Or maybe thats because Google is too busy making glasses while Apple is making actual products that will enrich peoples lives.
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Google Takes Aim at Apple with New Nexus 7, Google Play Games and Chromecast
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Or maybe thats because Google is too busy making glasses while Apple is making actual products that will enrich peoples lives.
Also, it doesn't go straight from your device to the dongle, but first through the web.
Also, on a side note, devs on twitter found this little tidbit in the developer docs for chromecast:
"You may not publicly distribute or ship your Google Cast application without written permission from Google."
LoLopen
This thing is a waste of time for anyone who already has any kind of set top box that has Internet connectivity. Which is pretty much everyone reading this forum right now.
I cancelled my Chromecast purchase after knowing there is no mirroring. I will wait until mirroring officially arrives for the consumer and then purchase it. Although I own an Apple TV, it would be useful for those in the house that use Androids and Windows PC's.
I'd also buy the Nexus 7 LTE in a heartbeat but I am so integrated with iMessage, I need it on my tablets!
I'd also buy the Nexus 7 LTE in a heartbeat but I am so integrated with iMessage, I need it on my tablets!
Oh the evil! Actually wanting to use ... gasp... advertising to offset hosting costs of an otherwise free service. The outrage!!!
Apple should stop copying and start innovating, so that Macrumors folks can stop blindly defending it to death. Chill guys, there is nothing wrong with admitting Google has done a great job!
Everyone who purchased the Nexus Q was issued a refund and got to keep the Nexus Q.
Yeah, Google really "screwed" them over.
iPad Mini needs Retina Display later this fall.
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I watch YouTube videos on my iPad 1 (iOS 5).
no ads.
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Oh the evil! Actually wanting to use ... gasp... advertising to offset hosting costs of an otherwise free service. The outrage!!!
I watch YouTube videos on my iPad 1 (iOS 5).
no ads.
No no no mate, you got it all wrong! You must understand that some on here truly believe that Apple invented EVERYTHING, and EVERYONE else is merely copying, even those whose products were on the market before Apple's version as they stole Apple's plans with industrial espionage. You will sleep better at night knowing that
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I don't think it will though, if you look at those rumoured case redesigns of the next iPad then it will be lighter and smaller with the same screen and be a copy of the mini, so if they are reducing one model to be closer to the other then the specs of the mini will be artificially kept low so as not to take the full iPad sales away.
Or maybe they should make the current full iPad into a 13" model and then make the iPad mini have the equivalent specs of the current full iPad? Either way they got themselves in a hole.
The Android NDK is pretty limited. Exceptions are possible, but I don't think there are substantial numbers of apps that are mainly native. Maybe high-performance games. (But high-performance games usually have to avoid allocating and freeing memory in the frame loop in any case.)
I am sure there are kinds of apps that can really use the additional RAM effectively. E.g., if you have a small number of large objects (e.g., pictures), surely the garbage collector can still be efficient with less than 4X RAM. And as I mentioned high-performance games usually want to avoid any kind of allocations in the game loop. So these kinds of apps should have an advantage.
...but I'm just speculating here. I wonder if someone who has worked on apps that push the limits have any insight? I've developed iOS and Android apps, but did not have to stuggle with memory limits, so I don't have a sense of the limitations.
You mean enrich Apple. Jeez, they are a big company, like Exxon...or Google, who exists to make money. And they've done a good job. But don't confuse them with a charity. And there was Apple maps.
According to a review on amazon.com (by a developer who had early access) it can be powered by the hdmi port if the hdmi port is recent enough.
http://www.amazon.com/review/RBCJ03...detail-glance&nodeID=172282&store=electronics
Mind you this is something on the internet so it might all be lies. I'm sure reviews will clarify the point soon enough.
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To be fair, absolutely no one paid for the Nexus Q. Google refunded each and every single order, so those that do have one got it for free. It makes a fantastic doorstop.
Slap an Apple logo onto the Chromecast and it magically becomes $79.99
Slap an an apple logo in something, and know it has been through years of R&D, works well, will have years of continued support, and will actually do something useful.
Slap an Apple logo onto the Chromecast and it magically becomes $79.99
Agreed Google does make cheap products...price and quality
Did you just say years of continued support? So you are not including iOS and the iPad and iPhone and iPod Touch in that statement then I guess seeing as the early ones are no longer supported.
But were supported for several years. So yes. What I said is right. What android phone besides the nexus more than 2 years old runs current android?
Maybe 2 or 3 handsets out of literally hundreds.
3GS (2009) runs ios6 and supports AirPlay, but cool story.
Liking that Google addressed some of the more important issues with current gen N7 - Better display, no Nvidia crap, dual speakers, front and back cameras etc. At $269 the 32GB version is a steal compared to $429 for the iPad mini! Plus the N7 will come with 2GB RAM - I don't have to dread reloading pages and vanishing apps like I do on my costly iPad 3 Retina.
Apple - really get your head out of the sand and give use a cheaper, better iPad mini real soon now.
Apple - really get your head out of the sand and give use a cheaper, better iPad mini real soon now.
Surprisingly positive reactions to Google products on macrumors. Apple should be worried.
I guess the iPad mini still has a somewhat higher build quality, and a nicer design, but:
- the cost: $100 difference on the base model, over $200 difference for the 32 GB LTE model
- "retina" screen
- actually lighter than the Mini, but a bit thicker
Apple should bring that retina Mini soon.
I think a lot of people (well, I, at least) became Apple fans because they were the best. Here we have a product that looks great and has a great price. So I don't think it should be too surprising that people who appreciate great products might like it.
(And I agree, Apple should be worried. Unless there's some hidden flaw, it mostly blows the Mini away except for the dinky screen.)
Several years eh? So the iPad that was launched in 2010 and was ditched by Apple last year 2 years later equates to 'several years' in your eye's? Interesting thinking there.
Specs only mean anything to penny pinchers who need to feel like they're getting their money's worth on paper without regard to the user experience. If the mini is too expensive don't buy it. Don't ask apple to appeal to the lowest common denominator they've made billions upon billions doing the exact opposite.