Apple iPad replaces iPod as "the gateway device" that leads to an addiction to Apple products

2. lksdclkjsdf posted on 28 Apr 2012, 20:22 6 9

I call BS on that even thought I'm a die hard android fan the iPad 3 is still one of the best tablets i ever used

3. redrooster13 posted on 28 Apr 2012, 20:34 9 4

You call BS on the fact that I won it or that I didn't care for it? Believe me I had a hard time believing that I won it also. I must have read the email like 10 times thinking it was a scam lol. Don't get me wrong its fast and the screen is amazing, but I just don't have any use for it. I had an iPhone before I got an Android device and I always told people that iOS was easier to use than Android. However after using the iPad for a while, I really miss the back button on Android. I now believe Android is the easier OS.

5. gp284 posted on 28 Apr 2012, 20:54 2 3

wait so your getting rid of an Ipad 3 because it didn't have a back button?

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6. redrooster13 posted on 28 Apr 2012, 20:58 5 1

No. Not at all. Just kinda missed it. Not the reason I'm selling it. Just don't have a need for it. I have a laptop and an Android phone. It can't replace my laptop. An Android tablet would have more potential for replacing a laptop. Plus I could use some extra cash for college.

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8. redrooster13 posted on 28 Apr 2012, 21:15 6 3

I just really dislike the inconsistency with iOS. Sometimes the back button is on the bottom right, sometimes it's in the top right and so on. With Android it's always in the same place.

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9. gp284 posted on 28 Apr 2012, 21:46 3 0

Gotcha. I know what you mean about how its hard to justify getting a Ipad replacing a laptop, especially because its hard to find a good keyboard dock, and if you're going to college soon,you would more than likely need flash support. I myself am about to buy the Asus TF300, because i think it comes as close to replacing a laptop as any other, especially with the mobile dock you can get with it, and i plan on getting an optical drive with it.

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10. redrooster13 posted on 28 Apr 2012, 21:53 3 0

Yeah I agree about flash and the keyboard. You can get an optical drive for it? I didn't know that. Really that was the only reason I was not getting a android tablet to replace my PC.

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40. c.hack posted on 30 Apr 2012, 01:22 0 3

I can't stand the back button on my android devices. You can never tell if its going to close the app, or go to a previous screen. I have no use for a button when there is no way to tell what it will do.

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47. redrooster13 posted on 01 May 2012, 00:27 0 1

It goes to the previous screen. So if the previous screen was your home screen, then it exits the app and takes you to your home screen.

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4. redrooster13 posted on 28 Apr 2012, 20:44 3 1

After having the 3gs a few years ago and owning the iPad 3 now, nothing seems different. It's just like my old iPhone except on a big HD screen. iOS still has the same bland look and feel.

41. c.hack posted on 30 Apr 2012, 01:25 0 2

I know what you mean. I had a color TV 30 years ago, and got a color flat panel last month. It all looks the same - same old crappy sitcoms. Why bother even getting a TV. lol

When you come down to it, all smart phones look almost the same. The differences are negligible. As long as they don't crash all the time like my Droid X2.

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12. taco50 (banned) posted on 28 Apr 2012, 23:17 3 13

Who are you trying to convince? Us or yourself? Same tired arguments. Dual core 1.5? You don't say? Guess what no one cares about that tablet.

15. redrooster13 posted on 28 Apr 2012, 23:28 8 3

I care about that tablet....so it looks like you're wrong. Can a person not post their opinion?

16. taco50 (banned) posted on 28 Apr 2012, 23:39 1 13

What if I followed android articles around and constantly posted my "opinion"?

You don't like Apple. We get it. Quit reading their articles then.

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21. wumberpeb posted on 29 Apr 2012, 00:38 8 2

Taco, when do you stop being a woman, man up, and hold up your end of the bet with Remix? Just stop posting, find a nice place to troll on Anandtech...

