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Agreed, bluber, that has been my experience with Android devices as well - they just lack elegance, style, and most of all, ease of use.
Sure, nerds will keep insisting how easy it is to root their Android phone, and flash it with a new firmware to gain some new functionality... And how how this is easy enough for everyone... Uh huh 
As you said, you have a year, and patience is always a good virtue in this space. Apple will release a new iPhone (named "the new iPhone") around September/October, and the next iPad (by then also called, again, "the new iPad") in March/April of 2013.
There's a lot of crazy rumors about the next iPhone, though I don't see significant changes in the design, and I'm 50/50 about it being an LTE iPhone. I honestly don't believe this year's iPhone will bring LTE, as I see the iPad benefitting significantly more from LTE than the iPhone.
I do believe that this summer's WWDC will introduce iOS 6, and it remains to be seen how Apple intends to wow developers with the next operating system.
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Posted on: 6:57 pm on Mar. 19, 2012
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vox
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jeezus, bitch, when you eat can you taste ANY food at all, due to the taste of shit from your constantly licking Apple's rectum?!?!
don't get me wrong, I'm a total Apple user, I would be lost without my 17" MBP (still going strong after almost 4 years, thank you Apple Care! though I'll be getting a new one this summer, finally...), but f***, man, give credit where credit is due: the iPhone is a TOY next to Android...
and no, you don't need to be a programming-level nerd, haha, and you DON'T have to root your phone (especially with a Galaxy Nexus running Ice Cream Sandwich, which is what I just got)...Android is all about customizing, making it work for YOU, changing everything according to your needs...seamlessly interacting with all platforms, including (but not limited to) Apple...and the iPhone just does not let you do that...
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Posted on: 9:11 pm on Mar. 20, 2012
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from vox on 9:11 am on Mar. 21, 2012
Android is all about customizing, making it work for YOU, changing everything according to your needs...seamlessly interacting with all platforms, including (but not limited to) Apple...and the iPhone just does not let you do that...
That's great if it works for you - it's FAR from "seamless" for the average folks.
Heck, even developers are now starting to turn away from the Android platform and shifting to iOS.
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Posted on: 9:34 pm on Mar. 20, 2012
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bluber
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"the iPhone is a TOY next to Android... "
Exactly. And this almost childish intuitive elegance is the quality that makes it stand out. With my Android gadgets, Sony E Ray and Samsung 7.7 tablet, I have to return to the manual time and again and still don't get it right. If I am playing a TV broadcast on the internet, suddenly a Fox podcast jumps in without telling me where to find it and when I have to leave the broadcast to try to find that Fox thing I almost never manage to get back to where I left the broadcast. Just one example of many. With Apple I just get back to the broadcast where I left it. I don't need any manual. I am an old school guy and this is why I love Apple. Hate complications.
Said so much I do like the "creamy", almost Zeiss-like, color saturation of the Samsung Super AMOLED screen, and also of the small Sony screen which is why I can live with these gadgets for a year or so before I return to Apple. A year btw is the time it will take for me to learn how Android works.
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Posted on: 5:57 am on Mar. 21, 2012
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from DaffyDuck on 4:17 pm on Jan. 12, 2011
Nice graveyard of wannabe tablets over the next year, I have no doubt.
So, it's been a bit over a year - and how admirably have those Android tablets done?
Disastrously so, with Apple maintaining and growing their *actual* 80% of the tablet market, and continuing to lead with iOS share in the mobile market, in general.
No single Android tablet manufacturer has managed to get above 2% actual share of the market, with all combined bringing in less than 10%, with the balance of the share brought in by Amazon's Kindle and the hundreds of no-name Chinese manufacturers.
Oh, right... Android will dominate "any day now"....
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Posted on: 1:32 am on Mar. 29, 2012
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DaffyDuck
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So, who was the idiot who was drooling for his Asus Transformer pad, and going on and on how awesome will be? I'm sure he has his cherished Asus tablet by now.
He was probably one of 2,000 buying it.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/27/judge-asus-transformer-isnt-infringing-on-hasbros-trademark-and-asus-reveals-embarrassing-sales-stats/
So when court filings reveal that pre-orders for this poster child for Android 4 tablets (and it does look great) total a whopping 2,000 units as of a month ago, it’s kind of a letdown. That and 80,000 going to retailers worldwide make the device seem rather minor even in comparison to other Android products like the Nook Color and Kindle Fire. Is there a space for “premium” Android devices running just plain Android? The market seems smaller than big players like Asus would like to believe — or at least it is not growing as quickly as they expected.
Funny how those voices died down...
