Apple fanboys made similar argument for apps when Droid came out first time.
All features like dual core processor, front/rear camera, Gyro, HDMI, USB, Flash support,
Widget support, 1GB RAM,SD Card slot to expand memory,4G support, better resolution display are already part of Xoom.
Here is the kicker!!!
Wifi only 32GB Xoom is $60 cheaper. Yes it will be only $539 compared to $599 for 32GB WiFi only iPad2, LOL
Engadget has link for it with signs showing in sams club.
Before the iPad was released, you crapped all over it. According to your own account, the only reason you have an iPad is that they gave it to you at work, and you still claimed it was just a big iPad Touch. No, you don't bash products because they aren't made by Apple, you bash products because the are made by Apple. You are not in any way an avid supporter of Apple and its products. Quite to the contrary, based on your posting history.
Have the decency to at least be honest here.
Oh and Mouse one more thing, I will still be getting my iPad from my company about an hour after it comes out. When you grow up to be a big boy and are actually important to the company you work for you might get the same. However I am not really expecting that to happen for you in this lifetime.
Mouse I am the as honest as they get because unlike you I just don't walk around sucking Steve Jobs nut sack.
I didn't realize that Mouse was that close to Steve... I'm jealous!
As for Extreme he seems to be very concerned about people sucking male genitalia and items shoved up the male posterior.... not that there is anything wrong with that... I think...
Flash is already "gone," in that sense. No matter how they improve the performance over the next few years, and no matter if they somehow manage to integrate touch events into the standard Flash repertoire, it's already dead. The twitching half-dead corpse will take a while to finally breathe it's last and a bit longer to decompose, but nothing on earth can save it now.
I didn't realize that Mouse was that close to Steve... I'm jealous!
As for Extreme he seems to be very concerned about people sucking male genitalia and items shoved up the male posterior.... not that there is anything wrong with that... I think...
... hmmmmmm
He will make the argument that you need to try it before expressing your opinion.
No need to wait for Samsung 10.1 when you can get Motorola Xoom with much better spec then iPad2.
Xoom has additional HDMI support over Samsung 10.1, otherwise Samsung looks comparable.
Here is the breakdown of Xoom/Samsung(No HDMI for Samsung) vs iPad2
I have Motorola Xoom and loving it and iPad2 is still huge downgrad from Xoom.
-No USB!!!
(Some will argue that support comes with dock, so not only you spend extra for dock, for hdmi dongle etc but you have to carry that crap all the time with you)
(Some will argue what use usb for!!!,
USB on the Xoom is good for tethering as I don't have 3G/4G on a tablet when my phone will be able to do that, but goot to have 3g/4g capability as backup so no need to spend extra for upgrdage )
(Some will also argue for wireless tether, but then your battery gets killed that way for both devices)
-No Flash, (for tablet, you need this for full desktop browsing experience which is coming in March)
-No SD Slot,so if memory gets full, spend extra money for new iPad LOL
(with all this HD video ability, you are going to run out of space fast on an iPad )
-No 4G support for iPad2 (Need new iPad3 for that,spend more money on i*!!!, LOL)
(Verizon will have 70% 4G coverage by end of year)
-No Widgets which are much more usable for tablets.
-RAM is only 256 or 512MB for iPad2 compared to 1GB for Xoom.(This may limit/control future iOS upgrade for sure)
(I think gaming is going to be a big thing on both the iPad and any Honeycomb tablet and you surely need bigger ram for that)
(The iPad2 has as much ram as the original Droid, which is 2 years old... ancient in the tech world)
-Display resolution inferior to Xoom and same as iPad1
-Extra money for HDMI dongle while is is part of Xoom
(Yes you will spend extra $40 for hdmi dongle and have to carry with you OR some fanboy will ask what is the use of HDMI LOL)
(HDMI out is huge for presentations, movie/tv show watching. A ton of people will use this, and unfortunately cough up the extra $40 to do it. )
-No WiFi hotspot like Xoom
-Heck, Xoom has dual flash LED for night shots.
