My Samsung Tab 10.1 (recently compared it to friend's ipad) has superior screen (we both agreed on this), great build quality and same battery life and I do love it, besides the ugly Apple part: lack of SD card slot. On top of it, unlike my friend, I can put / get files from it whenever I want the way I want.
And "lack of apps" "more apps" talk is ridiculous, "500'000 mostly crappy apps vs 700'000 mostly crappy apps" shows nothing.
Amazon is going to introduce yet another proprietary format. Whether it will be using html 5 or html 10 internally is completely irrelevant. Title is misleading, trying to make it look as if amazon was going to support common standards like html 5. There is one for ebooks already, it's called epub and it's not and is not planned to be supported by kindles.
That whole "business partner" thing is about Samsung selling hardware parts to Apple, not assembling final products, the latter is done by Foxconn slaves.
Samsung's revenue is 3 times bigger than Apple's. Company makes major advances in technologies, they have best screens on the market, again developed in-house.
And no, buying technologies made by startups is not R&D investment. That includes withdrawing an existing app from app store and making it a major feature in the next gen phone. Neither does assembling your product using existing technologies.
Anyone recalls any other "don't hold it that way" phone pretty please? That's how product development works at Apple.
Out of major players Apple was the first company, that tried to simply ban competitor's product by abusing legal system. (they also tried that two decades ago vs Microsoft, but that time they've failed) German's can't buy German version of galaxy tabs, because those are rectangular with rounded corners. Just like Samsung's photo frame, released in 2006:
They never tried to "submarine their telecommunications patents", because they don't have any. They've patented anything they could, like "multi touch on mobile devices". They've re-patented ancient "connector with magnetic lock" technology, by simply adding "in mobile devices" to it. Damn, they even hold "community design" for "rectangular device with rounded corners". That's truly innovative, costs billions of dollars spent on snacks for R&D.
I can't believe this post full of FUD was marked "insightfull"
Apple ldoes "lots of research as to what works and doesn't both in software and hardware"? Oh, seriously? And this claim is based on what, may I ask? How did "don't hold is that way" phone made it into prod, with company that is focused on anything but shiny design?
Icons on Samsung's Android phones look quite different from Apple's. In fact most of them are NOT rounded squares.
I haven't seen interviews with design and UX teams of most companies in this world. That surely proves they dont' exist. //facepalm
Consoles do look different. But you can't easily tell who's manufactured particular DSLR. Pretty much any product that is pushing into minimalist direct looks similar, TVs or Monitoris for instance.
In fact there are MANY things in this world, that look alike. And it is more than obvious, that when all you have is small border with big screen, things WILL look similar:
Name those "designs" that "courts actually agreeing on Apple's side" please. So far we only have: 1) Duesseldorf judge agreeing that rectangular shape with round corners can be patented (unlike her Dutsch colleagues) 2) Dutch court disagreeing with most but one of Apple's claim ("obvious" / "prior art"), with a single exception in gallery view app, which is covered by updating to newer Android anyway
"At least they didn't try"? Are you serious? How much money does Apple spend on such R&D please? How much Samsung, owning core 3G patents (and that worldwide, not US where you can patent basic ideas) and what not spends on it?
Apple "develops" in-house brilliant "design patents" like rectangle with rounded corners. Apple BOUGHT company that had multi-touch patent. Apple BOUGHT company that has developed Siri (former appstore app, now withdrawn) Samsung spends money on real R&D.
Got my Galaxy S (I9000, not the latest version) 2 weeks ago. It comes with Android 2.3.3. It already has quite good voice recognition that supports dosen of languages. This can't be "response to Siri" can it?
Success rate for me is 90%+. If I try to speak slower than usual, nearly 100%. But my wife has problems talking to it and it always failed to understand what my kid says.
PS Let me remind you, that Siri is a former app. (now removed from the app store)
Exact same patent ("community design" of rectangle with rounded corners, no I'm not joking) that have not worked in Netherlands worked wonders in Germany.
PDF rendering in Kindle is rather poor. Sony 950 (most A4 PDFs fit in landscape mode if you cut margins at nearly 1:1) is probably the best for such PDFs. (they also use Adobe's viewer that is superior to amazon's)
And in my humble opinion reading technical stuff would benefit more from going to bigger screens, rather than losing contrast and adding colors.
Regarding TFA, it was "rooted" "old, non-android way", used to flash custom firmwares for earlier models.
