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Move Over Apple, My Dell Cost only $400 and I don't understand the fact that you're aiming for an upmarket quality play like usual! Computers are computers, tab
by tmcw 16y ago
Move Over Apple, My Dell Cost only $400 and I don't understand the fact that you're aiming for an upmarket quality play like usual! Computers are computers, tablets are tablets, right? Just like cars, right?
- runjake 16y agoEdit: Whoops. My sarcasm detector is broken. Coffee++
- redial 16y agoyour irony detector must be broken.
- christo16 16y agoI think you mean sarcasm detector
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoSarcasm and irony overlap. This was both.
- Kylekramer 16y agoI thought everyone was saying the iPad is remarkable cause Apple wasn't aiming for an upmarket play?
- code_duck 16y agoI think Apple sees the iPad as their netbook. It fills a similar role for the user - cafe, bed, train, casual use - and note how they don't have a notebook with a screen smaller than 11". Compared to a netbook, the iPad is upmarket in style, branding and price. As far as touchscreen tablets though, as pioneers of the market they didn't have anyone else to position themselves against, besides Archos.
- calbear81 16y agoI think of the Macbook air as the competitor to most netbooks only in form factor/physical keyboard functionality but definitely not in price. Most users are using the iPads casually but the adoption in corporate IT environments and in other "professional" settings is compelling (FAA just approved the use of iPads for pilots to replace paper charts/logs) and many hospitals are using iPads.
- code_duck 16y agoYou could view the MacBook Pro in about the same way - it is competition to notebooks in every way except for price. They cost twice as much as non-Apple notebooks with comparable specs. I think the second part of your comment would apply to netbooks, too. It's just that nobody takes note of them in the same way because they don't seem as novel as iPads.
- calbear81 16y agoThere's another thread on here comparing the MBP to the HP Envy and I make the argument that you can't factor out the intangibles when comparing specs between MBPs and PC laptop - OS is highly personal, design/status symbol is of value.