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I Hope The Windows Phone Will Put A Dent In iPhone Sales!!!
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Yes, I agree competition is good
But I would hardly call the iPad lackluster, I love mine
And I doubt the Windows phone will make much of an impact personally
But I would hardly call the iPad lackluster, I love mine
And I doubt the Windows phone will make much of an impact personally
You just wait and see. In 5 years, tablets will be able to completely replace the need for laptops. Not desktops mind you, but laptops assuredly. Browsing media is not enough, I want to create and build.
Technology needs to keep pushing itself, things should be better by now. In fact, I would go as far as to say that apps have dented technological advances.
I doubt it will take even 5 years at the rate tech is moving.
I think you have it wrong though. I think laptops will replace desktops, and tablets will be our "mobile" devices.
I agree with your central premise, namely, that competition is a good thing and will (hopefully) drive Apple to move their progress bar along a little faster. That can only help us, the consumers of the world, get a more fully featured phone and OS. I think anything that moves Apple along is good!
Having said that, I really do like the iPhone...
Having said that, I really do like the iPhone...
Competition is good. Just look at the lackluster iPad, you can guarantee that the second revision will be that much better because of competition. Same goes with the iPhone.
Yes, competition is very good. That said, I laugh at your iPad statement. We are more than 6 months since its release and nary a competitor in sight. So my question to you is, what competition? Who is shipping an ipad classs device?
I don't really think the tablet will replace laptops. I know I have no use for one it would really just be a shiny toy.
When I'm doing any work that requires a computer on the go I need a cd drive, I need fire wire ports and usb ports, and I need some pretty damn good hardware to keep up with the intense processing I'm doing.
The day they make an ipad or tablet in general that can do this is the day I START to think about buying one.
When I'm doing any work that requires a computer on the go I need a cd drive, I need fire wire ports and usb ports, and I need some pretty damn good hardware to keep up with the intense processing I'm doing.
The day they make an ipad or tablet in general that can do this is the day I START to think about buying one.
Competition is good. Just look at the lackluster iPad, you can guarantee that the second revision will be that much better because of competition. Same goes with the iPhone.
Lackluster iPad? You have got to be joking. It's the most successful electronics launch ever. You are obviously an apple hater. The iPad is a thoroughly enjoyable and useful device. The windows phone is a complete joke.
Well then the iPad is obviously not for you. For the rest of us who aren't doing such "intense" processing, the iPad is perfect.
I dunno, I think Windows phone has potential. Seems to have that right balance of "control" and "openness" (where Apple and Android represent the two different extremes). You have more than one hardware choice, but MSFT will be enforcing certain requirements to make sure the fragmentation isn't anything like Android. Assuming they fix some of the issues from the first version of the OS (like the lack of multitasking and copy/paste) I could definitely see myself jumping ship. As much as I love my iPhone (no way I'd consider an Android phone with the OS in its current state) I'm definitely going to give Windows phone a shot.
On the computer side of things, I definitely prefer Windows. Don't get me wrong, OS X is a very nice OS, but it's just not meant for a power user. Apple dumbs too much down. I want to be able to perform complex tasks in an efficient manner, rather than slow them down so much that everyone can do them. (With that said, I own a macbook air and typically boot into OS X even though I also have Windows installed. OSX is a better mobile OS than Windows IMO, but I use Windows whenever I need to do "real work")
Now this is the kind of crap that gets my goat. On what basis do you make this statement and your agreement? Have you seen, used, held, experienced the Win 7 phone? If you have please give us a full report and breakdown of that experience. If not, why would you feel you have enough information to make such a statement? I love my iPhone but would never call another phone a "complete joke" when I had no remote idea what I was talking about. Grow up guys, each phone is the best phone for the person using/buying it..... be it iPhone, an android device or a win7 device.
Nothing could be farther from the truth. Mac OS X, out of the box, gives the "power user" a whole set of tools to work the system as they see fit: Terminal for use of UNIX commands, Automator w/Applescript and, last but not least, Xcode. Windows only offers the good'ole ms-dos command-line which actually allows for very little.
