That's because those not using iPads are too embarrassed to let them be seen in public.
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That's because those not using iPads are too embarrassed to let them be seen in public.
I know, right? I mean, are they really gonna measure tablet sales via Apple vs. every other manufacturer combined? It's ridiculous. Let them measure Samsung to Apple and let's see how they stack up?
I feel the same with android, I think it's a huge false equivalency to measure android phones to iPhones because of the ability for multiple manufacturers to use android (for free) and then be counted against a single manufacturer. No one could compete with that!
Apple sells more iPads each year, and people read articles like this and conclude they're doing something wrong. It seems to me that this is the only thing that matters (increasing sales yoy, while maintaining a healthy profit on each unit sold). Whatever else is happening in the market is a distraction from the success of Apple and their iPad.
No doubt, but the person I replied to ended their comment with this:
Certainly sharing files between apps would be great, but it does not make the iPad useless for anything but net surfing or fun. iPad is the most productive tablet out there because it has great apps that are optimized for touch input. If that forum poster owned an iPad and could not find any use but net surfing or fun then he/she is using it wrong or does not know how to use the App Store.
Since they are not on the internet in any volume, one wonders how soon the landfills and recycling centers will fill up with them.
They make it sound as if these things are mutually exclusive.
Samsung dominates in market share AND is highly profitable. They are in a much stronger position, with more growth perspective in emerging markets and independent from a specific part of the market. Apple on the other hand is very dependent on the high-end. And Apple's profits are shrinking and despite a strongly growing global market for touch devices their revenue remains flat. I'd say they need to think about changing their strategy.
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for example
- app programmers
- third party accessory makers
- car manufacturers
- businesses who need to choose a company-wide platform
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The iPod still IS the #1 MP3 player, at least in the US and in many European countries. It's actually a good example how you can dominate the market with a premium product. They did this by constantly innovating, pushing the edge in terms of usability, battery life and size. And of course by releasing more affordable iPod variations.
This is what Steve Jobs envisioned when he talked about the 'post-PC' era and compared tablets to cars and desktops to trucks. Unfortunately a lot of MacRumors members took this to mean that Apple was about to kill the Mac, and stubbornly predicted this for some years. I see far less of those comments now though, so maybe more people are finally catching on.
Apples had a good run, nothing lasts forever. There's nothing to be concerned with, Apple will do just fine with a smaller market share. There will always be those who'll pay the premium for Apples logo. It's the ebb and flow of business.
Yea yea and iOS 7 makes iOS devices with A5 chip and earlier feels barely usable.
And original iPad Mini is just one year old
I think multiple accounts will come to iOS eventually
it's just that sometimes Apple is incredibly slow at implementing new stuff.
Such as why not let us do a free text comment next to each Favorite Server in the Finder "Connect to Server window in OS X? Something I've asked for years ago that I think could be really useful for many people using OS X at work.
it's just that sometimes Apple is incredibly slow at implementing new stuff.
Such as why not let us do a free text comment next to each Favorite Server in the Finder "Connect to Server window in OS X? Something I've asked for years ago that I think could be really useful for many people using OS X at work.
Well Apple make the same mistake with the desktop market, and the same mistake with the mobilephone market, will they make the same mistake with the tablet market ?
All Apple really has to do is Licence iOS so the market could be flooded by iOS devices and dominate, but they won't
Never! Words have meaning. And a "Tablet PC" is a failed form factor from 2002.
One might feel the need to broaden the definition of PC, to also include all kinds of mobile computers (MC)?, smartphones and tablets, that are also used and possessed by individuals. But than PC would have two meanings, a broader and a narrower one. We would need context information to know which one it is. So we better keep PC to its traditional meaning of desktops and laptops only.
For naming a category that includes desktops and laptops as well as tablets, but not smartphones, Horace Dediu at Asymco has coined the term "large-screen devices". And that's it. It's not the "total PC market", its something that includes personal computers and mobile computers of an certain arbitrary screen size, big enough to do a little more work than possible with phone apps.
I don't know what's so hard with using words for what they mean.
