On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:08:11PM -0500, Jeremy wrote: > Andrew Oulton wrote: > > Netbooks offer greater expansion and initial function than iPhone or > > iPad. So with regards to the iPad, what functions set it apart from > > my cell phone, and from my PC to warrant its existance and cost? Is > > $500 USD to START (on a dead-end non-expandable device) worth this > > difference? Who gets the most out of a device like it? How long till > > those few points are better served by something else? > I have owned an "ipad" for a few years now, it is called an Archos. > Certainly did not take over the world, and it is more open by leaps and > bounds than the ipad. Costs less, has an 80GB disk (smallest size they > sell), touch interface, wifi, opera browser, removable battery, records > mp4 from inputs, has USB host interface, same size screen, samba file > sharing (which with a hack enables ssh access), has many hours battery > life, and even has a stand on the back so you can put it on a table and > watch it :) The new ones have 3g as well. > > It is funny how all the press seems to have never imagined something > like this before. Go look at future shop.
Apple has a large and dedicated following. THey will follow Apple anywhere. The big advantages they have over the leading software producer is that (a) what they sell works out of the box (b) keeps working (c) looks good. and most important, (d) has a reputation of (a), (b), and (c) above. But I have so far not invested in an ipod or an iphone, and will probably continue not doing so. I have an old Nokia cell phone that pretty well is just a cell phone. I suppose I can play a game on it if I want, but I don't. I have a Nokis N800 that I also carry with me. That's for my non-cellphone uses of almost-wearable electronics. I'd be happy to have all of this in one device in my pocket, bot so far, I haven't found anything that's enough of an advantage over what I've go now to be worth spending money on. And the current crop of ebook readers, well, if it's going to be DRM-crippled or a *third* thing to carry everywhere, well, I'm not interested. I use my N800 to read in bed. That and paper books. The big disadvantage of the N800 is a lack of publications in free form. I' currently partway through a .pdf book on quantum gravity that I acquired from the author's web site. It's too slow changing pages. By the time you get to the second half of a sentence, you've forgotten the first. Please correct me if I'm wrong, and if there is something better I should be looking at, but I haven't found it yet. -- hendrik. _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
