If ipad would'nt exsist , which of the following tablet would you buy ?

[Carouser]

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.

The OP said nothing of the sort; nobody's obliged to interpret it the way you've framed it. The whole poll (like every other forum poll) is asinine, because the results are invalid and unreliable for any conclusion beyond 'some people clicked some buttons once upon a time'. Which one is second best? I don't know, which tablet is second best at letting me use iTunes and the App store?

 

[vrDrew]

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?

If that had been the question, I would have answered it. But it wasn't.

While it is an imperfect one, polling is still a science. Professional pollsters work very hard to phrase their questions, and the population of those polled, so as to maximize the accuracy and (most importantly) relevancy of their results.

In a survey of product choices, the options of "None" and "Other/Not Listed" are typically included, for the very good reason that they help add scale and perspective to the results. Knowing that 78% of poll respondents would have chosen "none" puts the relative positions of the second- and third-best options in a truer light.

In general Internet polls are highly unreliable. The population that responds to them is essentially self-selecting, and the placement of polls tends to further skew the results. Any results therefore ought to be taken with a very large grain of salt - if not totally ignored.

That said, a quick glance at the (current) results shows the HP Touchpad leading the Galaxy 10.1 by a slight (39 to 34%) edge in the stakes for the honor of "Second Best Tablet in an imaginery universe amongst those MacRumors users bored enough to click another button." Then again, I could have guessed those sorts of results simply by looking at Tech Blog reviews of the products mentioned.

 

[tstarks33]

The OP said nothing of the sort; nobody's obliged to interpret it the way you've framed it. The whole poll (like every other forum poll) is asinine, because the results are invalid and unreliable for any conclusion beyond 'some people clicked some buttons once upon a time'. Which one is second best? I don't know, which tablet is second best at letting me use iTunes and the App store?

Yes, because he really wanted to post a valid and reliable scientific study of the purchasing behavior of ipad owners. The poll was just for fun, which is pretty obvious. Some of you take the ipad way, way, way too seriously.

 

[Ipadlover29]

Hp touchpad or the toshiba tablet (regular hdmi port, sd and USB plus removable battery).

 

[SaMaster14]

Most of these tablets probably wouldn't exist if the iPad was never introduced (or at least they would be different!)

Regardless, I would probably have the Blackberry Playbook or Moto Xoom.

 

[Carouser]

Yes, because he really wanted to post a valid and reliable scientific study of the purchasing behavior of ipad owners. The poll was just for fun, which is pretty obvious. Some of you take the ipad way, way, way too seriously.

What a load. You're 'shocked' that people give their opinion even when the poll doesn't account for it and then turn around and tell people to lighten up; how about you lighten up when you can't handle a few posts you don't like?

 

[Mr.C]

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.

Ditto !!!

 

[kuebby]

None. If I had to pick one, probably a Xoom, which was also inexplicably excluded.

Realistically I'd still have a netbook or maybe an 11" MBA if the iPad didn't exist.

 

[singlestick]

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.

I said "none" because no other tablet would interest me, not because other tablets would not exist without the iPad. A poll that doesn't include "none of the above," even a fun, informal poll, is misleading. Trying to force a response always gets you misleading results.

One of the best examples of this was the disaster of New Coke. Market research people asked people to rate New Coke and had rank and taste and preference questions. But they never asked this question: "If New Coke replaced Classic Coke or was the only Coke available, would you buy it?"

The rest, as they say, is history.

And it is not that I take the iPad so seriously, it is that I don't take the competitors seriously at all, based on what they currently offer. Not quite the same thing.

 

[ghostlyorb]

I wouldn't get any other tablet to be honest. I would get the 10.1 if I ever had to get anything else though.