Posted on 08/17/2011 4:54:27 PM PDT by Swordmaker
According to a report issued on Wednesday, consumers who already own or plan to buy a new tablet are only interested in one thing: the Apple iPad.
The report, which was published by Robert W. Baird, a Milwaukee-based wealth management and analyst company, was conducted through a survey of 1,114 people, 98 percent of whom lived in the United States.
More than 50 percent of those surveyed, who were between 22 and 60 years old, said they already owned a tablet or were interested in buying one soon, with 95 percent of these respondents choosing the Apple iPad.
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Sooner or later you guys are going to understand that Apple figured out there are many more consumers, than there are geeks.
Consumers want something that works, not something to work on.
>>> HP Touchpad can have up to 20 apps running at the same time. Also it supports the full web....flash support. <<<
And the battery will last what, 2 hours or so under those conditions?
“Made in China”.
I have nothing to compare it with but I do love my iPad2. I also have an iPhone & iMac24. Also a HP notebook that I had before all of the Apple products.
Now & then when I do use the notebook I forget how slow & invasive it is .... must do all its updates, virus work, etc before I can do what I want to do.
I have heard the new PC programs are good. I have Vista on the Notebook & like it for the limited internet use I do with it.
Except manufacturers of allegedly competing products — the tablets they want are Tagamets.
Truthfully, I don’t need 20 apps open, or 10 for that matter. So not a problem.
Fan clubs. It's a 1950s thing.
Hey, anti-fan "clubs" have been around awhile, too. I've been rooting against the Yankees since they beat my team in the World Series when I was 11 years old. Over 60 years, now.But that is, as Rush puts it, "passion without consequence." But when it gets to being an anti-fellow FReeper groupie, that's a bit much for this forum, don't you think?Otherwise, why are you fantasizing about counterfactuals to provide yourself with a "rationale" for criticism of a FReeper?
On point about Steve Jobs: there are many people who accomplish impressive things, but who might not be impressive personally. I haven't met the man, and have read some unflattering things about him which AFAIK are true.But whether or not Steve Jobs is a nice guy, his vision for taking good use of the devices which have continuously been developed in vindication of Moore's Law has impressed me, as it has impressed Swordmaker. Your mileage may vary, but I could wish it didn't lead to gratuitous .ad hominems.
Regarding your comment on monopoly:"People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or some contrivance to raise prices." - Adam Smithis quite true - and applicable first of all to unions.But then, unions exist to prevent meritocracy, such as Apple becoming dominant in the development and sale of small infotainment devices. Apple has been creating categories, and other people have been trying to keep Apple from dominating those categories. They have been having trouble making devices of the same quality as Apple, and tho Apple has been pricing its products to reflect their quality, Apple's products have been selling. They keep Apple on its' toes. Which is good, tho not the only good.
And I really haven’t had a problem with flash sites. Usually, I just by-pass them. And more often than not, I leave em a message as to why I went elsewhere.
A month or so ago, I was on a car site. Audi I think. I had seen a car on tv and was curious about the model. Now auto mfgr’s used to do heavy amounts of flash so you could do 360 deg views and such. But this time, I was able to do all that on my iPad. So they have already started to make the transition to HTML5 coding.
Flash is gonna die, and while they won’t say so publicly, I think Adobe knows it as well.
And yet there are tons of Christian-oriented apps available. I recall this particular story and my impression was that the makers "Manhattan Declaration" app knew they were violating the TOS and did so to get the publicity associated with being "persecuted" by Apple.
Now, granted, Apple has pretty rigid terms or service for the App Store and many people find them overly restrictive. But you know what? Code it up as an HTML 5 web page and any mobile browser, including Safari on iOS devices, can access it. It doesn't have to be an "App" to be used by the device.
In other words, all of them.
I'd be surprised if they come down that far that fast. At least for one worth having, which I define as Honeycomb (Android 3.0), a capacitive touch screen, good build quality and a sufficiently fast processor. There are plenty of tablets in the $150 price range that have none of the above, and they're pretty much universally panned as more frustration than they're worth.
None of the Android tablets out thus far have caught fire, so no one's getting any economies of scale to bring the price down. Apple is also sucking up most of the production capacity for capacitive touch screens and flash memory, so the price on those isn't going to drop quickly.
Adobe is slowly, and with only a moderate amount of hype, preparing itself for that future. The Flash application (as distinct from the Flash plug-in) is ideally suited for HTML5 authoring, because most of the world's designers already know how to use it. Photoshop and Acrobat have done pretty well without requiring Adobe client software to view their output, and I'd expect Flash to shake out about the same.
Ah, but Costco does sell crappy stuff. I've shopped there for many years. They're in it to make money. For instance, look at their Hitachi portable tools. Pure crap. I did a comparison before buying some tools, ended up buying more powerful Craftsman power tools for 50 percent less than the Hitachi stuff. Costco sells good and bad stuff.
I read an interesting article a couple months ago about Bob Borchers, who was part of the original iPhone team. Supposedly, Apple originally envisioned that developers would create web apps that ran inside the Safari browser. Developers complained, and sometime after the iPhone was launched they allowed the developers to write native apps. That is what made the iPhone a success (and the iPad that is similarly used). The native apps are much faster and more appealing than web apps.
Think they have a few thousand more than that. Probably would be enough for most people’s needs... except for those who need 10,000 choices for a cookbook app.
Looks like it’s time to scratch the Touchpad off the list already. HP is changing strategy, getting rid of its PC line.
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