Yeah but they're not building a new data center every year and, as someone else mentioned, their R&D is spread over many devices since they essentially use the same parts. My point still stand that iTunes gives them an advantage whereas other manufacturers only have the hardware to sell. I should also add economies of scale as well...
iPad wins here because you can do so much more with it. Android tablets are oversized toys. With iPads you're nowhere near as limited.
They've had 2 years now to get it right... everyone and their mom knows the keys to victory are UI fluidity, physical platform, and the screen. Yet here we are a week from iPad stomping on Android's face. I just don't get it.
None of the quad core, 1080p, ICS running beauties from MWC struck your fancy, but you can claim that the iPad 3 will stomp Android only knowing that it might have a high resolution screen?
There's so much fail in this thread that the few accurate statements get completely over shadowed.
For months, you guys have been yammering for high res screens in your tablets, and now that you've finally got announced products coming down the pipeline with 1080p and a viable aspect ratio, you're still complaining? WTF do you want . . . your Android tablet autographed by Jesus, Buddha, and Muhammad?
Well to be fair the ipad sucked ass until the ipad 2 came out. Only apple fans bought them (granted there is 1billion fans) but in reality when ipad first came out it sucked. like when the iphone first came out it sucked. Iphone wasnt decent until the iphone 3. But it sold billions on fanbase alone. I am actually interested in the ipad3. If I could connect as a usb device I would consider one.I remember when Apple first announced the iPad, everybody laughed. They predicted how badly it will fail.
People made fun of it because of the MadTV skit with the 'iPad' joke.
Even though it is just an oversized iPod Touch (with more functionality), people still made fun of it (Xoom commercial)
Steve Ballmer said that "Apple's iPad is their 'Windows Vista'"
now who's laughing? Certainly not google, HP, and especially not Motorola.
after all these years only Samsung has learned to create a brand. everyone else comes out with a different named tablet every 2 months, kills support fast and expects people to buy into it
you still have to buy the servers,
pay the crazy precious metal support contract prices where cisco will replace stuff in 4 hours or have an oracle/EMC guy on site costs $1 million a year.
the storage prices are insane since you need something like 3 to 5 times the raw storage to usable storage. and the enterprise hard drives are like 10 times the prices of the consumer ones
you have to build in redundancy so that if things fail your store doesn't go down. that means buying crap to just sit around and do nothing
pay amazon and MS for icloud
pay the people and the very nice benefits that apple offers
buy huge AC units which suck up even more AC
pay the electricity which is a lot in a 24x7 operation
Well to be fair the ipad sucked ass until the ipad 2 came out. Only apple fans bought them (granted there is 1billion fans) but in reality when ipad first came out it sucked. like when the iphone first came out it sucked. Iphone wasnt decent until the iphone 3. But it sold billions on fanbase alone. I am actually interested in the ipad3. If I could connect as a usb device I would consider one.
As far as Android goes...think of this as a non technical consumer. Ice Cream Sandwich? Seriously? Do you think that is even remotely useful to anyone outside of the heavily technical niche of fanboys? I laugh every time I hear that being used. Dumbest. OS. Name. Ever.
As far as Android goes...think of this as a non technical consumer. Ice Cream Sandwich? Seriously? Do you think that is even remotely useful to anyone outside of the heavily technical niche of fanboys? I laugh every time I hear that being used. Dumbest. OS. Name. Ever.
Well to be fair the ipad sucked ass until the ipad 2 came out. Only apple fans bought them (granted there is 1billion fans) but in reality when ipad first came out it sucked. like when the iphone first came out it sucked. Iphone wasnt decent until the iphone 3. But it sold billions on fanbase alone. I am actually interested in the ipad3. If I could connect as a usb device I would consider one.
It's called Android 4.0
Not that much different from iOS 5.0
... Unless you're just talking about the name itself? In which case... I don't remember ever caring about what the name of an OS was (which is Android 4.0 by the way).
Just like how everyone refers to OSX by "Snow Leopard" and "Lion" instead of OSX 10.6 and OSX 10.7I have never heard it called Android 4.0. Ever. Every reference in any tech site or post has referenced it by "Ice Cream Sandwich". To which I have to say is completely lost on anyone outside of the tech world.
outside of the geek subset, the only reason people go with android is because apple isn't available. you know that the iPhone was ATT only for like 4 years, right?
Which just goes back to why the iPad did/does well. It was a perfectly functional device out of the box with just incremental updates to the OS along the way. It really didn't matter what version of iOS you had. No massive software overhaul to make it useable or competive. No fragmented UI from one brand to another. If you used one iPad you used them all.