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Posted on: 5:32 am on Mar. 29, 2012
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DaffyDuck
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More Transformer Prime benchmark comparisons - as expected, it ends last, behind even iPad 2.
http://9to5mac.com/2012/03/30/benchmarked-new-ipads-a5x-vs-ipad-2s-a5-vs-tegra-3/
Benchmarked: New iPad’s A5X vs iPad 2′s A5 vs Tegra 3
March 30, 2012 at 11:27 am
At the launch of Apple’s third-gen iPad, the company’s Marketing Chief Phil Schiller claimed the device’s new A5X processor with quad-core graphics provided up to 4x the graphics performance of NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 chip. Schiller also claimed the new chip provided 2x the graphics performance of the iPad 2′s A5 chip. NVIDIA was skeptical of the benchmark data behind the claims, but early benchmarks seemed to show A5X outperforming a Transformer Prime running Tegra 3 in the majority of tests.
New benchmark data provided by IGN shows the iPad 2′s A5 chip outperforming both the A5X and Tegra 3 with the A5X’s improved graphics going largely towards powering the new iPad’s high-resolution Retina display of 3.1 million pixels. The A5X shows a significant increase in performance over iPad 2 and Tegra 3 devices only when the chip is not forced to power the Retina display in “off-screen” benchmarks.
First IGN ran three tests: GeekBench for raw CPU power, and GLBenchmark 2.1 Egypt, and GLBenchmark 2.1 Pro for graphics. It also ran “off-screen” versions of the GLBenchmark tests to show the performance of A5X without having to power the Retina display.
As for raw CPU power, a Tegra 3-powered ASUS Transformer Prime and Galaxy Tab 10.1 scored higher in GeekBench than both the iPads:
Tegra 3′s quad-core configuration blazes past the dual-core A5X, garnering GeekBench scores of 1540 and 750, respectively. Interestingly, the A5X’s average score fell a few points short of the iPad 2′s standard A5 chip, 753. Both the A5X and the A5 also fell shy of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1′s Tegra 2, which received an overall score 905. The gains made by the Tegra 3 are easily chalked up to its two extra cores, but it is also boasts the highest clocking speed of the group at 1.6GHz, compared to the 1GHz clock of the A5X, A5 and Tegra 2.
However, Apple’s stats showing 4x performance were specifically related to the new chip’s quad-core graphics. When it comes to the graphics tests with GLBenchmark, iPad 2 scored higher than the third-gen iPad in both tests. Meanwhile, both iPads beat out the Android tablets. IGN noted the tests “ran at the native resolution of whatever device it was running on.”
For the Egypt test, the iPad 2 (1024×768) produced 6,709 frames at a framerate of 59 frames-per-second, while the new iPad (2048×1536) ran 5,974 frames at 53 FPS and the Transformer Prime (1280×800) generated 5,955 at a rate of 52 FPS. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 (1280×800), on the other hand, produced only 2,465 frames at a surprisingly low 21 FPS.
The results of the off-screen tests (pictured above) show the A5X producing 15,412 frames at a rate of 138 FPS compared to the iPad 2 that has 10,143 frames at 90 FPS. The A5X significantly outperformed Tegra 3 when not powering the Retina display, but it did not quite provide the 4x performance that Apple’s stats claimed.
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Posted on: 9:24 pm on Mar. 30, 2012
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dirty guru
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Just got the updated Apple even more Awesome
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Posted on: 10:16 pm on April 12, 2012
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PussyLover 69
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Report from The Nation dated 22 April 2012 :-
Tech guru predicts end for tablets and smartphones
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Taipei - The founding editor of Wired Magazine has predicted that tablets and smartphones will become obsolete as the internet spreads into everyday products and people gain more points of access to their data.
Tech writer and thinker Kevin Kelly was speaking on the future of the internet to an audience of technology executives in Taipei. He highlighted everyday objects with internet capability, such as the recently unveiled Google Glasses, as the next line of products that will unseat the current dominance of smartphones and tablets.
Google recently unveiled a prototype of a pair of spectacles that connects to the internet and displays information on the things a wearer might be looking at.
"Screens are becoming ubiquitous and devices are shrinking from our view," Kelly said. "The success of innovation and devices are going to depend on their ability to disappear from our lives. The ideal situation is that we carry no devices at all."
In the near future, everything from sneakers to cars will have computer chips that are collecting data on users and communicating that data across networks, according to Kelly.
"Information is the fastest expanding entity on this planet. Part of the wealth will be actually from being able to harness, manage, decipher, filter, and analyze the data," he said.
As users store more and more information on the cloud, PC and hardware sales have declined. At the same time, simple devices that can access information quickly, such as smartphones and tablets, have taken off.//DPA
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Posted on: 8:27 pm on April 22, 2012
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from PussyLover 69 on 8:27 am on April 23, 2012
Tech guru predicts end for tablets and smartphones
Oh, now *this* is funny.
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Posted on: 2:29 am on April 23, 2012
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