Yeah, like all of those people that Apple have in their videos saying how much they love whatever products are promotong are not actors.
If Apple were to claim real-world testimonials then I would gladly criticize them for it. But Samsung prefaced this whole thing like it was real-world experiences and opinions from real people. Media is
reporting that they even used the actor's real names but gave them fake career information. They even produced a mock-up magazine article that when paused contains the text of an actual Time Magazine content from last year that was a negative review of the original Galaxy Tab (read
this).
Both are poor pictures, especially the one on the left, but the Samsung does look thicker. If that really is the latest revision of the Galaxy, Samsung made a false claim.
The media is
reporting that the Galaxy Tab
Prototypes are actually thicker than the iPad 2.
Get your head out of the sand. Most people are going for Android smartphones.....
Apple certainly made a poor move here with carrier exclusivity which let Android get a foothold on Verizon which served as a proving ground from which it has branched out over the world. But people should realize that the "smart phone market share" for Android is very misrepresented. Those numbers that Google boasts of includes branches of the Android source tree that were forked in China, have replaced Google search engine and services with local services, and sold to millions and millions of people as cheap low-end phones. The "real" Android phones, like those from HTC, Motorola, Samsung, and LG are likely still behind the iPhone in total market share -- it is "hardly" a blow-out-of-the-water success that you make it out to be. What is a blow-out-of-the-water success is the "iPad" and uhhhh... the "iPad 2".
And the smartphone market is no indication of the tablet market unless you think that Android phones will have a really powerful halo effect.
BTW... A friend of mine at church got an Android tablet last year and it has been nothing but disappointment. He can't even give it away to his teenage kids. He felt he was duped by the salesperson into thinking it would do what an iPad does. He bought it because he owns an HTC EVO 4G mobile phone and thought having the same OS would be good. He likes his EVO, hates his ePad.
Xoom is already stopping production
The tab looks great i think, however i wouldnt say a company is finding a way to beat the ipad when they are pricing it so low that they loose money
I believe that this rumor has not been verified and that Motorola is denying that this is the case. One thing I MUST say for Motorola -- that while the Xoom is a bit "unfinished", it is a working production device. Samsung must be very envious that their first Honeycomb tablet is going to wait till at least June to ship. Xoom is not vaporware, but those new Galaxy Tab models are.
"early adopters and curiosity seekers"
That's a good one.
I agree -- If iPad represented the launch of a new game console (which it far exceeded any game console launch in the first nine months), nobody would call those people "early adopters" and "curiosity seekers". The reason that some Android fans believe that tablets are fad for curiosity seekers is that they may be right. They believe that their is a "tablet" category of product that people have a demand for. The truth is though that the only useful tablets out there right now are the iPad and iPad 2. The demand is for the iPad not for tablets. iPad 2 launch will far exceed iPad and Apple will sell more in one month than the Android tablets do all year. If you are looking at tablets collectively and trying to fit iPad into that category of other not-ready-for-primtetime devices and your only experience is with those Android tablets, then your reaction may very well be "this thing is not very useful yet" -- and you would be right -- those Android tablets ARE for early adopters and curiosity seekers.
Even the Motorola Xoom which is functional and does a good job is like a beta product. My brother-in-law was one of the first people in my city to own one. When I asked him about what new apps he had gotten the other day his response was "apps are kinda slow coming for Honeycomb -- I just barely got a version of Words with Friends that works". My brother-in-law is an early adopter and sold on the Android ecosystem. However, these devices are not ready for the masses because beyond web browsing maps, music and basic functions, they don't provide the killer app to appeals to each individual that makes them worth it. I think Android will eventually catch up in many regards, but I think Apple will continue to innovate. The two will converge in some areas and diverge in others -- it will be good for the consumer. For me, Android has always felt like an unfinished project -- I imagine their tablets will feel the same for me.
