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Axon Logic Debuts $750 Mac OS X-Capable Tablet
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No one. But it shows about as much understanding of the device and its design as complaining that there isn't room in the garage for all of your furniture.
I've been using computers since they (typically) sat on the (raised) floor in an adjacent (climate-controlled) room. At the time there were people who would've said that the TRS-80 and Apple ][ werent "real computers" because a computer had things like a multiuser OS, a hard drive, a card reader, some kind of mag tape interface, and you could hang a terminal off it. Things change.
An iPad is a computer. The basic hardware architecture is that of a desktop/laptop computer, the OS is not all that different (albeit with a user-restricted UI similar to the kind we used to install in school computer labs). The fact that it's not the kind of computer that you want to use... doesn't mean a damn thing. It doesn't meet your requirements. Fine. (Mine either, for the record. I don't own one.) But you are not the universe.
I have no use for an SUV and would never buy one... but it's still a vehicle. I think that modern rap (post-Run-DMC) is unlistenable and a waste of the hard drive space it would take up on my iPod... but it's still music. At the request of a friend, I just sat through a film I found mind-numbingly stupid and boring... but The Expendables is still a movie. And gods-help-them, a bunch of people in the theater came out grinning (though not as many as came out of Scott Pilgrim, across the hall). I know it's difficult for people with Asperger Syndrome to understand other people's perspective, but please try to consider the possibility that other people may have different expectations of what a "computer" is, and what it does for them. And an iPad just might meet that standard for many of them.
Please tell me how your definition of what a 'computer' is relates to Babbage, Turing, or indeed hundreds of other computing machines then? Blindly wallowing in your own opinion in the face of logic is even more embarrassing.
I guarantee you that the things we commonly call computers that everyone owns in 10 years will look way more like iPads than they do a standard current day desktop tower or laptop.
Not to mention that the iPad does support every single thing you mention, except I guess for the open OS part, whatever that means. So even by your rigid definition it is still a computer.
My *cough* friend said youporn.com works just fine on his iPad, so I'm not sure what you're talking about.
LOL.
This product will clearly reaffirm why Tablets have been unsuccessful to date.
They didn't even do THAT well.Looks like they tried to rip off Apple's menus from their homepage
Rounded corners look too sharp, text color/emboss needs to be softer, etc.
If you're going to copy something, do it right!
Just like in the late 70s, it wasn't a computer if it wasn't the size of a small car, could be programmed with physical toggle switches, and had reels of magnetic tape for memory?
True. Until the iPad runs OS X, it's not as capable as this device. I understand the point of iOS, but I don't understand not also featuring OS X on devices like this. Apple is still around because its OS/then OS X kept fans around all those years. There would be no Apple without OS X.
I applaud any company that comes out with devices meant to run multiple OSes too. In addition, every company should challenge Apple and allow people to decide for themselves if they want to BUY OS X and install it themselves.
In the end, I wouldn't pay $750 for this device, but it could lead the way to better competitive products that show Apple that it needs to get OS X on its iPad too.
The only reason why people will purchase this turkey is so the can brag they didn't purchase an iPad.
There's really no need for you to display your gross ignorance of computer history, computer science, mathematical logic, and digital systems engineering.
The first big electronic computer that most of the American public heard about was the Univac I that called the 1952 presidential election on CBS news. It was over a million times slower than an iPad. There's also IBM which built thousands of huge computers for over a quarter century before they came up with any machine with more compute power than an iPad.
More ignorance. IBM was making computers many many years before USB ports, disc drives, and open OS's were even invented (the invention of some of which was done by IBM). OK, some of these machines had teletype keyboards, but not all. Many had large front panels instead (lots of lights and switches).
There's a reason Apple didn't use the Atom. Think half the speed of a Celeron. Think about as fast as the old G4's!
In the technical sense, if it computes, its a computer (ipod, iphone, ipad, macbook, gameboy, calculator, etc... goes on and on... all computers)
In the consumer's sense (like if I showed my mother something, asked her what it was, and have her say "oh, that's a computer") it would be a laptop, a desktop, and that's it. That's what we immediately recognize as a "computer." When I walk into the Apple store I don't say "oh look, the iPad, what a cool computer!" I say "oh look, the iPad, what a cool little gadget." What we know as a computer in the consumer sense of the word is a laptop or a desktop and that's pretty much it. Done, because, to a consumer, every thing else is a gadget or a device.
So, for consumers, an iPod, an iPad, a GameBoy, a calculator, or an iPhone, would all be a "device" but, by definition and by the fact that they can compute things, they are, in fact, computers in technical terms.
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In the consumer's sense (like if I showed my mother something, asked her what it was, and have her say "oh, that's a computer") it would be a laptop, a desktop, and that's it. That's what we immediately recognize as a "computer." When I walk into the Apple store I don't say "oh look, the iPad, what a cool computer!" I say "oh look, the iPad, what a cool little gadget." What we know as a computer in the consumer sense of the word is a laptop or a desktop and that's pretty much it. Done, because, to a consumer, every thing else is a gadget or a device.
So, for consumers, an iPod, an iPad, a GameBoy, a calculator, or an iPhone, would all be a "device" but, by definition and by the fact that they can compute things, they are, in fact, computers in technical terms.
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Also identical to the Tablet PC ET10TA sold by Ekoore:
http://www.ekoore.com/web/en/product/tablet-pc-et10ta/description-2.html
You mean like Apple copied the web design from a Dutch company? Long before Apple used this layout?They didn't even do THAT well.
Rounded corners look too sharp, text color/emboss needs to be softer, etc.
If you're going to copy something, do it right!