I disagree that it's innovative. All they did was take a desktop concept and put it on a phone. How is that innovative?
You can take a stock, bought from the store Android phone, go into Google Play, and download widgets, apps or launchers that will completely change your homescreen layout to suit your needs. Some add minor touches like additional gesture support, and some (like TSF Shell) are major overhauls:ZOMG THE HOMESCREEN LOOKS THE SAME!!!
Well... This thread escalated quickly.
I didn't know I could put all sorts of re-sizable widgets on my old desktops or use things like gesture shortcuts that eliminate the need to navigate to apps or even have to launch them in the first place...
By that logic nothing is ever really innovative.
I didn't know I could put all sorts of re-sizable widgets on my old desktops or use things like gesture shortcuts that eliminate the need to navigate to apps or even have to launch them in the first place...
By that logic nothing is ever really innovative.
You can take a stock, bought from the store Android phone, go into Google Play, and download widgets, apps or launchers that will completely change your homescreen layout to suit your needs. Some add minor touches like additional gesture support, and some (like TSF Shell) are major overhauls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYzYQ6YtepU&feature=plcp
But the point being, stock iOS is stock iOS. Doesn't matter if you have an iPhone 3GS or an iPhone 5, the software experience will be very similar because Apple's slow iterative updates cater to the lowest common denominator. I guess that's great for people who want legacy device support, but phones from 2012 are completely different beasts than phones from 2009, and I'd rather have my mobile operating system take full advantage of my 2012 hardware.
I didn't know I could put all sorts of re-sizable widgets on my old desktops or use things like gesture shortcuts that eliminate the need to navigate to apps or even have to launch them in the first place...
By that logic nothing is ever really innovative.
Bestbuy mobile sells phones threw carriers.this was brought up about the nexus having low sales and I pointed out that the biggest retail store will not or does not sell the nexus 7.
Go into a best buy and buy one....YOU CANT now take that rumor the way you want to but Intel did the very same thing with amd.
Bottom line is you can't walk into a bestbuy and leave with a nexus 7
Lol, and so what? If Apple did 100% online sales it'd still move 10s of millions of iPads. You blame Apple for Best Buy not carrying the Nexus because of some stupid rumor on a forum posted by someone who sounds idiotic?
You don't need a tablet that does not have cellular connectivity to sell through a carrier. Do you blame low laptop sales on carriers not pushing you to get a laptop? The vast majority of iPad sales are Wifi models. The Nexus 7 is a wifi only model. If Verizon offered a 4G version would sales all of a sudden go through the roof? They would shoot up 20x to rival iPad sales? I doubt it.
I am quite happy Apple went with a quick refresh on the iPad personally. Getting a refurbished unit for $379 sounds like a damned good deal to me and I get to keep the old connector. I was pretty well convinced that my next tablet would be some sort of Android device but $379 is sounding pretty good right now.
My ipad depreciated $150 in value in just 6 months.
My ipad depreciated $150 in value in just 6 months.
My ipad depreciated $150 in value in just 6 months.
They're not investments. If you liked it last month, you should still like it this month.
You can take a stock, bought from the store Android phone, go into Google Play, and download widgets, apps or launchers that will completely change your homescreen layout to suit your needs. Some add minor touches like additional gesture support, and some (like TSF Shell) are major overhauls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYzYQ6YtepU&feature=plcp
But the point being, stock iOS is stock iOS. Doesn't matter if you have an iPhone 3GS or an iPhone 5, the software experience will be very similar because Apple's slow iterative updates cater to the lowest common denominator. I guess that's great for people who want legacy device support, but phones from 2012 are completely different beasts than phones from 2009, and I'd rather have my mobile operating system take full advantage of my 2012 hardware.
Yes, displaying icons on a grid is incredibly taxing, tell us more.Bold part's incredibly ironic seeing how iOS takes MUCH better advantage of hardware than Android does.
It's not going to flop, Apple has a fan base and they are rabid for product.I think the Mini is going to flop. It's one of those products where the better product is so much better it's worth paying extra; and if the iPad is too much, the below cost Android tablets are a better choice.
Lol, and so what? If Apple did 100% online sales it'd still move 10s of millions of iPads. You blame Apple for Best Buy not carrying the Nexus because of some stupid rumor on a forum posted by someone who sounds idiotic?
You don't need a tablet that does not have cellular connectivity to sell through a carrier. Do you blame low laptop sales on carriers not pushing you to get a laptop? The vast majority of iPad sales are Wifi models. The Nexus 7 is a wifi only model. If Verizon offered a 4G version would sales all of a sudden go through the roof? They would shoot up 20x to rival iPad sales? I doubt it.
Yes, displaying icons on a grid is incredibly taxing, tell us more.
If your argument is that iOS is optimized better for the hardware, you're absolutely correct. That's how a 3 year old phone can run iOS 6. For that very same reason, you can't say iOS 6 really takes advantage of the horsepower in an iPhone 5.
If you like icons on a grid with nothing else, iOS is the best show in town.
Yes, displaying icons on a grid is incredibly taxing, tell us more.
If your argument is that iOS is optimized better for the hardware, you're absolutely correct. That's how a 3 year old phone can run iOS 6. For that very same reason, you can't say iOS 6 really takes advantage of the horsepower in an iPhone 5.
If you like icons on a grid with nothing else, iOS is the best show in town.
Here's a vid, and they are virtually tied at the end (4.73 iP5 vs 4.66 GS3):The 5 does take advantage of the new hardware. Check out the vids of the 5 vs gs3. The gs3 loses in almost everything.
you cleary missed the point and Im not even going to attempt to explain it to you.
Hint bestbuy mobile is not bestbuy,they sell what the carriers sell,bestbuy sells what ever it wants and yes if verizon had a nexus with 4g bestbuy mobile would have to carry it.
what you seem to keep over looking is that bestbuy choosed to never even have the device in its stores or on there site,witch hurts sales to your post about low nexus sales and me telling you the biggest electronics brick and motor store dont sell it.
GET IT?
you cleary missed the point and Im not even going to attempt to explain it to you.
Hint bestbuy mobile is not bestbuy,they sell what the carriers sell,bestbuy sells what ever it wants and yes if verizon had a nexus with 4g bestbuy mobile would have to carry it.
what you seem to keep over looking is that bestbuy choosed to never even have the device in its stores or on there site,witch hurts sales to your post about low nexus sales and me telling you the biggest electronics brick and motor store dont sell it.
GET IT?
I think the Mini is going to flop. It's one of those products where the better product is so much better it's worth paying extra; and if the iPad is too much, the below cost Android tablets are a better choice.