The iPad Killer

[mygaybuffet]

Thank you for this.

I don't hate any products, I just think some are better than others. Seems like the OP has it out for Apple, and yet, has some of their products. Kind of hypocritical, no?

I don't by any means underestimate Apple's staying power! The fact that they can convince millions of their minions to shell out hundreds of dollars for each and every little minor upgrade speaks to their power. However when those blind minions slowly start to realize that there are comparable if not better products out there priced more economically, that's when Apple will collapse. Its day of doom is closer than you think!

 

[chrisw87]

This is why I have always preferred non-apple MP3 devices, I tried the iPod twice, never a fan, I am much happier with creative products to be honest.

players like this also are dead simple, drag and drop, plug and play etc etc etc.

I don't hang around fiddling with my electronics anyways, I have a laptop, and a desktop, and a mobile phone. That is it. I use my phone as a phone usually, though it has a few android apps on there at the moment.

 

[asu1117]

I don't by any means underestimate Apple's staying power! The fact that they can convince millions of their minions to shell out hundreds of dollars for each and every little minor upgrade speaks to their power. However when those blind minions slowly start to realize that there are comparable if not better products out there priced more economically, that's when Apple will collapse. Its day of doom is closer than you think!

Jeez man, you need to relax. They're just another company, no worse. Some of their products aren't top of the line, but some of them are very good. There's this thing called free will, no one is being forced to buy an Apple product. Apple has become a norm with the younger generations now, their sleek aesthetics are never (really) competed with. They will be around for awhile. But that doesn't mean they will always necessarily be dominant. That depends on how they choose to proceed.

 

[giftart]

This look pretty! I want! <3

 

[mygaybuffet]

This is why I have always preferred non-apple MP3 devices, I tried the iPod twice, never a fan, I am much happier with creative products to be honest.

players like this also are dead simple, drag and drop, plug and play etc etc etc.

I don't hang around fiddling with my electronics anyways, I have a laptop, and a desktop, and a mobile phone. That is it. I use my phone as a phone usually, though it has a few android apps on there at the moment.

You could not have made my point better for me!

That would be a very easy task. It's just that apple doesn't want it to do that.

There's a work-around, silly, that even I, a low- to mid-level computer user, can understand.

This workaround?:

I don't know why, but if your iPhone has one iTunes library and your laptop has a different iTunes library, that's a conflict and it doesn't know which one you want to use. Apparently the software isn't sophisticated enough to merge the two into one big library. Before you would do anything else, I would try to back up what's on your iPhone to a CD or DVD-R, so that you don't lose that music. That may mean first copying it to your laptop's hard drive, then backing it up onto a CD. Then no matter what you do next, you won't truly lose anything. After you have done that, I would try importing all the songs from that into your iTunes on your laptop. Then your iTunes Library on your laptop should have all of your music, merged into one Library. Then you could sync your iPhone to that, and that should solve your problem without losing any of your music. Apple should address this in the future with a "merge libraries" function or something. There may be some reason why they haven't done that yet, possibly that it could make violating copyright law easier or something. But for now, I think you will have to use this manual method to get all of your music into one iTunes Library on your laptop. Then it should be simple to sync your iPhone to it.

I don't think so!!

Apple needs to make it simpler---why can't I plug in my iPhone 4 and have my computer just treat as another external drive?!

 

[mygaybuffet]

I CANNOT WAIT for this tablet


That Tegra 3 is going to absolutely slay any and all tasks I throw at it.


Honeycomb is a beautiful operating system and when this thing gets Ice Cream Sandwich it can only get better.

I...Cannot....Wait.... Oh and did I mention how sexy it is?

I just got a hold of this spec sheet!

 

[mygaybuffet]

^Thanks but those instructions will not work for an iPhone or iPod Touch.^

 

[Telstra]

According to spec sheet on post 27,
the Asus pad is better and faster. I'll buy the Asus pad if i need one, so i can put anything i want rather than go thro iTune (a pain in the ass).