Everyone talks about apps, but seems to ignore that ipad was out about a year ago and honeycomb came out only few weeks ago.
Within no time most of the android apps will be upgraded by developers to use for tablet OS.
Apple fanboys made similar argument for apps when Droid came out first time.
All features like dual core processor, front/rear camera, Gyro, HDMI, USB, Flash support,
Widget support, 1GB RAM,SD Card slot to expand memory,4G support, better resolution display are already part of Xoom.
Here is the kicker!!!
Wifi only 32GB Xoom is $60 cheaper. Yes it will be only $539 compared to $599 for 32GB WiFi only iPad2, LOL
You sure are a happy kid
Your keyboard must be having issues as the autocorrect doesn't seem to work (as claimed) if you are using a xoom to watch all this.
Happy home screening
On the other note: Moto must be feeling lonely ..... at that price point.
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Before the iPad was released, you crapped all over it. According to your own account, the only reason you have an iPad is that they gave it to you at work, and you still claimed it was just a big iPad Touch. No, you don't bash products because they aren't made by Apple, you bash products because the are made by Apple. You are not in any way an avid supporter of Apple and its products. Quite to the contrary, based on your posting history.
Have the decency to at least be honest here.
Ouch. Called him out there! (Let's see if it makes any differences, though -- I doubt it very much).
While I don't like certain things about my iPad, like the closed file system, no USB port, and the need to sync it with another computer, I do love many things about it like the screen size.
I?m not here to bash the iPad 2?in fact, I?d like to get one. But at the end of the day, which tablet is better for propping open heavy doors on a windy day? Because for every person who wants to make music or play games, I bet there are three people who live in an area with doors and wind.
I don?t think the iPad is thick and heavy enough, and I worry that the ?copycats? are going to go the same route. Thin and light does not always = better.
Seriously funny! I always appreciate good humor. Sorry if #88 doesn't "get it" .... or maybe I just don't get #88. Cheers.
Samsung assembles a product with parts supplied by multiple vendors. Samsung sure as hell isn't going to be able to use the unibody design molding from Apple without being in hot water. LG supplies the Panels, not Samsung. So basically, Samsung chose to be a conglomerate with various businesses; one of them is just being an assembler while others design panels, memory, etc.
The Unibody enclosures are machined, not molded and nobody is ever going to get into trouble machining aluminium. The patent on that particular tech expired quite some time ago - only kidding - it never existed.
Apple assemble products with parts supplied by multiple vendors. What is your point? Are you sure you aren't getting a bit confused? LG supply the screen for the IP4. Samsung makes the screen for the iPad. I doubt Samsung are going to buy panels from LG for their tablet if they can make them themselves.
I'm not saying I disagree with you or agree with the guy your debating on here, but you may recall that Apple released iPad with the hardware ability to multi-task months before iOS was released with that capability.
the clear difference being apple didn't promote the iPad as multictasking only to release it without multitasking,
Last yeat I bought an hp printer that was advertised as an sprint printer. I get it home and there is a piece of paper with a web address to check for a software update to enable sprint that would be out later this year (2010). It sill isn't out and there is no information on when it will be released. I will probably never buy another hp product again because of this. In the case of the zoom, why did they release it before the promised software was ready?
This sort of thing is why apple doesn't want flash. They don't want adobe or any outside developer dictate their release cycles. Had they waited for flash to release the iPhone, they would have waited 3 years.
Before the iPad was released, you crapped all over it. According to your own account, the only reason you have an iPad is that they gave it to you at work, and you still claimed it was just a big iPad Touch. No, you don't bash products because they aren't made by Apple, you bash products because the are made by Apple. You are not in any way an avid supporter of Apple and its products. Quite to the contrary, based on your posting history.
