clasqm
Senior Member
OK, I'll bite
OK, that's a step up from "just a big iPod Touch", I suppose. But in what sense is the Galaxy Tab NOT "just a tablet PC"? How is being "just a Tablet PC" a bad thing?
True. Apple has NEVER pretended to use cutting edge hardware. Never. Try Alienware or something. Apple is about the user experience. So why bash Apple for something they have never claimed or aspired to?
Yeah. Must be something there to inspire that loyalty. Whereas the Fandroids will all move on to the next big thing the moment it shows up. Nokidows, anyone?
True. But this is a factor in Apple's favour. Apple is the only survivor of the First Great Age of Home Computing, when Commodore, Atari, Sinclair etc etc all made their own hardware AND software and made sure the two actually worked together. The youngsters around here won't remember that, of course. But cobbling hardware and software from different sources together is not necessarily the only or even the best way to do computing. Thank Microsoft for THAT illusion!
OK, no problem. And the next iDevice will give the good android hardware a run for its money, and then the Android hardware will be up-specced again. It's called leapfrogging and it all depends where in the various development cycles you stand.
When you get shot down in the streets of Tripoli, you may complain about being oppressed. Until then, you don't like it, don't buy it, and why should I be interested in your reasons why? Easy.
Theoretically, yes, but we await serious field data to prove it either way. And no, "My 2000 Whatever still runs flawlessly" does not constitute quantitative research.
Next we have three points that really are just repetitions.
Yup. They state up front that they will vet your app before letting it onto THEIR server and may decline to take it. Don't act all surprised. Do you insist that the grocery store on the corner carry every possible brand of mayonnaise?
True. Apple operates in a lot of markets and some of those markets don't like porn and/or violence. Can you spell "lawsuit"? But as I pointed out in another post, point Safari to your favourite flesh pedlar and just put an icon on the home screen. There, happy now?
Yes. It's THEIR server. They put on it what they agree with.
By the way, can I have a few MB on your computer to store my plans to overthrow the government? No? Editorial Censorship!
The Internet has been doing quite well so far with a mixture of open and closed platforms. How do you extrapolate from this into the future?
I don't really buy apps or gadgets based on potential. I buy them on what they can do for me NOW. YMMV.
So? I'd rather have apps created by programmers, thank you very much. But in any case, this is really the same point as the previous one. If the apps are any good, people will use them. Whether you coded them in Obj-C, in a RAD IDE or in binary ones and zeroes is completely irrelevant to 99.9999999% of the population.
Amazingly, the most open and experimental Android apps out there all seem to demand root access. Which Google doesn't give you, so you have to enter into the world of questionable legality. Exactly like Apple.
OK, that's a step up from "just a big iPod Touch", I suppose. But in what sense is the Galaxy Tab NOT "just a tablet PC"? How is being "just a Tablet PC" a bad thing?
True. Apple has NEVER pretended to use cutting edge hardware. Never. Try Alienware or something. Apple is about the user experience. So why bash Apple for something they have never claimed or aspired to?
Yeah. Must be something there to inspire that loyalty. Whereas the Fandroids will all move on to the next big thing the moment it shows up. Nokidows, anyone?
True. But this is a factor in Apple's favour. Apple is the only survivor of the First Great Age of Home Computing, when Commodore, Atari, Sinclair etc etc all made their own hardware AND software and made sure the two actually worked together. The youngsters around here won't remember that, of course. But cobbling hardware and software from different sources together is not necessarily the only or even the best way to do computing. Thank Microsoft for THAT illusion!
OK, no problem. And the next iDevice will give the good android hardware a run for its money, and then the Android hardware will be up-specced again. It's called leapfrogging and it all depends where in the various development cycles you stand.
When you get shot down in the streets of Tripoli, you may complain about being oppressed. Until then, you don't like it, don't buy it, and why should I be interested in your reasons why? Easy.
Theoretically, yes, but we await serious field data to prove it either way. And no, "My 2000 Whatever still runs flawlessly" does not constitute quantitative research.
Next we have three points that really are just repetitions.
Yup. They state up front that they will vet your app before letting it onto THEIR server and may decline to take it. Don't act all surprised. Do you insist that the grocery store on the corner carry every possible brand of mayonnaise?
True. Apple operates in a lot of markets and some of those markets don't like porn and/or violence. Can you spell "lawsuit"? But as I pointed out in another post, point Safari to your favourite flesh pedlar and just put an icon on the home screen. There, happy now?
Yes. It's THEIR server. They put on it what they agree with.
By the way, can I have a few MB on your computer to store my plans to overthrow the government? No? Editorial Censorship!
The Internet has been doing quite well so far with a mixture of open and closed platforms. How do you extrapolate from this into the future?
I don't really buy apps or gadgets based on potential. I buy them on what they can do for me NOW. YMMV.
So? I'd rather have apps created by programmers, thank you very much. But in any case, this is really the same point as the previous one. If the apps are any good, people will use them. Whether you coded them in Obj-C, in a RAD IDE or in binary ones and zeroes is completely irrelevant to 99.9999999% of the population.
Amazingly, the most open and experimental Android apps out there all seem to demand root access. Which Google doesn't give you, so you have to enter into the world of questionable legality. Exactly like Apple.
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