Why everyone loves the iPad mini (even though the screen sucks)

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Re: Why everyone loves the iPad mini (even though the screen sucks)

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Post by jarek » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 5:25 AM UTC

bryanlarsen wrote: post #63

r00fus wrote: post #60

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Phablet, yes. Definitely a strong niche. Stylus No. I have 3 co workers who have Galaxy Notes (or Note II) and none of them use the stylus while I've seen them. They all say it's nice, but none admit to it being key or even useful. There is no killer app for the stylus, when an onscreen-keyboard or finger would do just as well. Even finger-based signatures are pretty easy with modern smartphones' capacative touchscre…

I assumed that the killer app for the stylus would be Chinese and Korean character entry. Any actual Asians want to validate or dispel my assumption?

Korean at least is an alphabet fairly easily entered via a standard qwerty keyboard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_South_Korea.svg

The letters are composed into blocks describing syllables, rather than strings describing words as in Latin alphabets, but entering letters on the keyboard is the same.

Might help with Japanese but I can't really speak about that.

Re: Why everyone loves the iPad mini (even though the screen sucks)

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Post by Adirael » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 12:49 PM UTC

untog wrote: post #37

Adirael wrote: post #33

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Wow, EVERY Apple user, it's nice to know you have all that data to look at. The Nexus 7 and the iPad Mini are tablets, not phones, both are uncomfortable in one hand and not big enough to be productive on them, unless a 10" tablet is too big for you I wouldn't even look at them. Phone wise: smaller is better. I prefer the 4S screen size to the 5. Galaxy Note and huge Android devices are laughable from my point of vie…

Wow, EVERY Apple user, it's nice to know you have all that data to look at. [...] both are uncomfortable in one hand and not big enough to be productive on them [...] smaller is better [...] huge Android devices are laughable from my point of view If you're going to criticise someone for making blanket statements, I wouldn't then immediately follow it up with a series of blanket statements.

I was specifically speaking about my personal use. Maybe the "my point of view" in the end didn't make that clear enough.

My statements came as an individual Apple user which casually just disagreed with OPs, I don't think I'm alone there but it really doesn't matter.

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