Market share is one thing, but how many of that market share are normal BB users for things like work emails and calls only? I high percentage I would bet, where as the percentage of iphone users that are non business (there fore more likely to spend on apps) is higher.
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Market share is one thing, but how many of that market share are normal BB users for things like work emails and calls only? I high percentage I would bet, where as the percentage of iphone users that are non business (there fore more likely to spend on apps) is higher.
So taht's a card reader So I can store huge amounts of films on a sd card and just plug that in when I want to transfer stuff over. I didn;t think you could do that.
June/July most likely.
You can't. It only works with the photo app.
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From a Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit Customer REVIEW:
I have found this adapter to be very useful. All though it is considered to be a camera connector kit adapter, with the app "fileapp" it can be used to have flash drives and external harddrives for file access. With iworks you can save a file to the ipad and then transfer it to the flashdrive or ext hdd by using the "fileapp" app. Awesome, eh?
Sooooo iPad is better vs the Xoom in every way with:
Lower resolution
An inferior camera
No flash
Mono speaker
Proprietary external connector (additional dongles/costs)
3G ceiling
Less RAM
That is just hard facts, not even going into personal preference based differences. I don't want a tablet, have no need for one and have no affinity for either platform, quite how you can say an iPad is better than any competition in every way demonstrates nothing but the strength of the Apple distortion field around you.
Additionally anyone who describes a tech device as "magical" loses any credibility.
Lower resolution
An inferior camera
No flash
Mono speaker
Proprietary external connector (additional dongles/costs)
3G ceiling
Less RAM
That is just hard facts, not even going into personal preference based differences. I don't want a tablet, have no need for one and have no affinity for either platform, quite how you can say an iPad is better than any competition in every way demonstrates nothing but the strength of the Apple distortion field around you.
Additionally anyone who describes a tech device as "magical" loses any credibility.
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Oh deary me. You seem to have missed the entire point.
Yes, despite those things, the iPad is still better. There is no 'distortion' field, just superior quality.
I'm not going to explain why again, just get whatever one you prefer
While I agree its cheesy, they were right. I suppose Apple have no credibility then whatsoever? Sure
except things like user content, media and of course stuff like screen is subjective. I would prefer a decent screen like the Ipad than a marginally larger resolution.
And yes magical is silly word, but so is most advertising.
Hardware is nothing without software. The version of Honeycomb on the Xoom is very much v1.0 software. It's buggy, slow and there's plenty of places where the UI could be improved.
Oh, and that 3G ceiling isn't going to worry anyone in the UK until 2015...
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Lower resolution - Xoom uses a VA panel while the iPad uses an IPS panel so yes in this respect the iPad is better...
An inferior camera - which is mainly for use by apps, not photographers, so a high quality camera in a tablet isn't really needed...
No flash - The Xoom doesn't come with flash either...
Mono speaker - A mono speaker is better in this case, a stereo speaker is pointless on something this size, and will only drain your battery more...
Proprietary external connector (additional dongles/costs) - and less cost for the tablet itself, many users won't need HDMI output at all...
3G ceiling - 3G is fine, 4G would only add extra cost for something that isn't needed right now...
Less RAM - but iOs still runs perfectly well on the iPad 1 which has half the RAM of the iPad 2 so extra RAM would only add to the cost and drain your battery more...
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Apple fans. The only time you will hear someone says mono sound is better than stereo on the premise of battery usage.
Unreal.
Are the same kind of person who defends the ridiculous 'SLR Lense' conversions on the iPhone though?
And FYI - The Xoom has an LED flash.
Not getting into this debate, my point was simple. iPad is not better in EVERY way. I did not touch on a single preference, hard tech stats only.
Unreal.
Are the same kind of person who defends the ridiculous 'SLR Lense' conversions on the iPhone though?
And FYI - The Xoom has an LED flash.
Not getting into this debate, my point was simple. iPad is not better in EVERY way. I did not touch on a single preference, hard tech stats only.
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I responded to the point that "iPad is better in every way."
As just outlined, it clearly is not, is it? Despite what you think is independent of hardware - It just isn't. I could not care less for what you or others think is better overall all things considered - that's for the end user to decide. If you want to make such a blanket statement then qualify it, except you cannot, because the statement is false. Don't jump on me calling out a simple hardware comparison as the downfall of such a statement.
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By 'every way', I meant every way that really matters (mainly from a software/usability standpoint).
So its not a completely correct statement but it doesn't change the fact at this moment in time the iPad wipes the floor with everything else, but of course that will change.
So its not a completely correct statement but it doesn't change the fact at this moment in time the iPad wipes the floor with everything else, but of course that will change.
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Ok, ignore what I said about battery life, I stand by my point that stereo speakers are pointless on something the size of tablet... In fact stereo causes more problems than it solves in this case, and I would say that mono is better than stereo for something the size of the iPad...
No really, I've not heard of SLR lense conversions for phones...
Apologies, I thought you meant Adobe Flash... I guess an LED flash would be handy, especially with the use of one of those torch apps...
I agree, the iPad is not better in every way, just almost every way. I'd still take the iPads screen, mono speaker, but if Apple did decide to put the iPhone 4's camera and flash on the iPad then I wouldn't complain, as long as they didn't charge £500+ for the privilege...
Yes, hard tech stats. RAM, resolution, openness. The kind of thing which 9 out of 10 tablet purchasers don't give a stuff about.
Buyers are looking for simplicity. For the majority, buying a computer has always been a chore, because it involves dealing with gigabytes and megahertz and all the other stuff they don't understand or care about. The last thing they want is to run into the same techno-babble when they're buying a tablet. They want things to be easier.
The Android manufacturers have got this seriously wrong. Whilst their ads are trotting out the same old clock speeds and acronyms, Apple is telling people what they can do with an iPad. The quality of experience offered by apps like GarageBand is always, always going to win out over specs alone.
Youve got to wonder if people like Sin_Chase buy cars like the s2000 because of tech specs and not the driving experience...
To me thats a valid comparison to why people want the ipad2 even though on face value its technically not as impressive as other tablets - its the experience that counts...
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