Except it's not. It's one of the most developer-friendly tablets around.
WebOS is incredibly slick (it makes iOS look like ProDOS) and has a vibrant and dedicated developer community. It's a real shame that HP seems hell-bent on killing it. I would have loved to see it succeed.
The sort of people you have apparently met in your life are all spoiled fat cats
Or they're just not morons who can't manage their money. $100 should be 'disposable' to the average minimum wage earner (provided that they're single, of course).
Yup, my wife loves her android phone. However, as she relies on it more now for productivity, she finds it extremely limiting. My once-hated blackberry has become the most coveted device in the house.
Put simply, not only does it "just work", it works extraordinarily well.
Will RIM decide to one day block your app because it could tangentially compete with their app?
Has RIM ever done that? You'll notice that no one "jail breaks" or "roots" their blackberry. You can do whatever you want with it as-is and still have an unprecedented level of security.
It's terrible that today's so-called "smart phones" still can't manage the same level of usability, security, and freedom as a 5-year-old blackberry.
ditches BB for a mobile computing device that I dont have to reboot every 2 days... it sucks. So, forgive the rant, but I really think that RIM's days are numbered...
I've had a BB since the 7290 -- I've had to do a battery pull twice, both times were quite clearly my fault (as it was my software)
I have no idea what you're doing to your phone that you need to constantly reboot.
So get back to work and FOR FUCK'S SAKE...INNOVATE.
Yeah, they've totally been sitting on their thumbs. It's not like they've spent the past two years buying up talent, updating their OS, and putting together a slick line of new products and revamping their development tools making it easier than ever to write software for BB smart phones and tablets.
Oh, wait, they totally did all of that.
And, hey, let's face it -- the Bold 9900 really makes it really hard to wait for QNX line up.
If you're actually interested, you should check out Tetris - From Russia with Love. Its a BBC documentary.
There's another one coming out next year called Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters Though it's about a Tetris championship, I'll bet a nickle that it will include a bit about the games history as well.
Presumably you're talking about a previous article on Slashdot from today regarding Apple suing Samsung for making a look-alike device when compared to the iPad and that has nothing to do with patents?
Perhaps you should go take a second look at that article.
Then the iPhone came, and everyone changed their designs.
You know, Apple wasn't the first with a touchscreen phone.
Even if we ignore things like the decade-old Handspring Visor GSM module and focus on "modern" touchscreen phones, I can point to the LG Prada (announced in Dec. 2006, released Jan. 2007). You'll not that it had a capacitive touchscreen. (LG even claimed that Apple stole their design after they won a design award in Sept. 2006)
Before the Prada, we had a whole bunch of touchscreen phones -- so many you may even be interested in this Top 5 article from Dec. 2006. (Pay particular attention to the design of the 8525 -- you can clearly see the shadows of the iPhone.) Of course, the Prada is the first truly iPhone like phone -- I can only assume that LG used their time machine to beat Apple to the punch.
And that's not a rectangle. For one, there's a third dimension. But don't let actual facts get in the way of a good anti-Apple rant when you can just dismiss me without even understanding a simple shape.
Okay, it's pretty clear here that you're just trolling. I might have guessed from your user id.
In the unlikely event you're actually serious, I should point out that it's obvious to all but the unconscious that this 'look and feel' suit is total nonsense. Before you go on about disagreeing with the German counts, I should probably remind (inform?) you that this is merely a preliminary injunction.
This isn't running scared, this is Apple saying "We won't stand by while you try to use our work." I know that's not the Slashdot wisdom, but frankly Slashdot wisdom ain't exactly wise outside of certain limited facets of technology.
What work would that be?
There's a reason for all those "rectangle" comments -- and it's not "Slashdot wisdom".
As for your "running scared" comment, you have to be incredibly short-sighted to come such a conclusion.
Someone doesn't understand the difference between BIS and BES. You're still secure in Saudi Arabia if you're communications are secured over BES.
