Playbook vs iPad

[Bernard SG]

So many *boring* threads about that phony video...
Just remember, RIM: the benchmark is at 4m units in the first quarter after launch .

 

[samab]

So it looks like the internet is the only thing benifiting from the dual core. The UI still looks choppy as hell. All the second video showed was scrolling through apps and backgrounded apps and it still wasn't as smooth as the iPad. The first video it seemed that the BBC video they were watching didn't stop or pause when they went to switch tasks. I don't see that as a good thing. If I'm switching to a new task i would want my streaming video to pause until i finished.

You will probably have an option to pause video in the final release version. This is demo-ware to show their multi-tasking.

The second video is pretty smooth.

 

[kevingaffney]

As with previous launches of iphone wannabes, wait until the Rim thing is available, then compare it with whatever is the latest gen iPad. You will probably find as with the phones, Apple will still rule the roost and by a considerable distance

 

[Blakjack]

The interface is JUST PLAIN UGLY!! And it's choppy. I assume the choppiness will get better but can't imagine it getting too much better. But again, that's one ugly FAKE webOS interface.

The device itself looks like one of those cheap electronic picture frames you get from the electronics section at ROSS and TJMaxx.

 

[samab]

But again, that's one ugly FAKE webOS interface.

Beauty is only skin deep --- webOS is based on linux, a server OS kernel which Linus himself has no interest in optimizing for the embedded devices.

 

[samab]

As with previous launches of iphone wannabes, wait until the Rim thing is available, then compare it with whatever is the latest gen iPad. You will probably find as with the phones, Apple will still rule the roost and by a considerable distance

As with the iphones vs android, it doesn't necessarily translate to market share.

 

[unixfool]

Beauty is only skin deep --- webOS is based on linux, a server OS kernel which Linus himself has no interest in optimizing for the embedded devices.

Dunno what a kernel has to do with the device's looks. Sure, you can't have Linux without the kernel (or the reverse), but the kernel is as internal as it gets...it has nothing to do with a GUI.

 

[samab]

Dunno what a kernel has to do with the device's looks. Sure, you can't have Linux without the kernel (or the reverse), but the kernel is as internal as it gets...it has nothing to do with a GUI.

I was commenting on a response talking about how he hated the RIM Playbook UI. That's just a personal preference.

 

[Amazing Iceman]

It's a classic error. I have my story of a friend who bought the original iMac on my recommendation and loved it. A few years later she told me she bought a new PC because "it was so much faster than my iMac." I pointed out that all computers improved over that three-year period and a current-vintage iMac would also be faster than her 3-year-old iMac. She looked confused.

She could have purchased a newer iMac instead!
Oh well, there's still a lot of people who think all computers are the same, and that the case is called "the Hard Drive".
And when they see an iMac, they think "The iMac doesn't have a Hard Drive! The PC does and it makes it faster, so I'm buying a PC."