Individually there might not be a lot of spending power, but there are an awful lot of Chinese people.. so anyone who can get into that market early is going to do pretty well out of even moderate rises in their average spending power. Nobody really knows how quickly their economy will grow, or how quickly the US's will fade.. a whole lot can happen in 13 years.
It was a serious question, and I had asked "apps" instead of "app", but it seems my tablet auto-corrected it.
I don't see how these apps make a person particularly more interesting than one who doesn't use them - considering you can do all of that stuff in a browser too (perhaps with the exception of the medical apps, depending on what you meant by that - maybe stuff like Google Body?)
Yep I meant it would hang completely, and other people with the same model were having issues too. It was before we had an Apple store unfortunately. I grew to hate fan noise by that time, which is why I have a netbook now.
Those use cases weren't my own, I was just thinking some up. On my last holiday I only used my tablet for Kindle and a couple of Facebook messages.
I guess everyone should restrict themselves to using their tech in the way that you consider correct though.
My flatmate is the one that watches his HD content on his iPad despite having an AppleTV and 1080p TV through here.. he can only fit 2 or 3 episodes on at a time.
Having that space built in is great yes, but what if you want more? I love solid state storage, I got a netbook with a 32GB SSD, and putting in a 16GB SDHC card allowed me to fit on a decent amount of music. I would probably have bought an iPod Touch last year if they had more than 80GB of storage. A 64GB model with an SDHC slot would fit in my whole collection. As it is I've ended up using Spotify, which has side-stepped my own space constraints for now. Media slots are very cheap to add into devices, and allow for a lot of flexibility.
I agree with your points, especially when Apple first brings out a product, though my one experience of buying an Apple product in the 00s (I grew up enjoying Apple products, went off them when the pod turned their brand from what I saw as geeky to more "hipster") didn't end well. Bought an MBP for nostalgia's sake, and it had serious overheating issues when using 3D acceleration. At that point I just got fed up with them again. It feels like they care far more about image than about making good products. Reliability of more recent MBPs is meant to be better, but for now I'm happy with more generic brands.
I knew since the Xoom had a large company behind it (and a large userbase from the marketing drive) that it would be more likely to receive updates to the OS. Not strictly necessary, but nice to have. I already knew I wanted an Android 3 device, and it fit the bill perfectly (large high quality display for YouTube and LoveFilm streaming via Flash, expandable storage and plenty of RAM for the movie editor).
I have nothing against iPods since the pricing became competitive. If I hadn't already switched to Spotify rather than buying music, I'd probably have bought a 128GB Touch, whenever they get around to making it.
No, but some people care more about value for money than getting the best money can buy. I prefer to edgfe towards the quality side of the scale, but those with more limited income or families to support are able to rationalise away things like not having the official Market. For a lot of people, the cheaper devices are perfectly adequate.
*facepalm* would you listen to yourself? You are redefining "reasonable" as "whatever Apple wants me to think is reasonable". Even the cheapest Chinese tablets have expandable storage, but if Apple provided it, very few people would pay for their more expensive iPhones and iPads.
What if I want to carry around a large collection of ROMs to play on an emulator, or I don't have a subscription to a streaming music or TV service? What if I want an easy way to keep my porn collection or some other data collection private while still letting other people use the device (no tablet has user accounts that I'm aware of). What if I want to take an HD quality TV series or movies on holiday where I won't have access to my media PC, and maybe don't even a net connecction? It's bullshit to say we are at the stage where expandable storage doesn't improve mobile devices (ones that don't have HDDs anyway, but who wants a HDD in a device that will be moving around a lot?).
(The Advent tablet has a dual core nVidia Tegra 2 processor for those that think it may be under powered.. I can't wait to see what will be available in a year:)
I was exaggerating - I know there are still cheap resistive devices out there - but anyone who cares can get a capacitive phone or tablet at a very reasonable price, as long as they don't want the official Google branded app/Market. One of my co workers recently got a 10" advent tablet with capacitive touch and Android 2.2 for £190. Sure it isn't at the bleeding edge, but it does all that most people need, for less than half the price of an iPad. The only reason I went for an Android 3.x tablet was for the video editor, which to be honest I haven't used yet..!
Apple have pretty much never had superior hardware when it comes to iPods, iPhones, and the iPad. No expandable storage being one of the main issues I have with them. What set these Apple devices apart was the improved interfaces (which yes for the iPhone/iPad involved hardware, but now everyone has capacitive touch).
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Individually there might not be a lot of spending power, but there are an awful lot of Chinese people.. so anyone who can get into that market early is going to do pretty well out of even moderate rises in their average spending power. Nobody really knows how quickly their economy will grow, or how quickly the US's will fade.. a whole lot can happen in 13 years.
It was a serious question, and I had asked "apps" instead of "app", but it seems my tablet auto-corrected it.
I don't see how these apps make a person particularly more interesting than one who doesn't use them - considering you can do all of that stuff in a browser too (perhaps with the exception of the medical apps, depending on what you meant by that - maybe stuff like Google Body?)
