Anticitizen One
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Apple Media Event - 1080p AppleTV, 4G/LTE 2048x1536 iPad, same price, Mar 16th
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There is no competition lol
smokeandmirrors
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I dumped my droid 2 for a 4S and do not regret it at all. Paid 400 for it in order to get 64gb, because Apple seems to be the only company that actually still gives a fuck about local storage. Especially for music, as I found trying to put music on my droid a pain in the ass. Drag and drop is nice, but there definitely is something to be said for having a nice system that rounds everything together.. And no, Google Music is not a good substitute at all. Local storage >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Cloud storage.
Another reason why I jumped is
Exactly. Christ I don't get what some people don't understand about it. It took 8 months for my Droid 2, which was Motorola's flagship phone at the time, to get an update to Android 2.3, and it was buggy as I'll get out and ugly as shit. not only that but the hardware was turning to shit far faster than it needed to. There are only two apps that I don't use on my iPhone that are included (stocks and newsstand). None of the "V-Cast" shit, none of these trial games I can't get rid of. Pointless Skins that were buggy as hell (Hello Motoblur!).
Android is a great system, and 4.0 seems like a step in the right direction, but until you take away the telecom and hardware interference, you won't get any kind of good user experience. The telecoms are fucking up a good android experience. I don't necessarily see anything too wrong with the skins, but there HAS to be some kind of limit to how long it can take for an update. 8 months for a new phone to get an update is absolutely unfuckingacceptable. And I'm glad Microsoft saw this and did the same thing as Apple and kept everything standard across handsets, and are able to push updates to everyone at the same time.
Dreams-Visions
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well said.
but it worked, didn't it! lol (also, everyone in the world recognized the success of Glock! It's a house-hold name and is better known that Smith & Wesson now.)Interesting article, show's how clueless some of Apple's competitors are.
http://www.thetechblock.com/article...mark-thanks-to-idiotic-contracts-and-pricing/
http://www.thetechblock.com/article...mark-thanks-to-idiotic-contracts-and-pricing/
Please don't continue the cycle
In all seriousness, while I'm all for pushing resolution I do have to question the value of such a device today ... particularly in a 10" device.
With current processor and battery technology, the benefits of going that high will likely be outweighed by performance loss. When you start moving to ultrabooks and laptops though ... then I could see an argument for the benefits being worth it. Obviously moving forward, as transistors are die-shrunk and batteries improve, then there's really no reason to not do it even at 10".
Only read a bit of the article ... but I'm not so sure I agree.
Regarding the Samsung, it's their first 7.7" AMOLED screen (produced on their new gen 5.5 fab line). Of course it's expensive. It isn't indicative of their long-term pricing strategy, it's simply a result of low yields. The bleeding-edge screen tech has yet to mature.
For the Sony, it's obviously a niche product. It's a novel idea, but serves a pretty specific audience - those that want a bigger screen on a pocketable device. Obviously the dual screens and custom nature mean build costs prevent it from being an entry-level device. And since (I assume) they realize the audience isn't going to be huge, it's only logical to also place a decent margin on the item since those that want such a form-factor have no alternative. If someone wants its form-factor, they're going to be willing to pay for it.
Certainly if demand proves to be good moving forward, they can always tweak margins based on volume. But I really think they're placing it at a logical position right now.
In both cases, iPad costs are really irrelevant. The Samsung is simply gonna cost what it costs until yields improve on their tablet-sized OLEDs ... and the Sony is targeting a specific use-case that's outside iPad's to begin with. I'd argue the editor is a bit clueless if anything. Not everything tablet isn't inherently tied to iPad.
Wanna bet that it will be nasty ass PenTile?
Damon Bennet
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keep telling you that, because everyone on top always stays there.
Bububububu.... iPads are over-priced!
Ball so hard
so hard
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Anticitizen One
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crazy monkey
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Unless the technical term for "super computer" was changed in the last decade, it already came out in 1998. It was called the G3. All computers these days are "super computers" by those 90's terms. Even pretty much all smartphones.