I won't bother to list the many other advantages that the BB offers over the "competition" as you only seem interested in spreading misinformation and not actual facts.
(Yes, "competition" is in quotes. No other company offers a phone that is even remotely comparable in terms of utility and security.)
Well poor is subjective. According to Engadget [engadget.com] the battery life is about 1 hr shorter than the original iPad
So what? Steve Jobs said that specs don't matter -- only nerds care about specs. What matters most is the User Experience. Right now, WebOS offers a better, more polished, UE than iOS.
There is more to the computer then just hardware and software young grasshopper. There is the User Experience, ergo, a consistent and well-designed UI for a touch device, or I should say, lack of them, is what makes all the other touch devices look like toys compared to the iPad.
Take a look at WebOS and the QNX OS on the PlayBook -- both are vastly superior in terms to the iPad in both the UI and the nebulous "User Experience".
They make the iPad look like a clunky antique. Hell, they STILL haven't managed a notification system that's even comes close to what a 10-year-old blackberry!
Maybe someday Apple will catch up to the competition, but I'm not holding my breath. They seem to be doing quite well selling the myth that their product is easiest to use and had the best "user experience"; why bother innovating when you can dominate the market on that basis alone?
True, one will meet his needs, the other will not.
A resistive touch screen is far less capable than a capactive one. For one you can't do multi-touch on resistive screens.
Fail. For the parents stated need "a reasonably fine pen point with low lag from the ink when writing" a resistive touch screen is quite obviously the better choice. A capacitive touch screen simply can not do what the parent wants.
Do you calculate the Android market-share by chance?
Here's a fun fact, the iPhone didn't beat out RIM (Blackberry) in market share until mid 2011. You know, the company everyone says has been dying for the past few years. It took tons of "RIM is dying" press and, of course, a significant lack of new handsets for RIM the "dying" RIM to finally slip behind to supposed "market leader".
if you can't figure out that the iPhones are pretty high-quality pieces of engineering.
The success of the iPhone had absolutely nothing to do with quality. Hell, the first one couldn't even manage picture messaging (MMS). How long did it take to get copy and paste on that so-called smartphone?
I second the thought about Black Berry and the corporate world. However, the lack of native black berry functions like email and calendar will kill them if not corrected soon. That is a function that corporate clients expect
Some people see this as a huge advantage. Chances are that you're already managing any number of BB phones -- with BB Bridge, all of the features you want are handled instantly, with IT needing to do *absolutely nothing* to integrate the PlayBook into their environment.
If a PlayBook gets lost, it's no big deal. All your important data is secure on your already managed phone. Once the bridge connection is broken (say, by being out of range) NO data is stored on the playbook.
This also means that multiple employees can share the same unit, and still have instant (secure) access to their data. Again, IT need not involve themselves at all.
RIM put it best as your BlackBerry, Amplified. Everything you've come to expect in terms of security and productivity, on the big screen.
A device that's so hard to get your media, email, and such onto or out of
This article is about the PlayBook, not the iPad.
Getting your media or any other kind of file on and off the playbook is brain-dead. Either use the provided software or access it like a USB drive.
Email? The target market will just use BB Bridge -- instant and secure. Lusers can use the browser or one of many mail apps.
Let's see what hoops you have to jump through to copy a spreadsheet from your computer to your iPad and back again -- viewing and editing in the interim.
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that looks as locked down as the iPad
Except it's not. It's one of the most developer-friendly tablets around.
WebOS is incredibly slick (it makes iOS look like ProDOS) and has a vibrant and dedicated developer community. It's a real shame that HP seems hell-bent on killing it. I would have loved to see it succeed.
The sort of people you have apparently met in your life are all spoiled fat cats
Or they're just not morons who can't manage their money. $100 should be 'disposable' to the average minimum wage earner (provided that they're single, of course).
Yup, my wife loves her android phone. However, as she relies on it more now for productivity, she finds it extremely limiting. My once-hated blackberry has become the most coveted device in the house.
