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Motorola Teases New Tablet in Teaser Promo, Disses the iPad

all is fair in advertising wars, that's a pretty nice ad but the iPad does have a huge jump on sales so they are going to have to back it up with a nice product..... competition is good for the consumer so this is a positive thing even though some Apple defenders get their feelings a little hurt. If iPad continues to be dominant then Steve will sucker customers and give them updates little by little like he did with the iphone until Android got big and threatened the market share...... Same thing with the iPad unless a worthy competitor comes around Apple will release tiny updates as they see fit... so I say embrace Motorola for their efforts! :cool:
 
aohus said:
FYI, this is meant for gadget enthusiasts. not like this will be on TV.

additionally, you seem to have an attention span of a gnat. Call of Duty: Black OPs is beckoning for you to play...
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What are you twelve? :rolleyes: If it's meant for "gadget" enthusiasts ( as if you work in Motorola's marketing department ) they had better work on the crappy 3D museum, because it looks corny. And yes, over a minute and a half for such a slow paced "ad" is too much for even "enthusiasts" attention spans. Props to Motorola for using Klavika though.
 
aohus said:
a teaser isn't defined as the length of the actual promotion, its the idea that the actual product is NOT given a full reveal. in this case, it might be a 1 minute+ (funny as well) promo, but its a teaser as it does not show the actual device, hence, a TEASER.
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Gotta ask...did you read what I wrote?

You ignored my critisism (that the animation is not professional) and simply re-told me the things I agreed were fine about it.

I said it was fine that it was short and simple, so you telling me why it's short and simple doesn't make me feel like you read my post. (Or were your comments meant for someone else and not me?)
 
Impressive . . .?

Wow, I'm really impressed with that ad.

Sheesh. I hope you all are being sarcastic when you say things like "really nice ad." If this ad is any indication, we have little to expect on the innovation front from Motorola.
 
Can't wait until the week after this announced when everyone will have already forgotten about it.
 
paulypants said:
What are you twelve? :rolleyes: If it's meant for "gadget" enthusiasts ( as if you work in Motorola's marketing department ) they had better work on the crappy 3D museum, because it looks corny. And yes, over a minute and a half for such a slow paced "ad" is too much for even "enthusiasts" attention spans. Props to Motorola for using of Klavika though.
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wow, it really is true. as the generations go by, people become less patient and have that 'i want it now' attitude.

i found it funny. as well as many others here. you seem so distraught over the fact that moto made a little clip mocking the iPad, and the Galaxy Tab, mind you.

and its not 'slow-paced' if you actually read the subtitles. but then again, coming from you, i doubt you like movies with subtitles in them.
 
kenypowa said:
I agree. This is a fantastic teaser.

Andy Rubin showed the protoype of this tablet and there is no "Home" button on this tablet. For years, Apple has been trying hard to get rid of the home button. Except this time, Google achieves this first. This is why Google states 2.2 (Froyo) or 2.3 (gingerbread) is not meant for tablets.

But hey, when Apple gets rid of the home button in iPad 3.0, they will once again tout this "revolutionary" feature.
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where are the rumors apple is trying to get rid of the home button?
The home button is the most important feature on iDevices it is the place people go to exit there apps. Why would apple try to get rid of that?
 
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Small White Car said:
Gotta ask...did you read what I wrote?

You ignored my critisism (that the animation is not professional) and simply re-told me the things I agreed were fine about it.

I said it was fine that it was short and simple, so you telling me why it's short and simple doesn't make me feel like you read my post. (Or were your comments meant for someone else and not me?)
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so if its not professionally, done, the product itself is a failure? This came from youtube. Its obvious this promo isn't made for mass dissemination, but for online consumption only.

If i saw this ad on tv, then yes, i'd agree with you, but how it was released (via youtube) demonstrates that this ad is not for the mainstream buyer.
 
Not really

I think ads like this defeat the product they intend to support. I also question any company that releases an advertisement x- number of weeks before the product is available at all. To anyone. And 99% of the time it is better to support your product than knock others.

But I really don't know why they bother telling people that they will be better than X product. Most people haven't bought a tablet. Many don't care to. Better to use brevity to show us why what you do is better.

redshift1 said:
great ad
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vincenz said:
Can't wait until the week after this announced when everyone will have already forgotten about it.
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Right on. Motorola is setting the bar pretty high with the message of this "teaser", no doubt they will surely fall short. It's become way too commonplace for this... none of these companies ever succeeds in meeting their own hype, nevermind exceeding it.
 
ChazUK said:
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I don't get what Motorola are digging at with the iPad either. It has already proven itself to be a successful and functional tablet with some great tablet optimized apps.

The dig at the GalaxyTab can be seen as true but the iPad is far more than a big iPhone.

The big seller for Motorola is that it will be released with Android 3.0 honeycomb which is the tablet optimized version of Android.
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iOS 3.2.2 was a tablet-optimized version of iOS -- and iOS 4.2.1 was a unified phone/tablet version -- similar to what Honeycomb is for Android. so I think Motorola just could not find a better dig than "it's like a giant iPhone". Why? Because there is not a whole lot you can say bad about the iPad that the masses would understand. The best knocks at the iPad are the things that the truly tech savvy care about -- and they are not glaring flaws, just minor things that could be improved. The device is one of the biggest successes in history.

