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Question of the Day: What is your preferred computer operating system?
Apple has lost it's innovation
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Elimentals
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Well if you look at how many other android devices its competing against, it defiantly not failing.
It is a niche product after all, I for one hate it.
sand_man
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None with a 5.3" screen...
EDIT: Possibly a topic for a new thread but what would be the sweet spot in terms of smartphone size? I'm saying 4-4.3"...
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d0b33
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One thing I've noticed about Apple since Jobs took a back seat due to illness... things started getting sloppy, Lion for example has jagged edges on some windows and not perfectly rounded as before, the same with the iPad and iPhone, video player controls don't have smooth edges always... Now this could simply be due to the graphics being scalable but I doubt it... There is now no need to be perfect without Jobs.
Elimentals
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100% Agreed
ajules
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The Desire HD is 4.3" which to me is perfect.
clasqm
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I guess you've never dealt with a traditional publisher, publishing paper books. By the time all the middle men have been paid off and the unsold stock has been remaindered (ie shredded) you consider yourself lucky if you (the author) get 10% of what the book costs lying on the shelves of the CNA. 70% is an INCREDIBLY good deal.
Elimentals
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Considering that Apple wants that 30% from the publiser, means that they either have to increase the price or cut it from the 10% the author gets. so pick one.
I understand that Apple say you dont need a publisher to sell via iTunes but in doing so means you can not sell print, as all publishers request for primary rights aka Copyright transfer in order to handel the work.
I am not saying anoyone is guilty of being a shark, just with the curent contract setup needs a rewrite, maybe both for Apple and the publishers.
clasqm
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It's called the new "iPad" not the "New iPad". Over the next few months the PR machine will gradually drop the "new" part and just refer to it as the iPad. Accessory makers will start referring to it as the iPad (third generation). Then, when they bring out a new one, that will be the new iPad.
Exactly like they have been doing with iMacs, Macbooks and Minis for the last decade. People manage just fine. Expect the iPhone to get the same treatment next.
clasqm
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True. Though why any author would still make print the priority is beyond me. Dead-tree publishing is in a downward spiral. Oh, it will linger on, just like monks were making hand-illuminated manuscripts right up to the early 1800's. But digital books are already outselling hardbacks and paperbacks combined on Amazon. Indie authors are finding that you can make a decent living selling thousands of $0.99 e-books via Smashwords. Publishers are like dinosaurs, staring at this big red-hot rock coming down from the sky ...
[Mandatory Apple-related content] So, how about them retina displays?[/Mandatory Apple-related content]
Digital distribution does have the possibility of removing the current gatekeepers who decide to only promote a small subset of creative output. But the danger is that we'll still have corporate censors in the shape of Apple and Amazon (amongst others).
Considering the massive costs and logistics involved in physical books they should not need to increase the price or give authors less to still get the same our for themselves.
cerebus
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Lol give it a rest hey...
Samsung admits failing
Samsung knows it, everyone else knows it... there is NO competition for the iPad at the moment. I don't like it, but it's hard to colour the facts in any way different, except by posting more comparison charts that nobody gives a crap about.
Dolby
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LOL!
cerebus
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Facts are facts. Highest resolution,fastest processor, full band lte.... ipad3 takes applefrom having a daunting lead in tablets to being pretty well unbeatable at least this generation. If you don't want to believe me I'll just let the sales numbers have the last word. Right now any remotely comparably specced android tab is $100 more expensive and offers less.
By the way I'm typing this on a kindle fire... what a horrible experience. If this is the state of ipad competition it's worse than I hoped
Kindle Fire shouldn't even be included in tablet figures, it is really a different device category.
And one should compare sales figures, not shipped. We all know what it means if RIM for instance shipped 2mil tablets - 1.1m to retailers...and eventually 900,000 back to RIM.
And one should compare sales figures, not shipped. We all know what it means if RIM for instance shipped 2mil tablets - 1.1m to retailers...and eventually 900,000 back to RIM.
cerebus
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More than serious. Apple is so far ahead of the curve in the tablet market it's actually worrying.. Worrying because tablets appear to be becoming the future of casual mainstram computing, and if nobody can at least credibly threaten apple's dominance it means a monopolistic future. I'm hoping for Microsoft to do something in that space but theyve got their work cut out.
As for the kindle not being a real tablet or whatever, if you take its sales numbers out of the picture it makes ipad's dominance appear even more overwhelming. Samsung, dell, hp, Lenovo, Motorola, rim and about 500 Oem Chinese companies are then carving up a 30%~ market share amongst themselves..thumb sucked but it's probably close enough. That is what you call NO competition.
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I wouldn't really call it so far ahead of the curve?
I mean, I recommend that when people buy an iPad, they buy a portable 3G router/mifi and a laptop at the same time. The iPad is dumb, remember - and can't really be used alone. It requires a PC and real connection for anything. Want to load files? iTunes! Delete files? iTunes! Update? iTunes.
In theory all the other makers need to do is create something about the limits and something that be used on the road. A REAL 3G/LTE connection and not this limited jumk that iPad claims. A REAL Bluetooth that can actually transfer.
I tried sending a mail the other day and - wow - what a horrible, horrible experience! I had to Google to find out how to actually send a mail with attachments, but it wasn't only me that had the issue https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2507474?start=0&tstart=0
EDIT : Take a read through those comments ... many of them are 100% spot on. Many of the owners wish to return the device because of it's restrictions, the need for a PC anyway and the illogical means of sending mails that we've been used to for 20 years
I mean, I recommend that when people buy an iPad, they buy a portable 3G router/mifi and a laptop at the same time. The iPad is dumb, remember - and can't really be used alone. It requires a PC and real connection for anything. Want to load files? iTunes! Delete files? iTunes! Update? iTunes.
In theory all the other makers need to do is create something about the limits and something that be used on the road. A REAL 3G/LTE connection and not this limited jumk that iPad claims. A REAL Bluetooth that can actually transfer.
I tried sending a mail the other day and - wow - what a horrible, horrible experience! I had to Google to find out how to actually send a mail with attachments, but it wasn't only me that had the issue https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2507474?start=0&tstart=0
EDIT : Take a read through those comments ... many of them are 100% spot on. Many of the owners wish to return the device because of it's restrictions, the need for a PC anyway and the illogical means of sending mails that we've been used to for 20 years
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Then why do you want to buy one?
After all it still going to have all the same "failings" you condem the ipad2 for having.Clasqm ... And likewise to confuse the rest of you, I consider buying it when it lands now that I've heard the details
The main pull being the screen