The problem is not Mac OS X dumbing things down, it's that with Windows, only a geek can make his way through the system in order to make things work properly.
Personally I think that Windows Phone is a bit too late, it's potential to compete has been diminished quite a bit by trying to enter a market completely dominated by two loved and mature mobile OS's. I also think MSFT is going to have to do quite a lot to let the public know that Windows Phone 7 is NOT Windows Mobile. I think it will do better than web OS did, but it's not going to take a significant chunk out of the current mobile atmosphere.
Maybe in 5 years, but without flash, the iPad is a ways away from replacing my laptop, even for my mobile needs.
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+1, after using a windows phone for some time, I totally agree with you here.
Blorzoga said:Competition is good. Just look at the lackluster iPad, you can guarantee that the second revision will be that much better because of competition. Same goes with the iPhone.
Lackluster iPad? You have got to be joking. It's the most successful electronics launch ever. You are obviously an apple hater. The iPad is a thoroughly enjoyable and useful device. The windows phone is a complete joke.
+1, after using a windows phone for some time, I totally agree with you here.
Flash? Heaven forbid you can't watch your porn on the go. If the lack of flash is your ONLY reason for not buying an iPad, you're seriously missing the point dude.
I think Windows Phone looks amazing ( I would love to get one) but I don't see it hurting the iPhone's sales. If this was a year ago, it would be a different story.
Especially since you can get a 8GB iPhone 3GS for $99.99 and all AT&T Windows Phones will be $199.99, users would be taking a gamble on a new phone.
I do hope that it catches fire but it may be another webOS.
Especially since you can get a 8GB iPhone 3GS for $99.99 and all AT&T Windows Phones will be $199.99, users would be taking a gamble on a new phone.
I do hope that it catches fire but it may be another webOS.
Orange™;11211559 said:
300,000 sold in one day, and 3M sold in 80 days is anything but 'lackluster'.
From NetworkWorld last week (hardly an Apple rag):
The iPad may very well be the fastest selling consumer electronic product of all time. To put things in perspective, Apple sold about 3.27 million iPads during the third quarter of 2010, and estimates for the current quarter range from 3.8 million units on the low end to upwards of 6 million units.
+1
...coming from an obviously Apple fanboy, I'm not surprised.
Have you actually used WP7? No? Hm.
@people who say CD drives + FW = living in 2005
Yep, I completely agree with you. I have ditched my FW/USB external drives. I love the insanely quick (and consistent) 100KBps-~2MBps from Dropbox. Not to mention the blazing fast 200-300kbps upload speeds.
Oh how I despise technology which can give me a consistent 100MBps read and 40~50MBps write speed (FireWire 800 is TOTALLY OUTDATED).
/s
The real question for both Android and WP7 is what innovation they bring. The basic parameters have all been setup by Apple -
- Touchscreen
- 3.5" display
- Browser/Mail/Maps
- iPod/iTunes
- Apps Apps Apps
WP7 seems to be just a new start page for a phone and Android is real chaotic and with every phone you never know what you get!
It will be interesting to see how long it will be before we see buy one get one free sales on WP7 phone just like we see on Android phones.
- Touchscreen
- 3.5" display
- Browser/Mail/Maps
- iPod/iTunes
- Apps Apps Apps
WP7 seems to be just a new start page for a phone and Android is real chaotic and with every phone you never know what you get!
It will be interesting to see how long it will be before we see buy one get one free sales on WP7 phone just like we see on Android phones.
Orange™;11211559 said:Competition is good. Just look at the lackluster iPad, you can guarantee that the second revision will be that much better because of competition. Same goes with the iPhone.
You're in a mac community forum board, and you open a new thread saying, "i hope the windows phone will put a dent in iphone sales"
Calling the iPad lackluster doesn't help, stupid comment without backing up your statement...
go to another forum
oh yeah, the windows 7 phone is a joke
