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Old 08-18-2011, 12:30 PM   #91
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I see the iPad as being somewhat similar to the Nintendo Wii. When the Wii was released all of the hard-core gamers and gaming magazines said it would fail because it wasn't HD and was a lower powered system than the XBox 360 and PS3. But, it was so accessible that it sold like gangbusters. Grandparents who would look at an XBox controller and not know which way to hold it were able to play Wii games with the grandkids.
I agree-I always thought Apple and Nintendo were similar in many ways in how they approached the consumer market.

(The latest two Nintendo products though (the 3DS and the new console) seem rather a rather un-Nintendo-like approach to me)
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I've recently spent a lot of time staying in hotels, while working away from home. Each evening, there would always be half a dozen business people sitting there with iPads. I never saw any other kind of tablet. Like it or loath it, there's no denying that the iPad has been a huge success.
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I do wonder about some of the sales estimates for Android tablets. I have yet to see one "in the wild". At church I'll see 8 or 10 people pull out iPads during Sunday School, because they have ecopies of scriptures - but there's not a single Android device in the room. Not a scientific measure of sales by any means, and highly localized - but it makes me wonder who is buying them.
What do you use yours for "in the wild"? I'm asking because I was with my ereader (eink) in the wild, but not with my tablet.
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I have an android tablet and almost never use it in the wild. Wild use is either in sunlight (and therefore restricted to my ereader) or on the go (and therefore restricted to my smartphone which is lighter than the tablet and has 3G).

My tablet is for home use pretty much exclusively. And maybe hotel use, but I don't travel.
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I've recently spent a lot of time staying in hotels, while working away from home. Each evening, there would always be half a dozen business people sitting there with iPads. I never saw any other kind of tablet. Like it or loath it, there's no denying that the iPad has been a huge success.
I've seen a tourist taking photos with an ipad, and it looked awkward.
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I've seen a tourist taking photos with an ipad, and it looked awkward.
I've seen that and you are right.

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I've seen a tourist taking photos with an ipad, and it looked awkward.
Even celebrities can't get away with it:
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I've seen that and you are right.
It's even weirder if you are behind the person. He wasn't looking at the scenery, just at the screen that was blocking his whole view, and he was using two hands to hold it.
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Old 08-18-2011, 01:13 PM   #99
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It's even weirder if you are behind the person. He wasn't looking at the scenery, just at the screen that was blocking his whole view, and he was using two hands to hold it.
Perhaps he didn't have his camera with him? You really wouldn't want to use the iPad's camera for real photography - its quality is rather poor - but I guess it's better than nothing if it's all that you have with you. I often use my iPhone's camera if it's all I have on me.
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Old 08-18-2011, 01:52 PM   #100
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The funny thing is when you show those apple users a tablet like NI-Adam or an Entourage eDGe (rip), they are amazed. A huge part of those apple users are just running behind others, from who they think they know what is good. They walk after a hype, instead looking around what is offered.
Apple has the best start and the best salesrap. They are a serious hero in playing the mass..

I hear more then ones that an ipad owner wants another tablet, with much more possibilities and the freedom of the owner to put on it what he wants.
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Old 08-18-2011, 02:17 PM   #102
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What do you use yours for "in the wild"? I'm asking because I was with my ereader (eink) in the wild, but not with my tablet.
When I was commuting on the bus I would use it a lot for reading or for watching movies - the bus ride was almost exactly the length of a TV show ripped from DVD (no ads).

Apart from that I use it while I'm browsing the local used DVD/CD stores; I have apps that I've entered my collections into, so I don't buy something I've already got (it's happened a couple of times ). When I'm shopping I use it to snap pictures of things I want to compare. For example, we saw a large welcome mat at Costco that we liked, but wanted to make sure it fit. I grabbed a picture of the product card (with measurements) so we could go home and verify that it was the right size. When comparing computers at multiple stores, I'd take pictures of the card they put out with the specs, so I could flip through them and compare.

I've also used it to take pictures of a plumbing issue that I was having, so I could show the folks at the hardware store and make sure I was buying the right parts.

I use it a lot at church - the LDS church has a fantastic application with the scriptures and various sunday school manuals and other church publications.

The end result is that I almost always take my ipad with me when I'm out, unless I'm just visiting friends.
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I go by Metro to work and I read on my Ipad-either books , or electronic version of the Atlantic, or news articles that I have saved through the Read It Later App. At work, I listen to podcasts or music. Occassionally I'll play a game during a break
When I go home, I surf the web, read lots of magazine content via Flipboard, watch movies, Tv shows, or Tedtalks in bed-trust me , my Ipad gets a lot of use, in and out the house!
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I've recently spent a lot of time staying in hotels, while working away from home. Each evening, there would always be half a dozen business people sitting there with iPads. I never saw any other kind of tablet. Like it or loath it, there's no denying that the iPad has been a huge success.
I see two devices constantly when I travel: the iPad, and the Kindle 3-and oddly always the graphite one.
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