I don't know whether this is it quite yet, but I'm definitely looking forward to everyone else's tablets coming out soon. I love my MacBook but I'm not interested in the closedness and restrictions of the iOS systems.
Out Of Nowhere, The iPad Has A Real Competitor
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
Definitely not false: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupillary_light_reflex The fact that bright light can still annoy you just shows that there is an upper limit (and there is a lower one too, obviously) -- not that it doesn't work.
I should have quoted more of the parent's post: > ... so the times when eyes “hurt” are basically only when going from being dark-adapted to suddenly looking at something bright (emphasis added) Obviously I realize that pupils adapt, but I read the post to imply that there is no such thing as absolutely too bright.
You’re absolutely right. I didn’t intend to imply that excessively bright stimuli (such as when the ground is snow or concrete or sand and the sun is directly overhead), couldn’t be too bright even when adapted as far as possible.
What I meant (and should have stated more precisely/clearly, not using the word “only”) was rather that, at the intensity of an iPad screen, adaptation should make any hurting stop. The iPad screen is several orders of magnitude dimmer than the brightest sunny days. Light adaptation takes us pretty darn far.
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love it when the faithful think that features and price are not competitive.
They're really not. My dad knows what an iPad is. Unless this device lays golden eggs he'll probably never hear of it. Also, there are unmentioned features in the iPad's favor, most notably an App Store with 200k titles in it.
He might know it as fake ipad. Knockoffs can be competitors.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're really not. My dad knows what an iPad is. Unless this device lays golden eggs he'll probably never hear of it. Also, there are unmentioned features in the iPad's favor, most notably an App Store with 200k titles in it.
App Store with 200k titles is a plus? Are you serious? How will your dad be able to find anything useful there?
Looking at the top free/paid apps is a pretty good strategy, search, or word of mouth. The App Store promotes exploration by having good descriptions/screenshots, categorizations, colorful icons, clean text, etc. It's almost automatic for me to pop into the App Store to see what's new almost every time I pickup my iPad.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not every tablet needs to even compete with the iPad. Apple clearly doesn't care about the home hobbyist crowd.
This argument is getting lost in semantics. What does "compete" mean in this instance? Does Kia compete with Lexus? They both make cars, but I doubt anyone looking at an RX350 ever ended up in a Sportage. I'd argue "compete" should mean that someone looking for an iPad might end up buying the competing device instead.
That's the difference between a mature and a young market.
In the earlier days of motoring, the Kia equivalent would have competed with Lexus. No one would have known, for example, whether Lexus is luxury, Kia is budget or both.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you really think people buy the iPad for reading ebooks? I find it to be not significantly better than reading on a monitor. The iPad is great for some things for sure (Plants vs Zombies being first and foremost in my experience) but I think if I wanted to read books I'd get a Kindle or some eink device.
I'm more of an audiobook person myself but I have read 2 books on the iPad with good results. The only drawback is the temptation to hit the home button and do something else which isn't a real problem on current e-ink devices since they don't really do anything else. Which is also the same reason I wouldn't buy one. I don't read enough text to justify a standalone device.
That is one of the reasons I like my Sony Touch ebook reader. It basically is only good for reading, so I don't end up interrupting my reading to do something else on it.
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#127Was there really the need for all those exclamation marks throughout this article?
"...three of them!", "Android tablet!", "No rooting is involved!", "...no rooting is necessary!", "But does that really matter?!", "Where are you going to match that?!" (etc)
Seriously, this article would have sounded a lot more convincing without them.
Aside from this, it would be interesting to know what the user-experience would be. I can see that the specs aren't as high-end as the iPad, but that might be a first-phase thing.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
yes it is. most users will end up not adjusting brightness thus hurting their eyes
What the fuck? You're reading this on a screen right now. You and everyone else reading this thread likely read text from LCD screens for at least half of your waking hours! What about a tablet formfactor suddenly makes backlit LCD screens completely unbearable?
I find reading on LCDs really quite unpleasant. I tolerate them because I have to for working, but I would never choose to read a book or other lengthy static content on them.
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#129What's the criteria for something being a "real" competitor?
This device provides functionality which is broadly comparable with the iPad, in the same way as many netbooks, the Kindle, the Nook other eBook readers and a whole bunch of other devices.
How comparable they are is debatable but are they competitors, in as much as is it possible that people will buy one of them instead of an iPad to fulfil one or more needs an iPad could have fulfilled.
But how come this is a "real" competitor when the others aren't? If anything I'd suggest that the "real" competitors are the ones I can go out and buy and use now and where people are doing just that, rather than an unlaunched device I'd need to mod.
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#130why do people keep saying an LCD screen is an 'e-reader'. Completely missing the point. Calling e-ink 'crappy' and then telling me to read books on the same type of screen as the monitors sitting in front of me is stupid. You wouldn't read on a computer screen, and you won't seriously read on an LCD monitor no matter how small it is.
If your use case is to read books, e-ink is for you, all these e-readers with superfluous extra features remind me of the first GPS I got, it had SD card support to play MP3's and Movies but sucked at navigation and had a crap GPS signal. I never used the extra features, and always got lost.