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Tablets - toys or tools?

fls said:
How on earth is someone offering a product that offers the features some people prefer telling you what you want????

This is baffling to me.
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Because it is a business model that pisses me of and means I will not buy their product.
 
nvidiot said:
Indeed, if you don't like the features the iPhone offers, or the iPad or any device really, then don't buy it.

Re iPad ram mostly I want more to avoid the refreshing of webpages. I usually like to have a few tabs going at once, but once you get more than a couple of tabs open when you switch between them the pages have to be reloaded. Which kinda sucks, because half the reason I'm switching between pages is waiting for them to load.

Re 16 and 32 gb, it would be nice to have more but I seem to get by quite well with several thousand photos and hundreds of songs just fine. Again, if it doesn't meet your storage requirements, don't buy it.
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But you have to ham string every model in some way, especially the first. How else are you supposed to get people to buy next years model when they already have this years model?

It also isn't just about if I need it, it is that I see no reason other than them over charging for extra memory that they don't have a card reader. This kind of blatant screwing of their customers over bothers me.
 
Fast Eddie B said:
Which may be a wise choice.

In the beginning, there was the Mac (I bought one of the 128k (!) 400k floppy Macs in 1985). The the "Fat" Mac, then the Mac Plus. Basically, if you wanted a Mac you bought a Mac.

By about the early 90's there were so many models of Mac it was totally confusing. From the little I know about sales, offering too many choices can kill a sale.
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And yet many other computer companies give you a lot of choice and even personalize a computer to your own specifications. That just shows the difference between their customers and apples.
 
ponderingturtle said:
And yet many other computer companies give you a lot of choice and even personalize a computer to your own specifications. That just shows the difference between their customers and apples.
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Is there some rule that says a computer must be customizable? Or is it just a matter of preference?
 
ponderingturtle said:
And yet many other computer companies give you a lot of choice and even personalize a computer to your own specifications. That just shows the difference between their customers and apples.
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Yes.

I think the fallacy I'm about to commit is "argument from final consequences", but it may include others as well.

With its strategy, and even with its small market share, Apple is the second-highest valued US company and is sitting on either 25 or 50 BILLION in cash, depending on how you calculate it.

They seem to be doing something right, which I know does seem to aggravate or stupefy others!
 
Fast Eddie B said:
offering too many choices can kill a sale.
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This is quite true! But, I wonder if this is hurting Android. Would the OS be selling any more, if there were fewer products based on it?

I think the niches that the devices fall into are being sold according to the demands of those niches, and not soley on the grounds of its operating system.

And, if you think about it: Every carrier only has a few Android phones each, and every hardware making only puts out a few phones each. So, each one is like Apple, in that way. They just happen to be unified on a platform.

Fast Eddie B said:
YWith its strategy, and even with its small market share, Apple is the second-highest valued US company and is sitting on either 25 or 50 BILLION in cash, depending on how you calculate it.
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Apple's success is not necessarily relevant to determining if a device is a tool or a toy.

But, it is interesting to think: If iPads really were mere toys, would Apple then be considered one of the largest toy makers?!
 
ponderingturtle said:
Because it is a business model that pisses me of and means I will not buy their product.
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Yep, some of us actually do enjoy and embrace making choices.

I seem to be enjoying my time examining new Tablet PCs a little more than I expected. It's really been a while since I've looked at this market, and they've come a long way since 2006!
 
Wowbagger said:
Does the new iPhone have self-destruct? I didn't think it did, but I could be wrong.
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I think all phones I've ever had have had self-destruct. Although admittedly it usually required activation via some external factor, such as gravity or a river.
 
Cuddles said:
I think all phones I've ever had have had self-destruct. Although admittedly it usually required activation via some external factor, such as gravity or a river.
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And telekinesis.

Linda
 
I had a tablet in 2001 with voice and handwriting recognition and flipout screen that revealed a full keyboard and rotated around to make a laptop. It cost 1000 back then, much less than the "tabs" of today locked in to rediculous 3g plans..

so until tablets mature enough to come down in pricing and not require carrier subsidy/lockins and you can get bandwidth of more than 2gb a month they're of no use to me :)
 
For those who just tuned in, I am acquiring a new Tablet PC: That means a real PC laptop, with a swivel screen, that converts into a tablet form factor... NOT one of those iPad/Android tablets.

I might still be leaning towards the Toshiba, since it will work with some of my existing Toshiba accessories: Extended battery, extra stylus pens, etc.
And, the price/performance ratio seems good.
Though, its track record for service and reliability seems a little lower than the others.

Some others are putting up a good fight: Levono, Fujitsu, and Dell, etc.

Skwinty said:
Buy the one you can afford.:)
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Good advice. I think I'll skip the the jewel-encrusted models, then.
 
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