Have the decency to at least be honest here.
It is just a big iPod Touch. I still hold to that comment. Unlike many of you I like the iPad because it is a toy. Listen to music, play games, surf the net and watch videos. If I wanted to do something productive I have to use a MBP because the iPad simply does not support the software I use. Which is the case for most people.
Mouse I am the as honest as they get because unlike you I just don't walk around sucking Steve Jobs nut sack. You are a bias fanboy wuss which doesn't make you honest. Just because you love everything that Apple makes and bash everything else doesn't make you honest in fact it's quite the opposite.
People like you bash Google, Microsoft and everyone else when 99% of the time you haven't even touched their products or services. That doesn't make you honest. At least when I have something negative to say I make an effort to use the product first. My opinion of the iPad still stand its a toy.
Just because it has sold to millions doesn't mean its some great productivity device. If its such a great educational tool like Steve Jobs says then why doesn't it get an educational discount like all other Apple products that are seen as educational tools? Love to hear your answer on that one.
You are one of the most bias people on this forum it's beyond a joke for you to try and call anyone else out on being honest.
Have the decency to at least be honest here.
Honesty is never a "strong point" of ANY troll ..... even extremeskater.
Sounds like you guys need to send requests to that company telling them you require the virtual tours in HTML for your clients.
How were your sales staff showing the virtual tours before the iPad existed?
Are you suggesting that this couldn't be done in HTML5? Doesn't everyone win if the developers updated away from a proprietary solution and towards open standards? If they don't, their competition will. These changes are already happening across the board and the driving force behind it has been Apple. Everyone wins except Adobe.
iPads aren't anything we assign to them, it's just something they do on their own. In general, they use Citrix. As for what circlepix does for the builders they host virtual tours for, that's up to them. I am sure html5 can be used, but will they spend the time to do it? Idk.
It is a mystery.
Last year, Apple took its first public step into a whole new product category amid a lot of criticism and snarky comments. Tablets products have been around for quite a while - and while they have always seemed to be a neat idea with lots of potential, they always turned out to be a reformatted PC, with no real niche in the real world - other than being more portable, with all the downsides that a really portable PC might have. Those existing tablets also carried the burden of also sharing the overarching evolutionary path/goal that PCs have - which is to say none. So most people were critical of Apple venturing into this very blind alley of technology.
So, Apple cut out a bunch of the dead-end features, tapped into its "closed" but very open-ended development platform and App base and presented the iPad. Nobody, not even Apple seemed to know if it would work out. It seems that it did - at least for 90% of people who never could quite fit themselves into the PC world and make the PC a value add contributor to their life.
The mystery to me is, "Why cannot any of these other companies do the same?" Why didn't they? Where are all the announcements and visions of the future of computing for the real world? All the "roadmaps" I see are pretty bleak (almost 100% technical) and are seemingly based on Moore's Law, which is just updates and upgrades of yesterday. Tools making more tools, faster.
Making tools is fine if you are selling to businesses. From a marketing view, that is like shooting fish in a barrel - and surprisingly, the fish love it. Enhancing peoples lives is a much harder proposition - but as Apple has shown, it does have a monetary upside. These companies have some incredible talent working in them - it seems they should be able to do better - or even something different.
I prefer to be treated like a person, not a customer, not a client, not a user (with or without the drug double entendre ). It is a mystery to me why so many companies do not do this and continue to addict and not enable.
Very well stated. Well done.
the iPad 2 is just a copy cat product - and Apple shamelessly claims that it is better in every way than the iPad that Apple sold last year - oh wait, can you copy cat yourself? and if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then a lot of folks in the tech world have been flattering themselves a bit too much - oh wait there I go again, can you flatter yourself? (and if you do, will you go blind?)
This is either a horrible verbal gaffe or some Engrish mangled misinterpretation. Regardless, any executive of a company should really learn how to stay on message.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers this.
