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From: zoara on 28 May 2010 04:22 Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > On 2010-05-27 19:01:48 +0100, Woody said: > >> Ian Piper <ianpiper(a)mac.com> wrote: >>>> And it is really, very well-designed - a real beauty. >>> It is better than it seemed it would be, and I was expecting good! > > The one I played with last week was a bit heavier than I thought it > might be. Ditto. I worked out some figures the day after playing with one and posted them on the Twitter at https://twitter.com/zoara/status/14681895384 "Weight is 20% back casing, 21% battery, 22% LCD, 28% glass and just 9% for electronics and everything else! http://j.mp/9dbvrd " -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: zoara on 28 May 2010 04:22 SteveH <italiancar(a)gmail.com> wrote: > T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > >> On Thu, 27 May 2010 19:01:48 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) >> wrote: >> >>> >>> It is better than it seemed it would be, and I was expecting good! >> >> In addition to what I think I read here I think they said on the >> Gadget show that a good thing about the iPad might be that it prompts >> other manufacturers to produce something similar, but with USB ports >> etc. > > Any alternatives are likely to be thicker, slower, and be running a > clunky Windows install. I wonder how long it will be until the rest of the world realises that what's made tablets fail (and fail, and fail) in the past is that they've just had Windows thrown on them with no thought as to how well it fits the experience. I'm predicting dozens of tablets riding on Apple's coat-tails and almost the same number of failure coupled with puzzlement over why - "It's faster than the iPad and has more ports, I can't see why it didn't sell millions..." The only real competition I can see for a while is from HP and Google. But HP better not just slap WebOS in a tablet form factor and call it a day, and Google need to decide between Android and ChromeOS on tablets rather than (as I suspect they will) just going with both. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: Chris Ridd on 28 May 2010 04:31 On 2010-05-28 09:22:17 +0100, zoara said: > Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: >> On 2010-05-27 19:01:48 +0100, Woody said: >> >>> Ian Piper <ianpiper(a)mac.com> wrote: >>>>> And it is really, very well-designed - a real beauty. >>>> It is better than it seemed it would be, and I was expecting good! >> >> The one I played with last week was a bit heavier than I thought it >> might be. > > Ditto. I worked out some figures the day after playing with one and > posted them on the Twitter at > https://twitter.com/zoara/status/14681895384 > > "Weight is 20% back casing, 21% battery, 22% LCD, 28% glass and just 9% > for electronics and everything else! http://j.mp/9dbvrd " There's not a whole lot of "everything else"! I'm surprised the back weighs so much. -- Chris
From: Jim on 28 May 2010 04:37 On 2010-05-28, zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > The only real competition I can see for a while is from HP and Google. > But HP better not just slap WebOS in a tablet form factor and call it a > day, and Google need to decide between Android and ChromeOS on tablets > rather than (as I suspect they will) just going with both. [nod] Choice is good, but too much choice isn't. Apple learned that lesson in the 90's by almost going out of business through having too many models of overlapping, overpriced machines. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett
From: Jochem Huhmann on 28 May 2010 04:41
zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> writes: > I'm predicting dozens of tablets riding on Apple's coat-tails and almost > the same number of failure coupled with puzzlement over why - "It's > faster than the iPad and has more ports, I can't see why it didn't sell > millions..." > > The only real competition I can see for a while is from HP and Google. > But HP better not just slap WebOS in a tablet form factor and call it a > day, and Google need to decide between Android and ChromeOS on tablets > rather than (as I suspect they will) just going with both. I think the real competition will be cheap tablets from China or India running Android. Slow, small batteries, but really cheap. I've seen one (a 7" iPad lookalike, 800x480, 128MB RAM, 2GB Flash, webcam) for $73 yesterday... And I don't see any reason why you couldn't sell much better ones for $199. The tablet market will repeat the history of the Mac and the Windows-PC, with Android taking the role of MS Windows. The masses will buy really cheap and somewhat clunky tablets running Android. Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery |