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by jsz0 14y ago
Even if they had launched at the same time who is really going to buy a 2 pound tablet when you can get a $199 (soon $99) 7" tablet that weighs so much less? A regular laptop + cheap tablet killed the Surface Pro long before it had a chance
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by jsz0 14y ago
One point I'm not sure this article mentions is how gracefully you can switch between apps on the iPad with gestures. I do a lot of (non-development) work via Prompt and when I need to consult documentation I just swipe over to a PDF or web
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by jsz0 14y ago
IIRC the iPhone 5 (and probably others) are sRGB. I'm sure the N4 is an upgrade to the Galaxy Nexus though which cannot display any color without awful pentile distortions.
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by jsz0 14y ago
This one doesn't weigh 2lbs.
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by jsz0 14y ago
As far as bias goes the type of people who rushed out to buy a Surface early are probably the ones least likely to admit its buggy or slow. So there's that. I don't own one so I don't know. I have watched some YouTube videos though and was
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by jsz0 14y ago
Most of the problems with Windows 8 are typical Microsoft errors. This may be the most radical example of them but basically it fits into the same patterns. The UI revamp on the desktop side was almost entirely unnecessary from a user's sta
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by jsz0 14y ago
A little off topic but having used the iPad Mini for a few days I'm convinced it will dominate iPad sales in the near future. Even today I think the form factor makes up for the lack of a Retina display. I happily switched from the 3rd gene
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by jsz0 14y ago
Exactly. When they do a Retina display / A6 next year the margins will be lower yet the retail price will remain the same. They have to factor that in from the start. Apple almost never paints themselves into a corner on pricing.
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by jsz0 14y ago
I'm guessing most of Engadget's traffic comes from the US where unsubsidized/unlocked phones are not popular at all. That should explain it. No need for conspiracy theories.
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by jsz0 14y ago
I think it will be a huge success for Apple. I know a lot of folks want to believe Apple's success has just been some amazing fluke thus must end soon but there's really no indication out there the market has changed much since the original
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by jsz0 14y ago
Not sure I buy it. They floated higher prices before the original iPad came out too. I'm still betting on $249. They want the tech media to parrot the 'it's a great value at $249' angle of the story instead of focusing on the 'it's $50 more
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by jsz0 14y ago
I don't see how they could possibly justify their iPhone prices Two totally different markets. Carrier subsidies inflate the price of SmartPhones because the consumer is not paying the full price up front. They don't even know what the re
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by jsz0 14y ago
Wow a little too pricy for me especially after buying TweetBot for the iPad and iPhone separately. For me there is just not another $20 worth of value there. If they can sell it at that price though more power to them. Maybe they'll do a sa
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by jsz0 14y ago
The decision to make the switchover in iOS6 probably happened 8-10 months ago at minimum. After being shown off at WWDC, and with the need to ship iOS6 by the end of the year, their hands were tied. I think they just under estimated how muc
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by jsz0 14y ago
You have to take into account the larger memory footprint of iPad apps as well. No doubt they could have run the base OS without much trouble but there wouldn't be a lot of memory left over for apps. So an iPad 1 with iOS5 and enough free R
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by jsz0 14y ago
I wonder if a better approach would be to rebuild WebOS on top of an Android base instead? It seems like they are choosing to fight a war they cannot possibly win. If they want to run on other people's hardware why not build on top of a ver
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by jsz0 14y ago
The quality of the maps are not universally good or bad. It's a very local issue. If you have good map data in your area then you may have a great experience with Maps. If you have bad map data in your area you will have a terrible experien
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by jsz0 14y ago
Apple would be in exactly the same problematic position with Microsoft as they were with Google. Not worth the pain for no gain.
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by jsz0 14y ago
Schiller ignores that in his response, which could well mean that Apple doesn’t plan to replace or recall damaged iPhone 5s They have already been replacing them. In some cases they are letting people switch from black to white models if
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by jsz0 14y ago
I would guess most people want the carrier to do this stuff for them though I agree it should be optional. If you order directly from Apple you can avoid it. AT&T definitely did screw up their iPhone 5 launch in other ways. Lagging be
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by jsz0 14y ago
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with Apple's Maps. It doesn't excuse the pain it will cause users in the short term but I don't see anything that is going to be a long term problem for Apple. It's now just a process of fixing errors, st
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by jsz0 14y ago
Apple's Maps have been good for me so far in the north east United States. I greatly prefer the UI of Apple's Maps to Navigation on Android which is way too cluttered IMO. I find it easier to get things done with Apple Maps especially with
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by jsz0 14y ago
Pre-iOS6 I would often go through and tap on each search result to look at the screenshots, assuming I didn't already know exactly what I was looking for, so this saves me a couple extra steps there. If I know exactly what I am looking for
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by jsz0 14y ago
My single biggest annoyance is the last of support for calendar invites. Android just doesn't know what to do with them. I have to save them, open a file manager, view them in a text editor, manually create calendar events. Things like that
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by jsz0 14y ago
My computing experience became far more zen like when I gave up on ugly hacks and pointless tweaks. I just use the software how it's designed to work. Path of least resistance. Vast majority of the time this approach works great. Not sure i
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by jsz0 14y ago
Why? Apple's devices have rarely focused on raw performance though their access to the latest and greatest mobile GPUs has been way ahead of the curve in the last couple of years. Using a 4S it's actually a little hard for me to comprehend
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by jsz0 14y ago
Always tricky to compare yourself to your competitors so directly. You go into almost under the assumption most people don't want your product. I don't think that's really true of Samsung's products anymore. In the wake of the Samsung/Apple
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by jsz0 14y ago
By itself? Probably not. I leave LTE disabled on my Galaxy Nexus to save battery life most of the time. I can't even remember the last time I turned it on. It's nice for tethering I suppose but for normal usage it's not worth the battery co
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by jsz0 14y ago
The carrier subsidy model is partly to blame for that mindset. I don't know how many people really understand the device they are tossing around actually costs $650 and not $199.
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by jsz0 14y ago
No one who bought a 4S since launch day is eligible for an upgrade on most plans at this point. They are not the target market. It's the 3GS/4 owners. They are in for a huge upgrade going to the iPhone 5.

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