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I can't trust a Wired review of an iPad competitor. This whole thing of magazines and newspapers clearly championing what they think is their next meal ticket i

by yanw 17y ago

I can't trust a Wired review of an iPad competitor. This whole thing of magazines and newspapers clearly championing what they think is their next meal ticket isn't ethically sound.

arch_hunter 17y ago
I read Wired for their in-depth articles about cool things. I have recently stopped reading most of their articles reviewing Apple products and sports cars as I find most of them to be border-line fanboyish and contain very little infromation that I could not find elsewhere without the fanboy tint.
ashleyw 17y ago
Engadget video review: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/fusion-garage-joojoo-review/ http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/fusion-garage-joojoo-revi... You can see for yourself how buggy the UI is.
- warfangle 17y ago
  Guy says the choppy flash is due to "not having hardware acceleration for flash," which is flat out wrong. Choppy flash video is well known to anyone who's tried to watch Hulu on a Linux machine that isn't, say, a quad cpu dual core 4ghz with 16gb of ram. (and even then, it only hits about 22 fps) </slight exaggeration>
  - tvon 17y ago
    I've heard the "no Flash hardware acceleration under Linux" repeated a lot but can't find any concrete info.. could you elaborate?
    - wmf 17y ago
      http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2010/01/welcome_to_the_thicket.html http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2010/01/welcome_to_the_th... http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2010/01/solving_different_problems.html http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2010/01/solving_different...
  - raganwald 17y ago
    A thread around here recently said that to get HW acceleration for Flash, you either need to talk Adobe in to writing it for you, or you need to pony up $$$ for their SDK and do it yourself. Except, the SDK is two major versions old, v.7 instead of v.9. So for many platforms, you're SOL for hardware acceleration. Do I have it completely wrong?
lftl 17y ago
Their review stayed relatively factual. There's only one or two "feeling" type criticisms. The headline is probably the most biased bit. I'd actually be shocked given the drama surrounding this device if it had come out as a thoroughly polished competitor. Besides, isn't their next meal ticket much more about the form factor than the actual iPad? I mean, isn't the JooJoo pad or any other small enough to be mobile, but big enough to read on device just as good for Wired or any other company to build on? I really hope it's the form factor that becomes popular and not just the iPad.

by yanw 17y ago

I can't trust a Wired review of an iPad competitor. This whole thing of magazines and newspapers clearly championing what they think is their next meal ticket isn't ethically sound.

arch_hunter 17y ago

I read Wired for their in-depth articles about cool things. I have recently stopped reading most of their articles reviewing Apple products and sports cars as I find most of them to be border-line fanboyish and contain very little infromation that I could not find elsewhere without the fanboy tint.

ashleyw 17y ago

Engadget video review: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/fusion-garage-joojoo-review/ http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/fusion-garage-joojoo-revi... You can see for yourself how buggy the UI is.

warfangle 17y ago
Guy says the choppy flash is due to "not having hardware acceleration for flash," which is flat out wrong. Choppy flash video is well known to anyone who's tried to watch Hulu on a Linux machine that isn't, say, a quad cpu dual core 4ghz with 16gb of ram. (and even then, it only hits about 22 fps) </slight exaggeration>
- tvon 17y ago
  I've heard the "no Flash hardware acceleration under Linux" repeated a lot but can't find any concrete info.. could you elaborate?
  - wmf 17y ago
    http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2010/01/welcome_to_the_thicket.html http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2010/01/welcome_to_the_th... http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2010/01/solving_different_problems.html http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2010/01/solving_different...
- raganwald 17y ago
  A thread around here recently said that to get HW acceleration for Flash, you either need to talk Adobe in to writing it for you, or you need to pony up $$$ for their SDK and do it yourself. Except, the SDK is two major versions old, v.7 instead of v.9. So for many platforms, you're SOL for hardware acceleration. Do I have it completely wrong?

lftl 17y ago

Their review stayed relatively factual. There's only one or two "feeling" type criticisms. The headline is probably the most biased bit. I'd actually be shocked given the drama surrounding this device if it had come out as a thoroughly polished competitor. Besides, isn't their next meal ticket much more about the form factor than the actual iPad? I mean, isn't the JooJoo pad or any other small enough to be mobile, but big enough to read on device just as good for Wired or any other company to build on? I really hope it's the form factor that becomes popular and not just the iPad.