Worked at Best Buy for 8 months - our MBPs were almost ALWAYS on sale (cheaper than Apple) by anywhere from $100 - $150....
Heck the rMBP's pricing just dropped....and much of the price increase versus the cMBP is attributable to the SSDs being used rather than HDs....SSD prices drop, so do the laptops.
They dont go onsale often here and once in a while you see $150 but not often but even so, it leaves them still more than the Ultrabooks. I do have a MBP and i like it but they are overpriced IMO though i didnt pay that much for it. I have friends that own a repair shop and bought it from them after someone sold it to them and all it needed was a $40 battery.
We're already pretty spoiled in the tech sector when the norm is for tech to get more advanced AND cheaper year after year. Sometimes, a new tech bumps the price up in the beginning - its the price you pay to be an early adopter.
Agree but you still wont see Apple prices drop much.
A touchscreen laptop is about as useful as a touchscreen desktop in my mind.....and a 16:9 tablet is awful to use in portrait mode. I wouldn't touch any of these new ultrabooks with a 10-ft. pole.....regardless of the fact they run Win 8....
I think they are quite useful and i like them. I dont have one yet but i will be getting a Touchscreen Ultrabook sometime this year.
Again - the size increase from 3.5" to 4" is an even bigger increase (relatively speaking) that the GS2 to GS3, and GS3 to GS4.....yet those are innovations? This notion that screen size is somehow some 'advanced feature' of the future is nonsense.
LOL, i hardly think so. I dont see how you can possibly come to that conclusion. I went from a 4" screen from the Galaxy Vibrant to my GS3 with its 4.8" screen. I guess you mean from the GS2 4.5" to the 4.8" but the GS2 came from a 4" screen. Dont see why your even trying to justify anything here. Apple is just years behind in that respect.
Newsflash - I don't want a 5" screen....3.5" was fine, heck 4" is fine. Using my Nexus, I'd probably be comfortable some between the 4" iPhone and 4.7" Nexus.....but 5" is too much.....
OK, to each their own but you did get a N4. IMO a 5" screen is too big as well because usually that means the overall size of the device will increase as well but the rumor of the GS4 is said the overall size to stay the same as the GS3. We'll see, i dont want a bigger phone than that one.
Point being a 7" Android tablet does NOT equal a 7.9" iPad....and like I've said - Apple's product lines are in development years before they are released....this whole reactionary thing is blown way out of proportion. Had and sold a Nexus 7....). .lack of tablet optimized apps killed it for me. As I say later - being the first to market something isn't necessarily the best thing....and I'd be willing to bet, a tremendous hit for Apple >>>> tremendous hit for Google....(The mini will likely far outsell the N7
Whats that got to do with anything? They still went smaller to compete with the other guys and trying to play off their Mini as being able to use it one handed, LOL. What a crock that is.
I have both devices and i use the N7 much more than the Mini but i like both. Im not worried about the apps, they will come around.
And of course the Mini will outsell the N7. Google doesnt market their Nexus line much. Ill never expect their Nexus lines to sell huge but the N4 has done much better than any of them prior and thats mostly from word of mouth and others having them to show people. Still they have only sold about 1.5 million.
I still haven't used NFC on my Nexus yet....no one to "beam" with and no pay stations around me to use Google Wallet. Wanting to buy some NFC tags, but there really isn't much purpose for me to - battery apps monitor what I'm using when and will shut things off and turn them on.....of course, I don't have to worry about that on my iPhone given the level of efficiency already built in.
I dont use NFC everyday but i use it often. The tags are great. You can program to do whatever you want ans stick them in places you are most often. Ive transfered songs and videos and it is fast. Some photos as well.
I dont use any battery apps. I dont feel a need for them but if you use tags, shutting things on and off is just amatter of holding your phone up to the tag and it is done that fast.
I'm sure NFC will be great once its more widespread. But why would Apple be concerned with adopting a young, likely far from primed technology when there really isn't much use for it in their largest market?
Why wouldnt they? MMS was a huge thing and they didnt let you have that for two years after the iPhone came out.Same with copy and paste so i cant agree with that argument.
How long has Google worked to emulate the fluidity and smoothness of iOS? Project Butter last year did a pretty solid job - my Nexus 4 is very smooth....but I still notice a difference between it and my iPhone 5. I'd only notice it when I use them one right after the other/side-by-side. But it's there. And how about this rumored "Project Battery"? Batteries twice the size of the iPhone's often can't hold a charge nearly as long. Sure, there's beefier specs in Android phones, but what does all that power actually provide to the typical user?
Its fine for me. I dont have two phones to switch back and forth. I pick one and stick with it so i dont sit there and do comaprisons all the time and care whether one is a second or two quicker or if my screen scrolls faster or has a hicup here and there.
The GS3 scrolls very smooth and that s all i care about. Im sure id feel the same way if i had a iPhone. I do not care about benchmarks either.
The idea of mobile OS philosophies and the paths/differences between iOS and Android are much more complicated that "iOS is for kids and sucks" or "Android is a laggy mess". BOTH have a clear audience and are marketed to the general public in different ways, and BOTH (despite what Fandroids want to believe) are wildly successful and viable.
Agree. It all depends on what you like and want. I like both phones but Android does more for what i want and it has the bigger screen.