Put simply, not only does it "just work", it works extraordinarily well.
Will RIM decide to one day block your app because it could tangentially compete with their app?
Has RIM ever done that? You'll notice that no one "jail breaks" or "roots" their blackberry. You can do whatever you want with it as-is and still have an unprecedented level of security.
It's terrible that today's so-called "smart phones" still can't manage the same level of usability, security, and freedom as a 5-year-old blackberry.
ditches BB for a mobile computing device that I dont have to reboot every 2 days... it sucks. So, forgive the rant, but I really think that RIM's days are numbered...
I've had a BB since the 7290 -- I've had to do a battery pull twice, both times were quite clearly my fault (as it was my software)
I have no idea what you're doing to your phone that you need to constantly reboot.
So get back to work and FOR FUCK'S SAKE...INNOVATE.
Yeah, they've totally been sitting on their thumbs. It's not like they've spent the past two years buying up talent, updating their OS, and putting together a slick line of new products and revamping their development tools making it easier than ever to write software for BB smart phones and tablets.
Oh, wait, they totally did all of that.
And, hey, let's face it -- the Bold 9900 really makes it really hard to wait for QNX line up.
RIM shipped a patch for these vulnerabilities almost a week ago. The headline should read "Blackberry Server Can't Be Hacked With Image File"
That's right, this was discovered and fixed long before it could become a problem. That's what I expect from RIM's best-in-class security.
If you're actually interested, you should check out Tetris - From Russia with Love. Its a BBC documentary.
There's another one coming out next year called Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters Though it's about a Tetris championship, I'll bet a nickle that it will include a bit about the games history as well.
Presumably you're talking about a previous article on Slashdot from today regarding Apple suing Samsung for making a look-alike device when compared to the iPad and that has nothing to do with patents?
Perhaps you should go take a second look at that article.
It's telling, however, that none of them actually came out with such a product until after they had seen the iPhone/iPad's example.
Except that they *did*. I refer you to the LG Prada phone.
What possible reason would you buy this over an iPad
It's thinner, lighter, faster, has a better display, etc ...
Then the iPhone came, and everyone changed their designs.
You know, Apple wasn't the first with a touchscreen phone.
Even if we ignore things like the decade-old Handspring Visor GSM module and focus on "modern" touchscreen phones, I can point to the LG Prada (announced in Dec. 2006, released Jan. 2007). You'll not that it had a capacitive touchscreen. (LG even claimed that Apple stole their design after they won a design award in Sept. 2006)
Before the Prada, we had a whole bunch of touchscreen phones -- so many you may even be interested in this Top 5 article from Dec. 2006. (Pay particular attention to the design of the 8525 -- you can clearly see the shadows of the iPhone.) Of course, the Prada is the first truly iPhone like phone -- I can only assume that LG used their time machine to beat Apple to the punch.
And that's not a rectangle. For one, there's a third dimension. But don't let actual facts get in the way of a good anti-Apple rant when you can just dismiss me without even understanding a simple shape.
Okay, it's pretty clear here that you're just trolling. I might have guessed from your user id.
In the unlikely event you're actually serious, I should point out that it's obvious to all but the unconscious that this 'look and feel' suit is total nonsense. Before you go on about disagreeing with the German counts, I should probably remind (inform?) you that this is merely a preliminary injunction.
This isn't running scared, this is Apple saying "We won't stand by while you try to use our work." I know that's not the Slashdot wisdom, but frankly Slashdot wisdom ain't exactly wise outside of certain limited facets of technology.
What work would that be?
There's a reason for all those "rectangle" comments -- and it's not "Slashdot wisdom".
As for your "running scared" comment, you have to be incredibly short-sighted to come such a conclusion.
Someone doesn't understand the difference between BIS and BES. You're still secure in Saudi Arabia if you're communications are secured over BES.
I won't bother to list the many other advantages that the BB offers over the "competition" as you only seem interested in spreading misinformation and not actual facts.
