the tablet war is heating up

[Janx]

I assume the people in the apple store in the mall are there to look at the stuff, or get their tech problem looked at. The kind of people who are being somewhere to be seen, already have an iPhone with the bigger G.B.s and are probably at a place that serves martinis or something. Like New York city.

I don't pay close attention to Apple's ads, though the mac v. PC ones were funny. I assume that if they're using words like "magical" that they are talking to your mom. yes. Your mom. The one who isn't a technical mastermind. Who a decade ago, couldn't program the VCR.

is the iPad magical? Beats me. While I was giddy that my employers gave me one as a present, I wasn't wholly sure of what to use it for. I have an iPhone. I have laptops (all my computers are laptops and I store everything on a NAS). The iPad sort of sits in that middle niche of do I need to bring it if I have a laptop and an iPhone.

Generally, I leave my iPad at home when I go out. My iPhone fits in my pocket (because nobody makes a bloody belt case for a properly armored iphone4). So I'm covered for looking stuff up and wasting time.

But when I'm at home, I'll use my iPad instead of my iPhone on the couch. It is lighter, yet bigger. Couple an iPad with a keyboard, and I wonder if a kid needs a computer to do their homework.

Now one of my other friends, while he teased me about my iPad and love of iThings (despite him being a Mac user and me a PC), went absolutely apeshit over his iPad. He docks it in his car, etc.

Something else one of the F dudes implied, was that they would consider switching from iThing to Android, or vice versa. Do people really treat their platform investments that way?

I invested in ithing when the iPod Touch G1 for my wife. We been iThing ever since. We got buttloads of apps and music from the iTunes store. Switching means abandoning that investment, and the investment I've made in technology to manage iTunes over network, etc.

I could go into NerdRage about the little things Apple didn't do right on the iThing, but I suspect I'll have the comparable complaints about Android. I just don't see how folks who are on one platform can just hop to another based on some impulse.

 

[falcarrion]

I read a little different....that Samsung dropped two of the patents it was complaining about and added another four.

Samsung to Apple: We’re not copying, we’re competing - SlashGear

Banshee

It is intresting how fast the story changes on the Apple vs Samsung lawsuit.
Here is the article I had read.
Bloomberg: Samsung drops US lawsuit against Apple | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

 

[Relique du Madde]

I thought they decided to drop itbthen add it to Apple's suit as their defense.

 

[Relique du Madde]

This is a totally random note. I just noticed randomy discovered that my stock android news app is aggregating several random EnWorld threads. I have no idea when or how I subscribed to them since they don't appear on my google reader but instead only in my Android News App.

 

[falcarrion]

It is interesting how companies use these lawsuits as bargining chips. To change contracts, get access to patents, etc.. Now we only know what we can read or info we can find on the internet. The real chess game is done behind closed doors. Back room deals that we will never know of or hear about.

 

[falcarrion]

Incase anyone is interested here is the link to the Lenovo IdeaPad user guide.
IdeaPad Tablet K1 - Contents

 

[falcarrion]

Here is a website some of you might like.
Netbooknews - Netbooks, Netbook Reviews, Smartbooks and more

 

[Banshee16]

I could go into NerdRage about the little things Apple didn't do right on the iThing, but I suspect I'll have the comparable complaints about Android. I just don't see how folks who are on one platform can just hop to another based on some impulse.

It's really quite easy. Of course, everyone will have different reasons.

You could say that someone put money into one device, so they should stay with that type of device. Or, you could consider that some people might find that they're not satisfied with aspects of the idevices, and don't want to "throw good money after bad" and further cement the decision.

That's where I'm at, I know. I mean, my iPhone 4 is ok, and cool with some things, but completely unsatisfactory with others. So why invest in more devices based on technology I'm already dissatisfied with?

Different people will make their own decisions, but I'd like to think that when you're talking about buying $600 devices, most people won't be making simple spur of the moment decisions.

Banshee

 

[Banshee16]

Apparently this won't be the case with iOS 5, unfortunately.

Last summer, there were lots of posts by people who updated their iPhone 3GS to IOS 4, and found that the hardware on the 3GS was insufficient to run the new OS satisfactorily. Their devices got a fair bit slower. And when they tried to reverse the upgrade it was not easy to do at all.

That's one thing I worry about, with upgrading to IOS 5.

Banshee

 

[Fast Learner]

Last summer, there were lots of posts by people who updated their iPhone 3GS to IOS 4, and found that the hardware on the 3GS was insufficient to run the new OS satisfactorily. Their devices got a fair bit slower. And when they tried to reverse the upgrade it was not easy to do at all.

It wasn't people with the 3GS, it was people with the 3G. The 3GS runs fine with iOS 4, and the 3G runs fine now, but it took 4.1 before the problems were resolved.

The 3G has 128MB of RAM, which just wasn't enough for 4.0. The 3GS has 256MB of RAM and was fine.

With iOS 5 it's likely that the 3GS will be the one that may have some trouble, or at least be somewhat limited. The iPhone 4 has 512MB of RAM and a 1GHz processor, compared to the 256MB of RAM and 600MHz processor of the 3GS.

The iPad 1 also has only 256MB of RAM, so it's possible it may be somewhat limited by iOS 5, too, though I wouldn't count either of them out until the final code is actually released.