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Originally Posted by Jessica Lares
The BIG problem, and this is among music/tech/tv in general, is that these journalists get like one week to test units, and it's usually the week before release. Either that, or they line up to get it like the rest of us. They aren't trusted to keep information secret these days, and you have some who will try and sell the stuff beforehand. That and things get more and more stolen today than ever.
Which is pretty stupid because that's one of the main reasons why there's a lot of iPad/iPhone talk whenever new phones and tablets come out. They have so little time to play with them, really explore the features, and they have to skim through every device just to write up a two page report that makes any sense to the reader.
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I completely agree. As an IT professional in higher ed, I work with folks all the time who are interested in iPads (primarily) or Android tablets (Fire and otherwise). My universal statement is always that they need to be prepared to spend time with the device and figure out how to make it work for them. It will not be as easy or as intuitive as they think it will. You need to decide what you want to be able to do and then research apps and spend time doing it to achieve maximum benefit from your tablet device.
If someone in the media is given a device and expected to write about it in such a short period of time, then they are going to generally find far more short comings than positives. Especially if its their first device of that kind to evaluate.
How many overwhelmingly negative reviews are out there when they are doing a "30 days with the Kindle Fire" type of thing?