Who gives a shit. Like I was the only one that had an opinion on the iPad before it was released? Are you guys serious. Get a life.
Let me restate my opinion. The iPad is still in my view a toy. Also if its this great business and educational device then why doesn't it get the business and education discount like all other devices that Apple sees as being used for business and education?
When the iPad has an actual file system, can print to more then a few select HP printers that no one uses and doesn't need another system to truly work correctly then it will be on the road to not being a toy.
Xoom has additional HDMI support over Samsung 10.1, otherwise Samsung looks comparable.
Here is the breakdown of Xoom/Samsung(No HDMI for Samsung) vs iPad2
I have Motorola Xoom and loving it and iPad2 is still huge downgrad from Xoom.
-No USB!!!
(Some will argue that support comes with dock, so not only you spend extra for dock, for hdmi dongle etc but you have to carry that crap all the time with you)
(Some will argue what use usb for!!!,
USB on the Xoom is good for tethering as I don't have 3G/4G on a tablet when my phone will be able to do that, but goot to have 3g/4g capability as backup so no need to spend extra for upgrdage )
(Some will also argue for wireless tether, but then your battery gets killed that way for both devices)
-No Flash, (for tablet, you need this for full desktop browsing experience which is coming in March)
-No SD Slot,so if memory gets full, spend extra money for new iPad LOL
(with all this HD video ability, you are going to run out of space fast on an iPad )
-No 4G support for iPad2 (Need new iPad3 for that,spend more money on i*!!!, LOL)
(Verizon will have 70% 4G coverage by end of year)
-No Widgets which are much more usable for tablets.
-RAM is only 256 or 512MB for iPad2 compared to 1GB for Xoom.(This may limit/control future iOS upgrade for sure)
(I think gaming is going to be a big thing on both the iPad and any Honeycomb tablet and you surely need bigger ram for that)
(The iPad2 has as much ram as the original Droid, which is 2 years old... ancient in the tech world)
-Display resolution inferior to Xoom and same as iPad1
-Extra money for HDMI dongle while is is part of Xoom
(Yes you will spend extra $40 for hdmi dongle and have to carry with you OR some fanboy will ask what is the use of HDMI LOL)
(HDMI out is huge for presentations, movie/tv show watching. A ton of people will use this, and unfortunately cough up the extra $40 to do it. )
-No WiFi hotspot like Xoom
-Heck, Xoom has dual flash LED for night shots.
Everyone talks about apps, but seems to ignore that ipad was out about a year ago and honeycomb came out only few weeks ago.
Within no time most of the android apps will be upgraded by developers to use for tablet OS.
Apple fanboys made similar argument for apps when Droid came out first time.
All features like dual core processor, front/rear camera, Gyro, HDMI, USB, Flash support,
Widget support, 1GB RAM,SD Card slot to expand memory,4G support, better resolution display are already part of Xoom.
Here is the kicker!!!
Wifi only 32GB Xoom is $60 cheaper. Yes it will be only $539 compared to $599 for 32GB WiFi only iPad2, LOL
Engadget has link for it with signs showing in sams club.
Before the iPad was released, you crapped all over it. According to your own account, the only reason you have an iPad is that they gave it to you at work, and you still claimed it was just a big iPad Touch. No, you don't bash products because they aren't made by Apple, you bash products because the are made by Apple. You are not in any way an avid supporter of Apple and its products. Quite to the contrary, based on your posting history.
Have the decency to at least be honest here.
Oh and Mouse one more thing, I will still be getting my iPad from my company about an hour after it comes out. When you grow up to be a big boy and are actually important to the company you work for you might get the same. However I am not really expecting that to happen for you in this lifetime.
Mouse I am the as honest as they get because unlike you I just don't walk around sucking Steve Jobs nut sack.
I didn't realize that Mouse was that close to Steve... I'm jealous!
As for Extreme he seems to be very concerned about people sucking male genitalia and items shoved up the male posterior.... not that there is anything wrong with that... I think...
