Amazon Tablet May Cost Hundreds Less Than iPad

[boswd]

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Originally Posted by boswd

But frankly you are obsesssing. Who the hell said anything about " magical?"

According to you the tech companies just have to put out a tablet with the "right" hardware specs , everyone would forget all about the inferior iPad, and.......... profit!

Well, that didn't work for all those Android tablets, or for webOS, did it?
Now if you were the least bit curious, tyou would wonder why Android tablets failed so dismally, despite having all the right hardware geegaws.
However, instead of actual thought, you simply reached for those same tired anti-Apple slogans, eg. "Apple customers are sheeplike followers of a cult, being led around by that brilliant Apple marketing, etc, and ad nausem".

The whole "Apple is a cult" argument might have made some sense when we were talking about a few million Mac users, but now that there are 225 MILLION iTUNES ACCOUNT HOLDERS, its clearly nonsense.
I'm afraid that as an Apple hater, you need to update your game, mate. That Apple cult stuff is weak sauce.
What's noteworthy is that its clear that Amazon intends to ape Apple's strategy of controlling the platform from end to end by putting out these tablets. Why is that I wonder? Oh yeah, it works brilliantly, if executed right. Jeff has learned something from Steve. Maybe you should too?

Jeff and steve? first name basis now? millions of itunes accounts and how many of them are from their ipods. heck even I have an iTunes account from a few years ago.

by the way take alook at that video again and all the coozed up apple nuts looking like Pentacostals on a Sunday, yeah that wasn't all that long ago, I'm afraid.

[sonyreaderfan]

The whole Apple fans are fanatics is a canard. As stated before, iPad is now a general consumer product.

You know who are irrational? Certain Android fanatics.

Check out this demographics:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_928275.html

Key points:
- 80% of Android users more likely to have only high school diploma
- iOS users 37% more likely to have a graduate degree.

Maybe that's why I see in this forum sophomoric arguments by a certain Android fanatic who has negligible command of the English grammar.

[boswd]

Originally Posted by sonyreaderfan

The whole Apple fans are fanatics is a canard. As stated before, iPad is now a general consumer product.

You know who are irrational? Certain Android fanatics.

Check out this demographics:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_928275.html

Key points:
- 80% of Android users likely to have only high school diploma
- iOS users 37% more likely to have a graduate degree.

Maybe that's why I see in this forum sophomoric arguments by a certain Android fanatic who has negligible command of the English grammar.

since android phones account for 54% of all smartphones you are saying that 80% of them don't have a college degree? Ummm Really. Next time if you are going to link to a poll let it be legitmate one as opposed to one done by who? Hunch?

Do you make the sign of the apple and genuflect when you enter an apple store? Do sliced up Apples and Apple juice replace the bread and wine during Apple store church services?

[HomeInMyShoes]

In other news Jets fans still hate Giants fans.

[sonyreaderfan]

Originally Posted by boswd

since android phones account for 54% of all smartphones you are saying that 80% of them don't have a college degree? Ummm Really.

Do you make the sign of the apple and genuflect when you enter an apple store? Do sliced up Apples and Apple juice replace the bread and wine during Apple store church services?

Well, that's evidence of shoddy reasoning. College graduates don't make that kind of lousy reasoning . I didn't say that 80% of them don't have a college degree. The demographics in the link did.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_928275.html

Please read the article or at least look at the graphics before shooting off your mouth. The demographics is compiled by Hunch, a marketing survey company.

[boswd]

Originally Posted by sonyreaderfan

Well, that's evidence of shoddy reasoning. College graduates don't make that kind of lousy reasoning . I didn't say that 80% of them don't have a college degree. The demographics in the link did.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_928275.html

Please read the article or at least look at the graphics before shooting off your mouth. The demographics is compiled by Hunch, a marketing survey company.

Are you saying you posted it but don't believe it? Can't have it both ways.

This poll by Hunch, LOL is old news and has been made fun of by many tech pundits about a month ago.

by linking the poll and along with your comment following shows reasons you believe it hence the "You" is that difficult for you to comprehend? I mean it shouldn't you have an iPad so you must have an MBA right? Which by the way I actually do

[wodin]

Ummm ... maybe is 'cause only college graduates can afford to pay those inflated iPrices?

[Dulin's Books]

Originally Posted by sonyreaderfan

College graduates don't make that kind of lousy reasoning .

you must not know very many.

[sonyreaderfan]

Originally Posted by Dulin's Books

you must not know very many.

Or I'm in exclusive company?

[afa]

Blah blah blah...

This whole "Apple is for idiots" thing is getting pretty damn tiresome.

Here's a thought: if any anti-Apple or anti-Amazon or anti-anything else member has a new argument for why Company X is no good, by all means let's discuss the merits of his or her argument.

Because so far, there is nothing that is being said that hasn't been said in one ineloquent form or another a thousand times. Do we really think the one thousand and first time will be more convincing?

[Graham]

Originally Posted by afa

Here's a thought: if any anti-Apple or anti-Amazon or anti-anything else member has a new argument for why Company X is no good, by all means let's discuss the merits of his or her argument.

OK, right look, an Apple's like really small, right? But the Amazon, that's like this really big river. But then a Google, that's like this unbelievably humongous number.

Microsoft?

Really, really tiny. And soft.

Graham

[Sil_liS]

Originally Posted by sonyreaderfan

Well, that's evidence of shoddy reasoning. College graduates don't make that kind of lousy reasoning . I didn't say that 80% of them don't have a college degree. The demographics in the link did.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_928275.html

Please read the article or at least look at the graphics before shooting off your mouth. The demographics is compiled by Hunch, a marketing survey company.

I've looked at the survey, and I would like it if you could explain to me how those percentages were calculated. Because you normally say % of something. You know, the way you said it: 80% of them. Because 80% more likely doesn't make sense.

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[Andrew H.]

Originally Posted by sonyreaderfan

Please read the article or at least look at the graphics before shooting off your mouth. The demographics is compiled by Hunch, a marketing survey company.

That article has been discussed here before and it's nonsense. It does not relate to the population as a whole; it relates only to those Hunch readers who responded to the survey.

There *is* an accurate way to conduct polls in which you can obtain a statistically valid result (with a 95% confidence level within the margin of error). They do this for elections and are usually quite accurate. But the trick is to find a small sample (2-3000 people) that is representative of the population as a whole is relevant ways (same age, income, race, political party membership, etc. of the population as a whole).

But this is not what hunch did - they just compiled all the answers that they got to their survey, which has no meaning at all.

(Nielson, by contrast, has produced some valid numbers. But they are less interesting as linkbait).

[molman]

You know what is also funny (beyond those proposed results being a waste of time), Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak both dropped out of college (I believe after one semester for Job's). Not sure if either ever went back though I'm sure they received some of those honorary degrees that get handed around these days. Rather ironic really