How many people who's pants got tight over Chromecast and bought one will realize they could do the same thing and more with the iOS devices they already own? 
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Google Takes Aim at Apple with New Nexus 7, Google Play Games and Chromecast
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Wow--very ugly. I guess google didn't get the "mini design is the future memo". I keep my mobile devices 2 years--its not really worth $50 a year to settle for something like this.
Also--I think the non retina mini screen is nicer than the current nx7 hd screen.
Also--I think the non retina mini screen is nicer than the current nx7 hd screen.
What are you going to do when iPad goes 16:9 or 16:10? The iPod, iPhone, Mac, and upcoming iTV all are 16:9/10. 4:3 is not consistent with this ecosystem that Apple is creating.
Why? It may be a better choice for him.
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I image that at that time 16:9 will look great.
That's cuz Apple doesn't create 40 phones a qtr just to gain marketshare. When Apple releases their flagship for the year it always outperforms every other flagship currently on the market. All this is irrelevant, the point is specs don't matter because Apple, the "outdated" phone that "just gets minor updates" wipes the floor with other phones with each refresh. Single cores outperforming dual cores, dual cores outperforming quad cores, and like I said when the 5S comes out it WILL (not might) outperform the S4.
No I don't think the iPad is perfect. I also don't think that Android tablets have a leg up on the iPad solely because of their specs. That's just a pissing contest. Real world data (the tangible stuff) shows that the iPad is just fine with its outdated specs.
Sure it's fun. It's also laughable seeing people boast about octacore processors in a mobile phone. Pissing contest.
Again, the iPad4 is just fine. Any "benefit" you see by adding a gig of extra RAM is going to be negligible because the iPad4 is a beast. It's not going to suddenly become "Double-Beast!!!!" because they added an unnecessary gig of RAM just to keep up with the Joneses'
Better for you because you want it. It's already going to be tangibly better than every single android tablet out there.
The Nexus 7 came out before the iPad Mini and they kinda own the 7 inch market.
I know you all have a Steve Jobs poster above your bed and get really nervous whenever a company other than Apple does something good, but JEEZE ! The Nexus 7 rocks ! And the price can't be beat !
Chill...the heck...out
But they copied Apple, even thought they released the Nexus 7 first.
Stating people are not smart enough to find out what is correct really reflects on YOUR own issues.
I know netflix is 1080p, but If that is right it's still better than my airplay on the atv 3. All of my itunes movies (All ripped myself) are 720p and far better than airplay I get. For 11.00 after netflix discounts it's really not in competition, it's in it's own category. Not to mention very easy to take on trips.
Easy now you might shatter his entire bubble and then he'll finally realize who REALLY has been the big winner all these years.
Yep same here, both terrific devices. I'll be buying one as it's the only genuine small android based tablet worth the money. Biggest problem with the Nexus 7 1 is 'lag', in truth it's built down to a price (obviously) so it's a bit weedy. It's replacement looks much better.
Microsoft take note, if you'd really wanted to establish a foothold in the tablet market you should have followed Google's example.
Oh the evil! Actually wanting to use ... gasp... advertising to offset hosting costs of an otherwise free service. The outrage!!!
Just as Apple fans' presumptuousness irks people and turns them off from all things Apple, Google's ludicrous facade of being anything but a corporation as interested in making money as the next corporation irks people, leading them to mock the "Do no evil" motto.
How many people who's pants got tight over Chromecast and bought one will realize they could do the same thing and more with the iOS devices they already own?
So I can carry my apple tv in my pocket on vacation? More? I can carry mine and someone else's?
Why do you think everyone is getting it to compete with atv? Don't feel so threatened, i don'f consider it either/or.
I have an atv3 but I could do the same thing and more with roku3. See how that works? Not everyone needs/wants the same things.
I'd expect so. It's using newer hardware. And when the other companies release their newest flagship phones, they'll probably outperform the Apple.
Right now, I think the snapdragon chips are currently the fastest mobile processors on the market, beating the iPhone 5 by a decent margin. When the iPhone 6 comes out, it'll beat the current Snapdragons. Then when Samsung, HTC, and the rest come out with their phones after that, they'll beat the iPhone 6.
