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Downside: it's a Motley Fool article. Tomorrow they'll likely say exactly the opposite and explain in gory detail exactly why IOS is poised to finally crush An

by varelse 13y ago

Downside: it's a Motley Fool article. Tomorrow they'll likely say exactly the opposite and explain in gory detail exactly why IOS is poised to finally crush Android. I've long since abandoned them. Upside: They have a point about techies. I have an Ipad Air that crushes every Android tablet I've ever owned w/r to usability (Nexus 7, Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire HD, Galaxy 10.1 and yes I know they're all at least a year-old but all of them became janky* within months of buying them and stayed that way). Despite that, I'll probably buy a Nexus 5 when the contract for my Galaxy Nexus (a phone Google abandoned like Sergei Brin abandons marriage) because I find the presentation of information on Android more intuitive to me and I'll just assume I need to buy a new phone every year going forward therefore no more contracts. *http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:janky http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:janky

matwood 13y ago
The Kindles are extremely low bars to cross. The HW isn't very good (other than the screen which is okay), and the OS customizations make them one of the most confusing tablets to use. The N7 was a tablet more my size, but it wasn't perfect either. All of the iPads pre-mini were to big and heavy for my tastes. The first iPad mini was waste of a good size with it's poor screen and iPad 2 internals. I haven't seen one yet in person, but I think the new iPad mini with a retina display is going to become the iPad to have.
cwisecarver 13y ago
Full disclosure: I'm a developer there. The Motley Fool doesn't have one view on a stock. Each contributor, staff writer, and analyst have their own opinions. Hence "motley." So yeah, there's a good chance you'll come back tomorrow and see other content on the site offering differing opinions. We do our best to keep transparency in this. Every article has a disclosure at the bottom listing the stocks the writer owns and the stocks the company owns. All of our contributors are encouraged to use caps.fool.com to make forward-looking picks on stocks, explaining why they think they'll go up or down over a certain time period. This is all available to the public. Our premium memberships even keep a scorecard of every recommendation or trade that we make and a bottom-line comparison against a benchmark (S&P 500, or another index that lines up with the universe of stocks we're looking at.) Both buys and sells are included so if a premium service changes their opinion of a stock we let our members know.

by varelse 13y ago

matwood 13y ago

The Kindles are extremely low bars to cross. The HW isn't very good (other than the screen which is okay), and the OS customizations make them one of the most confusing tablets to use. The N7 was a tablet more my size, but it wasn't perfect either. All of the iPads pre-mini were to big and heavy for my tastes. The first iPad mini was waste of a good size with it's poor screen and iPad 2 internals. I haven't seen one yet in person, but I think the new iPad mini with a retina display is going to become the iPad to have.

cwisecarver 13y ago

Full disclosure: I'm a developer there. The Motley Fool doesn't have one view on a stock. Each contributor, staff writer, and analyst have their own opinions. Hence "motley." So yeah, there's a good chance you'll come back tomorrow and see other content on the site offering differing opinions. We do our best to keep transparency in this. Every article has a disclosure at the bottom listing the stocks the writer owns and the stocks the company owns. All of our contributors are encouraged to use caps.fool.com to make forward-looking picks on stocks, explaining why they think they'll go up or down over a certain time period. This is all available to the public. Our premium memberships even keep a scorecard of every recommendation or trade that we make and a bottom-line comparison against a benchmark (S&P 500, or another index that lines up with the universe of stocks we're looking at.) Both buys and sells are included so if a premium service changes their opinion of a stock we let our members know.