Apple's iPad ranks highest in overall consumer satisfaction for tablets, says JD Power

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  • Reply 21 of 27
    anantksundaramanantksundaram Posts: 20,419member
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    Originally Posted by SolipsismX View Post

     
    ... no evidence to suggest that JD Power ... were being paid by Samsung, or had it in for Apple. 


    Whoa. Hold on there.

     

    Where did I say anything about Samsung paying them, or that they had it in for Apple!? That's nonsense.

     

    If you're going to quote only one person in a reply, it behooves you to be careful about making attributions or inferences about what they said and did not say.

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  • Reply 22 of 27
    solipsismxsolipsismx Posts: 19,566member
    Whoa. Hold on there.

    Where did I say anything about Samsung paying them, or that they had it in for Apple!? That's nonsense.

    If you're going to quote only one person in a reply, it behooves you to be careful about making attributions or inferences about what they said and did not say.

    How else am I to interpret these comments: "Really? No miscalculation or skulduggery?"?

    It sounds like you're disagreeing with my previous comment where I clearly stated I don't think JD Power is doing any such thing and therefore likely didn't make any mistakes, as you put it, in their calculations.
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  • Reply 23 of 27
    paul94544paul94544 Posts: 1,027member

    There is no spoon ... I mean tablet

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  • Reply 24 of 27
    suddenly newtonsuddenly newton Posts: 13,819member
    gqb wrote: »
    Marco's a smart guy, but he doesn't seem to be able to put away his developer hat on this subject. He seems to be in the 'iPad is doomed' (or at least has peaked) crowd for some reason. 
    90% of people don't need direct access to the file system. I know that for people who live and breathe computers, that makes them 'morons'. Sorry, but they're the ones who pay the bills.

    I have to agree. At one of the All Things D talks, probably 10 years ago, Steve Jobs said the file system--specifically Finder--was someday going to be something that only the pros used. He told Walt Mossberg that he expected average users would use Spotlight Search to access documents, emails, and even Apps. Why? Because that's how you access things on the web: you type into a search box. You're not forced to manage file system to get to your content. Steve was talking about this long before iOS was released. He was talking about his vision for Mac OS X.

    If you think about it: he is correct. The World Wide Web is so vast, there is no practical way people are going to memorize URLs or find HTTP resources (which are really files on servers) by their hierarchical locations within a site directory. And hyperlinking isn't the most direct way to find things. Search engines make sense. Spotlight works just like that: you'll never lose a file again.

    The post-PC philosophy that iOS embraces is: content, not files. For example, when you plug in a SD card from your camera into an iPad, it opens iPhoto and treats the SD card as a camera: you see pictures and videos, not a file directory. Camera operating systems also hide the files system from you, showing the pictures, not files.

    Microsoft doesn't apparently doesn't get the post-PC philosophy because they're busy creating a touch file explorer for Windows Phone 8.1. :rolleyes:
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  • Reply 25 of 27
    island hermitisland hermit Posts: 6,217member
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    Originally Posted by SolipsismX View Post





    I'm not saying what they measure or much weight they give to each category is reasonable, but I see no evidence to suggest that JD Power made a calculation error, were being paid by Samsung, or had it in for Apple. Not thinking their testing methods are reasonable is something else entirely.

     

    When you mentioned calculations/miscalculations it brought me back to my dislike of the graphic.

     

    83% gets you 5 stars.

     

    82% gets you 3 stars.

     

    It becomes easier to see why Samsung slipped ahead of Apple last year. A hair difference on any of the levels seems to get a star or two booted from your overall score.

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  • Reply 26 of 27
    anantksundaramanantksundaram Posts: 20,419member
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    Originally Posted by SolipsismX View Post



    How else am I to interpret these comments: "Really? No miscalculation or skulduggery?"?

    I have no advice to give you on interpretation, except to say that over-interpreting things is silly.

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  • Reply 27 of 27
    solipsismxsolipsismx Posts: 19,566member
    I have no advice to give you on interpretation, except to say that over-interpreting things is silly.

    OK, let me restart. I disagree with your "mistake" designation for last year's results as the only way I could there being an error is either in their calculations or in judgement, both noted earlier. I don't see any evidence to support either.
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