(Yes, "competition" is in quotes. No other company offers a phone that is even remotely comparable in terms of utility and security.)
Well poor is subjective. According to Engadget [engadget.com] the battery life is about 1 hr shorter than the original iPad
So what? Steve Jobs said that specs don't matter -- only nerds care about specs. What matters most is the User Experience. Right now, WebOS offers a better, more polished, UE than iOS.
There is more to the computer then just hardware and software young grasshopper. There is the User Experience, ergo, a consistent and well-designed UI for a touch device, or I should say, lack of them, is what makes all the other touch devices look like toys compared to the iPad.
Take a look at WebOS and the QNX OS on the PlayBook -- both are vastly superior in terms to the iPad in both the UI and the nebulous "User Experience".
They make the iPad look like a clunky antique. Hell, they STILL haven't managed a notification system that's even comes close to what a 10-year-old blackberry!
Maybe someday Apple will catch up to the competition, but I'm not holding my breath. They seem to be doing quite well selling the myth that their product is easiest to use and had the best "user experience"; why bother innovating when you can dominate the market on that basis alone?
You should care.
True, one will meet his needs, the other will not.
A resistive touch screen is far less capable than a capactive one. For one you can't do multi-touch on resistive screens.
Fail. For the parents stated need "a reasonably fine pen point with low lag from the ink when writing" a resistive touch screen is quite obviously the better choice. A capacitive touch screen simply can not do what the parent wants.
Right now everyone is copying Apple.
Except for RIM, Motorola, HTC, and a host of other manufacturers.
That would be all of the "Zomg Apple might put out a new phone some day!" click-whoring "articles" from the tech-press the past few months.
Free advertising, sure, but advertising none-the-less.
Do you calculate the Android market-share by chance?
Here's a fun fact, the iPhone didn't beat out RIM (Blackberry) in market share until mid 2011. You know, the company everyone says has been dying for the past few years. It took tons of "RIM is dying" press and, of course, a significant lack of new handsets for RIM the "dying" RIM to finally slip behind to supposed "market leader".
See for yourself
The iPhone was a distant #3 or worse for years. That they're a distant #2 now should make Cheerful Mac Fanboy's happy, not sad.
if you can't figure out that the iPhones are pretty high-quality pieces of engineering.
The success of the iPhone had absolutely nothing to do with quality. Hell, the first one couldn't even manage picture messaging (MMS). How long did it take to get copy and paste on that so-called smartphone?
This is to say nothing of the astonishingly poor battery life that plagued the thing at least until the iPhone 4.
The iPhones success is a complete mystery to me. How did the crumbiest phone on the market gain such impressive market share?
I second the thought about Black Berry and the corporate world. However, the lack of native black berry functions like email and calendar will kill them if not corrected soon. That is a function that corporate clients expect
Some people see this as a huge advantage. Chances are that you're already managing any number of BB phones -- with BB Bridge, all of the features you want are handled instantly, with IT needing to do *absolutely nothing* to integrate the PlayBook into their environment.
If a PlayBook gets lost, it's no big deal. All your important data is secure on your already managed phone. Once the bridge connection is broken (say, by being out of range) NO data is stored on the playbook.
This also means that multiple employees can share the same unit, and still have instant (secure) access to their data. Again, IT need not involve themselves at all.
RIM put it best as your BlackBerry, Amplified. Everything you've come to expect in terms of security and productivity, on the big screen.
A device that's so hard to get your media, email, and such onto or out of
This article is about the PlayBook, not the iPad.
Getting your media or any other kind of file on and off the playbook is brain-dead. Either use the provided software or access it like a USB drive.
Email? The target market will just use BB Bridge -- instant and secure. Lusers can use the browser or one of many mail apps.
Let's see what hoops you have to jump through to copy a spreadsheet from your computer to your iPad and back again -- viewing and editing in the interim.
That whole affair with service in India proved that if they really want to, they can indeed decrypt the e-mails.
Wrong again.