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iPad's Share of Tablet Market Hits 68% in 2Q 2012

MacNewsFix said:
There may be a bug in Windows 7 that makes a 3.1 (THREE POINT ONE) look like a 7 (SEVEN). You may want to download a fresh copy of your display driver from the manufacturer. Otherwise, I suggest adjusting the sharpness setting. Or just get a Mac.
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Okay. Set down for a second. I'll explain this to you.

See, most of the complaints you hear from the chucklehead contingent involving Windows haven't been true for a decade or more. Constant BSODs for no apparent reason? Pretty much ended with WinME. DLL hell? I don't think that's happened since Win95. Viruses? Yeah, there's a ton out there, but 99% of them are caught because some people are a little too trusting, and would be as much of a problem on OSX if market shares were reversed.

It's like if I came in here and started griping about how much Apple sucks because OS9 was kind of crappy. Of course you'd correct me. But what if I kept on and on about it. "it doesn't have preemptive multitasking, how can you call it a modern OS if it doesn't have that most basic of features", or "it just has one button on the mouse, and it crashes all the time". You'd think I was an idiot, wouldn't you?

...you probably would.
 
Renzatic said:
Okay. Set down for a second. I'll explain this to you.

See, most of the complaints you hear from the chucklehead contingent involving Windows haven't been true for a decade or more. Constant BSODs for no apparent reason? Pretty much ended with WinME. DLL hell? I don't think that's happened since Win95. Viruses? Yeah, there's a ton out there, but 99% of them are caught because some people are a little too trusting, and would be as much of a problem on OSX if market shares were reversed.

It's like if I came in here and started griping about how much Apple sucks because OS9 was kind of crappy. Of course you'd correct me. But what if I kept on and on about it. "it doesn't have preemptive multitasking, how can you call it a modern OS if it doesn't have that most basic of features", or "it just has one button on the mouse, and it crashes all the time". You'd think I was an idiot, wouldn't you?

...you probably would.
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I run Win7 in a VM and have a killer Win7 setup at home for work/home theater etc. Office as well. And go figure, have had more issues with OS/X than Windows lol.
 
JAT said:
Surface release date is "fall", which is pretty far off yet. Surface Pro is "90 days after" that. If we still know nothing on, let's say, Oct 25, call it vapor. Also, MS likes to announce such things well in advance. Opposite of Apple, you could say.
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My two-word response to this: Microsoft Courier.
 
How is the Surface vaporware when Microsoft demonstrated working units? Sure it might be FUD prototypes that the never intend to mass produce, but this is 2012 and they can't get away with that anymore.
 
mw360 said:
Who's buying 7 million Android tablets? I've never even heard anyone mention one out loud, let alone buy one. Is it those £30 Indian things?
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This is the kind of attitude the gives Apple a bad name. Your mocking of people for not jumping on the Apple bandwagon is really quite childish. I come to the forum as an iMac user, but tablet and phone wise I'm very much in favour of the Android alternatives.

I use a Xoom with a nightly Jellybean mod as the OS, and prior to that I had the original iPad. I've yet to find a single thing I can't do on my Xoom that I could do on my iPad. Yet here you are mocking something you most likely know absolutely nothing about. It might also educate you to know that I didn't pay £30 for it on the backstreet's of Delhi, as your condescending post would imply, but decent money just like everybody else here shells out for their iPads.

Apple snobbery used to be good for the brand, it made them feel exclusive, but now that iOS devices are so common, this kind of attitude just doesn't wash. Nobody goes, wow look at that guy, he's got an iPhone. These days it's, oh you've got an iPhone too. Similarly as more alternatives become available in the tablet marketplace the same thing will happen with the iPad, regardless of how much you want to mock.
 
Ryan John said:
This is the kind of attitude the gives Apple a bad name. Your mocking of people for not jumping on the Apple bandwagon is really quite childish. I come to the forum as an iMac user, but tablet and phone wise I'm very much in favour of the Android alternatives.

I use a Xoom with a nightly Jellybean mod as the OS, and prior to that I had the original iPad. I've yet to find a single thing I can't do on my Xoom that I could do on my iPad. Yet here you are mocking something you most likely know absolutely nothing about. It might also educate you to know that I didn't pay £30 for it on the backstreet's of Delhi, as your condescending post would imply, but decent money just like everybody else here shells out for their iPads.

Apple snobbery used to be good for the brand, it made them feel exclusive, but now that iOS devices are so common, this kind of attitude just doesn't wash. Nobody goes, wow look at that guy, he's got an iPhone. These days it's, oh you've got an iPhone too. Similarly as more alternatives become available in the tablet marketplace the same thing will happen with the iPad, regardless of how much you want to mock.
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some of us have better things to do than flash firmware nightly
 
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