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.
(Excerpt) Read more at bits.blogs.nytimes.com ...
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
Unless you’ve got an external keyboard, it’s a bi*ch trying to Freep on an iPad.
I prefer my laptop...
Complain to the admins, most other forums have iOS clients now but we don’t.
I bought one for my wife and both adult daughters.
They love the things.
Now the grandkids want in on the deal, LOL.
True, but as a traveller, the iPad is superior. For most of laptop tasks. True, I can't do business tasks like update presentations, spreadsheet work or run enterprise apps (my profession); but I don't need to on the road.
So for the footpint of a magazine, that I don't have to take out of my bag in airport security; I get one heck of alot of functionality.
I hear you. Got one for the wife and the three year old granddaughter plays with it every chance she gets. Now she wants one. She works it like she was born with it in her hands. Crayola has a great app that uses an electronic marker.
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.
Look into Dataviz. They make apps for the iPad that enable you to work with some Office programs.
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!
If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride. If they wanted something else, I wouldn't be buying as much AAPL stock, either.you can be shore that Swordie wouldn’t post a article ‘bout it!
You couldn't be sure that he wouldn't ping it out, tho. More likely, he would.But some of use think that it's no accident that that is a moot point.
On this planet, Apple has been kicking rear ends and taking names.
Thank you Capt. Obvious. Still no reason to jack off to a portrait of Stevie Jobs. Monopoly no good, said Confucius.
BY the way, I'm oiled enough to remember when ELVIS went to the Army and a Dick Clark's protege was the Next Big Think. Its name was FABIAN!
Fan clubs. It's a 1950s thing.
Discount. They would sell th iPad if they could get them.
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.
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