You know what the best feature in these Windows tablets is, a big ass fan!
Yeah they may cost a fortune, have shit battery life and an OS that handles touch with the grace of a tambourine thief with Parkinson's. But hey, it'll keep your hands warm in the winter!
How does Honeycomb get released on a Motorola Xoom if it's not released yet? If it is released, where is the source code?
It's been explained to you in the previous post, Google have already said they "took a shortcut" to get Honeycomb ready for tablets, the source code is simply not ready for general release, the Micro SD card slot in the Xoom doesn't even yet work because of this.
If looking at Honeycomb code is going to stop you from trolling further, then please head over to the Asus website, where they have already released the Kernel source for the EEE Pad, a Honeycomb device similar to the Xoom.
Why do you love tablets? Give me at least 2 arguments (more = better).
This would apply to any iOs or Android tablet:
1 - Better user experience, a stripped down UI that is more fluid and responsive, easier installation of third party software, instantly accessible to novice users.
2 - Better Internet experience, I don't need to be at my desktop to be online, or hunch over a laptop, finger scrolling in a touchscreen is more precise and intuitive than using a touchpad and/or arrow keys.
3 - Superior mobility, way lighter than the lightest of laptops and thinner than the thinnest of laptops, can be used with one hand while being carried in the other.
4 - Better power management, can be on sleep for a month and resume instantly, a laptop uses almost as much power on standby as a tablet does during regular use.
I could go on for a while, bottom line: Tablets are superior leisure devices, laptops are superior productivity devices.
I hate tablets. These are the worst devices ever made. I don't understand why do people love them. I'll never buy a tablet.
Of course you don't, all you've ever used is a computer. You've lived your whole life in a cave, watching shadows projected on a wall, if you were ever to escape that cave the world outside would be alien to you, the light would hurt your eyes!, you would run back into the safety of the cave.
They're in denial, they've spent 10 years trying to make one and have failed time and time and time and time again. Now they're watching a market they can't control blossom out of nowhere.
I don't think tablets are going to replace laptops overnight but they will cannibalize netbooks, leaning back when browsing/reading email/watching movies is a far better experience than hunching over a tiny screen and fiddling with a touchpad. Nobody gives a shit if you can't run legacy dos software on it anymore, we've moved on.
The overwhelmingly vast majority of users will do just fine with a lightweight device that can email browse, watch movies, chat, do some word processing and play a few games. You don't need to lay it on a table, fiddle with a touchpad or hunch over in order to use it, a netbook doesn't even come close in terms of user experience and I'd rather save my phone's battery life for actual phone calls.
Of course if you're looking for a productivity device then yeah, you're better off using a productivity device, not a tablet, thanks very much.
Of course there's ethics, and the ethical thing to do is to improve your offering to give the customers what they want..
That makes no sense, the act of improving your offering has nothing to do with ethics. What is relevant is "how" you improve it, stealing copyrighted works from a superior competitor is, regardless of how you try and spin it, both illegal and immoral.
As far as openness goes, it is both open and simple enough, If they want to be "Bing: Powered by Google" then they'll need to put a Google search box in their site.
Most people were bashing the iPad when it was announced last year because "it was just a giant iPod", and "not as useful as a netbook".
Now all of sudden the tablet is the next big thing.... Anyway, you don't have to wait, you either get one or don't, there will always be better devices in the horizon so it's pointless to wait, make a list of the things you want and by the one that fits.
Beside web apps being some 5 years away from being able to reliable replace traditional desktop applications would be them moving away from using URLs to access web content and forcing users to access it through that "web app store" instead.
If YOU don't like it, then YOU turn it off, it's an option, no need to deprive billions of users of a feature just because YOU think it should be removed.
NO KEYBOARD, NO PURCHASE. it is simple as that for many people, including myself, and i am looking for an android phone to replace a long line of winmo phones with keyboards that i've owned.
there is no substitute for a real keyboard. i am not going to use a device that blocks half of the screen real estate with an OSK. it is like paying for a device with half the screen size. . it just won't fly with the tasks i use the device for.
Well then don't buy it, there's plenty Android phones that have a keyboard, no need to rant about the ones that don't.
Right, so you got tired of Google what, yesterday?, and now you just happen to use Altavista who actually died a long time ago, it is now owned by Yahoo, who gets search results from Microsoft.
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I've been using one for two weeks, and while stuff has crashed from time to time I've seen no random reboots. Cheers.
You know what the best feature in these Windows tablets is, a big ass fan!
Yeah they may cost a fortune, have shit battery life and an OS that handles touch with the grace of a tambourine thief with Parkinson's. But hey, it'll keep your hands warm in the winter!
Would spend hundreds of dollars buying Windows just to run the newest version of IE?, it has to be the ultimate act of masochism.
This has already been reported
How does Honeycomb get released on a Motorola Xoom if it's not released yet? If it is released, where is the source code?
