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Netbook Market Leader Acer Not Planning to Compete With iPad
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Is it really necessary that you copy al your posts from Appleinsider to here? Do you have some pbsessive compulsive urge to be heard or confirmed?
Your posts sometimes contain interesting points but the way you present them degrades the message..
I understand the value of the content stores but I can't remember the last time I paid for content.
So how do you get content then
I was in a bar last week where a guy with some swivel screen netbook type of device was picking at scroll bars with a stylus. I gotta be honest that it looked totally daft. He each time had to put the stylus down when he wanted to type something and he required several jabs at the screen to do something.
It ran windows Vista on a 12" screen at the most...
I still have to use the iPad to be convinced that it is good, great or something else, but at least Apple thought about how people are going to be interacting with it.
If iTunes is truly the reason why Acer can't/won't compete, then probably the only company that may have a system to counter Apple would be Amazon.
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They would have to redo their Kindle lineup too, but it shouldn't take that much to come out with something more sophisticated than a Kindle DX with existing technology, or what was demonstrated at the latest CES. They would also have to tie everything together in a slick, pleasing package.
But, if Acer can't do it, then neither will Asus, HP, Dell, etc. Google's ChromeOS project and Android may help them, but they would still need some way to get the music, video, and ebooks to their customers.
Maybe Google and Amazon should form a "Tablet Alliance" to provide the OS, office apps, ebooks, music, and video for hardware manufacturers to come up with their own designs for tablets and netbooks.
So, that's what you're looking at with Apple. They have roughly a year to maybe a two year lead on any competitor. The real question is just how big is this market and do people really a "tweener" device at $500-$830 or just a cheap laptop, aka netbook.
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OnDemand video
e-books
They would have to redo their Kindle lineup too, but it shouldn't take that much to come out with something more sophisticated than a Kindle DX with existing technology, or what was demonstrated at the latest CES. They would also have to tie everything together in a slick, pleasing package.
But, if Acer can't do it, then neither will Asus, HP, Dell, etc. Google's ChromeOS project and Android may help them, but they would still need some way to get the music, video, and ebooks to their customers.
Maybe Google and Amazon should form a "Tablet Alliance" to provide the OS, office apps, ebooks, music, and video for hardware manufacturers to come up with their own designs for tablets and netbooks.
So, that's what you're looking at with Apple. They have roughly a year to maybe a two year lead on any competitor. The real question is just how big is this market and do people really a "tweener" device at $500-$830 or just a cheap laptop, aka netbook.
I know but flash is used on a lot of video on the internet. You can`t watch most videos on the internet without using flash. What if someone sends you a link to a video with flash and you can`t watch it. Flash needs to be added. It`s too much a part of the web to be neglected. Without the iphone we can live with it but not a device of this size and power.
Guys, at first you were going to call me a thief. What now a luddite?
I'd take a picture of all the new release DVDs on the shelf but I don't have a camera.
I'm having the same conversation in both places. My first post might be the same, but the responses might be entirely different depending on the direction of the discussion.
Hope that answers your question.
No. There is an advertisements standards committee in Britain which can check whether an advert says _literally_ the truth. They tell you off if you don't, and then you change the advert. No lawsuit, no fine, nothing. Usually it is just a tiny change of words. And don't think it only hits Apple; it happens to everybody, but it's only reported when it happens to Apple.
(There was a case in Germany when an advertisement for on orange drink had to be changed because the drink in question only contained four percent orange juice and the advert was considered misleading. New slogan: "Refreshing like a waterfall". No complaints. )
Fools! iPad is just a average tablet with touchscreen abilities. The real winner is iTunes... don't companies know that? Stop trying trying to kill the robots, and go for the motherboard.
You mean that Windows Mobile Version 7 isn't out yet.
Many expect it to be shown in Barcelona later this month, or March. http://www.wmexperts.com/tags/mwc10
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It`s too little to late. Why would any manufacturer go with windows mobile when Android is free and superior.
They're still just Windows apps. A netbook is just a tiny little laptop. Nothing more. What is even the point? Why even buy a netbook? You still use it in exactly the same manner. The whole point of the iPad is to use a "computer" in a way that is optimized for being held. You can't even hold a netbook - you have to put it down somewhere to use it.
And where is your Windows App Store? You're on the road with an iPhone or iPad, you get a hankering for "an app for that", where do you buy it, how to you buy it, how do you install it? Where are you going to go for all that "multitude" of programs?
Windows computers with touchscreens have been available for years and years. They're selling like hotcakes... right?
Or is that failure to take off precisely because there's a proliferation of Windows apps that aren't well-designed to be used by touchscreens on a tablet? Therefore you've got a clunky, buggy device and everyone says "meh, what's the point" and nobody uses them.
The ASA also made Apple stop airing an advert which exaggerated the speed of the iPhone 3G.
I understand the value of the content stores but I can't remember the last time I paid for content.
So either you steal content, don't consume any content, or just use free content? Which one?
The problem isn't that the iPad doesn't support Flash, it's that people still use Flash. 99% of the websites that use Flash, don't need to be using Flash. The web developers are just lazy/bad.
We need a push in the right direction to weed out Flash, to truly give the consumers "The best Web Surfing Experience."
To clarify, I'm talking about the current version of flash. Unless Adobe comes out and gives us something that's actually more reliable, and doesn't hog system memory, then Apple needs to pick up and support it.
What else would I mean?
My point is, hey, that's... neat... that WM7 will be out. So, that puts them only 2 1/2 years behind. So, at this rate, adapting it for a tablet should be done by some time in 2012.
To be more specific, what you'll do is Google for apps that do what you hope for, download one, try it out, decide "no, that's no good", delete it, try another one, decide "this one is cool, but it's pretty awkward to use with only the touch screen", delete it, try another one, ...
It's not specifically the lack of an App Store that makes Windows based tablet PCs awkward, it's the lack of a source of "guaranteed to work well" touchscreen-optimized apps. When I download something for the iPhone or iPad from Apple's app store, I know that I'm download an app that was specifically designed to be used on this device.
I'm definitely going to check out the alternatives to the iPad, including HP's slate and a multitude of tablet-style netbooks. But simply slapping a touchscreen onto a computer running Windows, Linux, or for that matter OS X, is not going to guarantee a good user experience.