 

[mygaybuffet]

According to spec sheet on post 27,
the Asus pad is better and faster. I'll buy the Asus pad if i need one, so i can put anything i want rather than go thro iTune (a pain in the ass).

I'm so glad to hear someone else finally admit that there's something better than the iShit!

Can we be friends?!

 

[MoltenRock III]

Jeez man, you need to relax. They're just another company, no worse. Some of their products aren't top of the line, but some of them are very good. There's this thing called free will, no one is being forced to buy an Apple product. Apple has become a norm with the younger generations now, their sleek aesthetics are never (really) competed with. They will be around for awhile. But that doesn't mean they will always necessarily be dominant. That depends on how they choose to proceed.

Ya gotta love an Apple hater. They are just like wingnut Republicans. They have no rhyme nor reason for their hate. They just have racial hate. They hate Apple. *meh*

I love Apple products. However, like you, I don't buy EVERYTHING Apple. I don't own an iPhone. But, their other products that fit my lifestyle rock! Unfortunately, the haters will always hate, as they have no clue what reality is.

*shrug* Fuck 'em, I say.

 

[Stoowii]

Ya gotta love an Apple hater. They are just like wingnut Republicans. They have no rhyme nor reason for their hate. They just have racial hate. They hate Apple. *meh*

I love Apple products. However, like you, I don't buy EVERYTHING Apple. I don't own an iPhone. But, their other products that fit my lifestyle rock! Unfortunately, the haters will always hate, as they have no clue what reality is.

*shrug* Fuck 'em, I say.

I love you.

But I do have an iPhone. =p

 

[MoltenRock III]

I love you.

But I do have an iPhone. =p

I LOVE the iPhone, I just hate AT&T more. I am on TMobile, and alas, no iPhone. For me I travel the world on biz, and TMobile is the best for customer service. Thus, I have a GPhone2. *shrug*

 

[mygaybuffet]

Ya gotta love an Apple hater. They are just like wingnut Republicans. They have no rhyme nor reason for their hate. They just have racial hate. They hate Apple. *meh*

I love Apple products. However, like you, I don't buy EVERYTHING Apple. I don't own an iPhone. But, their other products that fit my lifestyle rock! Unfortunately, the haters will always hate, as they have no clue what reality is.

*shrug* Fuck 'em, I say.

How am i an Apple hater if I have an iPhone 4?! It's not hating if you want better out of your life. Apple has the potential to be one of the greatest but is royally fucking itself by not listening to its customers! Remember customers are the ones who pay the bills!! I have been for years patient with Apple hoping that they'd turn it around. They haven't. Their competition has picked up on that growing discontent and for the first time there's a product that leaves Apple choking in the dust! How is that hating?! I'm simply calling a spade a spade!!!

Check yourself before you wreck yourself!!!!

Facts do not lie!

 

[Arcturus]

Those are just specs. Specs don't mean everything. The average consumer could care less about what kind of processor is in their tablet. They want something that works and something that is easy to use, with a great interface. Apple delivers well on those accounts. Whatever Apple is doing is working for them; they are considered the most valuable company in the world or something along those lines. You are unhappy with Apple, so don't buy their products. It's rather simple.

 

[Arcturus]

Agreed! That is fixed however on the iPad3, which will be out January'ish. Apple is stockpiling 3 million of the new iPad in warehouses in the US as we speak, and will have their goal by EOY.

I don't think this is correct. Apple is still trying to perfect the Retina Display that they want to put in the iPad 3. They want to double the resolution, but problems are arising. Manufacturers are having trouble mass producing them, and the iPad might not be powerful enough to handle it. If it is, then there is still battery life to worry about. I think the earliest estimate is March for the next iPad's debut.

 

[Telstra]

Ya gotta love an Apple hater. They are just like wingnut Republicans. They have no rhyme nor reason for their hate. They just have racial hate. They hate Apple. *meh*

I love Apple products. However, like you, I don't buy EVERYTHING Apple. I don't own an iPhone. But, their other products that fit my lifestyle rock! Unfortunately, the haters will always hate, as they have no clue what reality is.

