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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.

Although I'm still not down with Android; the Nexus 1 currently has Gingerbread and is about 2yrs old now.

I completely agree with Aiden's view about cellphones getting OS updates beyond 1/2 major upgrades. It just will not happen without underground/homebrew efforts - the manufacturers are in this to make money.
 
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).

You made the assumption - a bad thing - that I don't understand specs.

Let me point to you the BlackBerry PlayBook - something I've had first hand experience in using (personal and corporate) for other 40days and although specs wise it trumps the iPad 2 in just about every way except for resolution (yet pixel density its much better); it FAILS in actual use and tech support - which I wasted 4hrs+ in 2 days (with Level 2/3 at RIM; I documented on my blog) was a joke.

Point being SPECS is no longer the end all or be all - if coders can implement their ideas to a working application; efficiently and even easily - along with sales of a platform THAT will be the platform that wins. Whatever reuters or SAP or bloomberg maybe working on the PlayBook with internally its NOT public and that hurts sales and use of the PlayBook in a corporate market. No more are corporations saying NO to their users - their now trying to stay ahead of the game when it comes to technology as users are no longer afraid to bring this technology into their office and with ActiveSync on Exchange (or enabled by Domino) being so easily to figure out for email/contacts/calendar ... it's high time IT departments are prepared not uninformed.
 
1. Because this is the 21st century.
2. Why should it matter?
3. How on earth would you notice that?

2. Because maybe his name is "JohnnyWalker" ??

3. I'm so used to it I'm not sure I conciously thought/noticed either. Maybe because I've always been in interracial relationships ;)

Besides its so much sweeter that way and the world benefits for it. Time to stop thinking in the past - don't worry your culture will not be wiped out for it; just better understood and appreciated.
 
Part of what makes Apple stand out above competitors is they can be subtle and get the message across to consumers almost effortlessly. They don't need to brag while others try too hard to boast things like Flash compatibility, specs etc...

A true, genuine and one of a kind product like the iPad 2 speaks enough for itself without having to be in your face about it. Competitors should take note of this in my opinion.
 
To do... what?



I would like to do exactly what the movie is showing, but i would not like to use the Ipad, i want to use my MacBook.

Explanation in more details:

I would like to show in my TV, by appletv, everything that i am doing in my macbook.

Important: Using Appletv, i do not want to use cables....
 
Another great ad, Apple and its marketing team are the most brilliant in the entire business

People seem to forget it's not just their marketing team but also their advertising team that pulls it together. This is a great advertisement using the brand experience Apple has created.
 
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Not as good as the previous two ads, but still higher than the bar the rivals have set. *cough*PlayBook's Flash...ahh- ad*cough*
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One word to describe this entire ad campaign: Classy

Such a big contrast from ads with robotic space ships or trash talking the competition or the "hey mom, look what I can do" type of ads that we see from the competition.

You mean like the Iphone ads? If you dont have an iPhone, you dont have a pull down notifaction bar....oh wait
 
li love my ipad and i look foward to a future version that really supports drawing and handwriting--but its not there. Whoaaa--its so not there. But it will come to the tablet market and perhaps the ipad eventually--the asus tablet with capacitative adn cintique technology looks promising. Meanwhile--you guys knock yourself with your 10 words to a page notetaking...

tablets with styluses for writing have been tried - for a decade or more - and failed miserably.

Even on a touch keyboard, I can type faster than I can write on a piece of paper. And my hand gets tired if I spend too much time writing on paper, something that doesn't happen on a keyboard.
 
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..is this that 12 year old that likes the morphin metal craptucular android ads?

In you dry, academic, not-laid-much, lexicon ... let us say my favorite are the just-post-adolescence, malformed, medieval-asian-warrior, Testudine reptiles.
 
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