Up to T1 model, Sony (well not exactly Sony, Kinoma) was using proprietary engine. (that also ran on other platforms, including Windows) They've sw
Offtopic: x50 line of Sony Readers is actually superior to both Nook and Kindle and has quite a number of followers, also in US. Product having little market share has more to do with marketing, than actual quality. (I find sony walkman (yep, they also do mp3 player, imagine that) vastly superior to apple/samsung's offerings.)
Apple sells 80+ million iPhones annually. That's roughly 250 thousands per day on average. Now think how "impressive" are 1 million 4S pre-orders and 100k activations per day.
Don't want to dissapoing anyone, but I haven't rebooted Win7 on my Lenovo notebook for about 2 years. When I power it off it hibernates.
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Last three times I asked "ordinary people" "do you enjoy having to install itunes to access your device?" and "do you enjoy not having free access on its content" answer was "no".
Did I ask wrong people, who weren't "ordinary" enough to understand goodness of not having access to your own stuff?
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Do you also enjoy your phone note having micro SD slot? Having restricted/no access to your own files?
Want to compare that to say Activision Blizzard? When game binds to battle.net account and you can't get away with paying 10$ and you can resell the game only with your battle.net account? So who's greedier?
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Samsung's great Galaxy Tab 10.1 is, you guess, 10.1".
Sony's Tablet S is 9.4".
PS
Uhm, and have in mind, that mentioned companies manufacture their own displays.
My Samsung Tab 10.1 (recently compared it to friend's ipad) has superior screen (we both agreed on this), great build quality and same battery life and I do love it, besides the ugly Apple part: lack of SD card slot. On top of it, unlike my friend, I can put / get files from it whenever I want the way I want.
And "lack of apps" "more apps" talk is ridiculous, "500'000 mostly crappy apps vs 700'000 mostly crappy apps" shows nothing.
Amazon is going to introduce yet another proprietary format. Whether it will be using html 5 or html 10 internally is completely irrelevant.
Title is misleading, trying to make it look as if amazon was going to support common standards like html 5.
There is one for ebooks already, it's called epub and it's not and is not planned to be supported by kindles.
Isn't it iPad tht is suspiciously simliar to Samsung Photo Frame (2006)
That whole "business partner" thing is about Samsung selling hardware parts to Apple, not assembling final products, the latter is done by Foxconn slaves.
Could you have a look at this:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/03/samsungpictureframe.jpg
Then this:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-kNKGiOZzAXI/Tmn0ElsA4PI/AAAAAAAAHNo/aK3FT0z-9zI/3AlUc.jpg
And stop spreading myths about "rip off"? The worst part is about rounded rectangular icons. Maybe one out of ten on my Galaxy S looks like that.
Samsung's revenue is 3 times bigger than Apple's. Company makes major advances in technologies, they have best screens on the market, again developed in-house.
And no, buying technologies made by startups is not R&D investment. That includes withdrawing an existing app from app store and making it a major feature in the next gen phone. Neither does assembling your product using existing technologies.
Anyone recalls any other "don't hold it that way" phone pretty please? That's how product development works at Apple.
Out of major players Apple was the first company, that tried to simply ban competitor's product by abusing legal system. (they also tried that two decades ago vs Microsoft, but that time they've failed) German's can't buy German version of galaxy tabs, because those are rectangular with rounded corners. Just like Samsung's photo frame, released in 2006:
They never tried to "submarine their telecommunications patents", because they don't have any. They've patented anything they could, like "multi touch on mobile devices". They've re-patented ancient "connector with magnetic lock" technology, by simply adding "in mobile devices" to it. Damn, they even hold "community design" for "rectangular device with rounded corners". That's truly innovative, costs billions of dollars spent on snacks for R&D.
I can't believe this post full of FUD was marked "insightfull"
Apple ldoes "lots of research as to what works and doesn't both in software and hardware"? Oh, seriously? And this claim is based on what, may I ask? How did "don't hold is that way" phone made it into prod, with company that is focused on anything but shiny design?
Icons on Samsung's Android phones look quite different from Apple's. In fact most of them are NOT rounded squares.
I haven't seen interviews with design and UX teams of most companies in this world. That surely proves they dont' exist. / /facepalm
Consoles do look different. But you can't easily tell who's manufactured particular DSLR.
Pretty much any product that is pushing into minimalist direct looks similar, TVs or Monitoris for instance.
In fact there are MANY things in this world, that look alike. And it is more than obvious, that when all you have is small border with big screen, things WILL look similar:
Samsung's Galaxy Tab, if anything, looks like Motorola Xoom, not iPad:
http://www.gadgetcage.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ipad2-vs-xoom-vs-galaxy-tab.jpg
Lenovo's new 7" tablet can be easily mistaken for Samsung's 7" offering.