... hmmmmmm
Flash is already "gone," in that sense. No matter how they improve the performance over the next few years, and no matter if they somehow manage to integrate touch events into the standard Flash repertoire, it's already dead. The twitching half-dead corpse will take a while to finally breathe it's last and a bit longer to decompose, but nothing on earth can save it now.
Calling Dr. Herbert West
I didn't realize that Mouse was that close to Steve... I'm jealous!
As for Extreme he seems to be very concerned about people sucking male genitalia and items shoved up the male posterior.... not that there is anything wrong with that... I think...
... hmmmmmm
He will make the argument that you need to try it before expressing your opinion.
No need to wait for Samsung 10.1 when you can get Motorola Xoom with much better spec then iPad2.
Because Honeycomb is buggy and still not ready for tablets.
Read the review at Neowin.net.
I guess that extra 1GB of RAM didnt make things so smooth for Honeycomb.
No need to wait for Samsung 10.1 when you can get Motorola Xoom with much better spec then iPad2.
Xoom has additional HDMI support over Samsung 10.1, otherwise Samsung looks comparable.
Here is the breakdown of Xoom/Samsung(No HDMI for Samsung) vs iPad2
I have Motorola Xoom and loving it and iPad2 is still huge downgrad from Xoom.
-No USB!!!
(Some will argue that support comes with dock, so not only you spend extra for dock, for hdmi dongle etc but you have to carry that crap all the time with you)
(Some will argue what use usb for!!!,
USB on the Xoom is good for tethering as I don't have 3G/4G on a tablet when my phone will be able to do that, but goot to have 3g/4g capability as backup so no need to spend extra for upgrdage )
(Some will also argue for wireless tether, but then your battery gets killed that way for both devices)
-No Flash, (for tablet, you need this for full desktop browsing experience which is coming in March)
-No SD Slot,so if memory gets full, spend extra money for new iPad LOL
(with all this HD video ability, you are going to run out of space fast on an iPad )
-No 4G support for iPad2 (Need new iPad3 for that,spend more money on i*!!!, LOL)
(Verizon will have 70% 4G coverage by end of year)
-No Widgets which are much more usable for tablets.
-RAM is only 256 or 512MB for iPad2 compared to 1GB for Xoom.(This may limit/control future iOS upgrade for sure)
(I think gaming is going to be a big thing on both the iPad and any Honeycomb tablet and you surely need bigger ram for that)
(The iPad2 has as much ram as the original Droid, which is 2 years old... ancient in the tech world)
-Display resolution inferior to Xoom and same as iPad1
-Extra money for HDMI dongle while is is part of Xoom
(Yes you will spend extra $40 for hdmi dongle and have to carry with you OR some fanboy will ask what is the use of HDMI LOL)
(HDMI out is huge for presentations, movie/tv show watching. A ton of people will use this, and unfortunately cough up the extra $40 to do it. )
-No WiFi hotspot like Xoom
-Heck, Xoom has dual flash LED for night shots.
Everyone talks about apps, but seems to ignore that ipad was out about a year ago and honeycomb came out only few weeks ago.
Within no time most of the android apps will be upgraded by developers to use for tablet OS.
Apple fanboys made similar argument for apps when Droid came out first time.
All features like dual core processor, front/rear camera, Gyro, HDMI, USB, Flash support,
Widget support, 1GB RAM,SD Card slot to expand memory,4G support, better resolution display are already part of Xoom.
Here is the kicker!!!
Wifi only 32GB Xoom is $60 cheaper. Yes it will be only $539 compared to $599 for 32GB WiFi only iPad2, LOL
You sure are a happy kid
Your keyboard must be having issues as the autocorrect doesn't seem to work (as claimed) if you are using a xoom to watch all this.
Happy home screening
On the other note: Moto must be feeling lonely ..... at that price point.