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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
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?
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I would have to disagree, the reason for the Xoom's not taking off after much hype has ALOT more to do with it pricing it at $799 and $699 w/a 2 year contract. Motorola F&*^% this launch by getting into bed with Verizon and not releasing a 16 g wifi only model. And much the same for the others who launched shortly after.
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer was the first Honecomb hit , it was priced it at $399, offered something unique and was wifi only with no contract. They sold very well with basically no mainstream advertising, virtually no physical store presence etc. Basically underground "word of mouth" it became the wise guy's choice.
I would love tho hear how in what way shape or form is the iPad "superior"
aspect ratio
4:3 horrible for watching movies
no connectivity without buying extra conncections for Apple
total tied to iTunes
no memory expansion
No USB ports
No HDMI connection without a dongle
No Sd card reader
basically very little customization
but you're right it does have that apple logo on the back
that does make it superior
and oh before you start running off about apps, for one Android tablet app market has grown alot and second what app is absolutley essential in ipad optimized format that is not available via it's website? Phones it's different because of screen size, tablets bank of america app is not better than the actual website, especially when most apps are nothing more than shortcuts to the respective mobile websites.