[citation][nom]dcompart[/nom]Just send your iPad 2 my direction, I'll gladly take it.I think we need to start a fight club, for both the iHaters and Android Haters. I think it would be productive to get all this anger out and realize the actual benefit of both OS(s) coexisting, rather than trying to phase each other out. It's all about competition. Sure the iPhone revolutionized the smartphone industry initially and now the flood of android devices made by several manufactures have made one company's (Apple) devices obsolete (depending what you're focusing on). I think people expect devices to do more than what they were initially designed to do. If Apple comes up with new tech and Android builds upon it no one notices. When Android comes up with new tech, people get angry and expect an iPhone to do the same, which is unrealistic.I have an iPhone 3GS, do I want and iPhone 4, no. I think that generation is junk and not worth using my 2-yr contract on. Do I want Android? No, I had a 14 day trial with Android (as well as a friend's phone) and the Marketplace is full of dull & junk apps. They are not optimized to conserve battery or system resources. My brother has a Evo 4G, it has sweet hardware and software but there's again the Marketplace (Get your underutilized apps here!). Sure an iPhone is behind hardware wise, but it's getting the most out of the hardware with the great AppStore apps..Like the South Park: Humancentipad episode, "You didn't read the terms and conditions?"If I were to drop $400+ on a device I would be at an Apple Store or Android carrier demoing out the device to justify my purchase..[/citation]
I'll gladly sell it to you at the rock bottom prices that apple sold it to me. The bottom line is I'm not going with iOS or Android, what I learned from my iPad 2 and my iphone 3gs, is that iOS is great for a cell phone, and it's garbage for a tablet. The bottom line is i only occassionly browse on my iphone to get quick information, where as my tablet, I actually browse the same sites I would with my desktop or laptop. Because of the larger screen size there is simply more I want to do with the tablet, I'm not trying to run cad here of course, but you give me 10 inch's practically of screen space, and inherently I might want to do some quick doc edition, pop open that excel, and you know I might to put both documents side by side.
The short of it, iOS sucks for tablets, the lack of flash and java while on the phone no biggie sucks for a tablet. Now, I'm not being a fanboy I couldn't wait to get the ipad 2, now, after having it, aside from being a glorified e-reader for me and playing angry birds, was the worst $700 i've ever spent. Screw android and iOS, the minute windows 8 hits a tablet I'm there.
Like I said the same reason ultimately apple got it's .... handed to them by the PC, is the same reason, MS will do them in again, they are trying to hard to tell people how they should be using the product they just paid $700 for, and they don't want to let 3rd parties fix the inherent problems in the system. windows 8, real multitasking (not just allowing you to listen to music, while browse the net) meaning put app A side by side to app B, java, flash, and dealing with the web the way it's 4 billion sites have been developed as opposed to how you think they should have developed, all of this is enough for me to not buy another ipad, if apple fixes it , or when the roughly 4 billion websites out there turn to HTML 5 (facetious I'm being), then maybe I'll shell out the cash again.
But, you are right, I won't buy it, and sure it works for some, but not for me, and not at that price actually not at any price, it's not worth it, because, there is basic .... I should be able to do that I can't.
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