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The iPad Is Unbeatable: Why Apple’s tablet competitors don’t stand a chance—and maybe never will
Slate ^ | March 8, 2012 | Farhad Manjoo

Posted on 03/12/2012 5:30:39 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

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To: mamelukesabre
Nokia windows phones are making a big hit in the world’s largest smart phone market. CHINA. iphone is toast.

Apple can't make iPhone4Ss fast enough for the Chinese market... there have been riots outside of Apple stores and China Telecom outlets because they were sold out:

"The maker of iMac computers and iPad tablets underestimated the “staggering” demand for the iPhone 4S when it started sales in China in January, Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said. “We thought we were betting bold,” Cook said Jan. 24. “We didn’t bet high enough.”—Bloomberg News Mar 12, 2012 – 12:09 PM ET

61 posted on 03/13/2012 2:00:55 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone.)
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To: PJ-Comix; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; Airwinger; Aliska; ...
An article that will interest Apple followers—PING!


Apple Ping!

Please, No Flame Wars!
Discuss technical issues, software, and hardware.
Don't attack people!
Don't respond to the Anti-Apple Thread Trolls!
PLEASE IGNORE THEM!!!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

62 posted on 03/13/2012 2:09:40 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone.)
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To: PJ-Comix

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63 posted on 03/13/2012 4:57:34 AM PDT by seton89 (Are the Ten Commandments a living document?)
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To: ShadowAce

FYI


64 posted on 03/13/2012 5:03:13 AM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: for-q-clinton
I am in the tech world. I have written and supported programs for Windows for 20 years. Windows 8 Metro UI on a PC will destroy Microsoft as a software company. It is very sad.

As for "blogs" - I meant Micosoft's own tech blogs. The pros are the ones freaking out. Windows will be a support nightmare.
65 posted on 03/13/2012 5:26:33 AM PDT by Tzfat
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To: Tzfat

I’m in the tech world too and what I’m finding is that the younger audience loves it. The old farts don’t.


66 posted on 03/13/2012 6:35:18 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: Randy Larsen

Head on over to Crackberry.com and the Playbook forum. They have some good alternatives. Also, I think someone will port an Android player over to PB.

Haven’t looked for it myself.


67 posted on 03/13/2012 6:39:59 AM PDT by allen08gop (Insert appropriate picture here...)
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To: Jonty30
I agree 100%. Just though it was odd that someone said that “no one” is using a non Ipad for business.

They are great toys, and decent imaging tools, but for data manipulation a touchscreen isn't that good (yet).

68 posted on 03/13/2012 6:39:59 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: PJ-Comix
I know its a touch screen like my iPhone 4, which I love, but if I ever buy a tablet its going to have the ability to function with a bluetooth mouse. Sitting in my recliner holding a tablet with one hand for an hour and using a finger with the other hand to navigate the touch screen does not appeal to me.
69 posted on 03/13/2012 6:57:54 AM PDT by kempo
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To: for-q-clinton; Tzfat
> what I’m finding is that the younger audience loves it. The old farts don’t.

I think that's pretty accurate.

The "old farts" (that being anyone over 25, and anyone who wants to actually get work done) will find some other way to get their work done. It's not too hard to remove the stupid Merde ... uh... Merkin ... uh... Metro UI, and beat the Vista ... uh... Win7 ... uh Win8-desktop UI into reasonable shape to get work done. Many will do that. Others will migrate to Macs or Linux or stick with Win7 until hell freezes over.

The younger audience doesn't give a damn about getting work done. They're into teeny tiny tweets and SMSs, social networking and who is dating whom, and for them, the fact that their PC looks like a damn phone is just dandy.

What's truly sad is that Microsoft is forsaking their core constituency -- business users who MUST get work done -- for the sake of chasing after the "younger audience".

The young audience is fickle. They have no brand loyalty, and instead they have the attention span of a gnat.

70 posted on 03/13/2012 7:26:09 AM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: dayglored

While I agree with a lot of what you said, the fact is this young crowd is the future. And the way they get things done is different—so different many older people don’t understand it.

I’ve been to training on this bunch and I was pretty much thinking like you posted, but the reality is we need to figure it out and not just dismiss it. And that’s where I disagree with you—you appear to be dismissive of the younger bunch. I’m trying to figure it out. Not the dating piece, but the working aspects and the interactions that get things done. I’m sure the old farts of your day were saying PCs are stupid—I have a phone. How can you get anything done via email. You need to go stop by their office and go to lunch to get anything done.


