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Old 09-13-2010, 08:52 PM   #101
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Originally Posted by harryE123 View Post
What's all it's glory flash? How about tapping twice to get a proper page width view of the sentence? How about all the glorious flash that wont function because it can't understand touch?

Guys let's not stoop this low, the app store has been the biggest success for users and developers alike, everyone is copying it and jumping on the bandwagon, any research you read will tell you that app store buyers pay multiple % over what the average pc user is willing to pay, or has ever paid for applications on their computers...that's just the way it is, you may not like it but we can't change facts for fiction. Even if you haven't read the studies about how much more willing app store buyers are to buy apps I am sure you have a lot of friends that you know for a fact have downloaded tons of cracked pc apps from torrents and the like, but have paid instead for apps on ios as well as books, music, videos, spoken word etc. etc.... (case in point just read above what cyguy it's saying, hey you can steal content and break drm right on your device...great, so the authors can live on peanuts...

so instead of getting a proper app (most of them dead cheap or free) such as zinio for mags or the kindle reader amongst the hundreds available, and getting your content there, just remove the drm in the glorious windows 7 with the high-ish resolution non ips screen and lowish battery life, and above all keep those $$ coming to Balmer and co. and fudge everyone else including developers, content providers, authors and musicians. Brilliant, that's the way forward.

Enjoy your tablets, but let's be real.
Lets be honest. The resolution of the ipad is marginal. The app store has been successful, but good luck finding the app you want due to all the copycat apps. Flash (video and all) runs awesomely on my Android Froyo phone. The competition is forcing apple to relax restrictions.

There are tons of apps in the appstore. 98% or said apps are crap. The majority of authors do not make alot of money, but a relative few make alot. I used to think the app store was the worst thing around but then I met the android market hehe.

Windows makes alot of sense for a tablet. For instance, slingbox costs $30 on the ipad, but is free on the PC. Also its not a true ipad app (as many apps are not) and so it looks like crap. Windows has a lot of freeware which would add up on the ipad. Windows doesnt need a PC to register itself. Windows multitasks (as do certain ipads). You talk about piracy on the PC, but iPad/iphones are rampant with piracy. installous anyone? Also atomic is better than icab

I hate the draconian measures that Jobs takes, and how he markets stupid crap such as the retina display. In fact one could say the retina display was stolen from WinMo and Android, because they had beautiful hi-res screens before Apple did.

Disclaimer: I have an ipad. Its great for what it does.
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