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I loooove Google, but I can't get over this "Play" nonsense. I get that it's short and (maybe) easy to remember, but it just sounds stupid. They certainly could have come up with a better name than that.
What's next, a "work" marketplace, but with conrflower-blue themes and more mundane blurbs and graphics?
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but nobody complained when the original ipad didn't have one (with same internal storage).
No, the original iPad was 16/32/64GB, just like the current one. That's why there is no gnashing of teeth. (I have a 64GB original iPad and never have hurt for space.)
PS: For anyone that thinks 100$/16GB is a cost / space issue you can get fingernail sized 16GB micro SD cards for less than 5$, clearly there was space for more memory.
Looks like even Google is afraid to directly take on the 800lb. gorilla that is the 10" iPad at the $500 price point. Xoom, Touchpad, Playbook(7") and countless others seem to have bit the dust trying. HTC and LG have even temporarily quit the tablet market to stem the bleeding. Wonder if ASUS is seeing volume on its Transformer line. Also, does anyone know how the Galaxy Tab is doing? Even Kindle Fire's sales are sl…
This new Nexus 7 sort of fills the same gap, but without the tap the screen with the stylus to take a screenshot, doodle on it, and send it onwards aspect that is so handy for web/mobile developers.
> Sorry! Devices on Google Play is not available in your country yet. At least show me what it looks like!
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You mean they should stop working on the OS to save you some "not the latest" anxiety?
Tablets are expensive. I cannot afford to buy a tablet every year. So I want a tablet that is future proof. The 10 inch tablets that others will release this year will have an outdated operating system on them and will still cost many hundreds of dollars. I do not want to spend hundreds of dollars on an outdated operating system. I love Android, but this terrible to the extreme.
As an iOS guy for years, I look at this as finally having an equivalent of an iPod touch to play with in the Android ecosystem.
Who knows, maybe I'll be convinced to switch off my iPhone.
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You mean they should stop working on the OS to save you some "not the latest" anxiety?
Tablets are expensive. I cannot afford to buy a tablet every year. So I want a tablet that is future proof. The 10 inch tablets that others will release this year will have an outdated operating system on them and will still cost many hundreds of dollars. I do not want to spend hundreds of dollars on an outdated operating system. I love Android, but this terrible to the extreme.
I would love to have a tablet where I could easily add memory, processor, screen, etc. So instead of buying a new one every year, I can just upgrade and extend the hardware myself and still run the latest software.
Looks like even Google is afraid to directly take on the 800lb. gorilla that is the 10" iPad at the $500 price point. Xoom, Touchpad, Playbook(7") and countless others seem to have bit the dust trying. HTC and LG have even temporarily quit the tablet market to stem the bleeding. Wonder if ASUS is seeing volume on its Transformer line. Also, does anyone know how the Galaxy Tab is doing? Even Kindle Fire's sales are sl…
You have any evidence to back this up? Seems like just the opposite is happening:
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You mean they should stop working on the OS to save you some "not the latest" anxiety?
There's less anxiety about iOS 6 vs iOS 7. Numbers don't get the same feelings attached to them as a name like "Ice Cream Sandwich."
I don't think anybody would care about buying a device with a slightly out-of-date OS if they knew updates would be coming.
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You mean they should stop working on the OS to save you some "not the latest" anxiety?
Tablets are expensive. I cannot afford to buy a tablet every year. So I want a tablet that is future proof. The 10 inch tablets that others will release this year will have an outdated operating system on them and will still cost many hundreds of dollars. I do not want to spend hundreds of dollars on an outdated operating system. I love Android, but this terrible to the extreme.
Your complaint isn't that buying now would force you to use an outdated operating system, it's that you would use an outdated operating system for a little longer than you normally would.