Apple: Win Tabs 'Heavy,' Android Tabs 'Bizarre'

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I don't really agree with this guy, but I do have to say that mostly all tablets besides the ipad are way too thick, bulky and heavy. If I could put windows 7 on an ipad, that'd be my dream device right there :) but iOS kinda sucks, just like Mac OSX
 
"Don't look at this hand! Only focus on what I am showing you over here...."

More likely the other hand is occupied!
 
If this guy weren't such a d-bag, he wouldn't be in the position where he is. Speaks volumes of the kind of people Jobs surrounded himself. Anyone with half a brain would have been rejected, and if you had a full brain, you'd be fired from Apple.
 
Amazing. "We have no competition thanks to reasons I am about to make up out of thin air!"... And it gets better: "Our customers are uninterested in our competitor's tablets... mostly because we told them they aren't really competitors but bizarre, heavy, ill equipped failures". Good, Tim. You just stay in that little reality bubble while it lasts. Once Steve Jobs kicks off (I don't wish death on him or anyone, just saying it's inevitable) Apple will nosedive without the distortion bubble and Tim Cook will be back to making hot wings at hooters, where he got his nickname.
 
[citation][nom]chickenhoagie[/nom]I don't really agree with this guy, but I do have to say that mostly all tablets besides the ipad are way too thick, bulky and heavy. If I could put windows 7 on an ipad, that'd be my dream device right there but iOS kinda sucks, just like Mac OSX[/citation]

Bingo; other tablets strive to be something more than a smartphone with a huge screen. The iPad is for people who can't see/type with a normal smartphone screen. Android tablets add heavyweight features like high power CPUs, lots of ram, dual facing cameras, memory card slots, and the like. Windows tablets are, well, windows computers. Yet, if we believe Tim, the iPad is the only one "with unique features and a desirable form factor". Tim, if I wanted an iPod 3g or iPhone 4, I would get one. If i wanted something scaled up with more features, the iPad does NOT make the cut! Get a grip on reality. Oh wait, reality isn't Apple's specialty.
 
[citation][nom]beayn[/nom]“And so basically you wind up with kind of a scaled-up Smartphone, which is a bizarre product, in our view,” he said.That's one of the stupidest comments I've seen out of Apple in a while.[/citation]

No, you misinterpreted his meaning of "bizarre". To Tim Cook, any product with a reliable 3g connection that can also make calls without dropping them is "bizarre". The Android tablets, with their ability to do both (on some models) blows his mind completely.
 
“And so basically you wind up with kind of a scaled-up Smartphone, which is a bizarre product, in our view,” he said.

WTF!? an iPad is just a large iPhone, they use the same hardware, same software. It's litterally the same thing only big. This guy is obviously a completely blind bias moron.

“fairly ... expensive”
Apple isn't one to talk when it comes to things being overpriced. When everyone was waisting money on iPods I bought an upgradable MP3 player that cost $43 similar iPods were $149 and not upgradable. The same could be said about the prices of Apple computers.
 
[citation][nom]dark_lord69[/nom]“fairly ... expensive”Apple isn't one to talk when it comes to things being overpriced. When everyone was waisting money on iPods I bought an upgradable MP3 player that cost $43 similar iPods were $149 and not upgradable. The same could be said about the prices of Apple computers.[/citation]

No kidding... The iPad has a small amount of ram, no cameras, no memory slots. And he is saying anything priced at/above it, with many more features, are "overpriced". Clearly he must sleep in a vat of Apple brand kool-aid, to be that delusional.
 
[citation][nom]beayn[/nom]“And so basically you wind up with kind of a scaled-up Smartphone, which is a bizarre product, in our view,” he said.That's one of the stupidest comments I've seen out of Apple in a while.[/citation]

Actually, I think it's one of the smartest comments out of them in a while. These tablets are basically just scaled-up smartphones and are bizarre products. I thought the iPad was a stage prop when it was first brought out- somebody made an overly-large iPod Touch for a joke. They are bizarre products in real life as well as they combine the size of a netbook with the lack of usability of a smartphone. I've seen several people with iPads, but I've never seen them do anything actually useful on them.
 
[citation][nom]iamtheking123[/nom]Well women are also stupid when it comes to technology. Apple didn't revolutionize anything. They just put a bigger screen on a regurgitated quasi-OS and claimed Jesus would bless you if you bought one. I'll stick with my gaming desktop at home and laptop for on the go until I find a tablet that can do everything I need to do on the go (ie running Windows).Re: The article...no comment. We already know everyone who works for and buys Apple products is a douche and/or moron.[/citation]

It is very unusual when I go personal on public forums, but I could not contain myself in this case. You, sir, is a moron. First you are a moron for calling all women stupid, and somebody's wife in particular. Second, it is hard to name another company that revolutionized market to that extend, and not in one, but in two areas - smartphones and tablets. May be Google comes close, but that's about it.

