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Posted on 04/05/2011 1:52:03 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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Apple is a California company. Motorola is not. Apple’s products are bound to be superior to Motorola’s products. It’s really not a fair comparison.
Consumer Reports is worse than worthless, especially when it comes to anything more high-tech than a toaster. I wouldn’t take their word for it if they recommended breathing.
(That said, I think they happen to be correct in this instance - the Xoom and Galaxy are just terrible devices compared to the iPad, and everything else out there, at least that I’ve seen, is far worse still. But considering the source is CR, I have to assume they were lucky, or someone paid them.)
Heh: I love the MacDaily News commentary on Consumer Reports testing and evaluation spin efforts.
Consumers in this market are pretty smart. When a couple thousand people stand outside their local Xoom outlet in a cold rain, well in advance of opening time, to trade their dollars for the Xoom rather than the iPad down at the Apple Store, then there might evidence of an actual competition among these devices. It is not happening anytime soon.
I hope to get a tablet soon, but, wouldn’t touch an Apple product with a 40 meter yivik prod.
I will either:
Wait for Windows to come up with a suitable product,
Go with the Android based items, once they can meet my software needs,
Just get a new laptop and forget the tablet thing,
or
just forget about it all together and stick with my old laptop until it falls apart.
Wait a second, do we like Consumer Reports this week?
GOOD NEWS FOR YOU!!
To the best of my knowledge, there is no law that requires you to buy an Apple product.
I recommend that you... not buy an Apple product.
I further suggest that for your own peace of mind, you... avoid Apple threads, since they're about Apple products, and might only serve to further irritate you. But since you're already here, thanks for sharing. :)
Nah, they still suck.
The only reason they approved of the iPad2 is they couldn't find the antenna to complain about it. :)
Heeheehee.
BTW, what the heck is a “yivik”? And why would I need a 40 meter prod for one?
Ya just gotta admire the unapologetic straightforwardness of the "MacDailyNews Take" comments. Nope, no bias there, nope... :)
I mean, geez.... I like Apple, and have a number of their products, and yet I overloaded long before the end of their comment, even though I largely agree. I'm sure it plays well to the fans. Unfortunately, such dramatic overstatement gets in the way of taking anything else they say seriously.
I just post the report... They still get quite a bit wrong. They report the Xoom is equal to the original iPad even though there are fewer than 20 tablet optimized Android apps available... and that according to other reviewers, most of the phone apps don't work well on the larger screen, sometimes with the virtual buttons being off screen...
Swordmaker Take: And that was one of their mild comments on Consumers Reports... you should see when they really get going...
Dumb question: can tablets get viruses?
I don't doubt it.
Well, I guess somebody has to hold down the zealously-pro end of the spectrum. Certainly, there are anti-Apple zealots at the other end who are equally vociferous in their hyperbole.
Those of us who hang out in the calmer mid-regions view both extremes with amusement. And yes, I am aware of Jim Hightower's famous statement: "There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos." :)
No such thing as a "dumb question" except the one that goes unasked. The short answer to this question is yes. There has been malware in the wild for the Android OS and for jail broken iPhones already. . . To date there has been no "in-the-wild" malware for non-jail broken iOS devices, but that could happen. The curated nature of the Apple App Store makes it much more difficult to get malware onto the iOS devices than it is onto the wide open Android devices through the Multiple Android market places. google had to step in just last month to remotely remove already installed apps from people's phones and tablets that were infected with malware. There are vulnerabilities on both platforms.
Not a dumb question.
Sure, any computing device can get a virus, if the virus is capable of breaching the device's security defenses.
With the rise in popularity of tablets, I expect there will be plenty of malware. Whether it targets one platform more than another is a different question; all software can have vulnerabilities, but some software is better designed and written than others.
Of course, the best avenue for tablet malware is a devious application, that gets approved for sale, gets distributed and downloaded and run on thousands or millions of devices, and only -then- unleashes some nastiness. That scenario is not far off, if indeed it hasn't already happened.
Although Swordmaker had more specifics than I did, so his answer was more useful than mine. :(
Probably a lot of subscriptions got cancelled after the earlier fiasco, and it sobered them up in a hurry.
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