Sincerely,

Everyone reading this page

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22. taco50 (banned) posted on 29 Apr 2012, 01:01 1 4

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-04-27/samsung-apple-smartphone-sales/54584550/1

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25. BattleBrat posted on 29 Apr 2012, 04:47 2 0

Oh, I like Apple, I LOVE my 4th gen 64Gb iPod Touch, but it is time for Apple to shake it up, it is getting stale. And I paid more for that iPod Touch than I did for that Archos tablet. So I didn't really care if the tablet sucked or not, but it has been pretty impressive for something so affordable.
I was considering going Apple after a negative experience with my old computer, but a buddy of mine brought me back to the light. He hooked me up with an old Dell workstation DUAL QUAD CORE XEONS (8 cores) for $350, and it'll whoop an i7. He said he liked Macs (he even has a NEXT computer if you know what that is) but he says it is too much money for not enough hardware.

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18. frydaexiii posted on 28 Apr 2012, 23:56 7 2

Same tired argument? This coming from the guy who's only arguments for iOS Vs Android is "iOS came first" & "Sheeps are richer and smarter than fandroids."

29. andro. posted on 29 Apr 2012, 09:10 4 0

Ios essentially hasn't changed since the very first iphone beside a few minor tweeks so it is an dated design. But as with most things apple minor changes can take even years to be implemented in devices

32. taco50 (banned) posted on 29 Apr 2012, 10:55 0 6

iOS from 2007 to today is night and day. Only thing the same is the grid of icons.

Great designs stand the test of time.

34. BattleBrat posted on 29 Apr 2012, 12:13 3 1

That "grid of icons" is all there is to iOS, so yeah, it hasn't changed much.

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37. taco50 (banned) posted on 29 Apr 2012, 17:23 0 2

yea cause it has zero functionality and just has icons right?

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42. BattleBrat posted on 30 Apr 2012, 09:26 0 0

I'm sorry, I didn't say anything about "zero functionality" you did, I feel iOS can do a lot of the things Android can do, but you have to select the apps to do it, with widgets on android they are just there, but the functionality is there on iOS, I thought you were an apple fanboy?

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43. taco50 (banned) posted on 30 Apr 2012, 10:56 0 1

Widgets have to be opened as well to use the app.

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45. BattleBrat posted on 30 Apr 2012, 13:28 0 0

Not all, and you don't haved to open the app if the information you are looking for is already being displayed.

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17. Lucas777 posted on 28 Apr 2012, 23:39 2 1

"I must be immune to APPLE product's radiation as I have them all in my home"…

might want to reexamine that…

38. networkdood posted on 29 Apr 2012, 18:36 0 0

over exposure - I rarely touch the stuff...lol, except to enter the itunes code for the kids...

33. BattleBrat posted on 29 Apr 2012, 12:06 1 0

I hope they don't get rid of the iTouch, just make it the size of a Galaxy note and call it the iPad mini, there are more apps for the Iphone/iTouch anyway...

36. mrochester (unregistered) posted on 29 Apr 2012, 14:27 0 0

If anything it'll be the iPod shuffle, nano and classic that get the heave ho as the Touch drives the vast majority of iPod sales. If Apple could find a way to make the Touch more affordable to replace the cheaper iPods and the capacity of the classic, they could sweep away all of the other models and streamline the whole lineup.

30. ivanko34 posted on 29 Apr 2012, 09:25 2 0

Yes you are right
But the world is big enough for people who do no share you opinion

35. redrooster13 posted on 29 Apr 2012, 13:14 1 0

Dude you sound like you're in some kind of cult. It's just a company, nothing to worship over.

44. jellytime posted on 30 Apr 2012, 13:15 1 0

"We Apple have the power to control human's"
You are not Apple and no Apple doesn't have the power to control humans
"We are loved and well known all over the world."
But also hated
"We and SIRI like that."
Forever alone

46. redrooster13 posted on 01 May 2012, 00:25 0 0

+1 lol