iPad spanks Galaxy Tab in its own backyard There was some welcome news for Apple in Asia this week after new figures revealed that the iPad is absolutely trouncing its rivals in the South Korean market, notably local hero Samsung and its Galaxy Tab device. The Korea Herald reported that Apple had sold an estimated one million of its shiny tablets in the country since …
I wouldn't call the Tab "just plain bad". But the one I got "for free" with my data contract needs a lot of work. For example (and there may be a trick to doing this, I don't know): I sent an email to someone. A copy of the email is sitting in the Sent folder. How can I add the person to whom I sent that email to my contacts? And how's about adding some cursor control keys? That stupid blue barnacle is impossible to control.
Etc., etc.
@BXL:
I suspect iPad users wouldn't want to, their email client and keyboard might be usable as-is. Certainly I don't have those problems on WP7.
But I think your response is fairy typical of Android users.
"This bit of Android is shit!"
"That's OK, you can replace that bit with another bit, Android is so cool"
"Wait - why should I have to?"
"You don't have to! Android is so cool"
"But if I don't, then I have a shit phone! So I DO have to!"
"Android is so cool"
the iPAD touch keyboard is just to damn small for me to type comfortably. I have several friends of mine who are Apple crazy and they have sold off their Tablets due to that same fact.
I am also not a huge fan of being told what I can and cannot do with devices I own. If i'd like to select a different mail client then great, if not then I am left suffering with the often bland defaults. Alternatively if I wish to build or have built a custom app for my business I'd rather do it for an open platform which does not pick and chose what they feel is appropriate from a content perspective. I see it as a completely different matter if infected content is pulled (viruses, trojans etc.).
As opposed to conversations with the WP7 fanboy, which generally degenerate to:
"I need on-device encryption for me to use this as a business phone."
"The next version will have that." (originally Mango, now WP8 - we'll see...)
"But I also would like to have [insert one of the many other features that Android and iPhone (and even Windows Mobile, FFS) already have]."
"Coming up in the next version. See all the awards we won! Every poll we rigged say we're the best, and any day now the app developers and users will be flocking to our ecosystem!"
Oh, it would be so much better to have a phone that you can't change to your liking, of course - like a windows phone perhaps.
"If I don't change the {100,} things on my phone it will be crap"
Change them then
"I can't"
Well buy from another manufacturer, for a slightly different experience that addresses your problems
"Microsoft won't let them differentiate, they're all the same"
Well you've gotta live with your crap phone then, but don't worry, stick in there, they'll get there in Windows 23
Is that (and this is a question about coverage, not a dig) because they have essentially ubiquitous wi-fi cover, perhaps at least in urban/suburban areas? I know they're all supposed to have fantastic fixed broadband, maybe people have put in fon type access out of public spiritedness, being able to spare plenty of mbps.
If so perhaps the 3g are more for rural users or those wanting a backup
Isn't Korea on non CDMA for UMTS? And I think the LTE rollout is pretty impressive. Lots of sense to invest in a "MiFi" or a handset that does tethering than adding unnecessarily to the price of the pad.
As for the figures: Korea and Japan are notoriously fast and fickle of the latest and greatest. Certainly impressive figures for Apple as elsewhere in the world - and why shouldn't the be? Apple did a great job in 2011 in staying ahead of the competition on technical and marketing merits but the recent slew of court actions is indicative of someone constantly looking over their shoulder.
When are those larger OLED devices coming from Samsung?
Many of the clinical and medical imaging (FDA approved) apps fit my definition of "amazing". Add the rumoured retina display and suddently you'll get a very serious, go anywhere, diagnostics tool.
Research papers neatly organised and available on the go via the Papers app as well.
That and plugging my guitar into Garageband on the weekend. That one never gets old.
List through all 50 gazillion semi professional apps available that are now cheap and portable, and doing everything from art and design, to education, to engineering, to saving lives in the medical field...or on the battlefield? Not to mention what little is available for android looks like it was put together by a high schooler...it's irritating to even look at some of those apps, much less use.
If you don't actually call it out by name then the rest of us have no reason to believe it exists at all.
Otherwise, we have no reason to believe that you have a single favorite app. Never mind dozens.
Stuff that's just littering the app store that you have no really knowledge of really doesn't count though.
Here is the states, it's only month-by-month for 3g on iPads. Is it different over there? Also, it could suggest that they don't want to shell out the extra money for 3g?
>Interestingly, around two-thirds of South Koreans favour the Wi-Fi only models, suggesting they would rather not get sucked into long-term carrier contracts when purchasing the devices.
The first Apple product I purchased was an iPod touch. I played with my friends for a bit, and he was just as happy with it after owning it for several months, so I bought one. I've used it daily every since.
Pretty much the same story with the iPad. I knew people who owned one, and still felt good about the purchase months latter when the newness factor wore off.
I didn't buy either product to be fashionable or because I am an Apple fan. I bought them because I thought they would provide good value for the money, and I was not wrong.
i like Samsung but they did this to themselves this time putting out such a weak ARM SOC and slow ram interface for a pad on there at something like LPDDR2 DRAM (which is approximately 3.2GB/s) or less.
its not like Samsung dont have the best and fastest low power and up to date ram available today for use in all their current ARM kit ,The new wide I/O mobile DRAM that runs up to 12.8GB/s
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/memory/display/20110222201121_Samsung_Develops_Mobile_Memory_with_Wide_I_O_Interface_Extreme_Bandwidth.html
""The new 1Gb wide I/O mobile DRAM can transmit data at 12.8GB/s, which increases the bandwidth of mobile DDR DRAM (1.6GB/s) eightfold, while reducing power consumption by approximately 87%."
they make it themselves in fact, so use it if Not the the fastest available then at least use some 2-channel DDR3 @532 MHz with a Higher bandwidth memory interface with up to 8.5 GB/s in your lower entry kit
ifanboys love to hang out on the register dont they :P always amusing to listen to them blindly spout crap about android that they have never used or know anything about..
So how many of these iPads were turned around and just sold on ebay or other markets :P taking advantage of all those blind fad loving fanboys/girls that will buy anything Phone Jesus (aka. steve jobs) tells em is NEW, or like it will resurrect him.
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