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Unless you’ve got an external keyboard, it’s a bi*ch trying to Freep on an iPad.
I prefer my laptop...
I bought one for my wife and both adult daughters.
They love the things.
Now the grandkids want in on the deal, LOL.
Not me. I’ve been waiting for the Android operating system to improve and for the price to drop substantially. Android 3 is a good platform for a pad and I figure this Xmas the price of an android pad will probably be in the vicinity of $150 or less. I see some of the android 2 pads going for under $100 but those are really not much more than glorified kindles.
The silent witness theory seems to be at work here; to wit :
"95% of people who would never buy a tablet, would not buy an ipad," is an equally valid speculation.
My dad took my nephew out to buy him a tablet for his birthday. They tried out one of the microsoft based tablets and actually got the blue screen of death. After that they marched right over to the apple section and bought an ipad.
I have wondered why Costco quit selling Apple products. They offer the Xoom and something from Acer. It’s easy to say most people would prefer the iPad, but Costco doesn’t make a habit of offering things that flat out suck. They must be selling those to someone, right?
I tried the HP Touchpad and didn’t really like it.
If you have an iPhone, you already know how to use an iPad pretty much.
Translation: The “tablet” market doesn’t exist. The pseudo-category was created by iPad wannabes so they could pretend that they didn’t completely miss the boat on Apple’s category-changing product.
Apple's "walled garden" approach to apps & content (i.e., benevolent dictatorship) runs contrary to Internet norms of sharing, openness, and freedom.
Case in point, Apple's rejection of traditional Christianity by removal of the "Manhattan Declaration" app:
http://www.christianexaminer.com/Articles/Articles%20Jan11/Art_Jan11_04.html
Apple has rejected an iPhone/iPad "app" that had been resubmitted by signers of the Manhattan Declaration, further frustrating Christian leaders who fear the controversy signals a growing societal intolerance of orthodox Christianity.
Conservative leaders are now calling the company's policy "appalling" and suggesting it reflects hostility toward Christian beliefs.
At issue is an iPhone/iPad software program containing the text of the Manhattan Declaration, a 4,700-word document that includes basic Christian teachings and Bible verses on marriage, life and religious liberty. More than 480,000 people the signed the document online. It received widespread media coverage. Among its stances, the document opposes "gay marriage," abortion and embryonic stem cell research.
Apple pulled the free app from its online store in November, saying it "violates our developer guidelines by being offensive to large groups of people."
And if they wanted something else, like the Samsung tablet, you can be shore that Swordie wouldn’t post a article ‘bout it!
HP Touchpad can have up to 20 apps running at the same time. Also it supports the full web....flash support.
It also boasts the best audio sound of any tablet with the Beats Audio.
I don’t have one yet but am leaning towards the Touchpad now.
“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.