*shrug* Fuck 'em, I say.

Apple is a race you idiot ? ...

Anyway, didn't i say i use an apple product ?

 

[MoltenRock III]

Those are just specs. Specs don't mean everything. The average consumer could care less about what kind of processor is in their tablet. They want something that works and something that is easy to use, with a great interface. Apple delivers well on those accounts. Whatever Apple is doing is working for them; they are considered the most valuable company in the world or something along those lines. You are unhappy with Apple, so don't buy their products. It's rather simple.

Thank you.

I have been an "Apple guy" since 2002 when the first new iMac "bowling ball" came out. Obviously, I had used them before this in college, but back then so-called "experts" were proclaiming Apple dead. LOL! Then Mac OS X came out, and started the tsunami reinvigorating Apple.

The thing is Apple PWNS the tablet market for a very good reason. It has bought and locked up production of all the major vendors of the tablet "pieces / parts" market, including their purchase of Intrinsity. Given the nearly 1/2 million apps available on the iPad..... it's going to be an Apple world for a long time to come. How many apps does this Asus tablet have? 10,000? 25,000? 50,000?

 

[Arcturus]

Thank you.

I have been an "Apple guy" since 2002 when the first new iMac "bowling ball" came out. Obviously, I had used them before this in college, but back then so-called "experts" were proclaiming Apple dead. LOL! Then Mac OS X came out, and started the tsunami reinvigorating Apple.

The thing is Apple PWNS the tablet market for a very good reason. It has bought and locked up production of all the major vendors of the tablet "pieces / parts" market, including their purchase of Intrinsity. Given the nearly 1/2 million apps available on the iPad..... it's going to be an Apple world for a long time to come. How many apps does this Asus tablet have? 10,000? 25,000? 50,000?

It'll probably have access to the Android Market. I looked it up and apparently it has 360,000 apps total. However, we don't know which ones are for tablets and which ones are for Smartphones. Since the Android tablets are newer, I would say that most are for smartphones.

I don't think I would ever buy the ASUS tablet. For one, I don't like Android. But, it's just weird to me. It's like a tablet-notebook fusion. As someone who doesn't want a tablet it wouldn't appeal to me. As someone who loves my MacBook Pro, a fully powered laptop, it also wouldn't appeal to me. I also like Apple's closed platform better. There are tons of devices running Android, but only a few running iOS. It's easier to keep track of, and I really like that. But, one thing I would like to know is if the keyboard/trackpad comes with the tablet. If it doesn't then I am not sure if they should be marketing them together. If they aren't, then my whole 2 in 1 thing is wrong.

 

[blackbeltninja]

Agreed! That is fixed however on the iPad3, which will be out January'ish. Apple is stockpiling 3 million of the new iPad in warehouses in the US as we speak, and will have their goal by EOY.

Didn't iPad2 only just come out?

Why the fuck don't they build a proper one which has what people want/need in it already instead of reissuing them with repairs and upgrades every year?

I swear, when they launch the iCar the Mk-I won't have wheels, the Mk II will have wheels but won't have an engine and the Mk III will have both but won't actually be roadworthy. But still every Apple fanboy will queue up for MONTHS to have the honour of having one of each up on bricks in his yard for everyone to see how cool he is. And of course he won't think he's a sucker AT ALL.

-d-

 

[teadrinker]

The main problem with the iPad is its reliance on iTunes, which is simply awful software. If Apple produced an iPad which was upgradable without iTunes (for example, could simply be plugged in and treated as an external drive), I'd be interested. For now, however, my heart belongs to Android. And yes, the new ASUS does look very nice.

As to keyboards, the Logitech Zagg 2 bluetooth keyboard for the iPad is a wonderful thing, according to those who have one. (A few people at my work have them and love them.)

-T.