Steve Jobs makes me laugh. The resolution of the 3.5" iPhone (640x960) is almost as high as the resolution of the 9.7" iPad (768x1024). Do people have to file down their fingers to pencil points to use the iPhone? Of course not.
Context, context, context. You need to take Steve's comment in the context it was given. The compromises people will accept for a mobile phone are different than the ones they'll accept for a full-size screen. You already have a cellphone, having another device with a small screen, but not quite as portable makes little sense.
Further, the buttons on an iPhone or iPad are sized appropriately, regardless of screen size.
Interesting spin to say Android tablets have "taken away" 20% market share "from" the iPad. As if to imply the iPad's popularity is on the decline (it's not, but trolls will spin ). If Windows tablets and those UMPCs (project origami) where 100% of the tablet market before the iPad, then using the same logic, the iPad has "taken away" 1900% of the tablet market "from" the Windows tablets.
Of course, it's misleading to say that. New tablets are expanding the tablet market, not solely taking percentages away from existing players. If you need a Windows tablet, you'll probably still buy one. So what's the story with ABI? Are they in league with The Google? Or just shameless fanboys like Consumer Reports? Or just plain idiots?
When the streak launched, no one cared. When it failed, no one was surprised. Dell used to make quality computers for consumers... Now they churn out as much crap as possible. I long for the day when this company goes under.
Dell's real problem was using Android and also relying on Microsoft. Dell should have turned to the Linux community to create a better software system. It would have been closer to iOS than Android.
Programmers are already experimenting with Linux on tablets. Eventually there will be a good free OS that will work better than Android that can be installed on tablets. Once one of them takes off, Android will be in trouble if they don't fix their OS so it can be easily updated by all of their customers. That is one reason I don't want to purchase an Android device. ...
Wow.
Do you realise how crazy this sounds? You are completely delusional. Please go back to the early 90's.
You do realise that after 10 or 15 years of predicting how Linux was going to do this exact same thing with the desktop, that it failed to even make the slightest dent in desktop OS's sales? That consumers purposely avoided it en masse? And that the original iPad (in just a few months after it's release!) *passed* all desktop Linux installations in terms of global market share?
Linux is great for servers and for geeks but those behind the design of it have about as much chance of making a consumer friendly operating system as a snowball in Hades.
There isn't any evidence whatsoever that anything more than the tiniest subset of consumers have ever wanted to use Linux for anything. In fact there are mountains of evidence to the contrary. There isn't any evidence that any variety of Linux or any GUI ever produced for it, has ever been even considered more than marginally user friendly by the general public, let alone *easier* to use than the alternatives.
The standards of success in the new mobile platform wars are usability and ease of use.
These are the same two things that Linux has always been the worst at.
We'll soon find out if the 7" tabs can get any traction (other than the Nook).
The Acer Iconia Tab A100 is about to hit the shelves... complete with Honeycomb... but will it run with ICS.
Actually, we already know how 7" tablets do. Poorly. The public seems to be accepting of 7" e-book readers, but not 7" general purpose tablets.
What we will soon find out is if the general public considers the Acer tab to be any different than the panned 7" tablets from other producers.
There is no indication that hardware specs nor pricing are influencing media tablet sales. As with MP3 players, cost competition appears to be a non-factor in the media tablet market. One can buy a 4GB MP3 player for $25, half the price of a 2GB iPod shuffle ($49). And yet the iPods dominate the market.
Here"s the deal. Apple has once again created a far superior user experience, only this time Apple has there wherewithal to protect it"s intellectual property. Competition gets more difficult when a proper copyright makes it so difficult to usurp.
Plus, Apple has the content media and the App developers in their pocket.
I really don"t see how anyone can compete, now or even in the distant future...
The only telltale sign of the Streak's success were the really long skid marks on the.. err... "pavement".
I just crack up how they chest-thump on introduction, and squirrel away quietly into the night hoping no one will call them on their failure. The Streak was DOA on arrival.
Completely agree. Dell is just full of great ideas. The Streak, a computer with switchable top plates... pure gold!
P.S. For future reference, DOA stands for "Dead On Arrival", so it's pretty redundant to say "DOA on arrival". Just looking out for ya
Actually, we already know how 7" tablets do. Poorly. The public seems to be accepting of 7" e-book readers, but not 7" general purpose tablets.