I'm not going to pretend that Win8 doesn't have some interesting ideas in it. However, you are fooling yourself and others if you don't think they are going to have an uphill battle with WoA. They need to:
1) Convince developers to adopt WinRT, in many cases porting years of code to it.
2) Deal with educating their market that there are in fact 2 different Windows 8 platforms, and that the WoA machines will NOT be backwards compatible.
3) Then deal with the backlash from negative reports if they fail to sufficiently educate people on this matter.
4) Persuade people to upgrade.
5) Ease the minds of people using Win8 on a PC but not wanting their PC to be a tablet. Apple is seeing a minor backlash with Lion, and it is no where as near a radical change as Win8/winRT are proposing.
6) Get hardware manufactures to support their WoA platform
I don't think we can really accurately forecast the outcome of these thing just yet, so I don't think it really is fair to say Win8 will be adequate competition.
Damon Bennet
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my appreciation of windows has nothing to do with the fact, that windows 8 has a high chance of having impact on the market.
you cant stay market leader forever.
look how sony for example lost the mobile music monopoly with the walman and the console dominance with playstation and ps2, when everyone thought they would be the kings of the game forever. this happens all the time, and it could be over for iOS dominance any year.
I think iPad is a great product, but laughing at competition is not the wisest choice.
Slurpy2k20
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Please, someoone tell me how the fuck the iPad is 'grossly overpriced' again, and so many keep mindlessly insisting?
I do like Metro, but I think Microsoft’s tablet fortunes with WOA will not be very good and it is tied directly to their decision to leave the desktop in there.
As soon as someone who was looking for an ipad-type experience gets dumped to the Windows desktop to run Word or to change a network setting not available in the Metro settings (just the fact there are two settings locations is baffling to me) there will be confusion, disappointment and unhappy customers.
Everything I’ve seen of the consumer preview reinforces my opinion that the WOA devices should have broken off the desktop completely. not doing this will hurt them against the iPad. I would bet on this.
As soon as someone who was looking for an ipad-type experience gets dumped to the Windows desktop to run Word or to change a network setting not available in the Metro settings (just the fact there are two settings locations is baffling to me) there will be confusion, disappointment and unhappy customers.
Everything I’ve seen of the consumer preview reinforces my opinion that the WOA devices should have broken off the desktop completely. not doing this will hurt them against the iPad. I would bet on this.
There is nothing 'nasty ass' about PenTile at retina display resolutions.
Or what? I'm assuming no one here works for Apple, I know I don't. So what are the repercussions of us laughing at Windows 8, pray tell? We're all just fans and interested parties here.
That said, while I'm not personally laughing at Windows 8, I don't think it's a slam dunk either. MS has a lot of work ahead, and they don't have a divine right to be the future of the computer industry.
Sigh, spec battles.
Software sells the hardware. The fact that Rubin keeps on coming out and saying that the phone and tablet form factors don't need separate apps is going to be a problem.
Windows 8 is going to be successful in my mind, but there's no reason that multiple platforms can't be successful in the tablet field. I just don't see it with Android.
Nobody ever bought a PC because they were fucking thrilled to have Windows. It was the massive library of software that brought you there.
Software sells the hardware. The fact that Rubin keeps on coming out and saying that the phone and tablet form factors don't need separate apps is going to be a problem.
Windows 8 is going to be successful in my mind, but there's no reason that multiple platforms can't be successful in the tablet field. I just don't see it with Android.
Nobody ever bought a PC because they were fucking thrilled to have Windows. It was the massive library of software that brought you there.
Sorry, but Galaxy Nexus is retina-ish (whatever that means) and the screen has issues, solid dark colours have a weird textured effect and text doesn't look that great in comparison to AMOLED Plus display.
didn't have those problems with my unit. text looked great compared to GSII samoled plus displays
Well I guess we'll have to agree to disagree, but high res or not, I can't stand PenTile. AMOLED Plus or bust.
Also, what to expect from iPad 3's retina display:
http://www.thetechblock.com/articles/2012/what-to-expect-from-the-ipad-3s-retina-display/
http://www.thetechblock.com/articles/2012/what-to-expect-from-the-ipad-3s-retina-display/
It took me until the second image to realize it was a joke article.
Ask Refrigerator.
