It looks like a piece of shit. Half the size of an iPad, unacceptable screen size for reading or doing anything useful at all on it. Laggy, choppy, unsmooth inferior and unacceptable performance for anybody born with 2 eyes. Pathetic RAM size. No camera, no mic, no volume buttons! It runs the piece of shit Android OS. It's not even true multitouch!
I pity the fools who dare say that this is a good tablet. If you're broke and you need a tablet for $200, then go ahead and get one, just admit the real reason behind your purchase. Don't come here and say good things about this piece of junk.
Kindle Fre reviews are coming in today. I hope AI does a review round up. It's not looking good from many HW and SW engineering standpoints. The typical response seems to be "Well, it's not bad for $200."
Since day one Fandroids have been saying "Sooon?." You're better off waiting for Godot.
The only feature I see missing from the Kindle Fire that might have been a good option is a 3G model. Next to the iPad I thinks its going to be one of the best options because Amazon actually has the content to take advantage of the hardware.
I really don't think this was made to go up against the iPad. At 200.00 is would be easy for a good number of consumers to have both. If anything I see this cutting in to iPod Touch sales, not the iPad.
It looks like a piece of shit. Half the size of an iPad, unacceptable screen size for reading or doing anything useful at all on it. Laggy, choppy, unsmooth inferior and unacceptable performance for anybody born with 2 eyes. Pathetic RAM size. No camera, no mic, no volume buttons! It runs the piece of shit Android OS. It's not even true multitouch!
I pity the fools who dare say that this is a good tablet. If you're broke and you need a tablet for $200, then go ahead and get one, just admit the real reason behind your purchase. Don't come here and say good things about this piece of junk.
The NYT had some not nice things to say about it too, and so did other reviewers.
Taps sometimes don?t register. There are no progress or ?wait? indicators, so you frequently don?t know if the machine has even registered your touch commands. The momentum of the animations hasn?t been calculated right, so the whole thing feels ornery."
I also saw a video of it on engadget. It was very unresponsive and many times the guy clicked on something and nothing happened. The comics app also looked tiny on that small screen.
It's basically a mini-tablet for poor people and people who do not mind shit performance.
A new poll of mobile developers has found that nearly all are interested in developing for Apple's iPad, while the still-unreleased Amazon Kindle Fire is already the second-most-popular Android device among developers worldwide.
The new data, from Appcelerator and IDC, comes from a survey of more than 2,000 developers conducted earlier this month. Of those polled, 91 percent said they are "very interested" in developing for the iPhone, while 88 percent indicated the same for the iPad.
This survey is misleading because it is a survey of Appcelerator clients which are almost entirely non iOS developers according to this comment from nine month's ago about a previous Appcelerator /IDC survey
" mrrtmrrt
These survey results are not at all representative of iOS developers as a whole as the vast majority use Apple's Xcode to write iOS apps, not the software sold by the company that ran this survey.
Appcelerator's survey subjects are part of a small minority of developers who are using the Appcelerator Titanium cross-platform development tools which are used in 4,000 iOS apps, which amounts to only 1-2% of the 300,000 apps in the App Store. Not that long ago, Appcelerator was banned from the iOS App store as were other cross-platform environments so what is surprising is that these particular devs were not far more negative towards Apple.
A previous study a few months back by AppStore HQ of every published iPhone, iPad and Android developer currently in the Apple App Store or Android Market demonstrated that there is only a tiny percentage of developers engaged writing software for both Android and iOS:
iOS developers = 43,185
Android developers = 10,199
iOS & Android devs = 1,412
As only 3% of iOS developers target both iOS and Android, it is quite inappropriate to assume that these cross-platform Appcelerator customers represent the views of the much larger iOS development community.
By buying Appcelerator's software these developers were already planning on developing cross-platform and thus represent a completely biased sample which cannot be extrapolated to the rest of the iOS dev community.
Other data strongly suggests the opposite of what Appcelerator reports - that iOS continues to garner far more dev interest than Android because that is where the money is. For example, Larva Labs found that "Overall we estimate that $6,000,000 has been paid out to developers for games, and $15,000,000 has been paid out on apps. That is a total of $21,000,000, nearly 1/50th the amount paid out to devs on iPhone. This really indicates how much of a cottage industry the paid Android Market remains, with insufficient sales numbers to warrant full-time labor for paid content."
Then there is AppBrain's findings that over 45,000 of the 100,000 apps in the Android Marketplace are spam apps.
As such, these survey results are not very useful at all."
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The Fire looks like a home run.