They leapfrog each other. It's like comparing AMD to Nvidia in the GPU market. Every other year they jump ahead of each other in performance.
Question is, why do you think Apple doing this is proof of some profound thing, but everyone else doing the same is...
Right, because it'll be using newer hardware. Apple's building off the same basic ARM chip design as everyone else. They add their own tweaks and touches to the mix, but the differences these make aren't so profound that it jumps them an entire generation ahead of everyone else.
Right. I'm not saying the iPad is bad in any way. It's perfect for what we're currently doing on it. So was the iPad 1 when it first came out.
Your argument is kinda spinning it's wheels and not going anywhere, then contradicting yourself. What you're saying is the 4 doesn't need any more than what it got because it's fine the way it is. I'm sure you thought the iPad 2 was perfectly fine when it came out, too. So why'd they add an extra 512MB ram to it with the 3? For Retina? So now that retina is out, is the iPad only now just fine? So why'd they make the 4 with a faster processor? If the iPad 5 comes out with 2GB ram, what are you gonna say then? That's it's offering up a perfectly fine user experience as it is, and the 6 doesn't need an extra 2GB of ram on top of that to keep up with the 4GB Android tablets, because it's already the fastest tablet out, and adding that extra bit won't make it fastest times 2?
What you're basically telling me is that specs don't matter...until they do.
Great spec's at a great price but that bezel is so big it looks like an old antiquated device. They seem to have done a good job, can't help but wonder why they did this, technology should allow them to make a beautiful bezel, maybe it was a cost issue.
Great spec's at a great price but that bezel is so big it looks like an old antiquated device. They seem to have done a good job, can't help but wonder why they did this, technology should allow them to make a beautiful bezel, maybe it was a cost issue.
Maybe Apple patented the smart bezel thing on the iPad mini?
512MB was fine for the iPad 2, it was significant compared to 256MB for the iPad 1. iPad 3/4 introduced Retina, it needed more RAM to power the the display so it went to 1GB. If Apple has a reason that needs the iPad 5 to have 2GB of RAM it will have 2GB of RAM.
I think really the only one they didn't get right was iPad 1 with 256MB. I guess they weren't sure exactly if it was going to be successful.
Basically Apple adds RAM when it needs too, 2GB of RAM for iPad 4 currently wouldn't really boost anything. Apps/games haven't even taken full advantage of 1GB yet.
chromecast is a crappy product if all it can do is "open a link that gets sent from your phone" that means it'll never be able to offer a seamless experience like airplay.
i still wonder why apple never took more advantage of airplay. instead of mirroring, allow yourself to control your screen with your phone while streaming video. maybe throw a game on your tv while controlling it with your phone. there are plenty of things airplay can do but they never done it.
as it stands, if you have an appletv, there's no reason to switch. even pc and android have airplay programs
i still wonder why apple never took more advantage of airplay. instead of mirroring, allow yourself to control your screen with your phone while streaming video. maybe throw a game on your tv while controlling it with your phone. there are plenty of things airplay can do but they never done it.
as it stands, if you have an appletv, there's no reason to switch. even pc and android have airplay programs
you don't really get apple. Apple has never been about the best specs, they've always been about the best experience. The reason why apple has always been stingy on RAM is because more RAM actually takes a hit on battery life. You got to wonder, why shouldn't Apple balance battery life with performance, when their 512mb ram devices don't lag as much as a comparable android device with double the ram?
On the CPU front, Apple's had the same strategy, their CPU clock speed and architecture isn't going to blow anybody out of the water, but why would they? My phone never lags, why would more speed matter? Apple instead focused on increasing the power of the graphic chips because they know app developers can push that. That's why Apple graphics have always been near the cream of the crop.
NFC? Are you kidding me. Why don't you list (on one hand) how many times you have actually used NFC.
You seriously can't stream local media from a source like an iPad or Macbook (alternatively for the difficult cases: or a Tablet or PC
)? Are you sure?!
I wish that Apple TV would be able to do the same thing even it were limited to iOS and Mac OS X devices. I'll probably get one when it's available over here.