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The State of iPad Satisfaction
harrymcc writes "We know that the iPad is selling like hotcakes, but how satisfied are the people who buy it? Over at Technologizer, we conducted a survey of 6,000 iPad early adopters. There are a few places where they were critical — the majority, for instance, aren't happy with Apple's App Store approval process. Overall, however, they're overwhelmingly upbeat."
Yeah the iPhone4 is having a rocky launch due to the bad antenna design, but ITS OK because that other Apple product TOTALLY HAS A GOOD SURVEY ABOUT IT. Nothing to see here.
Slashdot. Water for Apple. Water that matters.
it's called stockholm syndrome ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome ) and its blatantly at work with the poor idiots who buy apple crap.
the website which conducted this survey is so obviously composed of apple fans that the results are worthless; they say as much.
which raises the question 'how the hell does this story make it onto slashdot?'
> And what particular non-corporation made device are you surfing the internet with today?
A very corporate one actually. And I don't give myself to the illusion of 'sticking it to da man' by buying products of only a particular company where even Microsoft appears to be more open and less controlling...
Don't get me wrong...I really don't care what people end up buying and using. Love the free market. I just don't like the cult'ish lock-in (nevermind technological one's) Apple has managed to pull off. It's at a point, where the actual technology of the devices has become less relevant than owning said device. Kinda like having a Mercedes mainly for status, not for the actual engineering. There's something very distasteful about that (for me at least).
The problem here is one of awareness.
The average conspicuous consumer must first have some way of realizing that there is
something they could have on their iPad but cannot due to Apple's approval policy.
I suspect more people are simply blissfully ignorant.
That's kind of why they buy Apple products to begin with.
Sure. There are a few end users that have some jailbreak app as their personal killer app
or perhaps are aware of someone else for whom this is the case. I doubt that it is very
common though.
Ignorance is bliss.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Or just accept that Android devices will always trail iOS devices, and buy an iPad.
You didn't read the article but concluded that it's anti-Apple based on your failure to understand a criticism raised in the survey? How are you liking that coolaid (or is it cider in Jobs's cult)?
I don't develop iPod apps, but I care about the approval process. (Note that doesn't mean I have the same problems with it that a lot of other people do; to me, it means I consider the approval process as part of the definition of the product I'd be buying if I were to buy an iPad/iPhone/iPod.)
Non-technical friends of mine who use (or, in some cases, used to use) iPods/iPhones/iPads seem to be quite aware of the app store approval process - well beyond their awareness of other comparably technical subjects - because it gets a lot of press and it does affect them even if the fanboy contingent wants to pretend it doesn't. Perhaps they want an app that Apple refuses to approve, eh?
And what particular non-corporation made device are you surfing the internet with today? CPU was hand-crafted by an artisan was it?
Yeah... who's more important to the computer industry? Apple or Intel? Apple or ARM? And which of these companies is more self-righteous about their existence?
You have to face it sooner or later... Apple makes its money by being a lifestyle brand, like Levi or American Apparel or Gucci. That's why it has pathetic enterprise support and tries to lock out competition for it's platform. That's why it's a walled garden filled mostly with petty video games. It's an appliance for people who don't like the open endedness of computers. Just like a Starbucks customer that loves lattes but would never take the ten minutes to learn how to make one for themselves, Apple users skim on the surface of computing. And this isn't necessarily a bad thing.
The problem is that Apple does not want standards, it wants control. It does not want everyone to create art, it wants everyone to buy Final Cut and use it on a Mac Pro to create art. Inherent in it's culture is a fundamental undermining of it's own principles. There is nothing magical or revolutionary about selling vendor lock-in, but I'll give them that their marketing department does a much better job of disguising that than Microsoft did.
I took a week vacation in the states, and took my laptop with me. I had access to an IPAD, my laptop and blackberry. An IPAD is useless piece of junk, only good for websurfing, nobody really uses it for more than 10mins. Smartphones are great for checking facebook or looking up fifa scores and terrible at web browsing and the laptop is a lame version of my desktop.
In the end what I really needed was a portable computer as powerful as my desktop.
did you forget to take your meds?
It's another dancing pigs scenario. As soon as you let average users bypass the Apple store, social engineering attacks pop up that walk idiots through compromising their own devices. Then the media blames the problem on Apple, and the lowly techs of world are left to clean up the mess.
I'm as much in favor of free software as the next guy, but having done my share of tech support I can't blame Apple for their walled garden approach. If a $99 code signing certificate means I don't have to be on call day and night for family and friends, it's damn well worth it.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?