10-26-2012, 08:37 PM | #271 | |
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10-26-2012, 09:21 PM | #272 | |
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http://www.amazon.com/ExoGear-Exomou...Pad+dash+mount I have seen a couple of custom in dash mounts, and, while very cool, they are a bit much for me. Also, I have a full size GMC pickup, so the iPad doesn't feel like a 55" LCD TV, like I think it would in, say, one of those new Fiats. |
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10-26-2012, 09:26 PM | #273 |
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10-26-2012, 10:27 PM | #274 |
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It's not valid at all. It's not valid because the iPad mini represents quite a bit of innovation.
It's not valid because all successful companies take successful products and branch them out. Various flavors of the iPod. Various laptop screen sizes, weights, builds. Colors. This is standard behavior and all successful companies follow it. It's not valid if you actually consider a 7" android tablet counting as "innovation" and the iPad mini as not. Without the iPhone Android phones would be clones of Blackberry. Without the iPad there would be no Android tablets. The reason Android tablets championed the 7" form factor had to do with the inability to match the iPad's price at the large size. Mind you, I do think there's plenty of innovation with the Android tablets. Just pointing out that if the iPad mini doesn't count as innovative just because 7" Android tablets preceeded it, then there's nothing that could be credited as innovative in the tablet space outside of the original iPad. |
10-26-2012, 10:40 PM | #275 | |
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10-26-2012, 10:45 PM | #276 |
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Seriously? Are you for real? It has a 2 generations old CPU, a screen resolution not seen on anything other than children tablets, doesn't have GPS or NFC, and costs twice what it should. Would you be so kind to enlighten us mere mortals on what's so innovative?
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10-26-2012, 11:26 PM | #278 |
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10-27-2012, 12:42 AM | #279 |
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10-27-2012, 01:23 AM | #280 | |
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Obviously there is or was a group of people that had not seen a tablet that small. REMEMBER it is 2" smaller than the one before. I mean that is really innovative! In fact it is DIFFERENT! That same group of people only know about 3 or 4 tablets and a few phones. Anything without an "i" at the beginning of the name doesn't exist. This is a select group that only uses an equally select set of products. |
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10-27-2012, 02:52 AM | #281 | |
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All of my close friends have iPads. I can't be in crowds, so window shopping in places like Best Buy is out. If it's something that I have to see in person, like this Mini, one of the Apple stores near me is usually empty when they first open, so I can slip in and out without any problems. It is a choice, this use of i-only things. Some people, in the fervent need to point out what is newer, faster, cheaper, or just not Apple, seem to forget that fact. |
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10-27-2012, 03:50 AM | #282 | |
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10-27-2012, 05:08 AM | #283 | |
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Ok, back for the third time and I will speak in caps to emphasize (not scream): no it is not innovative in that it DOES NOT EVEN MATCH COMPETING TABLETS' FEATURES that were there before and it DOES NOT EVEN MATCH APPLE'S OWN STANDARD (Retina), and that for a device category that has previously, by Apple and followers (in answer to patent claims, "big ipod argument" etc) been labeled as being "ONLY SCREEN"... so yes, I think this is not innovative, heck it's not even a very good product, it falls below 100$ cheaper competition... There is NO WAY TO JUSTIFY ITS PREMIUM PRICE! Last edited by johnnyb; 10-27-2012 at 05:10 AM. |
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10-27-2012, 07:14 AM | #284 |
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I love Apple products-- I have an Ipod Touch, Iphone 4s, Apple TV and a Macbook Air. But I'm passing on this Ipad Mini, the resolution and hardware are not competitive. This is what happens when a company has a monopoly-- they don't feel the pressure to innovative and everyone loses. Since Apple knows that they can outsell all sub-10 inch tablets however they designed it, they decided on the minimum effort. The Ipad Mini should be called the Ipad Minimal. We were at least owed a retina display for that price point, and really we should have awesome cpu, ram and gps included at that price point.
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