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What happened to tablet sales?

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Re: What happened to tablet sales?

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Post by bostand »

OneTimePat wrote: post #15

Tablet sales are lagging in America because manufacturers are not innovating. One of the top rated Android tablets today is the Nvidia Shield K1. It's a great tablet. It costs $200. You can use it to stream a very playable PC gaming experience via GeForce Now provided you have a solid 20 mbps connection. You can connect it to your television and use it as a console. It's 3 years old and still pretty rock-and-roll wei…

The nvidia tablet is still king of the tablet hill, despite its age.

When the new one is released, I'm buying two.

Re: What happened to tablet sales?

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Post by bostand »

sundvor wrote: post #13
jimjimjim wrote: post #8

For me the ideal tablet size is the 7 inch tablet. Easier to browse with than a phone (possible to use mobile sites and desktop sites), easier to read (it's paperback size), easier to hold than a ipad/10inch tablet. can ANYONE recommend anything at least as good as a nexus7?

Personally I greatly enjoy the Tab S2 with Book Cover. It has an AMOLED screen which is superb for night time reading, and feels small enough to put almost anywhere. Samsung just released the next version of it, but I'm not sure how sold I am on the all glass design.

Wait, there is a 7" version of tab S2?

Re: What happened to tablet sales?

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sundvor wrote: post #13
jimjimjim wrote: post #8

For me the ideal tablet size is the 7 inch tablet. Easier to browse with than a phone (possible to use mobile sites and desktop sites), easier to read (it's paperback size), easier to hold than a ipad/10inch tablet. can ANYONE recommend anything at least as good as a nexus7?

Personally I greatly enjoy the Tab S2 with Book Cover. It has an AMOLED screen which is superb for night time reading, and feels small enough to put almost anywhere. Samsung just released the next version of it, but I'm not sure how sold I am on the all glass design.

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Re: What happened to tablet sales?

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Post by bostand »

microtonal wrote: post #17
DigitalSea wrote: post #10

The problem with tablets is they're incredibly limited. The hardware seems to improve with every generation, but specifically in the instance of iOS: the software seems to be stagnate. What's the point in having super fast storage, quad core processors and fast memory if the software is so limiting and horrible it doesn't let you take advantage of it? As a developer, I find iOS to be a horrible operating system and v…

The same thing applies for Android tablets, however I find Android tablets to be slightly more developer friendly But Android tablets are also awful. Although I am primarily an Apple user and my wife uses an iPad, we bought an higher-end ASUS tablet based on Atom for me and our daughter (to watch cartoons on long car trips). The tablet came bloated with all kinds of nonsense apps, of which more than half cannot be re…

Nexus 7 was updated in 2016.

Asus is king of crapware, never buy Asus.

Re: What happened to tablet sales?

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Post by Dylan16807 »

microtonal wrote: post #19
jimjimjim wrote: post #8

For me the ideal tablet size is the 7 inch tablet. Easier to browse with than a phone (possible to use mobile sites and desktop sites), easier to read (it's paperback size), easier to hold than a ipad/10inch tablet. can ANYONE recommend anything at least as good as a nexus7?

I find reading on a tablet quite terrible. Your eyes get tired and use late at night delays melatonin production. I like the Kindle Paperwhite a lot more for reading non-technical books and magazines.

Can't light text on a black background get much dimmer than what you need to read paper/e-ink?

Re: What happened to tablet sales?

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Post by bostand »

DigitalSea wrote: post #10

The problem with tablets is they're incredibly limited. The hardware seems to improve with every generation, but specifically in the instance of iOS: the software seems to be stagnate. What's the point in having super fast storage, quad core processors and fast memory if the software is so limiting and horrible it doesn't let you take advantage of it? As a developer, I find iOS to be a horrible operating system and v…

What do you think of the recent windows 10 tablets?

Re: What happened to tablet sales?

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Post by exergy »

grzm wrote: post #7
tqkxzugoaupvwqr wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I cannot agree with the quoted statement. Early Apple tablets do not work as well as when they were released. I bought an iPad 3. After each major iOS release it became slower. Now it runs iOS 9 and it is unbearably slow. I only ever use it to watch YouTube, and even this is an exercise in patience. Because of the performance drop, I had bought an iPad mini 4. After half a year I sold it because I simply didn’t use i…

As counterpoint, I used my first generation iPad until I broke the screen last year. (It withstood more than a few drops as the corners attested before finally succumbing.) Granted, my use case wasn't overly intensive: mostly just web browsing and video viewing (Netflix, HBO Now, iTunes). My primary gripes are with iTunes and video storage management, and while that was more acute with the limited storage of the firs…

Can I asked something? Why are iPads popular? Genuine question. I will admit first that I also use an old iPad for watching YouTube, but that's because I run Linux on my surface pro 3, and YouTube sucks my battery dry faster than you can say sudo.

But, the iPad is still too heavy to hold for extended periods, falls over all the time on its rubbish case if I keep it on the uneven bed, and I find the surface kickstand does the job much better. Or just a normal laptop. Even for playing music when I cook, laptops somehow have less friction.

Re: What happened to tablet sales?

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Post by aphextron »

myrandomcomment wrote: post #27

I have been using my original iPad Mini since it shipped. I have not found a reason to upgrade it. I did get the MaxiPAD (iPad Pro) with the pen to use to draw and take notes however when I want to read or just in general, I use the Mini.

This is pretty much the answer. Tablets have a far longer lifetime than PC's (which are endlessly upgrade-able) and phones (which are constantly lost or destroyed).
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