the EEE pad has windows 7 on it. That's going to kill it right there. What kind of battery life can be expected from it? Once again another device that's late to the party. And do tegra chips have issues with heat?
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Apple Announces Two Million iPads Sold
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the EEE pad has windows 7 on it. That's going to kill it right there. What kind of battery life can be expected from it? Once again another device that's late to the party. And do tegra chips have issues with heat?
thing is in that battle windows had more capital and far less overhead. this battle, apple still may have more overhead but they actually have a ton more capital. apple has a great deal more money to burn than google. itunes is a cash machine filling up apple's pockets. the only reason droid is having success is because iphone is att only. when iphone hits sprint and verizon you will see a true tsunami. everyone i know who has verizon is holding on to whatever phone they have now and waiting for a verizon iphone to upgrade to. i would imagine there are a lot of people out there if 6 out of 10 in my circle of friends are doing that.
Can it run for 12 hours without a charge? That single feature liberates the iPad no matter what the other's capabilities are.
You want Flash, as others have mentioned there are ways to get it. Again no one really cares if you want an iPad, but my prediction is within two years everyone is going to wonder how we got along without them.
That's what it is. I've got one - had it for a month - and it very very very obviously is JUST that - a big iPod Touch.
So i guess on your iPod touch you had 3G on the go? Without the use of a mifi or Wifi eh?
You could read e-books, Newspapers without having to pinch zoom ?
You obviously didn't read the Engadget review on the Asus. Buggy, slow and unresponsive. What are people suppose to do just sit around and wait until Asus gets this crap up and running? What about apps to run on it?
It's possible that this is just an initial surge of Apple/iPhone fans and that sales will level off, but IMO, the opposite is more likely to be true.
I think sales will take off as many more iPad specific apps arrive. Probably more importantly - the iPhone's success here isn't down to clever marketing (IMO, the iPhone adverts are a bit meh... but that's subjective), but down to people showing off the iPhone and the apps to others. Friends of mine who never had much interest in gadgets or gaming devices are gushing about the iPhone and their apps.
I think the iPad could really take off once more and more people have first-hand experience of it.
I think sales will take off as many more iPad specific apps arrive. Probably more importantly - the iPhone's success here isn't down to clever marketing (IMO, the iPhone adverts are a bit meh... but that's subjective), but down to people showing off the iPhone and the apps to others. Friends of mine who never had much interest in gadgets or gaming devices are gushing about the iPhone and their apps.
I think the iPad could really take off once more and more people have first-hand experience of it.
On a PMD or tablet, I'll take a full OS over a gimped Mobile OS any day.
Asus claims 10 hours of battery...we'll see. For the (likely) half price of an iPad with a 1080p 10" screen, I'll take it.
Not hating on iPad...seems like a perfectly good toy. But little else.
It's a more accurate metaphor to say the Ipad is to the Ipod Touch as.... The Iphone has functions the Ipad does not.
Actually most netbooks have a battery live that is very comparable to that of the iPad .. like 10 hours+ (depending on what you do with it of course).
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Massive fan of mine. Been using it all day every day. Laptop has been completely relegated. Far more usefull for what I do than I expected. Bluetooth keyboard, pages, keynote, mail, safari. Set for the day and it all fits in my briefcase .
.Oh come on. I own a 3G but for those with the wifi version it is simply a giant iPod touch. For me? Well I guess it's a giant iPhone lol.
The main difference is of course the screen size which enables the great experience I have had with it.
Did you know that you could take a sheet of paper and a writing instrument and compose a letter, stick it in the envelope, stamp it, and post it to someone anywhere in the world? And you wouldn't have to spend £$1000s for any of that, "what do they call it, technology??" Save yourself the price of a phone, computer, internet connection, and just snail mail your message.
I Don't think the iPhone os is really gimped. So what it doesn't have multitasking? For what i use it for i don't need that and multi tasking is coming anyway.
Also i already have a MBP so having another device with full OSX would be a waist of money.
LOL i have the wifi version and i use a Mifi and it does just fine. But i don't really have a need to want to be connected to the internet 24/7.
I Download all of my newspapers on my ipad,I use an app to write my journal to update my blog,I Draw on my ipad,Read E-books,Comics and i have movies on it. So all of those things my wifi pad does for me.
When i need to be connected i use my mifi or connect to wifi network.
Calling it a giant ipad really discounts it. Because it depends on what someone uses it for.
A Canvas in Van Goghs studio is just a Canvas untill he painted on it. Then it became a masterpiece.
What is wrong is that people equate selling 2M to having a insanely great product, game changer or what have you - without giving any reasons as to why that is. (Repeating the same claim over and over does not make it true.)
Remember people bought a million Pet Rocks back in the day and there exists a USB Pet Rock (sorry not for iPad
And if a million people got joy out of that rock, what of it? In capitalism terms, it was a *huge* success.
To imply that the iPad is the same, well, it is the same in terms of success in that it's the fastest product to $1B revenue ever. Is it a game changer? Time will tell, but indications are that it is indeed a game changer. Is it a great product? Owners are saying resoundingly, yes, and they're the ones that judge whether it is, not anyone else. And that's what counts.
Microsoft introduced the Tablet PC in 2001. In the following nine years, what has the "full OS" tablet done? Nada, zip, nothing, so much so that in 2008 Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, declared that it was a "niche". Tablets need an OS designed for that form factor, and not just have some functionality bolted on to a desktop OS.
Did you know that you could take a sheet of paper and a writing instrument and compose a letter, stick it in the envelope, stamp it, and post it to someone anywhere in the world? And you wouldn't have to spend £$1000s for any of that, "what do they call it, technology??" Save yourself the price of a phone, computer, internet connection, and just snail mail your message.
Made a whole lot of sense. Not.
Here I am, having been told again and again and again that "iPad" is such an awful name because it reminds everyone of female hygiene, and here comes Asus and calls a product eeepad. (Not eeePad?) So what is it? Is it a good name or not?
What is wrong is that people equate selling 2M to having a insanely great product, game changer or what have you - without giving any reasons as to why that is. (Repeating the same claim over and over does not make it true.)
Remember people bought a million Pet Rocks back in the day and there exists a USB Pet Rock (sorry not for iPad
Total revenue about $4 million. That's about as much as 10,000 iPads, adjusted for inflation. It's much easier to sell one million of a product for $3.95 than selling two million for $499 upwards.
I think that's really true, no matter if you're an Apple fanboy or not. It should be tailored for the form factor and it should be tailored to how the user is going to use it. That's just common sense (and it's been totally forgotten in the wake of spec lust).
That's awesome! Which ones?
I've owned two, one with a 6-cell and one with a 9-cell and neither would go past 5 hours with even the most lenient of usage. My iPad outnumbers them both.
I have an iphone and an ipod, i forgot that you can not say anything bad about Apple or want an apple product to do more. I would love to get an ipad but unfortunately it does not fit my needs and i have every right to discuss what the ipad should be rather than accept what it is now.