71 posted on 03/13/2012 7:45:49 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: for-q-clinton

I have an I-Pad, I-phone, and a MacBook, oh and a kindle(old one). I bought my husband a kindle fire, and he loves it, never opens his home lap top any more. I really like the kindle for reading better than my I-pad because it’s smaller and lighter and I don’t need the camera.

However, my son uses the Kindle for business. They have their contracts right on the kindle and use the cameras to photograph documents, they can print them out or save them. I’ve used the camera on my phone instead of a fax for sending documents. It’s a whole different mind set.

I have the kindle app on my phone too, so when I’m waiting in an airport or doctor’s office, I just pull out my phone and read.


72 posted on 03/13/2012 7:57:54 AM PDT by Eva
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To: PA Engineer

Now if they could come up with virtual keyboards and pointing devices, powered by gloves....

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I seem to remenber AAPL has applied for display/cpu patents on flexable stuff like clothing ...


73 posted on 03/13/2012 8:06:50 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PJ-Comix

I was a die-hard Apple hater for years. Built my own PC’s. Literally had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Windows PC’s for business and home.

I bought an MP3 player, but complained that storage was minimal and interface was clunky. Wife bought me an iPod. That opened a chink in the armor.

As computers around the house failed, they were replaced by Macs. Dead MP3 players replaced by iPods. Dead phones replaced by iPhones. Dead laptop replaced by iPad.

Four years ago there was not an Apple product in sight in our home or business. Now we own a Mac Pro, two iMacs, a Macbook Pro, an iPod Touch, an iPad2, an iPod classic, an iPod shuffle, and Apple TV. I spend much less time “tinkering” with my computers and much more time using them.

My wife wanted a laptop for Christmas. I wanted to get her a Macbook Pro, but she was concerned that the learning curve was steep and the price too high. We bought a Lenovo laptop with Microsoft 7 for about $500, that with Office software and anti-virus came out closer to $900. This morning we wasted over an hour trying to install a program. We were not successful and have been Googling to see if it is a known issue. My wife, the last Windows holdout in the family says, “You were right, I should have gotten a Mac...”

They...just...work!


74 posted on 03/13/2012 8:15:19 AM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: for-q-clinton

Yeah, young people will like it. From the looks of it, the very young. Windows 8 Metro has a kindergarten feel. Legos and Play-Do.


75 posted on 03/13/2012 8:16:25 AM PDT by Tzfat
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To: Jonty30

Word Perfect

SuperCalc

Lotus

Palmpilot

IBM desktop computers

Netscape

it just goes on and on.


76 posted on 03/13/2012 8:20:09 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Domangart

LTE is supposed to be the first globally cross system access system I believe.


77 posted on 03/13/2012 8:24:22 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: I-ambush

zune was a me too effort designed by marketers who know nothing about their market.

Microsoft is still sitting on cash.

Also the rest of the world is still on the MS bandwaggon.

Now if MS were to come out with agressive privacy features it would devastate google and apple.


78 posted on 03/13/2012 8:32:23 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Eva

Our family has migrated to Apple products (in addition to iPods, which we have used for many years) over the past 2 years or so. I was a solid PC person since my first Tandy PC in the late 80s or so. As my twins got ready for college we went to get laptops and were sold on MacBooks. I brought them home, set them up in less than 20 minutes, including home network access and printing. Seamless, easy and with no real need for any documentation. I later got a MacBook Pro myself. When the iPad came out, I got one for my wife and she remains extremely happy with it. She has kindle and I think nook apps on it, uses it almost exclusively for email (I can’t get LiveMail to print on the network from her Windows 7 PC for some reason) but can print from her iPad with no problem with a $10 Windows app (the Apple one is $20). My PC crashed last week, and I have attached the PC monitor to my MacBook Pro, along with external drives and bluetooth keyboard and trackpad and everyone works without a hitch. (And I saved the $1500 I almost spent on an iMac.) I have the iPad 2 which I take to meetings for notes, email, internet, etc. When my Blackberry died a while ago I switched to iPhone and have not looked back.

I didn’t WANT to move away from PC, but Apple’s stuff just works! (I do miss the tinkering, but not much.)


79 posted on 03/13/2012 8:32:43 AM PDT by NCLaw441
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To: dayglored

I think the fact windows 8 will work on multiple chipsets will be a real asset.

Imagine being able to install full versions, not stripped down ones, on a tablet.


80 posted on 03/13/2012 8:39:23 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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