falcarrion
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Nice price for a good looking unit. Lets hope it works just as good.
the tablet war is heating up
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Nice price for a good looking unit. Lets hope it works just as good.
John Crichton
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You don't use the tabs in Goodreader? No need for two readers!
I would hope that the guys who own the PDF format have the best, most capable PDF reader. Its not like there weren't other readers around to set the bar.
If they fail that, they are morons.
Fast Learner
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Perhaps, but they make money by giving away their simple PDF app and charging for their full-featured PDF app. That's why Reader on PCs is so limited, and why Reader on the iPad is also very limited.
It's also true that Adobe has blinders about what PDF is supposed to do vs. what people are doing with it.
On the PC side, the # of people buying Adobe Professional is much smaller than the number using Adobe Reader. I don't think it's a "first taste is free" strategy so much as most people need to read PDFs and not create them.
On your second point, your probably right. Some companies are really stupid as to how their product should really work.
Fast Learner
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No indeed, I didn't mean it as a "first taste is free" strategy. Rather, it's about something that's a solid file format that, due to Reader being free and very broadly distributed, can be read by anyone, where it will look (very nearly) identical regardless of device. Once you have that in place then people who want to create such files will begin clamoring for the ability to do so, which is precisely what happened.
Now there are many dozens, even hundreds of programs that can natively create PDFs, and dozens of programs that enable all of the others to print to PDF. Viewing PDFs without Reader is now built into most browsers, and the PDF format has become a core part of the Mac OS.
Adobe does well selling Acrobat Pro nonetheless because it's still the most powerful PDF creation and editing tool, and because they're the only ones who actually have sufficient authority to extend the PDF format (which they've done many times), with only their own Pro tool capable of working with the extensions for many months or sometimes even years.
In conclusion, it's wise of them to create a free Reader app for the iPad (despite the fact that the built-in Safari browser, the built-in iBooks app, and any 3rd party app that wants to can perfectly display PDFs) so they can say they have a one on every platform; it simply need not be the best, by any means.
falcarrion
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You don't use the tabs in Goodreader? No need for two readers!
I do use the tabs, but with IOS5 switching between apps is faster. Four or five finger swipe to the left or your rightand your in a different app.
I think overall, the Fire will make Android, period, a much bigger threat on tablets.
If Apple sold 15 million iPads this year, and there were 6 million Android tablets sold in that time.........but analysts are predicting 5 million Fires sold by the end of this year, based on the current rate of purchasing, that will make the delta more like 11 million vs. 15 million....not nearly so significant.
The Fire runs Android apps, so even though it uses a different version of Android, it'll use the same apps, and hence support the development of apps for the platform.
Banshee
Well, Adobe apps on iOS is not news in and of itself. There are three Adobe Phtooshop apps available (one's a neat little finger-painting app). It's Flash that's ever been the major sticking point.
Never heard of Kobo, but the tablet itself looks fine for $200. It's a bit underpowered, but you gotta give up something for that price with an SD card reader. I'd suggest waiting for the reviews. With the Kindle Fire, OTOH, waiting may not be an option, at least not in the short term. I would not be surprised for them to sell out quickly.
Never heard of Kobo, but the tablet itself looks fine for $200. It's a bit underpowered, but you gotta give up something for that price with an SD card reader. I'd suggest waiting for the reviews. With the Kindle Fire, OTOH, waiting may not be an option, at least not in the short term. I would not be surprised for them to sell out quickly.
Whizbang Dustyboots
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I'd expect the Fire to be the number one selling consumer electronic this Christmas. Once it's out, there will actually be a "tablet war." Right now, given the market share of the iPad, it's sort of a laughable proposition, which doesn't benefit anyone.
