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Decent 10" Android tablet for around $300? Is it possible?
kalars123:
--- Quote from: Donkbaca on July 19, 2011, 06:00:26 pm ---I am not saying that the android can't compete with the Ipad, I am just saying that these are real problems and advantages that the ipad has RIGHT NOW, and in order for android to be succesful, it has to be BETTER than apple at all of these things, or offer up something compelling that consumers would be willing to pay for that Apple doesn't because apple has a huge head start and all things being equal I think most consumers would choose the Apple product.
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See and that's where your "sorta" wrong I and I would guess several hundreds of millions of other people will purchase anything else as long as it's NOT an apple product. I have hated apple and Steve Jobs pretty much since the beginning, Apple is like the Sony of the PC world, they want to tell you want you can and can't do with the hardware you bought. I'm sure there aren't many people that remember this but there was a time when if you wanted to do something simple like upgrade your ram on your mac, you HAD to buy it from apple and they made sure they didn't give you a reach around either. It was a closed and overpriced PoS system and frankly it still is. Apple/Steve Jobs will find any way to screw you out of your money while at the same time giving you no choice's on what you can do with the product you purchased except for the ones THEY are willing to give you. I never have and never will buy an Apple product, and should I ever have the opportunity to meet Steve Jobs I will punch him square in his face.
--- Quote from: Donkbaca on July 19, 2011, 06:00:26 pm ---The whole laissez faire, open source, no restirctions thing is just something that consumers really, really could care less about.
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And this?, this you are COMPLETELY wrong on I and everyone I personally know bought Android devices for this very reason, several of those people Iphone converts, people want choices period, and if a device or product gives me a choice of what I can and can not do with it, I will take it any time even if it's significantly inferior to the "cool" product at the time.
Donkbaca:
--- Quote ---A couple of taps, then connect your phone to your computer, fire up itunes, sync phone with itunes, and you are done. It's baffling to me how some apps require you to connect to itunes to download and install.
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I don't know of a single app that needs to do that :dunno
--- Quote ---See and that's where your "sorta" wrong I and I would guess several other million people will purchase anything else as long as it's NOT an apple product.
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I realize that, how is that Zune working out for you?
Aside from that you are right. Steve Jobs is a total control freak regarding his hardware. His philosophy is that there is one, optimal way to do things, so his main goal is perfection in design. Along with philosophy is the idea that there is one way to do things. That's why he won't support flash, HTML is better. He doesn't see why he should support flash if HTML 5 is better. That being said, you know that you are in the minority right? Most people never mess with their hardware, heck a good chunk of people pay the Geek Squad folks over at best buy to come over and install RAM in their PCs.....
newmanfamilyvlogs:
I handle around 160 cell lines at work with Verizon as a carrier. Basically pretty consumer-like set up on them: pop/imap for email, occasional VPN access. No enterprise servers or automatic type provisioning.. As far as initial setup goes, in my experience setting up an android device is much simpler than an iphone. The iphone interface does seem to be much more simple for people to grasp, but it's very frustrating that you have to set up a credit card on every account, even if you only want/need free apps. I think across some 50-60 android/iphone devices I've deployed in the last year or two, we've purchased perhaps 9 apps between all them, everything else has been free.
But between both phones, where is the love for physical keyboards? Swype is neat, autocorrect is 70% wonderful, but really, why are there only a handful of devices with keyboards?
kalars123:
--- Quote from: Donkbaca on July 19, 2011, 08:01:50 pm ---I realize that, how is that Zune working out for you?
Aside from that you are right. Steve Jobs is a total control freak regarding his hardware. His philosophy is that there is one, optimal way to do things, so his main goal is perfection in design. Along with philosophy is the idea that there is one way to do things. That's why he won't support flash, HTML is better. He doesn't see why he should support flash if HTML 5 is better. That being said, you know that you are in the minority right? Most people never mess with their hardware, heck a good chunk of people pay the Geek Squad folks over at best buy to come over and install RAM in their PCs.....
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Don't know ever had a Zune, when that came out I had a Windows mobile phone that already did MP3's no need to purchase something else when I have something that already does it.
I know I'm in the minority now 10 years ago that wasn't the case, but it is now, and it just irks the living hell out of me how people can so easily be turned into sheep. I worked in Best Buy services "black shirts" before it became the Geek Squad, if someone came in with some simple easy problem i just told them how to fix it on their own and sent them home without charging them "got fired for it eventually". I just couldn't in good conscious charge someone $25 to JUST look at their computer and them a min 1hr at $50 "in other words even if it took us 5mins we told the customer it took at least an hour" for something they could do at home with a couple clicks.
AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: Donkbaca on July 19, 2011, 08:01:50 pm ---
--- Quote ---A couple of taps, then connect your phone to your computer, fire up itunes, sync phone with itunes, and you are done. It's baffling to me how some apps require you to connect to itunes to download and install.
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I don't know of a single app that needs to do that :dunno
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The guy next to me at work was occasionally complaining about this for his iphone 4. He finally jail-broke his phone to avoid the annoyance.
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