#tablet wars

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Android Tablets - Is It Better Than An Apple?

Android Tablets – Is It Better Than An Apple?

Research Moving Ltd, the company of the BlackBerry smartphone, said it could begin selling a pc tablet in The united states in 1st quarter for “under” $500 as it takes on Apple Inc.’s ipad.

While earlier it was predicted to find a forked version of Android 2.1, it now appears it sports a version of Android 2.3. However, it’s highly customized and does not look like Android on the casual user.

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[cnet]

Here's the new iPad Air.

[bleevit]

In the industry this is what they call an attempt to buy the business. 

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iPad Mini

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[mercerislandbooks]

When Did Commerce Morph Into Combat?

Today's Amazon headlines could be the subject of a long conversation but perhaps I would be just spinning wheels and life's too short for too much of that. But I do want comment on the language "Amazon adds Fire to the Tablet Wars." When did commerce morph into combat?

I don't think I am naive—I've run a small business for twenty-five years--but why does shopping (or shopping for shoppers) have to be war? I love shopping. Drooling over tents at REI, scoring a coat at Goodwill, browsing the market on a Sunday. There is an experience, an exchange, some humanity. It feels here like someone is trying to capture customers, get them "locked in" on their turf. At any cost. Later in the paper an Amazon executive describes the new device as a "buying tool." When did we start to need "buying tools?" Don't these tools only work at one store—thus limiting our independence, privacy, and options? Like I said, a long conversation about corporations, people, needs, wants, the big picture, and the long view. But the words "wars" and "buying tool" made it hard to choke down the cereal.

—Roger

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titanicglacier replied to your post: now that i am home

Yes it is a big tablet :O

i know it is, i just never see it as such because my roommates is THE SIZE OF A FUCKING HOUSE!

[ragnarokkrr-blog]

Victory? Not victory , Obi- Wan.

The shroud of the Dark Side has fallen. Begun, this iPad Clone War has.

(Can't loose this gag. In truth Steve BlowJobs is the Dark Side...)