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Apple Releases New iPad 2 Ad, 'Now'
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"Apple are a company" makes perfect sense to people who either A) know the differences between American and British English or B) aren't pedantic jackwagons trolling for attention on the intertrucks... I'll leave you to put the pieces together...
That's just ignorance. Android Market is actually growing much faster than App Market and is projected to overtake App Market in terms of the number of applications this August.
Wow you are doing a bit of projecting there. Most comments seem to be that it is a classy ad campaign but you are a bit over the top.
@lilo777: Let's get real here. Have you bothered comparing the content of the two markets? They are not even close.
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You guys are way too impressionable. It's not that great of an ad OR pad
You guys are way too impressionable. It's not that great of an ad OR pad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Android_devices
Now I don't care how blind you are, but that is a LOT of android devices. If you want your app to run on even the majority of android devices, you have to cater to the whatever is the lowest common denominator, the result is lower quality apps that often don't take full advantage of the hardware you're running. This is not a good way to do things. iOS apps only have four models of iPhones to worry about, two models of iPads, and 4 models of iPod Touches. Many apps don't support first and second gen iPhones and iPod touches anymore either, so for many devs that number is even smaller. Even if the Android market is showing some growth, the quality of those apps are undoubtedly going to be lower than what you'd find in most iOS apps. I really don't see how this is developer-friendly.
.....and you are more than likely one of those high maintenance salad-dressing-on-the-side kinda guys.
I do not know if you developed any software. If you did you would know that there are thousands of PC models supporting Windows but when you develop an application for Windows you use the same API and rarely care about specific model. There is very little difference (and getting smaller each day) with that precedent and what happens with Android. Most phone have the same or similar display resolution, same CPU, same RAM (or the difference is equal the one existing on iOS platform). My main point though was that our point about developers avoiding Android for whatever reasons is simply untrue asthe number of applications show. As far as evaluating the quality of 200...400K applications on each market is concerned, I doubt anybody can claim that they were able to do this. Only one thing is clear: Android Market has all types of applications App Market has and it also has the types of applications App Market does not have (because of Apple policies).
No, just remarking that in a forum that was pro pc or android, no one would care about ads, much less make a front page article about it (unless the ad was very controversial).
THIS is what makes Apple just so perfect ... why 'Things just work' they focus on the technical mumbo jumbo so end users (consumers/corporate) do NOT have to - nor should they in this day and age. Apple has ALWAYS focused on the experience of using the technology - its simply a tool to a means; just like $$ is an tool to a means - the the mean end itself.
I'm So GLAD to be pushing for iPads by our executive team in Toronto regardless of the others saying Apple isn't corporate. They just don't understand but the executives LOVE it!
Is this why HTC's 4 month old flagship phone can't upgrade to the newest Android? What you say, and what actually is do not match.
It would appear that you do not understand one simple thing: "specs" for professionals is equivalent to "experience" for masses. When uneducated masses (e.g. most Apple fans) evaluate a device they speak of "experience" simply because they do not know the technical details, the technology and the language behind the device. "Simple" man says "iPad is very smooth". Educated man knows that the tablet will feel smooth if the delay between the finger touch and device reaction is less than (say) 100ms. While "simple man" just notice that when he opens a few tabs in Safari on iPad the device becomes "less smooth", the educated man knows that this is because iPad has just 512MB of RAM and has to delete and re-load web pages because of that.
It's all about specs. Always.
And the reason why Apple devices are not suitable for corporate deployments is two-fold: too proprietary and hard to integrate into corporate environments and Apple corporate culture. While corporations need to have the road-maps for everything they plan to use/buy for a few years ahead, Apple never shares any information with anybody. Aren't you being a little irresponsible for pushing the iPads when you do not even know if Apple plans to continue selling them next year (because you know they might decide that light-sabers is a more profitable business, they may switch to Atom CPUs or replace iOS with steveOS at any minute thus causing huge expenses for your business).
Bfd - not
So, does that make the HTC phone stop working?
No one should buy a phone expecting for it to be upgraded to the latest OS for years and years.
Apple is orphaning older Iphones, so do other manufacturers.
Many people who did upgrade their older Iphones to the newer OS are sorry that they did it - their hardware was barely able to run the new IOS.
Phones are not PCs, one shouldn't buy them with the expectation of being able to upgrade through several major OS releases. People who expect that will only be disappointed - whether it's an Apple phone, an HTC phone, or one of the great Samsung phones.
You won't be able to run Apple OSX 10.7 on your early 2007 MiniMac - no big deal. You might not be able to run IOS on your year old Iphone - no big deal.
So, does that make the HTC phone stop working?
No one should buy a phone expecting for it to be upgraded to the latest OS for years and years.
Apple is orphaning older Iphones, so do other manufacturers.
Many people who did upgrade their older Iphones to the newer OS are sorry that they did it - their hardware was barely able to run the new IOS.
Phones are not PCs, one shouldn't buy them with the expectation of being able to upgrade through several major OS releases. People who expect that will only be disappointed - whether it's an Apple phone, an HTC phone, or one of the great Samsung phones.
You won't be able to run Apple OSX 10.7 on your early 2007 MiniMac - no big deal. You might not be able to run IOS on your year old Iphone - no big deal.
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That was, ahem, brilliant.
That was, ahem, brilliant.
I like how they chose the constellation Leo (the lion). Little foreshadowing of OS X 10.7.
The subtlety just heightens the class.
I don't have to hate Android tablets. The reviews, complaints, number of returns, lack of support, and worldwide lack of interest speak for themselves.
Just buy a new Xoom, did you?
Lack of support is the reason why I haven't bought an android device personally yet. I know that two years down the line my iPhone will still be eligible for OS updates. I can't say that for any Android provider.
Let's wait and see if IOS 5 is supported on the Iphone 3GS which is still being sold....