What we will soon find out is if the general public considers the Acer tab to be any different than the panned 7" tablets from other producers.
There is no indication that hardware specs nor pricing are influencing media tablet sales. As with MP3 players, cost competition appears to be a non-factor in the media tablet market. One can buy a 4GB MP3 player for $25, half the price of a 2GB iPod shuffle ($49). And yet the iPods dominate the market.
I tend to agree with you... but they keep trying.
I would imagine the various manufacturers will keep throwing them at the wall hoping that one of them will eventually stick.
the accurate headline for that ABI BS "analysis" would be: "iPad takes 80% of tablet market in 16 months while making that market 10x bigger than before too."
what whores.
but yeah, the iPad will wind up with "just" 70% of the market long term, like the iPod, because all the world's OEM's have to keep flooding the market with lower priced crap to stay alive in a race to the bottom.
I do wish, tho that Apple would offer a 5.5" iPod touch running the iPhone OS. it would be a killer game player with screen mirroring via Apple TV.
While Google hoped its Android platform could take on the iPad this year, its licensees are finding it difficult to even compete with Apple on the low end. On example, Dell's Streak 5 (aka Mini 5), has just been discontinued, but that hasn't stopped marketing companies like ABI Research from insisting that Android is still a thriving tablet competitor.
The thing was EOL, as it came out like last year.
Horrible execution on it, outdated software, and locked to att pretty much sealed its demise.
I would imagine the various manufacturers will keep throwing them at the wall hoping that one of them will eventually stick.
That might work if their shareholders are very lenient. What is the likelihood of that in today's economic climate? Throwing millions of dollars into R&D then watching a product bleed cash?
Remember, the primary responsibility for any publicly traded company is to increase shareholder value.
How does a company increase shareholder value by repeatedly laying turds? Answer: they don't.
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A bloody stool is not good. You need to see your doctor immediately!
LOL
Steve Jobs makes me laugh. The resolution of the 3.5" iPhone (640x960) is almost as high as the resolution of the 9.7" iPad (768x1024). Do people have to file down their fingers to pencil points to use the iPhone? Of course not.
Context, context, context. You need to take Steve's comment in the context it was given. The compromises people will accept for a mobile phone are different than the ones they'll accept for a full-size screen. You already have a cellphone, having another device with a small screen, but not quite as portable makes little sense.
Further, the buttons on an iPhone or iPad are sized appropriately, regardless of screen size.
Of course, it's misleading to say that. New tablets are expanding the tablet market, not solely taking percentages away from existing players. If you need a Windows tablet, you'll probably still buy one. So what's the story with ABI? Are they in league with The Google? Or just shameless fanboys like Consumer Reports? Or just plain idiots?
The biggest problem is that there are no customers.
The 5" and 7" devices are failing in the market because people aren't buying them (or those who are quickly return them).
We'll soon find out if the 7" tabs can get any traction (other than the Nook).
The Acer Iconia Tab A100 is about to hit the shelves... complete with Honeycomb... but will it run with ICS.
Dell's real problem was using Android and also relying on Microsoft. Dell should have turned to the Linux community to create a better software system. It would have been closer to iOS than Android.
Programmers are already experimenting with Linux on tablets. Eventually there will be a good free OS that will work better than Android that can be installed on tablets. Once one of them takes off, Android will be in trouble if they don't fix their OS so it can be easily updated by all of their customers. That is one reason I don't want to purchase an Android device. ...
Wow.
Do you realise how crazy this sounds? You are completely delusional. Please go back to the early 90's.
You do realise that after 10 or 15 years of predicting how Linux was going to do this exact same thing with the desktop, that it failed to even make the slightest dent in desktop OS's sales? That consumers purposely avoided it en masse? And that the original iPad (in just a few months after it's release!) *passed* all desktop Linux installations in terms of global market share?
Linux is great for servers and for geeks but those behind the design of it have about as much chance of making a consumer friendly operating system as a snowball in Hades.
There isn't any evidence whatsoever that anything more than the tiniest subset of consumers have ever wanted to use Linux for anything. In fact there are mountains of evidence to the contrary. There isn't any evidence that any variety of Linux or any GUI ever produced for it, has ever been even considered more than marginally user friendly by the general public, let alone *easier* to use than the alternatives.
The standards of success in the new mobile platform wars are usability and ease of use.
These are the same two things that Linux has always been the worst at.
