No Kevin Butler = No Sale.
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.
I have to say there's not one thing in that list that would make me feel like I need to sell my 2011 15" MacBook Pro to get the new version.
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.
That's no phone, it's a space station.
Keep the iPad 2 in production, and drop the price at least $100 across the board. "Problem" solved.
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.
I really don't know how meaningful of a comparison it is to even say that Android is "seriously gaining momentum" when iOS is actively on like 2 phones where as Android is on what. 20? More? I mean if Android is of any quality at all (and it is) then their OS SHOULD have serious market penetration in comparisons to iOS considering how many more options there are to buy it.
You're too picky?
There is but 1 killer "app" for Windows tablets: Office. I just wonder if MS is willing to take the gamble of ONLY releasing the tablet version of Office for their Win 8 tablets, or if the possibility of all that iPad money is just too much for them to pass up and they'll release Office for iPad sometime this year. I don't mention Android because I just don't see them looking at that market as being "worth" it to them in regards to offering it for yet another platform. And in some weird way, I think MS and Apple co-exist well together. They would both enjoy seeing Android go away.
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.
Like I said. Check back with me in 6 months.
Yeah, and compare that to how the DS did. Not to mention that Sony just isn't *quite* Nintendo in the handheld market in terms of market viability.
Check back with me in 6 months and let me know how the Vita is doing.
It looks like a great gaming device.....but there just aren't enough people at this point to want a portable device that ONLY does games well. I just don't see this thing doing too well.
ProTip: Aim for the shoulders.
The game is very CPU dependent, period. I've run it totally fine for years now but yes....you need a solid CPU.
People still read Gizmodo?
Oh wait....
Google's business model (beyond their search engine obviously) appears to be:
Apple did it? We better try it too!
They do it because they have a desire inside to be the same thing that they rail against. They hate Apple "fanboys," yet they're the same thing on the opposite side of the spectrum. If they think the Apple lovers should just shut up because they're so crazy for the products, then shouldn't they shut up because they're so adamantly against them?
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.
Oh hey look, another one! "Troll." You guys are 100% incapable of conversation, in fact you don't even want it. You just want to try and make people "lol" on message boards. You're not to be taken seriously. At all.
There are no attacks against iPad users in these comments? That's hilarious. And I'm the fanboy? I've 100% acknowledged that I OWNED a Xoom, and it wasn't for me. So I switched.
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.
You actually don't get 3, you get 2. A 16gb iPad costs $500. The Kindle Fire is $200. So therefore 3 Kindle Fire's would be $600 vs. 1 iPad at $500.
I know I know....facts are stubborn things.
Well one of the problems with your argument is that in the first sentence you acknowledge something that the iPad is legitimately better at, gaming. And for me, gaming is important. I enjoy playing games on the iPad and Android just doesn't have the same choices. It's getting better, yes. But the iPad gets everything, and it always will.
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.
I'm not looking for people to AGREE with me jackwagon, I'm looking for people to acknowledge that just because THEY think something is "overpriced," "unnecessary," etc doesn't mean that is the truth. Because it's not. I'm not wasting my breath on someone like you though, because just like the other guy you're not interested in conversation. You just want to be a wise-ass behind a keyboard. Have fun.