Name those "designs" that "courts actually agreeing on Apple's side" please.
So far we only have:
1) Duesseldorf judge agreeing that rectangular shape with round corners can be patented (unlike her Dutsch colleagues)
2) Dutch court disagreeing with most but one of Apple's claim ("obvious" / "prior art"), with a single exception in gallery view app, which is covered by updating to newer Android anyway
What are "all those courts" pretty please?
"At least they didn't try"? Are you serious? How much money does Apple spend on such R&D please? How much Samsung, owning core 3G patents (and that worldwide, not US where you can patent basic ideas) and what not spends on it?
Apple "develops" in-house brilliant "design patents" like rectangle with rounded corners. Apple BOUGHT company that had multi-touch patent. Apple BOUGHT company that has developed Siri (former appstore app, now withdrawn)
Samsung spends money on real R&D.
Got my Galaxy S (I9000, not the latest version) 2 weeks ago.
It comes with Android 2.3.3. It already has quite good voice recognition that supports dosen of languages. This can't be "response to Siri" can it?
Success rate for me is 90%+. If I try to speak slower than usual, nearly 100%.
But my wife has problems talking to it and it always failed to understand what my kid says.
PS
Let me remind you, that Siri is a former app. (now removed from the app store)
Exact same patent ("community design" of rectangle with rounded corners, no I'm not joking) that have not worked in Netherlands worked wonders in Germany.
PDF rendering in Kindle is rather poor. Sony 950 (most A4 PDFs fit in landscape mode if you cut margins at nearly 1:1) is probably the best for such PDFs. (they also use Adobe's viewer that is superior to amazon's)
And in my humble opinion reading technical stuff would benefit more from going to bigger screens, rather than losing contrast and adding colors.
Care to name a few "broken by design" points of the previous models? 505 and 650 in particular.
Regarding TFA, it was "rooted" "old, non-android way", used to flash custom firmwares for earlier models.
Up to T1 model, Sony (well not exactly Sony, Kinoma) was using proprietary engine. (that also ran on other platforms, including Windows) They've sw
Offtopic:
x50 line of Sony Readers is actually superior to both Nook and Kindle and has quite a number of followers, also in US.
Product having little market share has more to do with marketing, than actual quality. (I find sony walkman (yep, they also do mp3 player, imagine that) vastly superior to apple/samsung's offerings.)
Samsung Digital Photo frame, 03/2006:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/03/samsungpictureframe.jpg
Please name a person, that wanted to buy iPad but by mistake bought Galaxy Tab, because "it's looks so similar".
http://www.gizmodigit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Motorola-Xoom-Vs-Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-10.1-Vs-iPad-2.jpg
And please, look at how Nokia Maemo phones looked like, this "oh, how smartphones looked before apple" is getting old.
Your point being?
Have a look here and tell me how much did ipad release "change" tablets::
http://2imgs.com/2i/i/4e99424f/ef41ad34a6f44a4bd6e332d81e122e6a/6c941c36e5.f.png
Then here, and tell me that there are more similarities between ipad and xoom than betweren xoom and galaxy tab:
http://www.gizmodigit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Motorola-Xoom-Vs-Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-10.1-Vs-iPad-2.jpg
Last but not least, compare Lenovo A1 and Samsungs 7" tablet, if you find time.
Apple sells 80+ million iPhones annually.
That's roughly 250 thousands per day on average.
Now think how "impressive" are 1 million 4S pre-orders and 100k activations per day.
Makes me wonder, which tablets you've seen. It's hard to be more responsive than Samsung's Galaxy Tab.
Windows is not a "mobile platform". IANAL but the latter is covered by separate stack of patents.
Don't want to dissapoing anyone, but I haven't rebooted Win7 on my Lenovo notebook for about 2 years. When I power it off it hibernates.
Last three times I asked "ordinary people" "do you enjoy having to install itunes to access your device?" and "do you enjoy not having free access on its content" answer was "no".
Did I ask wrong people, who weren't "ordinary" enough to understand goodness of not having access to your own stuff?
Do you also enjoy your phone note having micro SD slot?
Having restricted/no access to your own files?
Want to compare that to say Activision Blizzard? When game binds to battle.net account and you can't get away with paying 10$ and you can resell the game only with your battle.net account? So who's greedier?
The problem is that it is very difficult to write the rules to quantify just what should or should not be considered reasonable to be patented.
Believe me, it's rather easy. Hint: EU. You can't have "software patents" at all.