We'll soon find out if the 7" tabs can get any traction (other than the Nook).
The Acer Iconia Tab A100 is about to hit the shelves... complete with Honeycomb... but will it run with ICS.
Actually, we already know how 7" tablets do. Poorly. The public seems to be accepting of 7" e-book readers, but not 7" general purpose tablets.
What we will soon find out is if the general public considers the Acer tab to be any different than the panned 7" tablets from other producers.
There is no indication that hardware specs nor pricing are influencing media tablet sales. As with MP3 players, cost competition appears to be a non-factor in the media tablet market. One can buy a 4GB MP3 player for $25, half the price of a 2GB iPod shuffle ($49). And yet the iPods dominate the market.
Plus, Apple has the content media and the App developers in their pocket.
I really don"t see how anyone can compete, now or even in the distant future...
The only telltale sign of the Streak's success were the really long skid marks on the.. err... "pavement".
I just crack up how they chest-thump on introduction, and squirrel away quietly into the night hoping no one will call them on their failure. The Streak was DOA on arrival.
Completely agree. Dell is just full of great ideas. The Streak, a computer with switchable top plates... pure gold!
P.S. For future reference, DOA stands for "Dead On Arrival", so it's pretty redundant to say "DOA on arrival". Just looking out for ya
Actually, we already know how 7" tablets do. Poorly. The public seems to be accepting of 7" e-book readers, but not 7" general purpose tablets.
What we will soon find out is if the general public considers the Acer tab to be any different than the panned 7" tablets from other producers.
There is no indication that hardware specs nor pricing are influencing media tablet sales. As with MP3 players, cost competition appears to be a non-factor in the media tablet market. One can buy a 4GB MP3 player for $25, half the price of a 2GB iPod shuffle ($49). And yet the iPods dominate the market.
I tend to agree with you... but they keep trying.
I would imagine the various manufacturers will keep throwing them at the wall hoping that one of them will eventually stick.
Completely agree. Dell is just full of great ideas. The Streak, a computer with switchable top plates... pure gold!
P.S. For future reference, DOA stands for "Dead On Arrival", so it's pretty redundant to say "DOA on arrival". Just looking out for ya
LOL out loud.
what whores.
but yeah, the iPad will wind up with "just" 70% of the market long term, like the iPod, because all the world's OEM's have to keep flooding the market with lower priced crap to stay alive in a race to the bottom.
I do wish, tho that Apple would offer a 5.5" iPod touch running the iPhone OS. it would be a killer game player with screen mirroring via Apple TV.
LOL out loud.
Well played, good sir! Well played.
Is it time to sell Dell's assets and distribute the proceeds to their shareholders?
In case you don't remember, here's Mr. Dell's famous quote about Apple circa 1997:
"What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders," Michael Dell said before a crowd of several thousand IT executives.
That comment was taken out of context.
https://plus.google.com/113901041381...ts/bTrnjUmnPuv
While Google hoped its Android platform could take on the iPad this year, its licensees are finding it difficult to even compete with Apple on the low end. On example, Dell's Streak 5 (aka Mini 5), has just been discontinued, but that hasn't stopped marketing companies like ABI Research from insisting that Android is still a thriving tablet competitor.
The thing was EOL, as it came out like last year.
Horrible execution on it, outdated software, and locked to att pretty much sealed its demise.
The thing was EOL, as it came out like last year.
Horrible execution on it, outdated software, and locked to att pretty much sealed its demise.
all the 2010 Android tabs were total POS. should never have been put on the market.
Well played, good sir! Well played.
Or, as they say in Britain these days - that's a riot!
That comment was taken out of context.
https://plus.google.com/113901041381...ts/bTrnjUmnPuv
That's BS. Read the thread - Dell is dancing around and trying to pretend that "it was a non-answer".
Sorry, Michael, it was an answer - and an incredibly stupid one. Just admit that you made a mistake and stop making a fool of yourself.
I tend to agree with you... but they keep trying.
I would imagine the various manufacturers will keep throwing them at the wall hoping that one of them will eventually stick.
That might work if their shareholders are very lenient. What is the likelihood of that in today's economic climate? Throwing millions of dollars into R&D then watching a product bleed cash?
Remember, the primary responsibility for any publicly traded company is to increase shareholder value.
How does a company increase shareholder value by repeatedly laying turds? Answer: they don't.