Do not let your personal hate of Apple Inc cloud your judgment. There are things that Apple should be criticized for, but position that Apple is everything bad, and can not do good, and could not "revolutionize" anything is, for the luck of better word, stupid in moronic.

PS. I am not a woman, nor am I an Apple fan.
 
I think it is sad when true journalism is lost and writers regurgitate the fan-boy rhetoric instead of doing real research. Why don't any of you have the guts to say what a lot of the population is thinking and saying?? The fact is, many Ipad users have said that the Ipad feels like a giant Ipad touch, and is running the same hardware (processor, memory, etc) and exact same OS as the Iphone. On the other hand, the android Honeycomb operating system was written from the ground up for Android-based tablets so they would not feel like a large scaled smartphone, something that the Ipad IS guilty of. It is funny when the spokesman for a company can blurt out complete lies and twist around the truth and no journalist has the guts to call out the blatant lie.

Not to mention his next lie that android devices lack the hardware specs and performance of Apple products. Look at the Evo, Incredible, Droid 2, Droid X, ..etc and compare the specs to the Iphone 4. Hands down you get way more processing speed, memory, expandable memory, etc when you go to the Android platform. The android phones are faster, plain and simply. Now, the downside to speed is battery life. The more performance you put into a phone the more it will eat the battery. Apple has made a choice as a company to sacrifice processing speed for longer battery life. There is nothing wrong with this, and is a smart option seeing as how you cannot change out batteries in an Iphone. But here's the rub, why would you blatantly lie and claim that your device has better performance when it doesn't. It is the same old typical smoke & mirrors way of promoting your product against another using blatant lies, yet it is sad that journalists don't do their homework and hold these businesses accountable for their ridiculously false claims.

It's a sad day for our nation when our journalists become biased fans and do not do their homework or report the truth.
 
[citation][nom]MxM[/nom]PS. I am not a woman, nor am I an Apple fan.[/citation]

I hope you're not a native English speaker, either. You might want to temper your insults when your own post contains more mistakes than it does sentences.
 
Lol weird comments...but anyways..beware of ipads, they steal ur wives and girlfriends.
 
That is some pure BS from him. Why is Apple the only company that feels they have to say their competitors are bad in order to make their products look good?

And writers, it is tab-LET.

Browsers have tabs, books have tabs, tech companies make tab-LETs.
 
Bill Gates steps down, Steve Ballmer steps in and sounds like an idiot.
Steve Jobs steps down, Tim Cook steps in and sounds like an idiot.
I see a trend here.

Move over Steve Ballmer, you have some new competition!!
 
"Running an OS meant for smartphones, you end up with a scaled up smartphone"
Excuse me? Could someone explain to me what the iPad is inside the distortion field? Cause to everyone on the outside looking in, it would certainly seem like the iPad is a GIAGANTIC FREAKIN IPHONE!
I think when Jobs gave this dude the distortion field generator he forgot to mention that it comes set to Maximum, and you need to turn it down to at most 1/2 in order to make sense to anyone outside the bubble.. or perhaps steve never got that one either...
In any case, what a moronic statement, and that sort of snub nose thinking is exactly what screwed Apple the first time.
 
Though the iPad is one of the best tablets out there, the better than though attitude never sits well with consumers, especially those that are into tech. Of course most of the comments are out of context, but should still know better than to dismiss competitors publicly. MS was infamous for this and drew anti-MS sentiment and now that Apple is huge, it is getting the same negative attn. How bizarre!!!!
 
Though the iPad is one of the best tablets out there, the better than though attitude never sits well with consumers, especially those that are into tech. Of course most of the comments are out of context, but should still know better than to dismiss competitors publicly. MS was infamous for this and drew anti-MS sentiment and now that Apple is huge, it is getting the same negative attn. How bizarre!!!!
 
"Cook said they (Apple) had seen a distinct lack of interest in them from customers."

What he meant was a lack of interest in them from Apple customers.
 
[citation][nom]cadder[/nom]...?And writers, it is tab-LET.Browsers have tabs, books have tabs, tech companies make tab-LETs.[/citation]

Actually, I like the idea of calling them tabs. As a long-time Tablet PC user, I am insulted that these phoneless smartphones are being marketed as tablets - a tablet is a full PC and been around for quite some time. Calling them tabs indicates their diminutive less-than-netbook status.

Lets hope the rest of the media starts calling them tabs with apps, so people understand these are not computers running full applications.
 
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