Anyone who compares the iPad with a netbook, arguing the netbook has a faster CPU, better price or whatever, simply does not get it.
The best Present and Future alternatives to the iPad
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#13Let me sum them up for you: there isn't any. Just like the iPhone when it appeared, there really is no rival to the experience iPad offers, to its hardware+software+touch combo. The closest it MAY come, could be Android, someday. Again, just like with the iPhone.
Who cares about the "experience" if it doesn't run vim and has no sd card slot?
VIM: Fuck your experience, use me.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those people who don’t use vim and don’t need a SD card slot? I.e. most people?
Hell, I'd dare to say most hackers don't use VIM or need a SD slot on their tablet .
I don't think hackers will use a tablet to do some serious work. For that we have already our computers. I use Vim, but it's the last thing I could think about speaking of a tablet.
The iPad (and all his wanabe rivals) have a different target than hackers.
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#15Let me sum them up for you: there isn't any. Just like the iPhone when it appeared, there really is no rival to the experience iPad offers, to its hardware+software+touch combo. The closest it MAY come, could be Android, someday. Again, just like with the iPhone.
and most of all it's a status symbol.
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#16Anyone who compares the iPad with a netbook, arguing the netbook has a faster CPU, better price or whatever, simply does not get it.
True, what good is a device you can type and work on if you can have one that can't?
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#17Yet, I'm standing here outside the Boston apple store waiting in line, MacBook pro in my bag, checking my news on my iPhone. Honestly, the real reason I'm getting an iPad today is because I thought I would enjoy playing with it, not because it would replace any of my netbooks/laptops/smart phones.
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#18Anyone who compares the iPad with a netbook, arguing the netbook has a faster CPU, better price or whatever, simply does not get it.
"You just don't get it" is the new "magical", isn't it.
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#19Anyone who compares the iPad with a netbook, arguing the netbook has a faster CPU, better price or whatever, simply does not get it.
"You just don't get it" is the new "magical", isn't it.
Let me put it this way: How do you think Apple has become as big and successful as it is today, despite always releasing products that are technically inferior (ie. Mhz/megapixel/megawhatever) and often more expensive than the competition? Could there me more to a product than the hardware specs?
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#20Let me sum them up for you: there isn't any. Just like the iPhone when it appeared, there really is no rival to the experience iPad offers, to its hardware+software+touch combo. The closest it MAY come, could be Android, someday. Again, just like with the iPhone.
Chrome OS is intended to run on hardware not entirely dissimilar to the iPad (get rid of the keyboard, put in a touch screen), with similar types of on-line connectivity.
Chrome OS will be to the iPad what Android is to the iPod.