The built-in tethering works just fine for the couple of times I've played with it. Don't care about old emulators. Safari. Skype works over the cellular network last time I checked, although I could be wrong there since I don't use VOIP -- at least not when there's no free WiFi. Haven't tried Viber yet. Don't care, in fact, I support the lack of Flash as a protest to how crap it is. I don't use video chat since I only have an iPhone 3G. App Store works fine for me. For sex addicts, there is plenty of porn on the internet. What's a BASIC interpreter and why would I want one on my phone?
All I know is that where I live, AT&T doesn't exist. And I've seen far more iPhones out in the wild than Android phones.
You say too little, too late. I say wait and see. Especially since the last stats were for 3 months ending in November, before Christmas sales.
As for no simultaneous voice and data, that probably isn't a big deal for most people, yet. And I'm sure Version aren't sitting on their asses anymore.
There's more to it that technical capability. Usability is important and MS don't have the best track record in that area. If they require the use of a remote like the one Sony made for Google TV, I can't see it making that much headway.
Interactivity matters, too. Otherwise you can say the same about a website vs. a tradition magazine -- who cares if the magazine is bigger when you can't click on a small photo to make it full-screen? And who needs pinch to zoom when a decent photographer can provide close-up crops of the most relevant parts of an image?
Apple has a well documented history of preventing their users from accessing apps that conflict with Apple's interests. This is not just about apps that add technical capabilities, like Google Voice, but also apps with editorial content
Google Voice is available on the iPhone. Can you give an example of editorial content, aside from porn?
Thing is, you don't even need to be able to draw very well to be an architect or a designer. You just need to be good enough to convey your ideas to others. And in the day of CAD and other drawing aids, you can get away with drawing skills of a 3yo.
I'm pretty sure it's a case of "I don't like it because it's crap".
Flash is a bit of a hack. It was originally great for making vector animation and made much more sense that traditional video codecs for that sort of thing. The interactivity opened up a large world, too. But now it's current use it very removed from its original design.
Adobe should be keeping the Flash Studio (or whatever it's called), and transforming it into an excellent tool for creating SVG, because there aren't any decent SVG creation apps out there that I've encountered.
As for the Flash format itself -- that looks like it's going the way of Java applets.
Yeah, because we all know that with no competition, Adobe has previously spent a lot of time optimising the Flash engine, and they had the vision to see how the mobile market would turn out, right?
My understanding is that Core Animation and other relevant APIs are all highly optimised to the hardware Apple has chose to run with.
In order to do the same with Flash, you would probably have to re-write it from the ground up. Apple is already in the process of doing just that -- it's called WebKit.
Pity it was a poor design concept. Perhaps if it used a flexible screen, allowing you to use it as one large screen, it would have been worth looking into. But otherwise, the advantages aren't anywhere near as large as they first appear. I mean, who cares if you can display two pages on separate screens when turning a page on an iPad is easier than turning the dead-tree version.
Of course there are differences between men and women, but when it comes to this type of thing, the average between the sexes can often be smaller than the standard deviation within one sex.
My main point was that unless you have done scientific surveys, you probably have a subconscious bias -- we all do. I know that as a reasonably typical male, I'm probably more likely to be able to recall and analyze the actions of well-dressed, attractive women than those of who I don't find attractive.
By going to the magazine section of a book store, you have already made a selection bias. And who knows what people would have a flick through if they weren't in a public space.
Women may be more willing to spend extra money to get something they think is going to cause them less headaches. Men may be more willing to risk reliability in order to have more tech to play with.
Christmas is coming up. Let's wait until January for sale figures to be released before getting too comfortable with the idea that Android is selling more than the iPhone, to say nothing of including iPod Touch sales.
It is an individual's right to live their life in whatever manner they see fit so long as it doesn't interfere with another's right to do the same thing.
I'm not sure TM laws work like that. If you have what is obviously supposed to look like someone else's brand, not just use the same word or have a logo with similar elements, then I doubt it matters if you're in a different industry.
I think Apple, and the market it's in, is very predicable (like many, the moment I saw the iPad, I knew it would be wildly popular). The big mystery to me is why so many other large corporations seem incapable or unwilling to adopt the successful strategies of Apple. Probably has something to do with thinking more in terms of "successful strategies" rather than "how to make the best product".
Not sure why you think it's a coffee table device. I do enjoy using my iPad so much that I use it around the house, even when I have my main computer turned on and in reach. Yet the reason I got one was as a computer that lives in my backpack that can easily be used when I'm out and about -- something it does much better than any netbook could.
As for a complete replacement, it is more than enough for what most of my friends use their computers for.
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Choice isn't measured by the number of things you want or by the illusion of choice Steve gives you.
To me, it sure is measured by the number of things I want. Otherwise, why would I care how much choice there is?
For you it appears to have less choice, for me it has more.
The built-in tethering works just fine for the couple of times I've played with it.
Don't care about old emulators.
Safari.
Skype works over the cellular network last time I checked, although I could be wrong there since I don't use VOIP -- at least not when there's no free WiFi. Haven't tried Viber yet.
