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ipad anyone?
RayB:
Wow. The ranters here obviously didn't take the time to read over the specs and the full feature presentation, and/or have zero experience using an iphone or ipod touch. You'd see you're wrong on almost every count except this one: Its a little too big.
I do a lot of email and web surfing with my ipod touch. It's great to be watching tv or reading and then not have to go up to my office, turn on the PC to check email. Just pick up the Touch and away I go. Web surfing? THe touch (iphone) screen is too small. So I've been pining for a bigger device I could use casually for web/email/apps, and this is what they delivered.
$499 is perfectly reasonable, seeing as how a crappy little netbook is about $299. No one will force you to opt for the 3G model. No one will force you to opt for the data plan (completely unecessary if you use Wifi only, just like we iPod touch users are limited to). etc, etc...
Lack of Flash is a valid complaint, but there's a LONG history behind that, and its primarily based on greed and legal hurdles. (Apple wants to sell music and media and apps. Flash would open the world to free media, music, games, etc).
PS: forgot to mention: an Amazon kindle is $299 and crappy in comparison
Vanguard:
I can see it making a nice digital picture frame when not in use. Just sit it on a stand and plug it in. It makes for a nice portable TV too. The 3G version can recieve live cable TV.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: RayB on January 27, 2010, 03:45:16 pm ---
Lack of Flash is a valid complaint . . .
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Oh yeah, that optional 3G thing is huge, IMO. That would have been a deal breaker for me. I don't want to carry a tablet around with me everywhere I go. If I got this thing it would sit at home, and when I took it with me it would be for reading, not surfing the internet (not because surfing the internet wouldn't be cool, but because it wouldn't be an extra $30/mo cool). There's just absolutely no way I would even consider this thing if it came with a monthly data plan I had to pay for.
As for Flash, at least it won't be an issue for too much longer thanks to HTML 5, which the iPhone's browser supports. That said, it is totally inexcusable that it doesn't support Flash.
shmokes:
It's market differentiation. Ya gotta have your high-end and low end and the two need to be substantially different. It's why my $19k Honda Civic doesn't have a 30 cent light in the glove box. The Accord has a lighted glove box. If the Civic has too many luxuries, who's gonna buy an Accord? Obviously, given the option, I'd have rather paid $19,000.30 and had the light. I don't have that option. If I want the light I have to pay thousands more.
Not exactly the apples to apples, but more or less the same principle.
Also, it's been years since I had a marketing class and I've never worked in the field, so I don't know if market differentiation is the correct term. :)
shmokes:
BTW, why no webcam? That seems insane to me. It would be great to lounge around on the couch using Skype or iChat with a device like this.
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