Ipad 2 worth the hype? Whose getting one?

HKYStormFront

yea i agree with the education side of it, i don't know that i'd limit it to just ipads. hardware wise, the Motorola Xoom trumps the ipad2 by a loonnngggg shot.

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daisuke149

I havnt had any trust in a motorola product in a while though. I work with people who work or have worked at motorola on these projects. Hrmm.. cant say what they say.

hardware wise other products have normally trumped apple products. but their os / ui makes the apples normally better!

oh and definitely limited education to ipads would be bad, but im saying if apple went after it first they would have had the market first.

Blue370tt

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Cmike2780

0.3% is like 20.4 Million people. That's significant considering Apple has sold over 15 million iPads to date. It doesn't matter if you love or hate Apple products, you gotta respect their marketing strategy. The Andriod is a good platform, but it has its quirks. I have a Motorola Droid 2 and the interface isn't as fluid as the iPhone OS IMO.

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Blue370tt

My mom has an Iphone and cant even figure out how to use a computer.

That alone tells me quite a bit about why I DONT WANT OR NEED ANY APPLE PRODUCTS.

wilsonp

A lot of these comments make me wonder why you own a 370Z instead of a horse.

By the way, Nissan comes out with a new model Z every year, why aren't you buying it instead of riding around in last year's junk that doesn't even have a compass?

The iPad is an in-between device, like my boss said, it is second best at a lot of things - but having the second best web browser, the second best eBook reader, the second best GPS, the second best spreadsheet editor, photo viewer, game player with you is pretty convenient.

And don't fool yourself, it is going to be a heavy business device. We have physician using them for medical records access, radilogy imaging access and dictation. We have employees using them for remote desktop control, accessing corporate systems. We have them syncing to corporate email. The Xoom will need another version to catch up with the iPad 1. And a lot more developer action. Right now e Xoom doesn't do flash and it's SD card slot doesn't work, so I don't think it is an iPad beater.

More importantly, like a recent TUAW story, if you are picking your tablet based on specs, you're doing it wrong. Otherwise you'd be driving a STi or GTI or Mustang 5.0, Corvette or Cayman, depending on which specs you like - the 370Z is like an iPad - second best at a lot of things, and that makes it a winner.

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daisuke149

im glad people try to compare sales numbers for a OS found in 10+ tablets vs a piece of hardware made by one company.

So your saying that because apple makes a product that is good and intuitive to human thought patterns you would rather have something that is a harder to use?

Agreed it is capable of all those things you mentioned in business but the % using it for that is probably EXTREMELY low. But it does have that potential where as the android tablets dont. by apple controlling the quality, ui, changes etc very closely its easy to develop for in terms of you dont have to worry about it working on 20 different models, or a future OS release.

370zFORme!!

^This

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370zFORme!!

I think the voting speaks for itself, the majority of people here dont care, maybe that will mean shorter lines on launch day

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theDreamer

Not going to happen, recent surveys show that iPad 1 second hand sales have jumped dramatically since the announcement of iPad 2. Meaning a lot of people are going to be getting the new one and then you add in the many you always wake for gen 2 from Apple.

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PapoZalsa

WOW, to many geeks in this thread!!!

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southercadesi

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Kirkster

Will be ordering mine online on the 11th as I am going to be out of the country. Otherwise I would be in a line somewhere.

I have been a long time early adaptor of technology. Have had all of the iPhone versions Some on day one, some a few months later. Same thing with most of the iPods. I have an older jailbroken iPhone just to have an iPhone to work wherever I go just by plugging in a local SIM.

8 months ago I was probably the only one with an iPad at my company. Now all of the executives have them, as well as most of the sales executives and staff basically hundreds of them. The company will be porting its communications suite to the iPad 2 by april now that there is a front facing video camera.

The problem that my company has with the android platform is that there is no uniform hardware to build to (hence why we have our own tablet at the moment) the android tablet market will probably turn into the same thing that the phone market turned into. A half dozen companies making different hardware platform, all running different revs of Android software. Which makes application development interesting.

I predicted the Android malware and virus problem a long time ago. As much as I dislike the strict rules of the Apple App store I understand where they are coming from. Android is going to turn into the same user experience that Windows currently enjoys, Malware and Virus heaven...

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bigaudiofanat

I would wait until the new ones comes out in 6 months "no joke" ipad 3 is on it's way. Not to mention I see no reason to get this one I would just buy a used original ipad if I had to.

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