The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thread!

[.RJ]

That's the answer.

As long as your company is forward thinking to have the (edit: windows server :lol: ) infrastructure in place.

[WRXtranceformed]

(tablets are really just toys for media/content consumption).

This is basically what my tablets have ever been, but I am not a developer / IT guy.

Maybe because Android?

A stat that Apple has now used twice in media events because it's so damning... The iPad has ~50% market share, but accounts for over 90% of all tablet web traffic.

"Great, you own a tablet, but you're not getting much use out of it." :thumbup:

What does that have to do with my quote?

95% of the time when I am at home and surfing the internet, it's on my N7. Video news, Youtube, fantasy football, forums, amazon.

A lot of the first non-Apple tablets were designed to be E-readers, and I doubt a lot of them were and are being used for web browsing even though they had the functionality. That has changed a lot with the Asus, Google, new Kindle tablets.

What I think is more damning is that Apple essentially pioneered tablets as a consumer product and a few years later their market share is only 50%.

[.RJ]

What I think is more damning is that Apple essentially pioneered tablets as a consumer product and a few years later their market share is only 50%.

"only 50%" ? :lol:

Dont forget - all of the e-readers are included in that figure.

[Evan]

lol fanboymikey.

I have all the tablets, got issued an iPad BY work, and it still is absolutely awful for doing anything at all. RDP, VNC, Citrix, all completely unusable unless you have the ghost of steve jobs giving you a handy under the table while whispering his reality distortion into your ear.

Android aint much for doing work, but its at least twice as good as an ipad.

[WRXtranceformed]

What I think is more damning is that Apple essentially pioneered tablets as a consumer product and a few years later their market share is only 50%.

"only 50%" ? :lol:

Dont forget - all of the e-readers are included in that figure.

Of course, but you are comparing platform / OS vs. platform / OS. Obviously an ASUS or Acer or Motorola isn't going to have the same brand recognition in the US computing space as Apple. I'm stating the obvious here, but Apple sells similar products year over year because of its name. When Steve Jobs came back to the company and brought it to where it is today, it was based on the marketing slogan "Think Different". Their computers at the time were way more expensive than their competitors and really not any better.

[.RJ]

On the tablets, if you take away the e-readers the market share is 60-70% in 2012 (was much higher before) depending on who's sales figures you believe. I'm sure the number will come down, but they still remain the 800 lb gorilla in the marketplace.

Their computers at the time were way more expensive than their competitors and really not any better.

Well you get what you pay for better hardware, displays, resale value. I *want* to like apple laptops, but am brainwashed by windows and need to use it every day for work. I've tried and just cant quite get along with the apple OS.

[Apoc]

The world will always have servers. I RDC into servers. I also RDC to them when I'm at my desk.

Virtualize everything and connect to it through a window. That's the answer.

I think there's validity in this, especially since at some point business laptops will be more like Chromebooks. The problem now is the infrastructure (cloud processing power) is not there for a vast majority of companies. I would love to do all my work on some central super computer with my local machine just serving as a portal, but we ain't there... which is kinda ironic.

[WRXtranceformed]

Well you get what you pay for better hardware, displays, resale value. I *want* to like apple laptops, but am brainwashed by windows and need to use it every day for work. I've tried and just cant quite get along with the apple OS.

This thread is going to regress into an Apple vs. Everything Else debate because of Mike. But I will say that my non-Apple phone and non-Apple laptop when I bought both were much faster / had better hardware and were half the price (my Dell was actually 1/3rd the price) of the nearest competing Apple products. My Dell XPS Studio laptop is still going strong 3 years later. And the old Dell that I bought from John off of this board probably 6 years ago? still works great. I just never use it because some software issue doesn't allow it to connect to the internet anymore. I imagine if I upgraded from Windows 2000 or whatever it was on it would be fine :mrgreen:

[Mike]

Well you get what you pay for better hardware, displays, resale value. I *want* to like apple laptops, but am brainwashed by windows and need to use it every day for work. I've tried and just cant quite get along with the apple OS.

This thread is going to regress into an Apple vs. Everything Else debate because of Mike.

Because I've been using a lot of "Everything Else" lately and I can't get over how bad it all sucks. I'm angry and pissed off and DAMNIT, I'm going to take you down with me, you lovers of suck.

[.RJ]

But I will say that my non-Apple phone and non-Apple laptop when I bought both were much faster / had better hardware and were half the price (my Dell was actually 1/3rd the price) of the nearest competing Apple products

Yep, there are plenty of things out there that, to the end user, are just as good in the short term (1-3 years) and their shittyness is pretty transparent. Long term, my dell stuff is hit & miss. I've had plenty of component failures to deal with and some with just shitty design from the beginning. But, most of us dont look at the true lifetime cost of things.

I wont buy an apple computer anytime soon, but I get it, and I have no interest in replacing my iphone/ipad.

[Apoc]

Reaction to the iPad Mini was more positive with 14% of respondents saying they will ‘definitely buy one’ and a further 32% say they will ‘probably buy one.’ However, when directly asked which device they would prefer out of the iPad Mini, Kindle Fire and Nexus 7 Tablet, the Kindle came out on top with 46%, followed by the iPad Mini (40%) and Nexus a distant third (14%).

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Hoowah!

Personally, I just can't buy into anything smaller than 10".

(TWSS)

[CaptainHenreh]

But I will say that my non-Apple phone and non-Apple laptop when I bought both were much faster / had better hardware and were half the price (my Dell was actually 1/3rd the price) of the nearest competing Apple products

Yep, there are plenty of things out there that,

I always thought the Zune was a great example. Cheaper. Better DAC. Higher Capacity. Better battery life. Larger screen. Had wifi before apple even thought about putting wifi on an iPod. The Zune media software is a joy to work with compared to itunes. And Microsoft couldn't give them away.

[Apoc]

This comes to mind.

[Mike]

you two just made me shed a tear. of love and sadness.

to a lesser extent, the end of the pontiacs (gto and g8) also fit the bill.

[.RJ]

I always thought the Zune was a great example. Cheaper. Better DAC. Higher Capacity. Better battery life. Larger screen. Had wifi before apple even thought about putting wifi on an iPod. The Zune media software is a joy to work with compared to itunes. And Microsoft couldn't give them away.

Yes, but thats neckbeard logic. What apple did with the ipad was make the user experience better, and, we know how the story goes.

[CaptainHenreh]

This comes to mind.

Eh, the dcast just was reincarnated into the XBox. No huge loss, really.

[.RJ]

Eh, the dcast just was reincarnated into the XBox. No huge loss, really.

Except no Ferrari Challenge. Sads.

[Evan]

[JPolen01]

[.RJ]

^ I lol'd