And besides I'm not sure "Never Stop Playing" is a very good tagline for a portable system that apparently gives you 3-5 hours of playtime.
Nice features, yes. But there's nothing there that makes me say "Oh my God, I have to upgrade."
And honestly for me, SSD is a deterrent. It's fast and quiet, yes. But what are you going to give me? 128gb? Maybe 256gb? Come on. I wouldn't be too happy with both the optical drive AND ethernet going away either.
If that list above is what the MacBook "Pro" is going to be, then why even make MacBook Air's? They would essentially be the same thing.
The majority of these people aren't buying the Kindle because it's 7", they're buying it because it's $200. Bring the iPad 2 closer to that price and you'd take a chunk out of some of their sales.
If Office is available on iPad, then I'm really not sure what the allure is of a Win 8 tablet that would make people change. I mean......it's just another tablet OS at that point, isn't? It's not REALLY "Windows on a tablet," due to the different architecture. I get that there will be connections, information that will transfer over between the 2, etc, but a lot of that stuff is already pretty easily done with an iPad or Android tablet.
But there is not a true version off MS Office available for a tablet yet, and I just wonder if MS has it in them to forego all other tablets on the market and make it exclusive to their Win 8 tablets.
Check back with me in 6 months and let me know how the Vita is doing.
Oh wait....
Apple did it? We better try it too!
But of course they'll respond and say that's completely different, they're just voicing their opinions, etc. They're no better than the people (or the company) that they criticize. If anything they're worse because they just sound like whiny bitches.
And that's the 3rd person in this thread now who has come back with ignorant internet garbage. "Fanboy." You know what I'm a "fanboy" of? People who don't use internet slang in conversation. From your first word, I couldn't care less what your opinion is.
I know I know....facts are stubborn things.
And while yes they do "scale beautifully," it still doesn't take away from the fact that you're using a bigger screen for something that was designed for a smaller screen. I can name multiple apps off the top of my head right now that frustrated me with how they looked on the Xoom: (I was running ICS)
- Pandora
- Hulu Plus
- Ebay
- Facebook
- Chase mobile
- ESPN Scorecenter
So that's 6 pretty big apps (in MY opinion) that are not optimized for the tablet whatsoever. Are they functional? Yes. Does Android allow for them to be full screen and not be pixelated? Yes. But if I'm paying for a bigger screen, I want to have apps that actually take advantage of the bigger screen rather than just stretch phone sized apps to fit it. In my limited experience with Netflix on the Xoom, the interface seemed to be a bit choppy. It's "acceptable," yes. But again.....we're getting into a bunch of things that are all a matter of opinion.
And as of right now I just have the opinion that the iPad is the better tablet experience. I also find comparing the Kindle Fire and iPad to just be silly to begin with. When you buy a Kindle Fire you get 6gb of space and that's IT. For a lot of people, that's just not going to cut it. So the Fire is exactly what it's trying to be; a device for people who just want to surf the web and read email. And therefore it is entirely "worth" $200. But for me it just makes no sense to buy one, and the rest of the Android tablets are close to the same price as an iPad. In regards to price that commercial isn't even entirely accurate. A 16gb iPad costs $500. 3 Kindle Fires cost $600. So while you could buy 2 Kindle Fires for the cost of 1 iPad, you could not buy 3. But whatever.