Thread: iPAD vs Tablet PC: Forget the iPAD

I love Apple products for one main reason: they make the self proclaimed hardcorepoweruser!!! types froth with incomprehension at the success of the products.

That is such a good reason for spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars on pretty gadgets that don't do much.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

This is the only reason I bought the Mac-mini too.

What is the reason you bought the other 11 Macs you have owned?

My friends iphones can't bluetooth connect with anything that's not an Apple or send or recieve MMS messages.

Originally Posted by slackula

What is the reason you bought the other 11 Macs you have owned?

Fagness.

Originally Posted by Dug

My friends iphones can't bluetooth connect with anything that's not an Apple or send or recieve MMS messages.

An app for everything. Ibluenova in this case. MMS works on the Iphone3g. Anyway, I learned bluetooth is not for sending data...
Its for connecting keyboards, headset and things like this.
Create an easy adhoc wlan network to send things. We are in 2010, not 1999...



.... I got teached after I said I miss bluetooth to send pictures to another phone. (An old Nokia.... !!)

lets talk about the ipad.

Anyway, I learned bluetooth is not for sending data...

Not ONLY for sending data, but I swap files with mates all the time.

How else would you do it? On your data plan?

Yeah, why not pay?

<scratches head>

I am with you in that case barracuda..
I missed bluetooth data sending so I installed ibluenova (for free, in 3 seconds).
Btw: adhoc wlan network connection between two phones/pcs cost money?
*scratching head*

Originally Posted by Dug

My friends iphones can't bluetooth connect with anything that's not an Apple or send or recieve MMS messages.

Odd, mine works fine other bluetooth devices - stereo headsets, keyboards, and of course bt headsets... and I have no problems sending or receiving MMS.

Looks to me like your friend has kept his operating system / firmware up to day.

Agreed, Reniak, let's talk about the iPad ;-)

Personally, the iOS 4 software to be released on the 24th, gives some good indications of what's to come for the iPad 4 months later, feature wise...

Originally Posted by Reniak

I am with you in that case barracuda..
I missed bluetooth data sending so I installed ibluenova (for free, in 3 seconds).
Btw: adhoc wlan network connection between two phones/pcs cost money?
*scratching head*

Ah forgive me. I don't use apps for Bluetooth file xfer apps, native phone capabilities do the job just fine for me.

I excluded WLAN from the issue as it's not widely available.

I assumed you meant MMS. My bad.

Originally Posted by slackula

What is the reason you bought the other 11 Macs you have owned?

at the time it was making sense, Win311 and Win95 weren't really fun to use, one was ugly, the other was unstable

at the time, Mac had the edge, then came WinNT 4 and everything changed, macs were out in usability terms. Remember how System 7 was still unstable, and that gave WinNT an edge in terms of functionality and usability. Everyone was jumping ship and not looking back.

If it wasn't for Steve Jobs re-inventing the company into something else, we wouldn't have this thread.

Apple is basically a marketing gadget company.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

......

Apple is basically a marketing gadget company.

Most easy to use gadgets. That's what most people want.
It's time to change the threadtitle into: ".... Forget the other tablet pcs."

Much more realistic.

I went with a Win7 laptop over an iPad. First thing it does on the net is grab a ton of updates/patches/bug fixes (whatever)

I'm getting sick of it. There must be something fundamentally wrong with the architecture of Windows OS - why so many updates with the brand new Win7 ?

This could be my very last M$ purchase, the companies a joke

Originally Posted by The Fonz

This could be my very last M$ purchase, the companies a joke

I've never purchased anything from M$. That must be why they're so popular.

Originally Posted by Reniak

It's time to change the threadtitle into: ".... Forget the other tablet pcs."

Much more realistic.

ROTFLOL!

Yeah, seems to be so...

Originally Posted by The Fonz

I went with a Win7 laptop over an iPad. First thing it does on the net is grab a ton of updates/patches/bug fixes (whatever)

That's before it goes out behind your back and starts downloading all kinds of malware and spyware.

Originally Posted by The Fonz

I'm getting sick of it. There must be something fundamentally wrong with the architecture of Windows OS - why so many updates with the brand new Win7 ?