The Nexus 7 is adequate. I bought one, and it's ok, it does the job, but I somewhat wish I had an iPad mini, but then remember the display issues and think that I'll be ok waiting until next year. (Yes, I bought a retina iPad mini and returned it because it was ghosting.)
Please redefine "mistake", so that it includes, becoming the most profitable and valuable non-oil company in history of global economics.
Yes, they have to devalue their biggest asset by making it a commodity. That would than be considered as being the opposite of the new meaning of "making a mistake".
Yes, I felt the same way when it first came out, I didn't really get it. After a while I realized, it wasn't made for me. It's made for people who do email, web, watch movies, listen to music, and games.
They don't want to do spreadsheets with it, they typically don't want to write long winded articles on it, they don't want to write code with it.
They don't wanna deal with configuration, they don't wanna deal with virus scanners, they don't wanna deal with activation, they don't wanna deal with spyware and malware. All the stuff we have to tolerate because we use a computer.
That's who the iPad is for, and that's a pretty big demographic.
There are no files or folders in iOS. A folder now means grouping some apps in springboard. And files, they do no longer exist. We now have direct manipulation of items without knowledge of storage locations. Better get used to the (not so) new computing model introduced in 2007.
That's just nonsense. Have you tried it? Of course not. iOS 7 runs perfectly fine on an iPhone 4S, that was released two years ago.
It's ridiculous to compare that to the lousy Android update situation. If you have an older Android phone you are definitely stuck on your old OS (unless of course you want to hack it but that's not a viable solution for the standard user)
And to a non shareholder that is important because...........?
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Why does that matter to anyone except stockholders?
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You mean like how the original iPad and iPad 2 feel now?
I have iPhone 4S in my hand. In fact I'm typing this reply on one.
It's sluggish at times. Newer games running slow on it. Mutlitasking is slow and crash sometimes thanks to 512MB of RAM
Animation is stuttering too within Siri, Notification/Control Center. Oh and battery life decreased too.
Sure older hardware can have the newest iOS for 3 or even 4 years but with crippled features here and there.
It's only a matter of time.
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App developers. The Mac famously lost out because developers jumped ship to Windows as it began to dominate the PC market and it took a long time and near bankruptcy in the 90's before Apple came back. Let's hope history doesn't repeat itself and Apple are able to hang on to all those great app's.
Funny how the only tablet in which you are interested in, isn't a real tablet, but a hybrid device or Tablet PC as they used to be called.
Just admit that you are not interested in a tablet at all. What you want is a PC with a touch screen. Windows 8 exists to give you just what you have asked for. But be careful. Do not think it will be any "easier to manipulate things via touch". It will be much harder, because touch is imprecise compared to already pixel-accurate mouse pointers. Touch is good for scrolling and selecting things, but not manipulating them. Hence the notion of iPad being a consumption device. It's not the missing filesystem access or the missing power of ARM architecture, it's the limitations of touch input in general, that makes a tablet "less" of a computer.
You do want "Everything" that OS X offers? Than buy a Mac! It's really not that hard.
Lots of deniers and "head in the sanders" in here. There are quality "cheap" android tablets comin out now. $129-$199 non-google tablets that are getting software support from the manufacturers(eg OS upgrades). It's not all $500 and garbage anymore. It's this new wave that is going to kick apple where it counts.
Funny how the only tablet in which you are interested in, isn't a real tablet, but a hybrid device or Tablet PC as they used to be called.
Just admit that you are not interested in a tablet at all. What you want is a PC with a touch screen. Windows 8 exists to give you just what you have asked for. But be careful. Do not think it will be any "easier to manipulate things via touch". It will be much harder, because touch is imprecise compared to already pixel-accurate mouse pointers. Touch is good for scrolling and selecting things, but not manipulating them. Hence the notion of iPad being a consumption device. It's not the missing filesystem access or the missing power of ARM architecture, it's the limitations of touch input in general, that makes a tablet "less" of a computer.
You do want "Everything" that OS X offers? Than buy a Mac! It's really not that hard.
I'm actually not interested in touch screen PCs. But I do think that iOS and Android could be made much more usable without compromising the ease-of-use. Things could be done to bring the functionality of a full desktop-OS to a touch platform, but nobody has done it right.
I have a Mac.