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Amazon does much more for much less campaign
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Well, that's not entirely the case. There is a lot more involved in display quality than just the number of pixels. We will have to wait and see what the ipad mini display actually looks like.
Not even remotely. The iPad mini's display is thoroughly modern, end-to-end, using the same underlying technologies of the iPhone 5, the same integrated lamination as the retina MacBooks and iPhone, and the teething issues with the new manufacturing process are reportedly giving the suppliers a lot of trouble.
That said, even the actual iPad/iPad 2 display beats "the competition" in most quality metrics except pixel density, regardless of age.
Don't conflate totally separate issues. The world's top-quality displays are manufactured at about 110ppi. Does that make them lag years behind mobile displays, too?
User experience is great on Android as I'm sure it is for iOS.
Jelly Bean is very smooth. That's why having a stock Android phone comes handy; you get the best much faster.
Both iOS and Android have about 700,000 apps.
Quality, iOS has the advantage there.
The only Samsung ads I didn't like is where they make fun of the customers. Otherwise they say the facts.
Its an interesting marketing ploy but I do love the iPad mini's looks over the the kindle fire
While Apple products are sexy as hell...looks aren't everything.
Not really. Only 3 of the 5 points were screen related. The last two dealt with the speaks and wifi connection.
Desperate or not, facts are facts. It's advertising.
Yup.
Really? So you think spending $80 more on an iPad mini when you can get a Nexus 7 with 32GB of storage for less equals the "best?"
Also the Nexus 7 has 1280 x 800 or 216ppi, where the iPad mini has 1024 x 768 or 163ppi.
So the Nexus beats the iPad mini is two points so far; more storage AND better resolution all for $80 LESS.
Yea you're sure buying the best when you get the iPad mini.
Let me guess you're going to say iOS is smoother and the apps are better. Read my first comment as my reply to that.
Of course the iPad mini will sell more. It has the
on it and Apple 'boys and 'girls will get it no matter what.Yeah, it's a strange strategy to alienate the people you're trying to sell to. Not to mention it's just plain bad form.
Yeah, except they're wrong about the speakers and I'm not sure what the point of the wifi argument is, since I don't think there's any actual speed advantage with the Kindle's wifi performance. I have never seen my Fire HD outperform any other wifi device on my 802.11n network.
The iPad has the upper hand in memory bandwidth and flash performance, neither device streams any content over a local network, making the bottleneck the internet connection, and I don't think I've seen any indication that the iPad doesn't have the exact same MIMO capability.
It's also frankly a stretch to say that (a) there's no HD content, when in fact there's plenty. The moderate downscaling of Amazon's HD content on the iPad is virtually indistinguishable, since the stream compression totally blows the native HD resolution capabilities of the Kindle. My SO has an iPad 2 and the difference is negligible with video, so I can only imagine that the iPad mini is an even closer match.
They'd have made a stronger statement by focusing on the first two points and not trying to pad the list.