If the iPad was not an option I likely would have gotten a new laptop. Either that, or an iPod touch while waiting for the new iPhone.
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If ipad would'nt exsist , which of the following tablet would you buy ?
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Yeah that's a good point. If there were no iPad, I'd probably have tried to diverge my computers into a 11" MacBook Air, and a nice 27" iMac, instead of having a MacBook sized in the middle.
You missed one option - None - which happens to be my choice.
If no iPad then I would either pick up one of the soon to be updated MacBook Air if backlit keyboard make its way back, or else a 13" MacBook Pro.
If no iPad then I would either pick up one of the soon to be updated MacBook Air if backlit keyboard make its way back, or else a 13" MacBook Pro.
After playing with all of them (HP Touchpad, BB PlayBook and Honeycomb tablets) I would definitely have to go with the TouchPad. The PlayBook isn't bad but it's gestures are hard to figure out and don't always work. Honeycomb is ... well, it's awful at the moment (Ice Cream Sandwhich ought to remedy that I hear).
The TouchPad is easily the best of the bunch. Besides the iPad, it's the most intuitive, works well and looks great.
The TouchPad is easily the best of the bunch. Besides the iPad, it's the most intuitive, works well and looks great.
None. Tablet computers have been around for decades, they have all been rubbish in one way or another. The current crop are more or less copies of the iPad design but without the infrastructure.
I agree with this. If there was no iPad there would be no iPad like tablets.
Worthless poll.
yep. the ipad magically sprang forth out of steve's fragrant feces and we all were awed yet again by apple's ability to fertilize yet another new crop of unprecedented, flawless tech gadgets...
or, the more logical possibility that tablets have been under development for decades, and however extraordinarily far ahead of the competition apple's ipad was, there were actually tablets that existed when it came out.
as for the poster, he is asking us to suspend our disbelief and imagine an alternative dimension right next to ours without an ipad. watch some fringe episodes guys and come back with a bit of imagination. jeez.
by the way, anyone who watched the ios5 and lion rollout recognized lots of "copying" by apple. it goes both ways. the key is to imitate AND innovate. fortunately, apple seems to have got that down pretty well. a lot of the inferior products on the market probably have as much to do with technical issues as they do with legal/patent ones. i don't envy any of the hardware engineers out there these litigious days...
If you want to go back far enough in time..... the ten commandments were the original tablets.
I like the Touchpad.
Hopefully, they'll improve the hardware/software integration and it'd be great and not just good^^
Hopefully, they'll improve the hardware/software integration and it'd be great and not just good^^
And were are all those Tablets that have been under development for decades? They all have bombed. It wasn't until Apple fertilized the tablet market (to use your analogy) that the pads in their present form even existed.
You do not have to like Apple but at least give them the credit they are due for creating the form factor you so dearly defend as public domain.
No one even said anything about iOS5 except for you. There are some things that are obvious ideas from Android. So what. The poll was about hardware and hardware implementations.
Take a chill pill and go relax.
I probably wouldn't buy any of them. I bought the iPad because it fits with the stuff I do with the Mac and iPhone. Having an android or WP based or WebOS based device just wouldn't cut it for me right now. After 17 years of professional software development I prefer my home electronic life to be simple and require as little effort as possible. I haven't yet seen an OS other than iOS deliver that. And if one does come around then I'll consider switching - although that comes with a big cost in investment.
I probably wouldn't have a tablet right now, I only got the iPad because of certain apps it has makes sense for my business to replace paper. I probably would have waited and gotten a MacBook air 11 that's going to be released soon, which would've been my first Mac, Im a windows guy.
Now if you say all current iPad apps would also be available on those other tablets in this alternative world, then that's easy, the touchpad. Webos is so far beyond android and windows 7 in the touch os department it's not even funny, though windows 8 does seem like a great alternative too.
Now if you say all current iPad apps would also be available on those other tablets in this alternative world, then that's easy, the touchpad. Webos is so far beyond android and windows 7 in the touch os department it's not even funny, though windows 8 does seem like a great alternative too.
I wouldn't buy any of them. Why? Because if it wasn't for the iPad, the market for a tablet computer wouldn't exist.
i get the point of the poll and would probably opt for just another air as that what i was using before the iPad appeared in the market.
but while fantasy is nice without the proliferation of the app store and the iPad there would be no "market" for the other tablets, they've been around for years but no one tapped into their potential until "uncle" steve miraculously conjured them from thin air...
but while fantasy is nice without the proliferation of the app store and the iPad there would be no "market" for the other tablets, they've been around for years but no one tapped into their potential until "uncle" steve miraculously conjured them from thin air...
If the iPad didn't exist, the biggest response to the "What sort of tablet would you use" would be "None."
If we were to enter some sort of alternate-reality universe where the iPad had never existed, I doubt, sincerely that any of the other devices listed in this silly poll would exist either, seeing as they all - to a greater or lesser extent - essentially copy the iPad's form factor and physical characteristics. I never had the slightest interest in buying one of the various "Slate" tablets powered by Microsoft Windows. I guess the closest might have been either the Amazon Kindle or B&N Nook, which at least provide unique reading capabilities in a price and form factor that is appealing.
I don't "need" any of the other tablets for the simple reason that all they do is replicate, in a slightly more portable manner, albeit with a worse keyboard, that which I can already do with a laptop or desktop computer.
The iPad, however, is different. Not only thanks to its incredibly broad selection of high-quality Apps, but also thanks to its seamless integration with the iTunes library that already existed on my computer. The way it works with my AppleTV and my iPod Touch. Nothing from Samsung or RIM can do that now - and nothing from Samsung or HP or RIM will ever be able to do that.
If we were to enter some sort of alternate-reality universe where the iPad had never existed, I doubt, sincerely that any of the other devices listed in this silly poll would exist either, seeing as they all - to a greater or lesser extent - essentially copy the iPad's form factor and physical characteristics. I never had the slightest interest in buying one of the various "Slate" tablets powered by Microsoft Windows. I guess the closest might have been either the Amazon Kindle or B&N Nook, which at least provide unique reading capabilities in a price and form factor that is appealing.
I don't "need" any of the other tablets for the simple reason that all they do is replicate, in a slightly more portable manner, albeit with a worse keyboard, that which I can already do with a laptop or desktop computer.
The iPad, however, is different. Not only thanks to its incredibly broad selection of high-quality Apps, but also thanks to its seamless integration with the iTunes library that already existed on my computer. The way it works with my AppleTV and my iPod Touch. Nothing from Samsung or RIM can do that now - and nothing from Samsung or HP or RIM will ever be able to do that.
The touchpad is the only other tablet that I have found tempting. But I do believe what others have said, that the other tablets wouldn't exist if the iPad didn't. So really this is a if you had to buy a tablet that wasn't the iPad which one would you buy poll.
Although I voted HP TouchPad (and then, only because I like WebOS) I probably wouldn't have a tablet if there was no iPad...I have an 11" MacBook Air that i just love and I have a 15" i5 MBP connected to a 27" ACD...between the two of those machines and my iPhone4 I really don't need a tablet...I received the iPad2 as a gift for my birthday in June and although I've grown to really enjoy the iPad as a mobile media consuming device, I'd have not bought one myself...my 11" MBA is plenty portable and can do everything my iPad2 can do and much much more...
I'm shocked so many of you were not able to comprehend what the OP was asking, which is basically, what tablet do you think is second best? Saying "none, because they wouldn't exist without the ipad" is just asinine.