Comments on: Toshiba to unveil iPad rival Android and Windows tablets

By: Ami

Ami — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:43:00 +0000

Well, problem in this world is, every one is making 4X4 and when apple comes out with a sleek, beautiful, adorable and desirable convertible every other company in world think.. ohhh.. we should also make a convertible AND it must be better then Apple.

It happened with iPhone. Every other company has, almost, affordable touch phones after release of iPhone and every other company has just one goal, how to beat the “iPhone”

Now, it’s happening with iPad. every tom and dick now want to come up with some thing like iPad and to beat apple.

All of them missing just one point.. They had missed the bus as this is market of surprise. Some one coming with innovative idea will win, rest of them just follow.

By: Noel

Noel — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:31:11 +0000

That’s not really true mr confusedapples. There’s so much hype around apple these days you should wait and see so many applications comming for the ipad that you’ll never see in other pad’s. As daimahou said, there were pads for many many years… so what? iPad and the concept behind it is a true paradigm shift that happens once every 5 or 10 years. It’s like the iPhone: mobile phones will never be the same again.
If there’s one company to check is google with it’s bladerunner pad

By: Sakaphoto

Sakaphoto — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:22:40 +0000

Actually, iPad does run software I want to use. OmniGroup are porting all their productivity and business software from Mac OS X and Apple have office software. The games are a bonus.

What stops me is that iPad isn’t powerful enough in its first generation, just like the first generation iPhone and iPod touch. It’s taken Apple 4 generations to get what’s a really desirable platform for iPhone/iPod touch and it might take that long for iPad.

Sure, these other companies will arrive at something useful and people will buy them just to not have to buy Apple products but who has a better interface? By the time the others are somewhat appealing, Apple will be onto the second generation, yes?

By: confusedapples

confusedapples — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:06:54 +0000

iPads are like convertible cars. Nobody really needs one. You can’t carry a lot of
cargo or groceries, kids, friends, doesn’t run very fast…. hot and humid if you’re
stuck in traffic with top down… not to mention the noise even when the top is up.

on the other hand, everybody wants a convertible. the only problem is that convertibles
are almost always more expensive.

what Apple has done was creating a device that everybody wants at a somewhat reasonable
price($500 to $800). iPad are slow…. holds very little storage capacity… doesn’t
run all your favourite software…. somewhat bulky… but it is a very fun and sexy
toy…. not something that you need for work or school.(which is actually a good thing)
last but not least, iPads are perfect for killing time. I dare to say that 85% of the
time people spend on the iPad is for pure recreational purposes.

other companies like Microsoft, HP, Toshiba, etc…. they just don’t get it… they want
to create a tablet that’s “better” than the iPad…. better hardware is easy to achieve,
but a better user experience is hard to do…

By: scrambler

scrambler — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:04:02 +0000

you can add these to the list of exciting Tablets:
http://notionink.in/adamoverview.php
http://wepad.mobi/en
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/06/icds-tegra-2-powered-gemini-is-the-most-feature-complete-tablet/
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/microsofts-courier-digital-journal-exclusive-pictures-and-de/

By: noel

noel — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:04:14 +0000

i’ve tried this one in the picture, it’s smaller, bulkier, heavier than the ipad. Not very responsive and the interface is clumsy. It’s like a car navigator with more functions.