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The State of iPad Satisfaction

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the ya-take-the-good-ya-take-the-bad dept.

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."

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  1. Screw the iPad by Pojut · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just pick up an iPed.

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    1. Re:Screw the iPad by MBGMorden · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You know, with the mentioned retail price of $105 and the fact that it runs Android, I think I WOULD pick one of these up if there were available here (and available in an English language version of course).

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    2. Re:Screw the iPad by Pojut · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You can find one here. I'm very seriously considering buying one.

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    3. Re:Screw the iPad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Also a quick eBay search turns up a few buy-it-now's for the actual iPed for about $150 + $20 shipping

      Or you could also search for "android tablet" or apad tablet and find them for $109 + $39.99 shipping all day long.

    4. Re:Screw the iPad by BasilBrush · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Blimey it's gone up from $105 to $187.98 in one post.

      I bet it doesn't get 98% satisfaction rating from customers. For a start where are the third party apps?

    5. Re:Screw the iPad by Pojut · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      For a start where are the third party apps?

      .....it runs Android. Where do you think the third party apps are? :-)

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    6. Re:Screw the iPad by Dishevel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      For a start where are the third party apps?

      Can you take a moment and reboot your iBrain. I think that your attempting to multitask.

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    7. Re:Screw the iPad by bobcat7677 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      There are several on ebay right now. Just search for "iped".

    8. Re:Screw the iPad by BasilBrush · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      .....it runs Android. Where do you think the third party apps are? :-)

      I'm expecting most of the phone apps not to work. Cross device compatibility for Android seems to be more theoretical than actual. Even if the phone apps do work, they'll be be bad designs for a slate - just as iPhone apps are bad designs for the iPad. The good iPad apps have iPad specific UIs.

    9. Re:Screw the iPad by yeshuawatso · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The tablet most likely runs Android x86 (VIA processor) which is pretty good about getting most of the apps for Android running properly. Apps designed to use cellular networks won't work too well, but they're designed for use with the dialer anyway.

    10. Re:Screw the iPad by BasilBrush · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The tablet most likely runs Android x86 (VIA processor) which is pretty good about getting most of the apps for Android running properly.

      Will Android X86 run Android ARM binaries? Like does it have some kind of emulator? Or does it need some sort of fat binaries?

    11. Re:Screw the iPad by yeshuawatso · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Will Android X86 run Android ARM binaries?

      Point me out an ARM binary for the Android platform and I'll tell. Android uses Dalvik virtual machine which has a JIT compiler and most developers don't use the NDK's ARM abi. Not to discredit your questions, as they are valid, but you're looking at a rare subset of applications that would take advantage of this feature.

      Also, I said "pretty good," not perfect.

  2. Weird. by Spazntwich · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did I typo something so badly I've ended up at epinions.com?

    My other question is whether this is a case of paying CmdrTaco off or blackmailing him. Either Apple promised to fix his micropenis... or threatened to reveal it to a wider community.

    1. Re:Weird. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Seriously. I hope to see /. getting screwed in ass one day by Steve Wonderful Jobs himself - like he did to #2 fanbois - Gizmodo.

  3. Re:I Can't Get No Satisfaction by Deus.1.01 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow..."troll"?

    Seriously?

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  4. Re:Survey has built in bias by copponex · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Not scientific, not normalized, not statistically meaningful.

    Don't you dare make fun of the Austrian School. Ze dollar vill crumble!