Don't care, in fact, I support the lack of Flash as a protest to how crap it is.
I don't use video chat since I only have an iPhone 3G.
App Store works fine for me.
For sex addicts, there is plenty of porn on the internet.
What's a BASIC interpreter and why would I want one on my phone?
Prepare to be disappointed in some of your fellow comrades.
There seems to be more choice in the App Store than there is in the Marketplace at the moment.
All I know is that where I live, AT&T doesn't exist. And I've seen far more iPhones out in the wild than Android phones.
You say too little, too late. I say wait and see. Especially since the last stats were for 3 months ending in November, before Christmas sales.
As for no simultaneous voice and data, that probably isn't a big deal for most people, yet. And I'm sure Version aren't sitting on their asses anymore.
Too late for you, perhaps, but there will be many who will dump their Andriods for an iPhone.
Should be interesting to see what effect this has on marketshare.
There's more to it that technical capability. Usability is important and MS don't have the best track record in that area. If they require the use of a remote like the one Sony made for Google TV, I can't see it making that much headway.
I'd say it's coming soon. Apple isn't going to restrict the success of the iPad by chaining to a PC for that much longer.
Interactivity matters, too. Otherwise you can say the same about a website vs. a tradition magazine -- who cares if the magazine is bigger when you can't click on a small photo to make it full-screen? And who needs pinch to zoom when a decent photographer can provide close-up crops of the most relevant parts of an image?
Apple has a well documented history of preventing their users from accessing apps that conflict with Apple's interests. This is not just about apps that add technical capabilities, like Google Voice, but also apps with editorial content
Google Voice is available on the iPhone. Can you give an example of editorial content, aside from porn?
Even better than thinking fast is thinking smart.
Thing is, you don't even need to be able to draw very well to be an architect or a designer. You just need to be good enough to convey your ideas to others. And in the day of CAD and other drawing aids, you can get away with drawing skills of a 3yo.
I'm pretty sure it's a case of "I don't like it because it's crap".
Flash is a bit of a hack. It was originally great for making vector animation and made much more sense that traditional video codecs for that sort of thing. The interactivity opened up a large world, too. But now it's current use it very removed from its original design.
Adobe should be keeping the Flash Studio (or whatever it's called), and transforming it into an excellent tool for creating SVG, because there aren't any decent SVG creation apps out there that I've encountered.
As for the Flash format itself -- that looks like it's going the way of Java applets.
Yeah, because we all know that with no competition, Adobe has previously spent a lot of time optimising the Flash engine, and they had the vision to see how the mobile market would turn out, right?
My understanding is that Core Animation and other relevant APIs are all highly optimised to the hardware Apple has chose to run with.
In order to do the same with Flash, you would probably have to re-write it from the ground up. Apple is already in the process of doing just that -- it's called WebKit.
Pity it was a poor design concept. Perhaps if it used a flexible screen, allowing you to use it as one large screen, it would have been worth looking into. But otherwise, the advantages aren't anywhere near as large as they first appear. I mean, who cares if you can display two pages on separate screens when turning a page on an iPad is easier than turning the dead-tree version.
Of course there are differences between men and women, but when it comes to this type of thing, the average between the sexes can often be smaller than the standard deviation within one sex.
My main point was that unless you have done scientific surveys, you probably have a subconscious bias -- we all do. I know that as a reasonably typical male, I'm probably more likely to be able to recall and analyze the actions of well-dressed, attractive women than those of who I don't find attractive.
By going to the magazine section of a book store, you have already made a selection bias. And who knows what people would have a flick through if they weren't in a public space.
Hasn't stopped iTunes. Publishers will have to get used to the change or get left behind.
Only on Slashdot could this be considered so insightful.
All this tells us is about the type of women you are more bias to noticing.
Women may be more willing to spend extra money to get something they think is going to cause them less headaches. Men may be more willing to risk reliability in order to have more tech to play with.
Christmas is coming up. Let's wait until January for sale figures to be released before getting too comfortable with the idea that Android is selling more than the iPhone, to say nothing of including iPod Touch sales.
It is an individual's right to live their life in whatever manner they see fit so long as it doesn't interfere with another's right to do the same thing.
There's your problem, right there...
I'm not sure TM laws work like that. If you have what is obviously supposed to look like someone else's brand, not just use the same word or have a logo with similar elements, then I doubt it matters if you're in a different industry.
I think Apple, and the market it's in, is very predicable (like many, the moment I saw the iPad, I knew it would be wildly popular). The big mystery to me is why so many other large corporations seem incapable or unwilling to adopt the successful strategies of Apple. Probably has something to do with thinking more in terms of "successful strategies" rather than "how to make the best product".
On the planet where most people only use word processors to update their CVs.
Not sure why you think it's a coffee table device. I do enjoy using my iPad so much that I use it around the house, even when I have my main computer turned on and in reach. Yet the reason I got one was as a computer that lives in my backpack that can easily be used when I'm out and about -- something it does much better than any netbook could.
As for a complete replacement, it is more than enough for what most of my friends use their computers for.