You could always keep it in a man purse. I won't judge.
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I'm ruling that it's a purse!
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I'm ruling that it's a purse!
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Um, it's a satchel. Indiana Jones carries one.
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It's time to turn the Paige!
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It's time to turn the Paige!
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Reason Apple will never support flash is because they claim it's buggy, and uses too much processor power for it to be viable for use on smartphones.
Apple supports HTML-5 but most sites today use flash.
I suppose whether one is an Apple fanboy or not would make a difference how they feel about Apple being adament about never wanting to support flash in their smartphones.
Personally, I'd rather Apple leave it up to the purchaser of the phone whether or not they want to install flash on their phone or not. I'm huge into multimedia and would love flash on my iPhone. If it eats up my CPU a bit, then so what. At least I could've chose to or not. I suppose when sites go HTML-5 it'll be better but until then, it's flash.
Even though Apple don't support it, jailbreaking an phone is perfectly legal and it is perfectly safe to do even though Apple frowns on it and claims it voids the warranty even thoughall one has to do to get rid of the jailbreak is to restore the phone to out-of-box unjailbroken condition making the warranty valid. This makes no sense to me since the jailbreaking is perfectly safe and easily reversible. Why not let the owner of the phone to decide whether they want to optionally swant to install flash or not.
Go figure..Sometimes the reasoning behind some stuff makes no sense.
Apple supports HTML-5 but most sites today use flash.
I suppose whether one is an Apple fanboy or not would make a difference how they feel about Apple being adament about never wanting to support flash in their smartphones.
Personally, I'd rather Apple leave it up to the purchaser of the phone whether or not they want to install flash on their phone or not. I'm huge into multimedia and would love flash on my iPhone. If it eats up my CPU a bit, then so what. At least I could've chose to or not. I suppose when sites go HTML-5 it'll be better but until then, it's flash.
Even though Apple don't support it, jailbreaking an phone is perfectly legal and it is perfectly safe to do even though Apple frowns on it and claims it voids the warranty even thoughall one has to do to get rid of the jailbreak is to restore the phone to out-of-box unjailbroken condition making the warranty valid. This makes no sense to me since the jailbreaking is perfectly safe and easily reversible. Why not let the owner of the phone to decide whether they want to optionally swant to install flash or not.
Go figure..Sometimes the reasoning behind some stuff makes no sense.
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All thish tech talk smakin' me thirshty...jush han me the key wouldja'?
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All thish tech talk smakin' me thirshty...jush han me the key wouldja'?
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Otis Campbell a geek?...Imagine that
Storage hasn't been an issue on my Ipad. It comes with 3 different amounts so you can choose what you need. I love mine. The only problem is you really can't see the screen in the sunlight but it's a great tool.
quote:Originally posted by zombywoof:
Why not let the owner of the phone to decide whether they want to optionally want to install flash or not.
Go figure..Sometimes the reasoning behind some stuff makes no sense.
That's the apple way. Android's developers left it open. Look at all the cool stuff people came up with. I was never really an apple guy. I'm miffed that their decision to abandon power pc and go intel-only leaves me with two (expensive!) laptops that will be pretty much useless when nothing will work without snow leopard.
I have a ten year old pc running windows 7 just fine.
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Someone called?
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Someone called?
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OK, you asked...
First off, I'm a photographer, but I play with computers to make money...so I guess some would (OK, HAVE) called me a geek...BUT...
The current project I'm working on fits right into your question since I currently have a couple of Xooms on my desk along with an iPad and a Slate (Windows 7 tablet) and had a Playbook and an iPad2 sitting here last week to work on...
Here are some quick notes:
Playbook - 7" screen, does not offer 3/4G unless you already have (or purchase) a Blackberry to use for the communications when WiFi is unavailable...I don't think the choice of applications is at the same level as Apple or Android - at least not yet...I do think I'd wait on this until they added 3G/ 4G capability as I wouldn't want to have to rely on having a Blackberry...
Slate - 7" screen, basically a netbook (not notebook) with a touch screen. If a netbook will handle your level of use, this isn't a bad choice. The good (and bad) of Windows 7 in a very easy to carry package. Note that there are also larger screen versions of Windows 7 tablets too. Most folks know what apps are available for Windows, so I'll just leave that alone...one other thing I noticed with the Slate is that it offers a USB Port and SD Card slot that aren't standard on the other devices...
