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Lot of nitpicks and to be expected framing/number fudging by Steve, but straight up misquoting the Samsung rep was very odd. That had been widely corrected, so either Apple did not research their presentation (unlikely) or just knowingly lied (yuck).
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
Since when is it not okay for a company the emphasize the pluses over the competition and leave out what's not so good. This is common practice. If you want a full comparison, you have to do it yourself or use independent tests. I always rely on my own tests, if possible. Mr. Job's keynotes are rhetorically first class and most people can't wait to get hands on the products after they have seen the show. This is no r…
This is common practice.
"Everyone does that" is no excuse.
Completely agree. I'm not exactly an apple fanboy, but I do love my iPad, and there isn't yet a competitor's device I'd want to replace it with (although I'm hoping BlackBerry's will change that). If he had come out and given all the ways that the iPad 2 is better than the iPad, I'd have been impressed. But spending half the time criticising competitors just came across as the kind of tacky tactic that really shouldn…
Completely agree. I'm not exactly an apple fanboy, but I do love my iPad, and there isn't yet a competitor's device I'd want to replace it with (although I'm hoping BlackBerry's will change that). If he had come out and given all the ways that the iPad 2 is better than the iPad, I'd have been impressed. But spending half the time criticising competitors just came across as the kind of tacky tactic that really shouldn…
I'm curious if specs in mobile devices have become less important when the device is only supposed to do more or less what it's advertised to doand what the user bought it to do, and not much else. Apple advertises all the apps that work on the iOS line of devices, but these apps are (should be) designed to fit "inside the box" of functionality on the device. Android seems to take a different philosophical approach w…
This is the first product version launch I can remember where Apple wasn't on the leading edge in terms of specs. If they launched months after the XOOM and are as far behind spec-wise as the article suggests, that seems like a big win for the XOOM (even though specs obviously probably aren't the most important factor for most potential customers).
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Quite a large one, I'd imagine. The Nook and Kindle are a pretty far cry from the iPad in terms of capability. To me it seems like it's a very close parallel to a smart phone vs. a feature phone.
So you're saying the iPad has sold more than 90% of all devices that are like iPads? Seems verging on tautological to me.
Lot of nitpicks and to be expected framing/number fudging by Steve, but straight up misquoting the Samsung rep was very odd. That had been widely corrected, so either Apple did not research their presentation (unlikely) or just knowingly lied (yuck).
Since when is it not okay for a company the emphasize the pluses over the competition and leave out what's not so good. This is common practice. If you want a full comparison, you have to do it yourself or use independent tests. I always rely on my own tests, if possible. Mr. Job's keynotes are rhetorically first class and most people can't wait to get hands on the products after they have seen the show. This is no r…
Just emphasizing is not a big deal. Giving numbers that are outright wrong is a problem. This is common practice. "Everyone does that" is no excuse.
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ESL was the real culprit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN_w0mcDayI
How did anyone get "small" from that? Sounded pretty clear to me. I'm a native English speaker, and do not speak or understand any other languages.