It looks like a piece of shit. Half the size of an iPad, unacceptable screen size for reading or doing anything useful at all on it. Laggy, choppy, unsmooth inferior and unacceptable performance for anybody born with 2 eyes. Pathetic RAM size. No camera, no mic, no volume buttons! It runs the piece of shit Android OS. It's not even true multitouch!
I pity the fools who dare say that this is a good tablet. If you're broke and you need a tablet for $200, then go ahead and get one, just admit the real reason behind your purchase. Don't come here and say good things about this piece of junk.
Kindle Fre reviews are coming in today. I hope AI does a review round up. It's not looking good from many HW and SW engineering standpoints. The typical response seems to be "Well, it's not bad for $200."
Since day one Fandroids have been saying "Sooon?." You're better off waiting for Godot.
The only feature I see missing from the Kindle Fire that might have been a good option is a 3G model. Next to the iPad I thinks its going to be one of the best options because Amazon actually has the content to take advantage of the hardware.
I really don't think this was made to go up against the iPad. At 200.00 is would be easy for a good number of consumers to have both. If anything I see this cutting in to iPod Touch sales, not the iPad.
It looks like a piece of shit. Half the size of an iPad, unacceptable screen size for reading or doing anything useful at all on it. Laggy, choppy, unsmooth inferior and unacceptable performance for anybody born with 2 eyes. Pathetic RAM size. No camera, no mic, no volume buttons! It runs the piece of shit Android OS. It's not even true multitouch!
I pity the fools who dare say that this is a good tablet. If you're broke and you need a tablet for $200, then go ahead and get one, just admit the real reason behind your purchase. Don't come here and say good things about this piece of junk.
Forgot your medication today?
Forgot your medication today?
The NYT had some not nice things to say about it too, and so did other reviewers.
Taps sometimes don?t register. There are no progress or ?wait? indicators, so you frequently don?t know if the machine has even registered your touch commands. The momentum of the animations hasn?t been calculated right, so the whole thing feels ornery."
I also saw a video of it on engadget. It was very unresponsive and many times the guy clicked on something and nothing happened. The comics app also looked tiny on that small screen.
It's basically a mini-tablet for poor people and people who do not mind shit performance.
A new poll of mobile developers has found that nearly all are interested in developing for Apple's iPad, while the still-unreleased Amazon Kindle Fire is already the second-most-popular Android device among developers worldwide.
The new data, from Appcelerator and IDC, comes from a survey of more than 2,000 developers conducted earlier this month. Of those polled, 91 percent said they are "very interested" in developing for the iPhone, while 88 percent indicated the same for the iPad.
[ View this article at AppleInsider.com ][/c]
This survey is misleading because it is a survey of Appcelerator clients which are almost entirely non iOS developers according to this comment from nine month's ago about a previous Appcelerator /IDC survey
" mrrtmrrt
These survey results are not at all representative of iOS developers as a whole as the vast majority use Apple's Xcode to write iOS apps, not the software sold by the company that ran this survey.
Appcelerator's survey subjects are part of a small minority of developers who are using the Appcelerator Titanium cross-platform development tools which are used in 4,000 iOS apps, which amounts to only 1-2% of the 300,000 apps in the App Store. Not that long ago, Appcelerator was banned from the iOS App store as were other cross-platform environments so what is surprising is that these particular devs were not far more negative towards Apple.
A previous study a few months back by AppStore HQ of every published iPhone, iPad and Android developer currently in the Apple App Store or Android Market demonstrated that there is only a tiny percentage of developers engaged writing software for both Android and iOS:
iOS developers = 43,185
Android developers = 10,199
iOS & Android devs = 1,412
As only 3% of iOS developers target both iOS and Android, it is quite inappropriate to assume that these cross-platform Appcelerator customers represent the views of the much larger iOS development community.
By buying Appcelerator's software these developers were already planning on developing cross-platform and thus represent a completely biased sample which cannot be extrapolated to the rest of the iOS dev community.
Other data strongly suggests the opposite of what Appcelerator reports - that iOS continues to garner far more dev interest than Android because that is where the money is. For example, Larva Labs found that "Overall we estimate that $6,000,000 has been paid out to developers for games, and $15,000,000 has been paid out on apps. That is a total of $21,000,000, nearly 1/50th the amount paid out to devs on iPhone. This really indicates how much of a cottage industry the paid Android Market remains, with insufficient sales numbers to warrant full-time labor for paid content."
Then there is AppBrain's findings that over 45,000 of the 100,000 apps in the Android Marketplace are spam apps.
As such, these survey results are not very useful at all."
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http://betanews.com/2011/01/25/idc-d...ly-equals-ios/
Thank you Captain Obvious.
"Developer survey finds iPad domination, growing interest in Kindle Fire"
Thank you Captain Obvious.
Like half the other articles posted on Appleinsider