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First iPad Mini Reviews: "Shockingly Nice to Hold", Non-Retina Display, Pricier than Rivals
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Yeah, I was totally shocked when I bought an iPad and then got such apps as GarageBand, FL Studio Mobile HD, Korg iMS20, Sketchbook Pro, Procreate, Photogene, Snapseed, iMovie, and Pages, and not one of them allowed me to create content like they claimed.
Well, all of these apps feel like if I was typing in a virtual keyboard. In other words, actually you're able to create something in a tablet, but it's usually a pita to input data... you know, it's still a lot more comfortable creating stuff using a mouse and a keyboard.
That's why I have a good expectation about Surface Pro. It will allow me using it as a tablet for content consuming and as a desktop when I'm at work for a few more bucks and grams than an iPad. The iPad Pro will happen some day and the standard iOS iPad will be a low cost alternative good for granmas and children.
Okay, I understand what you're saying. I thought you meant that the iPad was incapable of content creation for everyone. I, too, prefer a regular computer with a keyboard and mouse for my art, music, and writing, but there are people doing amazing things with their iPads.
I hope your right, I might get one then, I'm rockin the 3 now. Couldn't go back to no retina display. I still don't think apple will release a retina iPad Mini next year, especially if it sells like crazy like it is.
Go buy some info
and let us know if you get my real name and other private data, i sure use google services.You could try some of the streamer apps, like VLC streamer, but it needs a .NET helper app to run on your server and doesn't seem to support .mkv files. The Nexus 7 looks like better value if you aren't too invested in the AppStore.
Your disappointment is understandable. I can see how NFC could be useful, but again I wouldn't want the risk. That Apple doesn't provide us with that choice kinda sucks for some as yourself, but I think most people will not miss it (given by the way the iPhone's been flying off shelves).
The mini is a first gen product, despite it really being a shrunken iPad 2. First gen products are always more expensive, meaning that Apple has to build-in limitations to offset the initial cost of tooling, R & D, manufacturing, or whatever else, in order to hit the target price point. I think this is why their products are always improving, but the prices stay the same. It's a very calculated game of pick and choose, but the products are always solid and competitive, but most of all, useful. I still have my iPad 1 and use it regularly, even though it was "crippled" when it came out. The iPad 2 then provided the improvements the 1 should've had, according to most tech folks (and I agree), but by then I'd been enjoying the 1. I think the mini has everything the average person could ever need to make the device useful until it literally dies. The cameras, the weight, the look, the super-stable, super-easy, ridiculously app rich OS, the screen real-estate, the integration/ecosystem, and most importantly, the backward compatibility with everything iPad & iPhone. Yes, they may have been able to put more in, but maybe not now, not for that price today.
The "force buyers to fork more money" theory is plausible, but again, a bit pessimistic. We will not really ever know if that is true or if the alternative, the "don't let costs exceed the price-point profit margin at this time" theory, is. Regardless, I recommend waiting for at least gen 2 on every new Apple product, but then again, their resale value is fantastic. Ah, decisions, decisions.
They sell advertising spots to advertisers in the form of ad words, ad sense, and other ways that uses user data for smart targeted ads. But personal info is not sold. Even the user data is not sold because they keep it to themselves as part of their ad business.
They are still selling your eyeballs to advertisers. I didn't say they were selling your personal data. I said they were selling you. And they are.
And you've tried this youself with a yet to be released Mini how?
You may not be aware of this but you don't have to hold a mini in your hand to know about your thumb covering up a screen. It's basic physics.
That said I have tried it with my Kindle Fire which has smaller margins than the Kindle 3G and the 3G is way more comfortable to hold and read by.
Yes, you can jack the margin up so you have a few words visible at a time in a column. Margins on a eReader are a form of skeuomorphism and as such should be removed.
Sure, but the question was whether it would make it hard to read, not whether it would cover part of the screen.
I think you are selling the design value of margins short. White space is important. How many webpages do you see designed to have text go up to edges of the browser window?
If you don't like the spec's or the look of the iPad mini then fine, don't get one, that I can accept. But your argument of if being uncomfortable to hold and your thumb covering the text just don't hold water.
Just how freaking big are your thumbs?
man, it looks great. I'm perfectly fine with the specs, I have no issues with this device from a technical standpoint. it looks amazing, and despite "ipad2" performance (which is still great)..
329?
I just can't pull the trigger at 329.
249 was a no brainer. 299 was still a very strong possibility. just not 329. damn. I had always wanted a 7" ipad. that is the size that fits my lifestyle best and that i've always used.
I just can't justify that much a premium
here's hoping that Apple eventually lowers the price
329?
I just can't pull the trigger at 329.
249 was a no brainer. 299 was still a very strong possibility. just not 329. damn. I had always wanted a 7" ipad. that is the size that fits my lifestyle best and that i've always used.
I just can't justify that much a premium
here's hoping that Apple eventually lowers the price
The reason they bring in so much money and can afford to give you things for free or at cost is because Google collects and analyzes just about everything about you when you use their services. Their goal is to get as much data about you as possible so that they can charge advertisers more for getting very precisely targeted campaigns and to sell metrics on what's successful and who does what.
All of that information is sold. It's just de-identified and aggregated first. There's nothing wrong with that, because better ads are less annoying and more useful than carpet-bombing the whole planet about everything. But it doesn't change the fact that you are the product that Google sells. The services and hardware they provide are just operating expenses.
I do. Every month. It's far and away our biggest and most reliable source of market data. And I provide huge amounts of data to Google every month, too, not only on my own online habits, but also through the Analytics data Google harvests from our website. They get all that data, too, in exchange for helping us to track and analyze it all.
Every single product and service at Google is designed to collect information for them.
Why would I do that?Upload here the data you claim to buy
This is how Google works. It's not a secret. I'm unclear as to what the basis of your disbelief is.
Except I've demonstrated a real world example so your argument against my argument is very sieve like.
Huge...
Does the Engadget's photo hint for softer glare or "more matte" screen than other Apple's products in recent years?
He's right. Google isn't selling you to advertisers. They're selling advertisers ad space, which Google themselves serve up to you in their stead.