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Originally Posted by MovieBird
It's the general consumer that gets pissed off when they can't use the buttons on their favorite website because Apple hates Flash. Yet they still flock to Apple products, showing that telegraphing your coolness to others is more important than assessing your own needs for a product.
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It is okay for you to not like Apple products, or the iPad in particular.
It is offensive, insulting, and stupid for you and people like you to keep insisting that people who buy iPads are idiots who are swayed by marketing and are only interested in looking cool.
This may be hard for you to understand, but for most people the iPad is the superior product. This is why it is massively outselling competing tablets - because it is better overall than the competition. Which is obvious if you are a regular consumer - Netflix wasn't even available on Android until two months ago. I mean, I agree that not having flash can be a minor inconvenience sometimes - but not having netflix on a tablet is terminally stupid, since one of their big selling points is *watching videos.*
The relative absence of apps - while now improving for Android - is another reason the 30 million so-called idiots went for the iPad.
I mean, look at Xoom's marketing - significant because it was the first Honeycomb tablet. It was only offered at $200 above the cheapest iPad, and at $100 over the most popular iPad. While flash and expandable storage were theoretical advantages, the Xoom shipped with neither functioning, but a promise to make them work later. (Which they did a few months later...but seriously, who wants to buy something unfinished?).
Finally, although not really of importance to normal consumers, the Android tablets all made the mistake of running Tegra 2, a somewhat dated processor that sometimes struggles with animations (particularly where a tablet isn't running straight Android). Or, as Anandtech put it "Apple outfitted the iPad 2 with a pair of ARM Cortex A9s and a GPU significantly faster than anything else on the market."
In short, people bought iPads because the competition sucked. Not because they are easily manipulable fools.
(And it's silly for Android fans to pretend that only Apple fans are concerned with coolness - there's just as much trendiness in being "open source," running Linux, and posing as being too sophisticated to use Apple products as there is in using Apple).
But, seriously, who knowingly buys an unfinished product?