Re:Can someone explain to me advantage of the Ipad over ASUS...
by threepointone on Saturday January 30, 2010 @09:54PM
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The interface, mainly. Windows (or OSX, for that matter) based tablets have tried have failed for years. The iPhone/iPad OS is built from the ground up to be tablet/finger friendly.
Remember, the iPad is NOT a laptop/netbook replacement in the traditional sense. The phrase 'media device' keeps popping up in my head.
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Re:Can someone explain to me advantage of the Ipad over ASUS...
by perokreco on Saturday January 30, 2010 @11:23PM
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Could you elaborate on Windows 7 finger-friendliness? What kind of a media-device does not accept memory cards or doesn't have a camera or a USB slot?
Re:Can someone explain to me advantage of the Ipad over ASUS...
by threepointone on Sunday January 31, 2010 @03:32AM
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Never said Windows 7 was finger-friendly, and I don't think I'm qualified to comment on it, but imo, the win7 is simply geared to replace the mouse actions with a finger, and that's not helpful at all.
And from where I'm looking, portable physical media storage is fast becoming non-essential(obsolete?) with respect to devices that are used for consumption of music, the web, books, etc; ie- CONSUMER devices. eg- laptops, ebook readers, mp3 players, etc.
I'm a tech-savvy person, and I've had a broken dvd-drive on my laptop for about 7 months now. I've never found a reason to fix it; I'm as surprised by that as anybody else, I suppose. I play movie dvds on my console, and the eye-fi card on the camera is handy as hell.