It's been explained to you in the previous post, Google have already said they "took a shortcut" to get Honeycomb ready for tablets, the source code is simply not ready for general release, the Micro SD card slot in the Xoom doesn't even yet work because of this.
If looking at Honeycomb code is going to stop you from trolling further, then please head over to the Asus website, where they have already released the Kernel source for the EEE Pad, a Honeycomb device similar to the Xoom.
Why do you love tablets? Give me at least 2 arguments (more = better).
This would apply to any iOs or Android tablet:
1 - Better user experience, a stripped down UI that is more fluid and responsive, easier installation of third party software, instantly accessible to novice users.
2 - Better Internet experience, I don't need to be at my desktop to be online, or hunch over a laptop, finger scrolling in a touchscreen is more precise and intuitive than using a touchpad and/or arrow keys.
3 - Superior mobility, way lighter than the lightest of laptops and thinner than the thinnest of laptops, can be used with one hand while being carried in the other.
4 - Better power management, can be on sleep for a month and resume instantly, a laptop uses almost as much power on standby as a tablet does during regular use.
I could go on for a while, bottom line: Tablets are superior leisure devices, laptops are superior productivity devices.
I hate tablets. These are the worst devices ever made. I don't understand why do people love them. I'll never buy a tablet.
Of course you don't, all you've ever used is a computer. You've lived your whole life in a cave, watching shadows projected on a wall, if you were ever to escape that cave the world outside would be alien to you, the light would hurt your eyes!, you would run back into the safety of the cave.
I think the iPod Touch is a small iPad, or an iPhone without a phone. Just open one, you'll see!
They're in denial, they've spent 10 years trying to make one and have failed time and time and time and time again. Now they're watching a market they can't control blossom out of nowhere.
I don't think tablets are going to replace laptops overnight but they will cannibalize netbooks, leaning back when browsing/reading email/watching movies is a far better experience than hunching over a tiny screen and fiddling with a touchpad. Nobody gives a shit if you can't run legacy dos software on it anymore, we've moved on.
I don't think they are "too" expensive. I just don't see why I would buy a tablet that does the same thing my HTC Evo already does...
To quote Roger Ebert:
I will never, ever, watch a movie on my iPhone. Nor will I read a book on my thumbnail.
The key words here are "everything I need".
The overwhelmingly vast majority of users will do just fine with a lightweight device that can email browse, watch movies, chat, do some word processing and play a few games. You don't need to lay it on a table, fiddle with a touchpad or hunch over in order to use it, a netbook doesn't even come close in terms of user experience and I'd rather save my phone's battery life for actual phone calls.
Of course if you're looking for a productivity device then yeah, you're better off using a productivity device, not a tablet, thanks very much.
They will, that's why they are collecting relevance feedback from users.
Don't make it sound like a press release, it's cringe inducing.
There would be nothing wrong with this if they kept the results to themselves instead of trying to pass them off as their own.
Of course there's ethics, and the ethical thing to do is to improve your offering to give the customers what they want. .
That makes no sense, the act of improving your offering has nothing to do with ethics. What is relevant is "how" you improve it, stealing copyrighted works from a superior competitor is, regardless of how you try and spin it, both illegal and immoral.
As far as openness goes, it is both open and simple enough, If they want to be "Bing: Powered by Google" then they'll need to put a Google search box in their site.
Most people were bashing the iPad when it was announced last year because "it was just a giant iPod", and "not as useful as a netbook". Now all of sudden the tablet is the next big thing.... Anyway, you don't have to wait, you either get one or don't, there will always be better devices in the horizon so it's pointless to wait, make a list of the things you want and by the one that fits.
CG Jeff Bridges is a computer program in a computer world, if there is a place your mind can ignore the uncanny valley, it's there. Mine did.
Fuck's sake.
Beside web apps being some 5 years away from being able to reliable replace traditional desktop applications would be them moving away from using URLs to access web content and forcing users to access it through that "web app store" instead.
If YOU don't like it, then YOU turn it off, it's an option, no need to deprive billions of users of a feature just because YOU think it should be removed.
NO KEYBOARD, NO PURCHASE. it is simple as that for many people, including myself, and i am looking for an android phone to replace a long line of winmo phones with keyboards that i've owned. there is no substitute for a real keyboard. i am not going to use a device that blocks half of the screen real estate with an OSK. it is like paying for a device with half the screen size. . it just won't fly with the tasks i use the device for.
Well then don't buy it, there's plenty Android phones that have a keyboard, no need to rant about the ones that don't.
wgat dp yiu neam? I csn trpe jusy fune
Microsoft seem to have the view that anything that runs on a Phone 7 device will be Silverlight or else.
WP7 also supports XNA and of course HTML.
HTML4 of course.
Are losing half a billion a year, way to set an example!
Wake me up when WP7 can do Unreal Engine 3 or ID Tech 5
Right, so you got tired of Google what, yesterday?, and now you just happen to use Altavista who actually died a long time ago, it is now owned by Yahoo, who gets search results from Microsoft.
What a coincidence!