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  • Apple's iPad still leading global tablet market despite Amazon surge

    bluecohonesbluecohones
    kevin kee said:
    It is amazing Amazon is doing what Google couldn't do: Sell tablets.

    What is even more amazing is Amazon using a forked version of Android and having its own Appstore.

    I am wondering how long it will take Samsung to start flooding the market with tablets in an attempt to regain the number 2 spot.
    I hope they don't for the sake of humanity. Seriously, if you ever used one (edit: Amazon Tablet), the clunkiness, the sluggishness and the overall bad experience are just enough to throw it to the wall and then you wonder how you ended up wasting your money (regardless how little it costed you) and your time for that. Might as well get the cheapest iPad available which will guarantee you a premium experience - and more importantly your sanity.
    amazon sold their tablets just to sell their kindle books and promote their shop.

    I got my kindle fire for fitting 4 michelin tyres in an ATS euromaster garage.

    I never got to make any use out of it, the non-physical home button doesn't work because the cpu isn't powerful enough for the instant response like in the ipads or the premum android devices. The lag just makes it horrible to use.

    Kindle got #2 spot in volumes sold because they're so cheap, some people got them for next to nothing as part of promo.

    bb-15watto_cobra

  • Can a buyer recover data from sold iPad?

    bluecohonesbluecohones
    Very unlikely, unless they're NSA.

    iPads are very heavily encrypted so it's not possible to hack your way into it.

    If you are paranoid. What I would do reset the iPad to blank. Then fill the iPad up with random videos and files until it can take any more and then reset it again and sell it.

    It won't be a full government wipe but it will ensure any data that may be on there previous will be written over.
    ashmashOkiRun

  • Google buying FitBit for $2.1 billion to advance fight against Apple Watch

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    gatorguy said:
    wood1208 said:
    If past is any indication! "Google is selling Motorola, the iconic handset maker it bought for $12.5 billion in May of 2012, to Chinese PC maker Lenovo for $2.91 billion". Fitbit should have merged with Garmin's wearables division.
    You might be on the money when all the dust settles. Or maybe not. I'd give it 12 months to see where this is going.

    Google bought "something" from Fossil several months back, will now own stuff from Pebble and Fitstar and Twine along with Fitbit IP. I doubt they're trying to create an Apple Watch competitor (why would they? Apple owns the segment)) but have signaled an interest in health-related wearables so perhaps that's what purpose Fitbit fills.

    It's been hardly mentioned that Google's ATAP created a health-monitor "band" briefly revealed in Milan last year following a health related "watch" a fee years earlier. It's not a new interest. Google even has Apple's own Chairman of the Board leading one of it's health-specific companies. Overall health, disease treatment and prevention, even research into extending human life well beyond 120 years have all been a major focus of Google (alphabet) for a number of years. 
    Apples owns the segment for iPhone owners, There are still a massive Android market of premium android phones who dont have a watch.

    Google sees the accompanying Apple watch with the phone as a big plus in the eyes of the consumer so they need to create their own Android/Google watch to compete.

    Competition is a good thing, it allows the platform to improve. Remember the old days of Apple where you couldn't open more than one application at a time and you couldn't copy paste text from one app to the other?

    That's what happens when there is no competition and no incentive to improve usability for the end users.

    If/when Google creates a watch that has a 1 week battery life without sacrificing functionality too much. Apple will take note and cut down the battery consumption or expand the battery on it.


    muthuk_vanalingam