[QUOTE=BmB;21116746]No it's not, the iPhone is tiny and that seems to work well for a lot of people. You must have the fattest sausage fingers in the world.
[img]http://clausfrandsen.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/iphone1as3.jpg[/img]
Heck this guy is testing a display that appears smaller than what I'd be comfortable to have in a laptop and that appears to work just fine:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRqeBhPw2bA[/media]
And HP usually includes a much more accurate stylus in their touch products. Which will enable handwritten input > virtual keyboard. (You still get that though.)
And would also be useful for drawing.[/QUOTE]
You have completely missed my point gg
[QUOTE=alphaspida;21098829]apple hardware > windows[/QUOTE]
no
[QUOTE=alphaspida;21098829]apple hardware > windows[/QUOTE]
apple doesn't make their own hardware and neither does windows.
that's like saying the same company i buy my cooktop stove from also sells food with that cooktop
[QUOTE=gerbils_alt_2;21117610]apple doesn't make their own hardware and neither does windows.
that's like saying the same company i buy my cooktop stove from also sells food with that cooktop[/QUOTE]
Apple made the ipads processor
App-PA Semi most likely munged together a PowerVR gfx card and an ARM Cortex together. Mind you, though, the munging must be significant for the thing to be classed as a system-on-a-chip.
no they were just custom made chip for the Ipad
[QUOTE=jlj1;21117903]Apple made the ipads processor[/QUOTE]
Isn't it just the iTouch proc?
[QUOTE=DeMudkip;21123313]Isn't it just the iTouch proc?[/QUOTE]
I think they come from the same line but they simply aren't the same.
The GFX for sure is different, though - no way in hell the iPhone/touch could handle multiple displays at HD res like Keynote will do in presenter mode (external for the slide/iPad for notes + timing...).
[QUOTE=ethandennis;21118079]no they were just custom made chip for the Ipad[/QUOTE]
ATI and Nvidia don't make graphics chips either.
Jesus christ you guys are so anal I feel like I dropped into a gay orgy sometimes.
[QUOTE=jlj1;21117903]Apple made the ipads processor[/QUOTE]
They outsource development
[QUOTE=DOG-GY;21192677]They outsource development[/QUOTE]
To a company which they bought out
[QUOTE=alphaspida;21112268]1.The iPad is just as good as your iPhone. But I think you should look over what it does again :hfive:
2. Neither does windows :smug:[/QUOTE]
Maybe because windows is a computer OS, not a multi-billion dollar corporation :downs:
iPad a laptop killer?
Give me a break, this is infested with DRM.
[QUOTE=CPPNOOB;21206485]iPad a laptop killer?
Give me a break, this is infested with DRM.[/QUOTE]
Which pieces of DRM cripple the user? There's really only the App Store system but that's easily bypassed should a jailbreak come to light - and seeing that is nearly the only source of apps anyway it's not an either/or system. There's no pretense that you're in full control but others provide the opportunity if you want to. I suppose it's the only thing stopping Apple sending out the lawyers in droves.
Whatever's left of iTunes for video (FairPlay doesn't exist on music anymore but I'm not sure about video) certainly doesn't affect much else if you've already got the content in your library.
I don't think killing the laptop means directly replacing it but providing something new in the place of it. By virtue of doing things differently all that's left to see is whether it's up to snuff to do so.
All media in the iTunes store (with the one exception of music) is wrapped in Apple's DRM. That means films, TV shows, movies and audiobooks are locked to Apple's platform, taking away your right to share.
All applications must be signed by Apple if they are to run, an unprecedented level of control for a general purpose computer. On top of this, Apple can push updates to the device over its wireless connection, letting them add or remove capabilities at any time.
[QUOTE=BmB;21093751]utterly I could not comprehend why you would want one. HP is making a windows tablet.
Windows > iphone os[/QUOTE]
If the HP tablet has multi-taking i'm sold.
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[QUOTE=CPPNOOB;21207770]All media in the iTunes store (with the one exception of music) is wrapped in Apple's DRM. That means films, TV shows, movies and audiobooks are locked to Apple's platform, taking away your right to share.
All applications must be signed by Apple if they are to run, an unprecedented level of control for a general purpose computer. On top of this, Apple can push updates to the device over its wireless connection, letting them add or remove capabilities at any time.[/QUOTE]
Rather ironic considering the moddability of the Apple II.
[QUOTE=MachiniOs;21207815]If the HP tablet has multi-taking i'm sold.[/QUOTE]
It runs [i]Windows[/i].
[QUOTE=alphaspida;21098829]apple hardware > windows[/QUOTE]
You can't compare hardware to software now stop it.
[QUOTE=CPPNOOB;21207770]All media in the iTunes store (with the one exception of music) is wrapped in Apple's DRM. That means films, TV shows, movies and audiobooks are locked to Apple's platform, taking away your right to share.
All applications must be signed by Apple if they are to run, an unprecedented level of control for a general purpose computer. On top of this, Apple can push updates to the device over its wireless connection, letting them add or remove capabilities at any time.[/QUOTE]
Apple's iTMS DRM is not an issue - you can freely get away from it or have an entirely free library should you wish to do so. I get the entirety of my content via piracy or rips. I get some items that I can access and handbrake them. In practice this is is only a minor convenience given the fact that the internet allows me to rarely resort to this - it isn't an impediment to sharing. Given the opportunity to have an integrated service that big though I assume it would make more sense for Apple to fetch the companies' stick. Surely adding copy protection when distributing is nothing new for media companies, as annoying as it may seem.
The real issue here is their lockdown on apps, though - the iPad and iPhone as Apple envisions it don't offer you the illusion of a general purpose computer - there is no concept of a local user and his/her files presented by the SpringBoard, for example. There is instead something approaching the "iTunes appliance." Jailbreaking the iPhone/iTouch has become a selling point that's just as big - although to the general user this is not for the actual unlock but for the ability to theme and to pirate and run a certain cadre of apps Apple doesn't allow through. For them I should suppose that is not the issue at hand. Apple would be rather ridiculous to not have acknowledged it by now.
Apple has no "wireless update" capability or any "let's disable internet for user X! That sounds like fun!" but does have a kill switch that is tied to the sandbox apps run in. You're entirely entitled to operate with OS <2 - but iTunes makes it easy to update up and down and thus there isn't anything of a reason other to go up when the opportunity comes.
But the experience is the same either way and you can entirely ignore the iTunes Store or the App Store if you want to. Either way it doesn't affect any iProduct's ability to "kill the laptop" given the ability to juggle files is not a supposed feature. DRM is entirely moot in an issue like this.
[QUOTE=MachiniOs;21207815]
Rather ironic considering the moddability of the Apple II.[/QUOTE]
Thank you for that apples-to-oranges comparison.
(gosh, what a blackout!)
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[QUOTE=Panda X;21212258]You can't compare hardware to software[/QUOTE]
100% true.
Apple wins yet again.
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