In all fairness, downloading of a certain number of updates after you install a new OS is not entirely unusual. The disks used for the installation are finalized at a certain date, and there will always be new updates between the finalizing date, and the time you start using the operating system. It's actually a good idea to check for updates after receiving a new PC, or after installing a new OS, and making sure the OS is up to date. The same happens with a new Mac OS installation, or a new Linux installation -- all have updates released regularly and frequently.

The updates aren't the problem -- a given system's inherent lack of safety and security are. With Windows, security has always been an afterthought - that's the problem.

Originally Posted by The Fonz

This could be my very last M$ purchase, the companies a joke

Indeed....

Originally Posted by Little Chuchok

He still has a notebook though and says that anyone with half a brain realizes that it is not a substitute for one.........

Exactly -- right out of the box, the iPad instructs that it requires to be hooked up to a Mac/PC for initial setup. It's a companion product (just as netbooks were), not a replacement.

Thanks for the hands on impressions.

Originally Posted by mr Fred

I was going to add there is another problem with the ipad. I was led to understand it was hard work printing anything from it but I would have been wrong.
It seems there is an easy way after all.

helping Daffy

Originally Posted by DaffyDuck

It's a companion product

hahaha, more ispeak for rip off.

Hey, Wilson.

Thank you so much for reminding me that I forgot to do something important.

This message is hidden because Sir Wilson is on your ignore list.

There, much better now.

Why does Daffy subscribe to threads? Wouldn't it be easier if he just PM'd his mates?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Why does Daffy subscribe to threads? Wouldn't it be easier if he just PM'd his mates?

Yes, but we wouldn't be able to laugh at his gullibility.

While the Apple bashers wind are out of argument:

Native iPad app library passes 10,000 milestone

By Daniel Eran Dilger
Published: 03:00 PM EST
Apple's iTunes App Store now lists more than 10,000 universal and iPad specific apps, with nearly 1,000 more being added every week.

According to a report by Mac Stories, Apple's iPad library includes over 2,100 games and includes a broad mix of content from digital books to productivity and news apps to rich media apps.

Around 78% of iPad specific titles are paid apps, echoing the findings of an earlier report by Moblix that cited an 80% paid mix in April when the iPad store first opened with around 3,000 titles.

A slightly smaller percentage (around 75%) of the iPhone's 225,000 titles are also paid apps. This indicates iPad users are more willing to pay for premium content.

Faster growth, despite Apple's approval process

According to a report by PadGadget, growth of the iPad apps library has outpaced the original iPhone App Store, which took almost five months to reach the 10,000 app milestone in 2008.

The site also notes that Google's Android Market took almost 11 months to reach 10,000 apps; that store has no approval process in place screening apps for performance as advertised or other quality control issues.

Google currently forbids Android tablet makers from putting Android Market on their non-smartphone devices, so there is no official market for Android-based tablet software comparable to what Apple maintains for iPad users.

In just 63 days, Apple's curated App Store for iPad has taken third place after iPhone apps and Android smartphone apps. PadGadget notes that HP's Palm/webOS, RIM's BlackBerry App World, and Nokia's Symbian platform all boast fewer than 7,000 apps.

Any other similar product available today 14.06.2010 ? If not fuck off and respect the work of a great company.

Any other similar product available today 14.06.2010 ?

No.

If not fuck off and respect the work of a great company.

I do. I just have little respect for the turds that get all worked up when its shortcomings are exposed.

40 major security holes in Webkit.

And Apple stifling competition once again:

Apple... bars applications from displaying ads served by an advertising network which is affiliated with a competing mobile developer or is not primarily in the advertising business.

In this case, I can see this attempt at blackmail driving a few developers off to competitors. How that benefits Apple, I don't know.

At least HTC have answered Apple's patent war warning shot with a lawsuit of their own.

ITC to investigate Apple after HTC claims - V3.co.uk - formerly vnunet.com

Otherwise, Apple's fantastic marketing is good, because it drives competitors to try and come up with good or better products.

maybe the apple tarts are right after all, Steve Jobs is a god

A quite well balanced article (ignore the link title, the actual article is entitled: "Top ten reasons FOR and against the iPhone 4"):

Top 10 reasons for and against the iPhone 4 - V3.co.uk - formerly vnunet.com

Maybe even Daffy and Wallalai can read it without their veins bulging.