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photohounds
6 February 2012
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Anyone played with one of these? The local JB say they can't get enough. A good sign.
NO, I don't think it is outselling the fruit tablet, but they are not staying on the shelves ...
Comment made about the PC & Tech Authority article:
New Asus Transformer Prime leaked?
Snaps of an orange-tinged version of Asus' transforming tablet appear on the web.
What do you think? Join the discussion. |
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amcmo
7 February 2012
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Biggest problem with Android tablets, there's a new one every other week and the possibility or otherwise of keeping the OS up to date.
That said, this looks a nice piece of kit. |
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photohounds
7 February 2012
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Versatility and choice - no one HAS to like that, but can choose one size fits all. Thankfully there are a quite few viable choices now. Something for everyone - just about.
Played with that new 7" Sammy the other day in the same store, too. Looked, felt and wurked real good. Nicely made and good screen (what else).
Sort of tempting, but a REAL KB that attaches securely AND forms an almost impenetrable protective shell IS kinda cool!.
I know, I know, it won't stop bullets, an axe or the 4WD tyres :) |
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amcmo
7 February 2012
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Versatility and choice, the very reasons why so many choose The iPad.
Nothing remotely 'one size fits all' about an iPad, much as it's been your mantra since day one.
I do notice you ignored the issue of not knowing when or even if OS upgrades will be available... |
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photohounds
8 February 2012
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IF the OS works properly in the first place, and the 'upgrade' contains only gimmicks, I skip a version (or two).
OK one physical size fits all (what the expression almost certainly originally meant). |
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rubaiyat
8 February 2012
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The joys of unfettered choice within a set specification.
One of the most exciting exhibitions I have seen in a very long time was one put on by the Australian Immigration Museum in Victoria.
Participating artists were given a simple A4 board and asked to simply create something on it. It was open to everyone, amateur and profession and the results were absolutely astounding. From evry kind of media imaginable, to sculpture, to faux relief to even removal of parts of the board itself. This is the thrill of understanding the human imagination and spirit, where its content makes something from nothing. That has always been Apple's magic, that it provides the deceptively simple canvas that allows the content to shine.
The deception of simplicity certainly works best on the simple. They are the ones who think that simplicity is easy and there is nothing to it.
But the genius of the noncreative is to discover the 'obvious' only after it is shown to them. Usually long after. Long after careful detailed explanation…
…and after having objected to it ad nauseum, at full volume for what seems forever. |
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photohounds
9 February 2012
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You should write their advertising copy. You have created a good story there. And yes, I DO consider what I buy/install to be sure it is what I want/need.
I rarely buy purely because "someone else has one". Standing in line before a product is even released is an example of exactly that behaviour.
To discover 'after', oh yes, you must mean like stealing the ipod idea from the inventor who let a patent temporarily lapse? the LG Prada? Copying the WIMP and then hypocritically complaining when MS copied it too?
Give it a rest. I create with a camera less for profit these days, more for fun. People like what I do.
I see both sides, unlike some here who seem to see the good bits but can ignore crass commercialism, copying, theft, stiffing the real inventor as if it didn't exist and claim THAT is genius.
Deception is perhaps a kind of genius, I suppose. |
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rubaiyat
9 February 2012
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photohounds wrote:I rarely buy purely because "someone else has one". Standing in line before a product is even released is an example of exactly that behaviour.
PC users have done that as well. At least Apple delivers, in most cases, and I guess that is what the mad consumers anticipate.
Quote:To discover 'after', oh yes, you must mean like stealing the ipod idea from the inventor who let a patent temporarily lapse?
They didn't steal and it hadn't 'temporarily' lapsed. The inventor himself doesn't agree with you, but then he isn't out on some mono-hate fest.
If the LG Prada had actually done what the iPhone did, IT would have been a success.
Quote:Copying the WIMP and then hypocritically complaining when MS copied it too?
The didn't copy, nor steal. They paid Xerox to take over the development and then took it a whole lot further. Some of the Xerox team joined small team of what can only be described as geniuses in the Macintosh project. Xerox was always acknowledged as the inventor, as was their management's failure to recognising what a great leap forward it was and actually doing something with it.
Microsoft never paid Apple anything and had double crossed Apple, not once but several times. As they did everyone else. What was worse is that they sabotaged and disparaged Apple for the 13 years it took them to come up with their bad copy in Windows.
photo you remain totally clueless about design so it is always a mystery to you what is going on, but keep struggling with it. |
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amcmo
9 February 2012
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Photo,
You say that if an OS is working you skip a version or two.
One of the downsides to Android seems to be if you skip one, the one after that may not support your device, and as the people with some Telstra Android models seem to be finding out the hard way (from posts), Telstra seem not inclined to even provide one upgrade within any measure of timely.
On devices not locked to a phone contract, you're at the mercy of the mfr to decide to support O/S upgrades, with the track record out there thus far being pretty dismal.
Hopefully ASUS will support with OS upgrades. |
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rubaiyat
9 February 2012
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That is the BIG thing that puts me off Android devices.
You have to be worried when you ask about such issues and it appears nobody has even thought about them.
Apple supports to at least three versions, bar hardware incompatibilities. |
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photohounds
9 February 2012
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Diversity is not without its problems - monoculture is far worse. |
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amcmo
10 February 2012
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Photo, you keep going on about Apple's system being worse than Google, calling it a monoculture. No, it is a standardised environment guranteeing highest levels of compatibility. F.cking big difference!
Even a single fact to back up your claims(other than your usual irrational anti-Apple)?
Android could be an excellent alternative if Google insisted on a standard interface etc, guaranteeing compatibility across brands, which they do seem to be moving towards.
M$ for all their faults seem to be doing so with WinFo8
Edited by amcmo: 10/2/2012 12:44:13 PM |
