Google vs. Apple: Battle of the Copycats

[mj4358]

[citation][nom]kartu[/nom]It's hard to believe that someone is asking such question seriously. Here it says "multiply by 1000"🙁Thousands of Units)Here is another review, for your theories, which should be multiplied by 10'000, it says "unites in ten tousands":http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/libra [...] _e0912.pdf[/citation]

A simple explanation would have suficed..... Never the less, to comapre 2008 sales of an already established brand/product catagory is to say the least reaching! Not to mention they are not even like items. iPad and smartphomes are hardly like items. Now being the Genius you think you are, you could have proven your point if you were to compare say ......an iPhone.... Seriously!?!

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]Godfail[/nom]I just looked a the front page and see that even my post about Apple better standing by their products and repairing them is also thumbed down...I get the feeling that when people don't like something, true or not, they'll thumb it down as a way of saying "I don't want to believe that".[/citation]
No one said Democracy was the best system, it's just not worse than all the others. I suppose the thumbs up/down system is flawed but it only an indicator that they think you are wrong, as opposed to saying that you are wrong.
I personally haven't thumbs you down because I respect your opinion even if I dont agree with it.
Other people in this forum have compared Aplles closed method to the same way Sony or Nintendo operate and I would agree with them, that's why I am a PC gamer and not a console 'tard. But seeing as the forum thread is about Apple I am simply sticking to the subject, rather than going off on wild tangents.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]mj4358[/nom]kartu,I went to the link and I think you missed quoted the facts....if tou look above table 1,2 it says Thousands of Units. That being the case where did you get 15 mil for nokia?[/citation]
15,561.7 times by 1000 = 15.5 million
Maths fail?

 

[mj4358]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]15,561.7 times by 1000 = 15.5 millionMaths fail?[/citation]

I realize my mistake....but thanks for stating the obvious!

 

[pcwlai]

Programming? It is not easy if you really need to do something useful even with visual programming.

First, complex concepts or problems may require difficult algoriohtms. Second, even simple programs requires the transformation of the problem into code paths.

There are many open platforms on harfware as well, do you always come across hard made electonics and tools?

And time is a conern. Better wait for the application to update or created and do some other things more valuable to life.

This may be good for would be programemrs but not the average Joes.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]mj4358[/nom]I realize my mistake....but thanks for stating the obvious![/citation]
It's OK, but just to note on phone sales, Nokia has a small percentage of its total sales as smartphones, something daft like 470 million total sales worldwide, but only 15 million smartphones.

If maybe Apple were to release an iPhone Nano, which is just a phone with a decent music player in it, there would be serious competition in all market segments, but limiting itself to smartphone exclusive seems self defeating.

It is happy to release iPods in several flavours and capacities from the simple 2Gb Shuffle up to the 64Gb Touch and everything inbetween. So why limit your telephone option in the same way? Apple has thoroughly dominated the digital music player so that any MP3 player is called an iPod. If Apple wanted to destroy the mobile phone market it should appeal to everyone high and low and to dent the tactic works is wrong as the iPod proves it. Not only that but a simple iPhone Nano may act as a gateway phone for upgraders to move to the proper iPhone who otherwise would have avoided it.

 

[twu]

Wow, it used to be google & apple team up against the software giant Microsoft. Now, both google and apple engaging all these fights and left Microsoft in the dark. Microsoft seems let in the dark turns into a crouching tiger just watching google and apple fights. It's interesting to see how Microsoft comes back out. Someone needs to make movie for this.

 

[kartu]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]It's OK, but just to note on phone sales, Nokia has a small percentage of its total sales as smartphones, something daft like 470 million total sales worldwide, but only 15 million smartphones.[/citation]
Actually in 2008 Nokia sold about 75 million smartphones, according to the already posted article:
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=910112

Nokia has sold 75 million sma

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]twu[/nom]Wow, it used to be google & apple team up against the software giant Microsoft. Now, both google and apple engaging all these fights and left Microsoft in the dark. Microsoft seems let in the dark turns into a crouching tiger just watching google and apple fights. It's interesting to see how Microsoft comes back out. Someone needs to make movie for this.[/citation]
MS already did
It has the OS that runs on the slate
It also had an OS that ran on every other tablet in the world for the last 9 years
In this instance however, as they are not producing a solitary device/OS combo, but are simply producing an OS that runs on hardware produced by multiple PC hardware vendors, such as HP and soon to be followed by just about everyone else
So lets just get it right, there is no Microsoft Tablet
Never has been
Probably never will be
Its exactly the same as me buying a Dell PC and calling it an Adobe PC because I have Photoshop installed on it, Adobe didnt make the PC, neither did Microsoft, Dell did.

Do note however that any tablet that is produced by a traditional vendor such as HP, Dell, Sony etc.. that has Windows on it will most likely, like every other PC out there, be able to have Linux or even OSX install (thanks to those guys over at Psystar for leading the way).

I am personally waiting for the first story to hit Toms about a HP Slate that has OSX installed, should make interesting reading. I wonder if the latest OSX has tablet support the same way Windows 7 does?

 

[Guest]

Any one is fine with a good remote desktop application. All work done on my PC the pad becomes just a touch based monitor. If they provide support for all os & nice frame rates over wifi, this app would be winner. I can use the pad for what its good for also what its not good for.

 

[evilshuriken]

I just want a tablet that will run windows 7, is powerful enough to run paint shop pro(or photoshop), and features Wacom powered stylus input.
That's all I ask for.

 

[kronos_cornelius]

The argument that these devices are not programmable is wrong. The assumption the author is making is that these devices are computers. While technically speaking that is correct, they are meant to be closer to dumb terminals than actual full-size computers.
If you wanted android to perform some strange script, fine, create the program on a desktop, debug it. And when it is ready, plug in the Android device to the desktop and load up the application (script).

 

[kronos_cornelius]

[citation][nom]twu[/nom]Wow, it used to be google & apple team up against the software giant Microsoft. Now, both google and apple engaging all these fights and left Microsoft in the dark. Microsoft seems let in the dark turns into a crouching tiger just watching google and apple fights. It's interesting to see how Microsoft comes back out. Someone needs to make movie for this.[/citation]

You can watch Pirates of Silicon Valley if you missed the first part.

 

[twu]

[citation][nom]kronos_cornelius[/nom]You can watch Pirates of Silicon Valley if you missed the first part.[/citation]

I saw them, I just need see the ending part before 2012.