Posted on 12/11/2014 9:23:14 AM PST by SeekAndFind
RE: cloud BS
Well, so is Microsoft’s Office 365.
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
I saw that one for the first time last night. . . and as a singer cringed. It made me wonder if the expertise of the singers transferred to the expertise of the makers of the product. . . then I looked up and saw the product. The MS Surface is not a bad product, but it's just a product that basically really requires, well, a surface to really properly be used. It's true competitive product is the Macbook line, not the iPad. . . and while there are keyboards for the iPads, most people who buy them (myself among them) soon find them selves just not using them.
Uh, Pages, Microsoft Office both free for the iPad. . . you obviously have no knowledge of what's available for the iPad.
Too expensive for me but if I were offered a free iPad or free Surface Pro I would take the latter. Every time! S Pro3 is vastly superior to the iPad
I agree its too expensive. What’s exciting is that it is finally a usable product. I’m waiting for the newer models to come out. Like everything else, the price will come down as they cream the market.
Let's see. . . 68 million (per Apple Financial Statements) iPads sold up to October. 1,135,000 ($908 million [per article] divided by $800 selling price on MS online store) Surface Pro 3 sold up to October. RIGHT! 1.7% of Apple's iPad sales. You keep being delusional, VanDeKoik.
There is no need to learn anything. Apple is not trying to merge iOS and OS X. Yosemite is more OS X and less iOS than before. . . Apple understands the roles of each device quite well. Listen to Steve Jobs Post PC Era speech.
Right . . it's only grown to encompass 1 billion iOS devices. . .
It won’t get to two billion.
Actually, the stats show that the decline is across the board in the Tablet market with the Android segment much farther down than the iPad segment. Samsung has hit a 30-40% decline. So far this Christmas season, sales of iPad seem to be roaring.
Part of this decline in Tablets is the effect of large inventories of unsold white box Android junk in inventory which was shipped in previous quarters being now being deeply discounted which is now competing against orders for new white box Android junk tablets from being shipped which means they remain in manufacturers' warehouses. Can we say they are overstocked? We may start seeing some of these in cereal boxes as free give-aways. . . just to get rid of them! LOL!
On the other hand, when these Junk Android tablets were being heavily discounted for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, several Computer Security companies analyzed them and found that almost ALL of them were shipping pre-rooted and many already had malware already installed capable of stealing IDs, remote exploits, and some even had key-loggers installed! Some of these were being sold with what consumers would assume were "trusted" names such as "Pioneer" and "Bell and Howell," etc, but they were still basically no-name white box Android tablets, often running antique Android as old as 2.1 with no way to update.
Apple is selling what they have manufactured—their just in-time systems try to maintain a three to four week supply—but the sheer numbers of cheap under $50 crap out there makes it look as if they have lost market share to Android—tablets that really have little capability that are really not anywhere near the same league as an iPad or a Samsung Galaxy Tab, mere Toys.
odd many people consider an ipad the same as any other tablet.
(ipad is a tablet but not all tablets are an ipad)
They died years ago when Michael Dell said Apple should sell the stock and return money to stockholders, oh wait Michael sold his company to himself instead.
Apple has reached one billion iOS devices in seven years. . . and the growth, contrary to your original claim is accelerating. They are just entering China and now India. Why do you think, if your original post was wrong, this claim is not wrong as well?
Maybe you should go back and review the threads when Apple announced the iPad, you guys had a lot of fun with that one as I recall.
Wait until you have been retire a few years, you won't even need a calendar.
And your bizarre need to regurgitate Apple sales numbers had what to do with what I said?
I know you guys love to live through them like you actually made the money yourselves, but seriously learn to follow a conversation before you break out the ledgers.
Some products become so iconic they enter the lexicon of the language. . . and the product name becomes the category. Kleenex tissue comes to mind as people started saying pass the kleenex as well as Scotch tape. . .Even Google's trade mark is quickly becoming a verb, "Would you google that for me?" or "I googled it and here is what I learned about TseTse flies." It won't be long before it's gone lexiconic. In fact, i would not be surprised if it hasn't already been added to the OED.
Owners of Trademarks have to defend militantly against such usages or their Trademarks become mere words. . . and as such they lose them into the lexicon and any competitor can use them. Then it would be perfectly legal for Samsung to sell the Samsung iPad. . . Not Good.
I bought my Mom a wall clock that just shows what day of the week it is . . .
she thought it the most useful clock she ever owned!
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