It seemed like the author had an axe to grind, don’t know why. I don’t see why Apple is at fault because 4G networks make you eat up data faster. Isn’t that the whole point?
Agreed. To my mind, the larger issue is what cell carriers rape us all for when it comes to data plans.
You have a smart phone? Data plan. You have a 4G tablet? Yet another data plan. Have a hot spot? Still ANOTHER data plan.
It’s freakin’ highway robbery.....not to mention that each of those data plans is limited to maybe a few gigs, tops, without incurring ridiculous overage charges (read: “theft”).
Somebody, somewhere, is going to offer a complete-package data plan tied to the USER/CUSTOMER.....NOT to the devices he or she owns. Whoever that is....should offer unlimited data as well.....and they’ll make a killing. It’s way, way past time to get past these ridiculously anachronistic data plan billing models.
[/rant]
Probably because everyone who actually uses their brain when shopping for portable electronic devices can see that Apple products suck for most people, cost them more money and does less.
Apple is good for one kind of person: the one who doesn’t want options because being told what to do and how to do it is easy.
I’ve had an Asus t91mt for quite a while. I laugh my butt off every time I’m on the bus and I flip my screen around to use the keyboard and the iPad user next to me says, “Whoa, where did you get that?” I have *never* had an iPad user *ever* not ask the question.
I tell him/her that it was on the market a year before iPad, runs a real OS (I have Windsows 7 with MS Office on it, as well as Ubuntu), I use Rhapsody, MOG and rip my CDs to flac lossless and can buy software and music from anywhere I please. When I ask, “Why did you go with the iPad?” I always get the same response. “It’s what everybody has.”
With the new Asus Transformer Prime with the built in phone . . . Oh well. Nobody will buy it. Apple will “invent” the idea a year later and sell its slower version to millions for twice the price. The Sheeple will flock.