Yep I meant it would hang completely, and other people with the same model were having issues too. It was before we had an Apple store unfortunately. I grew to hate fan noise by that time, which is why I have a netbook now.
Those use cases weren't my own, I was just thinking some up. On my last holiday I only used my tablet for Kindle and a couple of Facebook messages.
I guess everyone should restrict themselves to using their tech in the way that you consider correct though.
My flatmate is the one that watches his HD content on his iPad despite having an AppleTV and 1080p TV through here.. he can only fit 2 or 3 episodes on at a time.
Having that space built in is great yes, but what if you want more? I love solid state storage, I got a netbook with a 32GB SSD, and putting in a 16GB SDHC card allowed me to fit on a decent amount of music. I would probably have bought an iPod Touch last year if they had more than 80GB of storage. A 64GB model with an SDHC slot would fit in my whole collection. As it is I've ended up using Spotify, which has side-stepped my own space constraints for now. Media slots are very cheap to add into devices, and allow for a lot of flexibility.
I agree with your points, especially when Apple first brings out a product, though my one experience of buying an Apple product in the 00s (I grew up enjoying Apple products, went off them when the pod turned their brand from what I saw as geeky to more "hipster") didn't end well. Bought an MBP for nostalgia's sake, and it had serious overheating issues when using 3D acceleration. At that point I just got fed up with them again. It feels like they care far more about image than about making good products. Reliability of more recent MBPs is meant to be better, but for now I'm happy with more generic brands.
I knew since the Xoom had a large company behind it (and a large userbase from the marketing drive) that it would be more likely to receive updates to the OS. Not strictly necessary, but nice to have. I already knew I wanted an Android 3 device, and it fit the bill perfectly (large high quality display for YouTube and LoveFilm streaming via Flash, expandable storage and plenty of RAM for the movie editor).
I have nothing against iPods since the pricing became competitive. If I hadn't already switched to Spotify rather than buying music, I'd probably have bought a 128GB Touch, whenever they get around to making it.
No, but some people care more about value for money than getting the best money can buy. I prefer to edgfe towards the quality side of the scale, but those with more limited income or families to support are able to rationalise away things like not having the official Market. For a lot of people, the cheaper devices are perfectly adequate.
*facepalm* would you listen to yourself? You are redefining "reasonable" as "whatever Apple wants me to think is reasonable". Even the cheapest Chinese tablets have expandable storage, but if Apple provided it, very few people would pay for their more expensive iPhones and iPads.
What if I want to carry around a large collection of ROMs to play on an emulator, or I don't have a subscription to a streaming music or TV service? What if I want an easy way to keep my porn collection or some other data collection private while still letting other people use the device (no tablet has user accounts that I'm aware of). What if I want to take an HD quality TV series or movies on holiday where I won't have access to my media PC, and maybe don't even a net connecction? It's bullshit to say we are at the stage where expandable storage doesn't improve mobile devices (ones that don't have HDDs anyway, but who wants a HDD in a device that will be moving around a lot?).
(The Advent tablet has a dual core nVidia Tegra 2 processor for those that think it may be under powered.. I can't wait to see what will be available in a year :)
I was exaggerating - I know there are still cheap resistive devices out there - but anyone who cares can get a capacitive phone or tablet at a very reasonable price, as long as they don't want the official Google branded app/Market. One of my co workers recently got a 10" advent tablet with capacitive touch and Android 2.2 for £190. Sure it isn't at the bleeding edge, but it does all that most people need, for less than half the price of an iPad. The only reason I went for an Android 3.x tablet was for the video editor, which to be honest I haven't used yet..!
So to be non-boring, you must do what everyone else does? I see.
What app are these non-"boring" people using?
Apple have pretty much never had superior hardware when it comes to iPods, iPhones, and the iPad. No expandable storage being one of the main issues I have with them. What set these Apple devices apart was the improved interfaces (which yes for the iPhone/iPad involved hardware, but now everyone has capacitive touch).
you don't get what makes the iPad the dominant device in its segment.
Marketing?
What is it if not a tablet?
(posted from my Xoom :)
Well, they did just lose their "AAA" credit rating..
The only 3rd party app I would really miss having on my Droid is Kindle.
The US government is comprised of humans. Humans have proven to be untrustworthy.
On the other hand, some humans are also trustworthy. Shit. How can I apply both of these into one absurd gross generalisation?
# man sex
(computers did have double digit RAM at some point, right? My history of computer hardware isn't that great)
*sob*
To everyone else: Do NOT click on this link.
If sweat helped you to grip better, climbers and gymnasts wouldn't use chalk.
The weird thing is not knowing if you're just crazy, stupid, or a very patient troll..
The first link is from 2006, you'd be better posting the follow up of if/when they did a study on humans.
Your second link also just says that diabetes causes problems, not that those problems cause diabetes.
Yes.
Um. Yeah, having a script log into 500,000 accounts and post a message must have been a hellish ordeal for him..