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From: MuahMan on 31 Mar 2010 12:04 On Mar 31, 10:40 am, Rick <n...(a)mail.invalid> wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:33:10 -0400, Ezekiel wrote: > > "White Spirit" <wspi...(a)homechoice.co.uk> wrote in message > >news:hovm66$gkn$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > >> On 31/03/2010 15:19, Ezekiel wrote: > > >>>> I suppose I just find it difficult to believe that so many people are > >>>> willing to pay for overpriced hardware that can't do a tenth of what > >>>> a netbook can do. > > >>> Can't do 1/10th? Care to list all of these things that typical users > >>> want to do with a netbook that can't be done with an iPad? (Hint - > >>> compiling drivers and editing gigabytes of video isn't something that > >>> is commonly done on a netbook.) > > >> No flash. > > But support for HTML5 standards h264 video. > > ... but no Flash? > > > > >> No multitasking. > > A nice techno-term that's meaningless to end users. > > Really? Are you sure? Does everyone open their email app, close it. Open > the browser. Close it. Open some other app. CLose it. Really? That's how > it is done? > (snip) > > -- > Rick- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Not me. I alt-tab between 6-8 applications.
From: MuahMan on 31 Mar 2010 12:07 On Mar 31, 11:14 am, Hadron<hadronqu...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > White Spirit <wspi...(a)homechoice.co.uk> writes: > > On 31/03/2010 14:08, chrisv wrote: > > >> White Spirit wrote: > > >>> On 31/03/2010 13:31, Mocassin joe wrote: > > >>>> So - how many were available in the first place, 1000, or 1,000,000. Nobody > >>>> knows. > > >>> It's a common ploy for companies to deliberately limit supplies in order > >>> to give the impression that demand is much greater than it really is. > >>> It wouldn't surprise me if Apple were up to this. > > >> I doubt they need to play those games. They seem to have plenty of > >> followers. > > > I suppose I just find it difficult to believe that so many people are > > willing to pay for overpriced hardware that can't do a tenth of what a > > netbook can do. > > > Apple must be doing something right. > > You have zero idea of that the iPad can do. The effectiveness of its > touch screen, the quality of its display, the battery life and the > oodles of free and paid for HIGH QUALITY iPhone apps it can run. > > Why are you guys so openly ignorant?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Atomic Fart!!!
From: chrisv on 31 Mar 2010 12:11 nospam wrote: > Rick wrote: >> >> Goody goody for changewave's survey. Your statement regarding >> multitasking, "it hasn't bothered anyone on the iphone" is still >> incorrect. > >yet actual users aren't complaining about it. how can that be? Similar to people who buy mega-buck audio cables, and who generally don't complain that they heard no improvement over cheaper cables. It's an interesting phenomenon, to be sure... "I paid big money, I'm going to be be happy with it."
From: Hadron on 31 Mar 2010 12:10 White Spirit <wspirit(a)homechoice.co.uk> writes: > On 31/03/2010 16:47, Peter Köhlmann wrote: > >> Hadron wrote: > >>> Are you under the impression that the iPad will only do one application >>> at a time? > >> It does. No multitasking for external apps. Only internal services >> multitask > > It reminds me of the good of days when TSR applications were used to > fake a multitasking environment. It's nice to see Apple reinventing > technology that went out in 1993 when the 80386 started to become > affordable. I realise you're your own biggest fan, but did you ask yourself WHY a company famous for innovative and quality product decided to go this way? Did you? NO. You're just interested in blowing your own trumpet and claiming Apple dont understand multitasking. Do you REALLY believe that?
From: KDT on 31 Mar 2010 12:19
On Mar 31, 12:11 pm, chrisv <chr...(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > nospam wrote: > > Rick wrote: > > >> Goody goody for changewave's survey. Your statement regarding > >> multitasking, "it hasn't bothered anyone on the iphone" is still > >> incorrect. > > >yet actual users aren't complaining about it. how can that be? > > Similar to people who buy mega-buck audio cables, and who generally > don't complain that they heard no improvement over cheaper cables. > > It's an interesting phenomenon, to be sure... "I paid big money, I'm > going to be be happy with it." So $99 - $299 for a smart phone is "big money" compared to Android or WinMo phones? |