Yeah,did you notice how all the tech websites like c|net wet their pants when the Fire came out, declaring it to be gold standard for small tablets? Fast forward to today and you can't find an article about the Fire anywhere.
If Apple is able to command most of the world's handset profits with only a fraction of the handset sales, and is able to command over 1/3 of the world's PC profits with only about 5-7% of the PC sales, I wonder how much of the tablet market's profit they are abel to command with 68% of tablet shipments?
Microsoft's Surface is vapor ware. It doesn't exist. How can the writer include market share number by mentioning products not even on the market. Today, as far as I know, no one has even tested one beyond Microsoft. Yet, it is going to take over the world. Excuse me
You're right. At this stage of the game the Surface is nothing more then a few prototypes that can't make it through a highly controlled demo. Monkey boy need to roll up one of those rubber keyboards and smoke it.
My gut feeling is that Windows 8 will be a bigger flop than Vista and Surface will sell as well as Longhorn.
It'll be interesting to see what happens when the Nexus 7 numbers kick in. It's seen a lot of hype, it's widely available and the price is very reasonable. That didn't stop the Kindle Fire from largely failing though.
I actually almost bought one. I thought its smaller size might be usefull for when I am working out on the road and not putting my iPad 3 at risk for theft or damage.
After poking around the Google Play store to see how many of my favorite apps we're available. That market place is a big steaming pile of pig poo. No brainier, I decided to pass.
Yeah,did you notice how all the tech websites like c|net wet their pants when the Fire came out, declaring it to be gold standard for small tablets? Fast forward to today and you can't find an article about the Fire anywhere.
Gold standard is the nexus. Cant beat its price/performance value
The question has to be asked, how did Samsung take sales away from Apple? Clearly their tablet sales didn't impact Apple, their iPhone sales weren't affected since they continue to grow and grow year over year. People who buy a Samsung Android phone do so because that is what they want, they didn't go in and say wow that Samsung phone is running iOS since everyone knows if it doesn't have an Apple logo it's not Apple.
The question has to be asked, how did Samsung take sales away from Apple? Clearly their tablet sales didn't impact Apple, their iPhone sales weren't affected since they continue to grow and grow year over year. People who buy a Samsung Android phone do so because that is what they want, they didn't go in and say wow that Samsung phone is running iOS since everyone knows if it doesn't have an Apple logo it's not Apple.
…their iPhone sales weren't affected since they continue to grow and grow year over year.
Yeah, that… certainly proves…
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????
People who buy a Samsung Android phone do so because that is what they want, they didn't go in and say wow that Samsung phone is running iOS since everyone knows if it doesn't have an Apple logo it's not Apple.
That's just not right at all. If it happens with the tablets, it happens with the phones.
That's just not right at all. If it happens with the tablets, it happens with the phones.
Agreed. I know a couple people who have an iPad and hey can’t remember WHAT it is—they call it a laptop or “my thing” and the names “Apple” and “iPad” are not foremost in their mind, much less logos. They obviously had help even choosing to buy tablets at all (good call in my view). They just have zero interest in technology, and little experience. They’ve probably used computers (with difficulty) for nothing but email and weather for years—if even that. Now they are doing much more!
And they are surely FAR better served by an iPad than any other computing device, tablet or otherwise, that has ever been made.
If they’d gone into a store and asked for an “iPad" on the advice of a friend or relative, and the salesperson picked up on their cluelessness and said, “this is the tablet you want, because Apple won’t limit the apps it has,” and sold them a Samsung... they’d take it and never realize what they were giving up.
My gf has a Kindle fire (which is broken now) and despite all of the kindle hype and my many attempts to give it a chance it just does not compare in any way to my Ipad its almost like its not in the same genre of electronic devices.
Originally Posted by pfisherI was going to buy a Nexus for PDFs, since I have a Nook (Android!), but I read the Nexus sucks with PDFs due to the memory caps. Buffer or something.
There you go.
I've not seen that mentioned at all and a search doesn't offer any hits. I think it's fine for PDF's. The one I've used a few times recently had EZPDF Reader. . . I think. I'll double-check that. I can say I was impressed with how responsive it was and voice searches are amazingly fast. It's far better than my wife's Nook Color. Silly to even compare the two IMO.
People who buy a Samsung Android phone do so because that is what they want, they didn't go in and say wow that Samsung phone is running iOS since everyone knows if it doesn't have an Apple logo it's not Apple.
Apparently, Samsung doesn't agree with you. They reported to the court that the largest reason for returns at Best Buy was that people thought they were buying an iPhone and when the got home, they found out it was a Tab.
Besides, please explain why Samsung discarded dozens of prototypes that looked very little like the iPhone and iPad in order to select the one that looks closest to the iPhone and iPad appearance? And why did they make their packaging such a close copy? Why did they make their chargers such a close copy? Why did they make the cable such a close copy (30 pins is the only way to build a cable, right?)? It's obvious that Samsung went to a great deal of trouble to make their product look like Apple's. Why did they do that since you're convinced that no consumer would ever be fooled?
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Originally Posted by xmiku
Ever since I started visiting this site I feel strange I don't have an iPad.
AI is one place where you don't want to use an iPad..... the functionality (of the site) truly sucks on iOS!
Yeah,did you notice how all the tech websites like c|net wet their pants when the Fire came out, declaring it to be gold standard for small tablets? Fast forward to today and you can't find an article about the Fire anywhere.
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Originally Posted by Paul94544
"shipped" = sold to cutomer for apple
"shipped" for all the others means sold to retailers (in the channel), not to customer.
i imagine shipped means both for Apple, as they sell iPads at several big box retailers.
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Originally Posted by madhatter61
Microsoft's Surface is vapor ware. It doesn't exist. How can the writer include market share number by mentioning products not even on the market. Today, as far as I know, no one has even tested one beyond Microsoft. Yet, it is going to take over the world. Excuse me
You're right. At this stage of the game the Surface is nothing more then a few prototypes that can't make it through a highly controlled demo. Monkey boy need to roll up one of those rubber keyboards and smoke it.
My gut feeling is that Windows 8 will be a bigger flop than Vista and Surface will sell as well as Longhorn.
I actually almost bought one. I thought its smaller size might be usefull for when I am working out on the road and not putting my iPad 3 at risk for theft or damage.
After poking around the Google Play store to see how many of my favorite apps we're available. That market place is a big steaming pile of pig poo. No brainier, I decided to pass.
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Originally Posted by lkrupp
Yeah,did you notice how all the tech websites like c|net wet their pants when the Fire came out, declaring it to be gold standard for small tablets? Fast forward to today and you can't find an article about the Fire anywhere.
Gold standard is the nexus. Cant beat its price/performance value
The question has to be asked, how did Samsung take sales away from Apple? Clearly their tablet sales didn't impact Apple, their iPhone sales weren't affected since they continue to grow and grow year over year. People who buy a Samsung Android phone do so because that is what they want, they didn't go in and say wow that Samsung phone is running iOS since everyone knows if it doesn't have an Apple logo it's not Apple.
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Originally Posted by RaptorOO7
The question has to be asked, how did Samsung take sales away from Apple? Clearly their tablet sales didn't impact Apple, their iPhone sales weren't affected since they continue to grow and grow year over year. People who buy a Samsung Android phone do so because that is what they want, they didn't go in and say wow that Samsung phone is running iOS since everyone knows if it doesn't have an Apple logo it's not Apple.
Not all. Idots must be protected too
Originally Posted by RaptorOO7
…their iPhone sales weren't affected since they continue to grow and grow year over year.
Yeah, that… certainly proves…
…
????
People who buy a Samsung Android phone do so because that is what they want, they didn't go in and say wow that Samsung phone is running iOS since everyone knows if it doesn't have an Apple logo it's not Apple.
That's just not right at all. If it happens with the tablets, it happens with the phones.
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Originally Posted by xmiku
Ever since I started visiting this site I feel strange I don't have an iPad.
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That's just not right at all. If it happens with the tablets, it happens with the phones.
Agreed. I know a couple people who have an iPad and hey can’t remember WHAT it is—they call it a laptop or “my thing” and the names “Apple” and “iPad” are not foremost in their mind, much less logos. They obviously had help even choosing to buy tablets at all (good call in my view). They just have zero interest in technology, and little experience. They’ve probably used computers (with difficulty) for nothing but email and weather for years—if even that. Now they are doing much more!
And they are surely FAR better served by an iPad than any other computing device, tablet or otherwise, that has ever been made.
If they’d gone into a store and asked for an “iPad" on the advice of a friend or relative, and the salesperson picked up on their cluelessness and said, “this is the tablet you want, because Apple won’t limit the apps it has,” and sold them a Samsung... they’d take it and never realize what they were giving up.
My gf has a Kindle fire (which is broken now) and despite all of the kindle hype and my many attempts to give it a chance it just does not compare in any way to my Ipad its almost like its not in the same genre of electronic devices.
Anecdotally, I bought a 7" tablet two years ago. Pretty bad experience. I went and got and iPad.
My friend got his wife a Kindle Fire. She never uses it.
That's all I know. 7" is not really a tablet. Like someone else here said. Tablet in the sense of being useful for web pages and magazines and PDFs.
I was going to buy a Nexus for PDFs, since I have a Nook (Android!), but I read the Nexus sucks with PDFs due to the memory caps. Buffer or something.
There you go.
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Originally Posted by pfisher
There you go.
I've not seen that mentioned at all and a search doesn't offer any hits. I think it's fine for PDF's. The one I've used a few times recently had EZPDF Reader. . . I think. I'll double-check that. I can say I was impressed with how responsive it was and voice searches are amazingly fast. It's far better than my wife's Nook Color. Silly to even compare the two IMO.
Apparently, Samsung doesn't agree with you. They reported to the court that the largest reason for returns at Best Buy was that people thought they were buying an iPhone and when the got home, they found out it was a Tab.
Besides, please explain why Samsung discarded dozens of prototypes that looked very little like the iPhone and iPad in order to select the one that looks closest to the iPhone and iPad appearance? And why did they make their packaging such a close copy? Why did they make their chargers such a close copy? Why did they make the cable such a close copy (30 pins is the only way to build a cable, right?)? It's obvious that Samsung went to a great deal of trouble to make their product look like Apple's. Why did they do that since you're convinced that no consumer would ever be fooled?
in any case iPad is the best tablet
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AI is one place where you don't want to use an iPad..... the functionality (of the site) truly sucks on iOS!
Agreed! I always view AI on my MacBook Air.
Perhaps the iOS 6 upgrade will change this functionality.
Originally Posted by AdrianJNYC
Perhaps the iOS 6 upgrade will change this functionality.
Why would it? The site is what holds up usability, not your OS.