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Nexus 7, Made for Google Play

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Re: Nexus 7, Made for Google Play

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Post by zobzu »

btipling wrote: post #25
UnFleshedOne wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you had gotten the galaxy 7 (the new one) you'd still be fine.

But none can predict what's future proof, mainly because it's what companies make their money off. They NEED you to buy a new tablet, phone, etc, every year.

They'd make car breaks and need complete replacement every year if they could as well.

So, while it can happen that a product is "future proof" for a couple of years instead of one, it's rare.

Heck, even clothes are made to break quickly.

Of course, that's not very ecological, and certainly not cheap for the customer ;-)

Re: Nexus 7, Made for Google Play

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Post by MartinCron »

btipling wrote: post #25
UnFleshedOne wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Future-proof is a reasonable goal for a desktop PC, television, digital camera, automobile, wristwatch, or other more mature technology. It's just too soon to expect future-proofing from tablets or phones.

As long as the tablet continues to do what it's supposed to do , it shouldn't really matter that there's a newer OS out there.

As compared to the Kindle fire, which was never any good at doing what it was supposed to do. It wasn't even present-proof.

Re: Nexus 7, Made for Google Play

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Post by [deleted] »

btipling wrote: post #5

It ships with Jellybean... I've been waiting for the Samsung 10 inch tablet with the stylus, but it's already out of date and hasn't even shipped yet. I don't want a 7inch tablet and it is going to be years by the time a Jelly Bean 10 inch tablet comes out and by that time there will already be a new version of the OS! I already have a Fire and I can't read magazines on it, it's too small. I'm just going to give up a…

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Re: Nexus 7, Made for Google Play

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Post by MartinCron »

earl wrote: post #49
recoiledsnake wrote: post #17

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…

I don't think google can compete with the ipad. The ipad is priced competitively, and the question every similar tablet has to answer is why on earth would I pay as much for this as I would for an ipad? There doesn't appear to be any good answers. The android tablet manufacturers don't appear to able to compete on price with a similar hardware quality. edit: I meant compete directly. Obviously they can make something…

The Google tablet is half the price of an iPad. If that's not competing on price, I don't know what is.

Re: Nexus 7, Made for Google Play

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Post by Samuel_Michon »

janardanyri wrote: post #27
guynamedloren wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.)

Indeed. From Apple's press release of January 2010:

"iPad will be available in late March worldwide for a suggested retail price of $499 (US) for the 16GB model, $599 (US) for the 32GB model, $699 (US) for the 64GB model."

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/01/27Apple-Launches-iPa...

Re: Nexus 7, Made for Google Play

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Post by evilduck »

guynamedloren wrote: post #18
Splines wrote: post #12

No SD card slot? Urgh. 8/16GB is not a lot of room, especially for a tablet that is not going to be online all the time.

but nobody complained when the original ipad didn't have one (with same internal storage).

Android also has some notion of a traditional filesystem that's exposed to the user, iOS does not.

Re: Nexus 7, Made for Google Play

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Post by MartinCron »

Cd00d wrote: post #41
colkassad wrote: post #28

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If there were a "Trade your Kindle Fire" button on that page I would click it in a second. I like my Kindle Fire but it has issues. I'd kill for just a hardware volume control. It's hard to say without handling one, but my guess is to choose the Nexus over the Fire.

Thanks for that. I had no idea the Fire lacked a hard volume button. I almost compulsively use the one on my iPad, as I find quantified increments far easier than sliding my fat finger over something my fat finger is blocking.

Not only that, but the soft volume controls aren't uniformly available. When you're watching a movie in Netflix, you have to stop the playback to adjust volume, but you can't hear the volume until you start playback again. Just painful.

Note: this experience may have been fixed, I haven't used my kindle fire for watching movies in months, for obvious reasons.

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