Siri said appliances are unevolved and this has some appliances very bothered.
Slurpy2k20
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That site isn't even close to doing it justice. I honestly don't think anyone can imagine how good this will look until they see it in person. It's going to be fucking glorious.
shira
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Ask Refrigerator.
Trying to steal my joke, huh?
God fucking damnit. What does this mean? No A6? Minor boost or just branding differences?
Slurpy2k20
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That site isn't even close to doing it justice. I honestly don't think anyone can imagine how good this will look until they see it in person. It's going to be fucking glorious.
It just says the purported parts for the retina display's LCD connector, digitizer, and display connector seem to match the input ports seen on the photo of the purported A5X.
Oxigen_Waste
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In a completely unrelated note...was reading the thread title to double check the date and remembered... why do you guys in the US use a wrong format for the date? I've always known about it, but never understood why... does anyone know?
Stop. We've had multiple messy threads dedicated to this.
Making a quad core A15 based chip in time for it to be ready next week hasn't looked to be possible in a while now. It's best that they kept with the A9 and improved on it and called it the A5X. They could have called that the A6, but they chose to be honest. It's like the iPhone 4S, they could have made it exactly the same and called it the iPhone 5, but didn't because they want their numbers to have some sort of meaning.
Al-ibn Kermit
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^No the 4S was "4 Steve".
RIP
That's for a 7 inch tablet, the Memo 370t. 10 inch version is comparatively priced with the iPad. Although it is pretty amazing that the memo 370t is nearly the same price as the Kindle Fire and the Nook considering the specs it has.
They were nearly impossible to find for the first couple months it was out. Each batch would get sold out within an hour of being back in stock on Best Buy's site. I would know, I had to constantly scour the internet looking for it while twiddling my thumbs over my 4-7 week estimated delivery time on Amazon.
And that's a really bad thing actually. I wanted the thing on launch day, I sometimes don't even enjoy waiting for products that I want to use. I'm weird like that.
RIP
That's for a 7 inch tablet, the Memo 370t. 10 inch version is comparatively priced with the iPad. Although it is pretty amazing that the memo 370t is nearly the same price as the Kindle Fire and the Nook considering the specs it has.
They were nearly impossible to find for the first couple months it was out. Each batch would get sold out within an hour of being back in stock on Best Buy's site. I would know, I had to constantly scour the internet looking for it while twiddling my thumbs over my 4-7 week estimated delivery time on Amazon.
And that's a really bad thing actually. I wanted the thing on launch day, I sometimes don't even enjoy waiting for products that I want to use. I'm weird like that.
Oxigen_Waste
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Stop. We've had multiple messy threads dedicated to this.
I just want to know if anyone knows the how and why of it, not "attacking" anything.
Al-ibn Kermit
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Well the month and the year of a record are the most important dates in narrowing down records searches. So making the first and last pair of digits in a dating system tell the month and year seems logical.
That's my assumption, I don't know or care why it is actually like that.
Oxigen_Waste
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When I get permission to do it I'll make a thread about it...
I don't know, it just strikes me as odd, you know? Especially since the idea for how it works in the rest of the world is that every unit makes the next one advance (days make months make years) like a clock... it's like putting the minutes first when telling the time.
Other countries just usually go dd/mm/yyyy or yyyy/mm/dd, it's weird for me that such an awkward positioning became the standard in the US, especially considering how it probably is prone to create errors and misunderstandings when communication with other nations occurs.
The basis of the idea seems weird, but I fully understand that now that it's become the standard over there that people continue to use it, after all, that's how they were brought up... (by this I mean I don't consider the rest of the world "better" or the US "worse", you know?)
A5X was rumored to be a Dual Core but ramped up. A6 was a Quad Core...
What made you switch back to the iPhone?
2048x1536 resolution on a 9.7 in display..everything looks extra sharp and sexy.
Does dual vs quad core matter that much? With the way iOS is now? It's basically a single-tasking OS. I'll be more than happy with a beefy graphics chip, which is the most important part of the soc, considering the newly quadrupled number of pixels it needs to push. Obviously specs aren't as important to Apple as delivering an exceptional user experience.
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