According to one source who has seen internal HP reports, Best Buy has taken delivery of 270,000 TouchPads and has so far managed to sell only 25,000, or less than 10 percent of the units in its inventory.
That's too bad - it's an excellent product and I would happily trade in my iPad for a TouchPad. The non-existent marketing doesn't help, though.
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That's too bad - it's an excellent product and I would happily trade in my iPad for a TouchPad. The non-existent marketing doesn't help, though.
I've been seeing it advertised pretty hard - it is the commercials with Russel Brand and the ostrich.
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Looking into getting a tablet and am wondering what the brain trust at CP thinks is the best route.
If you were deciding between an iPad 2, Asus Transformer, or the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 when it releases what would you choose?
What do you plan on using it for?
I love the Transformer (and I've heard very good things about the Galaxy Tab) but the app market for Honeycomb just isn't in the same league as for the iPad. Google is unifying the phone/tablet Android OS codebases in a significant overhaul later this year and you never know if your Android tablet is going to get that update (for example, I don't know of any Android 2.x tablets that were updated to Honeycomb).
iPad owners make up the overwhelming majority of tablet owners today. Until that balances out some, the iPad is going to have more (and "better") apps, since that's where the dough is.
It's only been a day, but so far I'm liking the Nook I got from Mick running Gingerbread. Need some time to get all the things on it I want, but so far so good.
I love the Transformer (and I've heard very good things about the Galaxy Tab) but the app market for Honeycomb just isn't in the same league as for the iPad. Google is unifying the phone/tablet Android OS codebases in a significant overhaul later this year and you never know if your Android tablet is going to get that update (for example, I don't know of any Android 2.x tablets that were updated to Honeycomb).
iPad owners make up the overwhelming majority of tablet owners today. Until that balances out some, the iPad is going to have more (and "better") apps, since that's where the dough is.
I have an iPhone and the girlfriend has an iPad so I was leaning towards an Android just to get the best of both worlds. Being able to run Emulators and watching flash videos is a huge advantage for the Android tablet.
I was leaning more between the Asus Transformer or the new Samsung. The specs are really all the same with the Asus being a little bigger/heavier but having all the built in components is an advantage.
does anyone know what iPad app that records lectures and types it for you? I saw a chinese kid in class doing it and I forgot to ask him before the semester ended.
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does anyone know what iPad app that records lectures and types it for you? I saw a chinese kid in class doing it and I forgot to ask him before the semester ended.
Hp just killed WebOS. TouchPad production has halted.
A decent device if you really want something bare-bones. There will be no more apps presumably, and no more updates. Price drops may make it appealing.
After sitting in a seminar about the TouchPad last week, I was talking it up to anyone who would listen.
This is why I don't bet on horses.
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because I had a chinese student in my class that was using his Ipad to take notes and it took the professors words and not only recorded them, but wrote them in text too.
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because I had a chinese student in my class that was using his Ipad to take notes and it took the professors words and not only recorded them, but wrote them in text too.
He means you could have just as easily have said I saw a kid in my class and you would have got the same point across.
He means you could have just as easily have said I saw a kid in my class and you would have got the same point across.
well it would help that the kid spoke very little English and to add that it was taking the notes in Chinese so that is why I stated where he was from. Sorry if I offended anyone, it's not like he opened his own fake iStore...
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well it would help that the kid spoke very little English and to add that it was taking the notes in Chinese so that is why I stated where he was from. Sorry if I offended anyone, it's not like he opened his own fake iStore...
It really is just a comment on how in NA society the white male is the dominant social class and all other race/gender combinations have to be labeled to describe them as different from the normal. By identifying them as Chinese, rather that just as a normal person, you are actively participating (probably unknowingly) in the racist attitudes that they need to deal with on a daily basis.
And not that anyone cares, but I watched a really interesting video on this topic the other day, and here is a segment that relates to this phenomena:
The 1:00 mark is where it starts
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