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CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: patrickl on April 22, 2010, 05:43:53 am ---So sure they both have their specific applications, but you have to be very gadget oriented and flush with cash to warrant purchasing both.
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I definitely agree with that ... if Mrs Cheffo didn't need the netbook, I wouldn't be considering a tablet purchase.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: patrickl on April 22, 2010, 05:43:53 am ---
Yet there are more things a netbook can do that a tablet cannot.
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I think this actually illustrates a more subtle part of Apple's strategy, but a part that I think is instrumental in its success. A netbook is just a PC. It can do more or less whatever a PC can do, just slower, on a smaller screen and with inferior input hardware (compared to a desktop or full-sized laptop).
Conversely, Apple made its tablet the antithesis of it's desktop/laptop line. They based it on their phone. What this allows it to do is work perfectly. Nothing barely runs on the iPad. Nothing will run, but at an unacceptably choppy framerate. If it works for the iPad it actually works exactly as intended. And it works fast. The device is super responsive. You click something and it just opens instantly.
So what initially seems like a score for netbooks (in the netbook v. iPad battle), and certainly is a score in many ways, also works against them. Netbooks sort of give you the opportunity to be underwhelmed and frustrated when a program isn't working the way it should -- the way you expect the program to work. You understand that t's because you're on a slow netbook, but that doesn't make the experience less frustrating. By never purporting to do any of that stuff, Apple's got a better psychology going for it. You don't resent your Microwave for being unable to toast bread. But if you have a Microwave/Toaster Oven combo, but it toasts bread very unevenly and only on one side, it's frustrating and obnoxious. You end up resenting the entire device a little because now you have to have a separate toaster, even though it is actually a perfectly good microwave and if you had a normal microwave you'd still have to have a separate toaster.
And so on . . . don't ask me where all that came from. ;D
patrickl:
While all that is true in theory. It doesn't really translate to reality. There are specific functions that you want to perform like "browse the web", "watch movies" or "read e-books". If this is done by an app that starts in 1 second or 2 seconds doesn't really matter.
Besides, if you want to run downscaled (fast starting) software on your netbook you can do that too.
You could also get an Android netbook. That's also a "PDA OS" for use on low tech hardware with dumbed down standard software.
shmokes:
It's opposite. What you just said is the "true in theory" stuff. You're all about, "you could do this, you can do this . . ." On the iPad we're talking about what you actually do.
Look, Patrick, have you ever heard of the Apple TV? How many people do you know who have one? Exactly. Apple doesn't just get a pass, particularly when entering a new market. You can rationalize it away all you want, but it's not just the Apple cult mentality at work here. The iPad is simply a better product than any previous tablet. That doesn't mean that it can do more, or is more powerful. It means that it works for people in a way that people want a device like that to work for them.
Level42:
Patrick starts to sound like a broken record-tic-broken record-tic-broken record.
You can keep repeating all your meager arguments as much as you want, the iPad will be one big fat hit, weather you like it or not. Shmokes says like it is. It's about the total concept.
Oh, and if you would have actually taken a second to surf to Apple's website you'd learn that you can get a nice case that doubles as a stand for watching movies etc. because you keep mentioning the fact that keeping it in your hands isn't very comfortable.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/IPAD_CASE?mco=MTc0MjU1OTM
Or you can get the keyboard dock if you want a real keyboard.
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