I have sent emails to Tim Cook begging Apple to do something, anything, to counter this rising tide of dissatisfaction among consumers and especially the media and stock analysts.
Boy that Android tablet market is going to be pretty darn crowded. HP knows how to play in the low margin, high volume area. So it has played this game and won for years in the PC market. But how can they compete when Amazon and Google can sell their versions at a loss based on the other revenue streams from their ecosystem? How do they compete with Samsung when these items are the crowning jewel products of a massive empire?
It took a lot of digging but I found these two stats of interest:
1024 x 600 is the resolution
8 GB is how much memory is built in for $169.
It's running Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) so it's at least one version old already (4.2 - Key Lime Pie has already been released.)
Great, just what the world needs... another android tablet...
How many flagship market changing products has Apple ever had? How many years elapsed between the release of each?
Tim Cook was right when he said it seems like every day someone is releasing a new tablet. . At MWC we got new tablets from Samsung, Asus, Sony, Lenovo, Acer and HP. Apple has a real opportunity here to differentiate itself even more. I just hope Tim Cook doesn't bow to Wall Street and try to compete with all of this. I mean Samsung just announced 3 new phones in their Galaxy line - Galaxy Grand, Galaxy Young and Galaxy Fame. This is along with the new Galaxy Note 8.0 and the new S4 coming out next month. Keep it simple Apple.
Thank you. I'm so sick of people who have this fanciful belief that apple at some point released a new category-defining product every year. Here's my short list:
Apple II - 1977
Macintosh - 1984
iMac - 1998
iPod - 2001
iPhone - 2007
iPad - 2010
What is with HP and HTC's obsession with Beats Audio... you've just turned off any potential buyers who want a half decent sounding tablet....
I've seen a lot of complaining about the resolution. But be aware. At 170 the PPI is better than on the iPad mini.
Tim Cook was right when he said it seems like every day someone is releasing a new tablet. . At MWC we got new tablets from Samsung, Asus, Sony, Lenovo, Acer and HP. Apple has a real opportunity here to differentiate itself even more. I just hope Tim Cook doesn't bow to Wall Street and try to compete with all of this. I mean Samsung just announced 3 new phones in their Galaxy line - Galaxy Grand, Galaxy Young and Galaxy Fame. This is along with the new Galaxy Note 8.0 and the new S4 coming out next month. Keep it simple Apple.
Apple is in big trouble. Maybe not right now, but it's around the corner.
in fact nothing - new is coming out of Cupertino to give stockholders and consumers hope for the future....
...I have sent emails to Tim Cook begging Apple to do something, anything, to counter this rising tide of dissatisfaction among consumers and especially the media and stock analysts.
As far as this HP slate, why would someone buy this over a Nexus 7? Or the new Asus and Lenovo 7" android tablets coming out? Seems to me HP is just throwing stuff out there just because they need to be in the tablet space too.
Apple's demise would not be the end of the world. Indeed, if history repeats (and it always does in these matters), Apple's dominance is waning.
If you're speaking as a stockholder I understand. If not... they're just electronic gizmos dude. Apple's demise would not be the end of the world. Indeed, if history repeats (and it always does in these matters), Apple's dominance is waning.
I agree!
Last thing Apple needs to do is join the race to the bottom. Samsung has been doing a great job with the Galaxy S, but I think having too many models too quickly will just cause customers to go into overload and before you know it, they will once again, just be another Android based solution fighting for their share.
I hope Apple just lets them have their fun and in the mean time, works on wow'ing us once again with a killer iOS update this spring!