However, I love the bee "buzzing" around at the end. It hints at Honeycomb and you can make the pun asking "what all the buzz is about".
 
Kenrik said:
Seriously anyone else notice that the render on that add looked like early 90s 3D? Maybe they made it with blender..
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Yeah, it's very cheap looking, the concept wasn't bad, but the whole thing feels pretty low-rent. Since we can assume this tablet is not going to have a bargain basement price, I don't think it helps them. Then again, very few of the mass market will ever even see this video, so it probably doesn't matter, this is made for Android geeks. If they start running it on tv they have a problem.
 
BaldiMac said:
You mean that the iPhone and the iPad both have an interface designed for multi-touch? Kinda makes sense since the primary input on both device is multitouch. Other than that, the apps are all redesigned to take advantage of the larger screen size, so I'm not sure what you are getting at.
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You mean like how you can only have one app or picture open on the screen at one time. NO way to side by side compare the 2 or have them open and running at the same time.

Find for a phone but when you get to 7+in that is enough room to be able to have 2 going at the same time to side by side compare the 2.
Hence the reason why the iPad is nothing more than an over sized iPod.
The UI of the iPad is not optimized for a tablet or something as large as a tablet. It is still optimized for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
 
carmenodie said:
Moto didn't even have a narrative for a tablet until the ipad came out.
No need for Apple to worry because Moto doesn't even control the OS. And when other honeycomb tabs hits the market expect Moto to get marginalized. They'll soon fold up their tablet business because you know you'll find cheap a** honeycomb tablets in CVS/ Wallgreens, wherever for almost nothing!
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One could argue that finding a honeycomb tablet in Walgreens is better than finding an iPad in TJ Maxx... :rolleyes:
 
aohus said:
so if its not professionally, done, the product itself is a failure?
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I said nothing about the product.

Again, I have to ask if you're reading my posts because there's nothing like that in anything I wrote.

When I make a comment on the animation, I'm talking about the animation. I'm not speaking in code or anything.

aohus said:
Its obvious this promo isn't made for mass dissemination, but for online consumption only.
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"Online consumption" means their geekiest clientelle. That's my question: Why is Motorolla putting out cheap animation to the one demographic MOST likely to notice it? This would honestly be better if it were a TV ad because that's the audience that wouldn't be noticing stuff like that.

So, to summerize, this animation confuses me. That's all.
 
I saw ads for so called tablets this week during the football games. The were ipad knock offs but smaller. Too small actually. They looked like large phones more than anything.


Oh well, the ads paid for the broadcast.
 
Apple Fanboy Here:

Love the ad. And can hardly wait...for the next iPad iteration.
 
Rodimus Prime said:
You mean like how you can only have one app or picture open on the screen at one time. NO way to side by side compare the 2 or have them open and running at the same time.

Find for a phone but when you get to 7+in that is enough room to be able to have 2 going at the same time to side by side compare the 2.
Hence the reason why the iPad is nothing more than an over sized iPod.
The UI of the iPad is not optimized for a tablet or something as large as a tablet. It is still optimized for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
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Apps designed for the iPad are made with its full resolution in mind. Not half of it. I'm getting pretty sick of these oversized iPod Touch remarks. The Mac Pro is essentially an oversized Mac Mini, right? Do you have a problem with that? ;)
 
Small White Car said:
"Online consumption" means their geekiest clientelle. That's my question: Why is Motorolla putting out cheap animation to the one demographic MOST likely to notice it? This would honestly be better if it were a TV ad because that's the audience that wouldn't be noticing stuff like that.

So, to summerize, this animation confuses me. That's all.
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Take it for what it is. A low-budget teaser promo to create excitement for Android enthusiasts.
 
Small White Car said:
Count me as another one who doesn't understand this ad.

The iPad is a big iPhone? Well, apparently that's exactly what so many iPad owners like about it.

So what are they saying here? "Hey, here's a thing you like. Guess what...we'll have a thing soon too!"

I know it's just a teaser, but shouldn't they somehow be getting me excited about their product or, converserly, making me think the iPad has a problem they can solve?

This 'toon does neither.
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I thought they Nailed the iPad, my iPad is good because it takes all the goodness of the iPhone and gives it a bit more space to work with. But at the same time I feel like very few apps use the extra space as thoughtfully as they did on the iPhone.

Most iPad Optimised apps are little more than pixel graphics and a split view controller. So I think it's a fair critism to also say that most Developers (including Apple) treat the the iPad as a big iPhone. Not as a unique set of opportunities in it's own right. So it does become "Just a big iPhone".

Moto are suggesting they are have something up their sleeve that will change that, and this will product will live or die on that claim.
 
Rodimus Prime said:
You mean like how you can only have one app or picture open on the screen at one time. NO way to side by side compare the 2 or have them open and running at the same time.

Find for a phone but when you get to 7+in that is enough room to be able to have 2 going at the same time to side by side compare the 2.
Hence the reason why the iPad is nothing more than an over sized iPod.
The UI of the iPad is not optimized for a tablet or something as large as a tablet. It is still optimized for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
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:rolleyes: Not having a feature that you would like is not the same as not being optimized for the screen size.

As far as your request to compare two pictures side by side, there is an app for that.
 
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