Xoom - 10" Screen, Android 3.0. Note there are other sizes of Android tablets - some with older versions of the OS and some with 3.0. HD form factor screen, so a bit shorter, but longer than the iPad. Both Google and Amazon have App Stores for Android, but not all apps will necessarily work on the more recent OS (yet) and some won't be designed for the larger screen vs. the SmartPhone sized screen.
iPad / iPad2 - 10" screen - one with and one without cameras. I should have mentioned that the others all had at least one camera...You get Apple's App Store and no flash. A hard core Apple lover friend of mine described me as anti-Apple...I'm not although I do not care for their approach on some things...I bought an iPad back in January (before most of these devices were available) because it provided me the capabilities I was looking for in a better, more complete package than the other available devices. (as a side note, I have an Android phone)
My recommendation to you is to go to Best Buy or a similar store where you can get your hands on some of these devices to see what works best for you. In general, I think both the iPad and the Xoom are fairly intuitive to use, but they are different and you may find you prefer one to the other. I don't think you can go wrong with either as they both have strong and weak points.
From a photographer's stand point, all have nice screens and have sufficient space to hold a number of photographs. Since I expect I will always have a camera on my phone if I encounter a situation where I'm without my "real" cameras, I don't really care about cameras on these devices unless it was for Skype or something like that...
I know the iPad has an option to allow you to attach an SD card for downloading photos and you can also move photos to and from with a sync from PC. I doubt I will use my iPad to edit my photos, but I doubt I would need to. However, it is a great way to show off family photos, your portfolio or whatever you've most recently photographed.
Oh well...hope that helps...probably more than you wanted, but...
First off, I'm a photographer, but I play with computers to make money...so I guess some would (OK, HAVE) called me a geek...BUT...
The current project I'm working on fits right into your question since I currently have a couple of Xooms on my desk along with an iPad and a Slate (Windows 7 tablet) and had a Playbook and an iPad2 sitting here last week to work on...
Here are some quick notes:
Playbook - 7" screen, does not offer 3/4G unless you already have (or purchase) a Blackberry to use for the communications when WiFi is unavailable...I don't think the choice of applications is at the same level as Apple or Android - at least not yet...I do think I'd wait on this until they added 3G/ 4G capability as I wouldn't want to have to rely on having a Blackberry...
Slate - 7" screen, basically a netbook (not notebook) with a touch screen. If a netbook will handle your level of use, this isn't a bad choice. The good (and bad) of Windows 7 in a very easy to carry package. Note that there are also larger screen versions of Windows 7 tablets too. Most folks know what apps are available for Windows, so I'll just leave that alone...one other thing I noticed with the Slate is that it offers a USB Port and SD Card slot that aren't standard on the other devices...
Xoom - 10" Screen, Android 3.0. Note there are other sizes of Android tablets - some with older versions of the OS and some with 3.0. HD form factor screen, so a bit shorter, but longer than the iPad. Both Google and Amazon have App Stores for Android, but not all apps will necessarily work on the more recent OS (yet) and some won't be designed for the larger screen vs. the SmartPhone sized screen.
iPad / iPad2 - 10" screen - one with and one without cameras. I should have mentioned that the others all had at least one camera...You get Apple's App Store and no flash. A hard core Apple lover friend of mine described me as anti-Apple...I'm not although I do not care for their approach on some things...I bought an iPad back in January (before most of these devices were available) because it provided me the capabilities I was looking for in a better, more complete package than the other available devices. (as a side note, I have an Android phone)
My recommendation to you is to go to Best Buy or a similar store where you can get your hands on some of these devices to see what works best for you. In general, I think both the iPad and the Xoom are fairly intuitive to use, but they are different and you may find you prefer one to the other. I don't think you can go wrong with either as they both have strong and weak points.
From a photographer's stand point, all have nice screens and have sufficient space to hold a number of photographs. Since I expect I will always have a camera on my phone if I encounter a situation where I'm without my "real" cameras, I don't really care about cameras on these devices unless it was for Skype or something like that...
I know the iPad has an option to allow you to attach an SD card for downloading photos and you can also move photos to and from with a sync from PC. I doubt I will use my iPad to edit my photos, but I doubt I would need to. However, it is a great way to show off family photos, your portfolio or whatever you've most recently photographed.
Oh well...hope that helps...probably more than you wanted, but...
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