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I'm sure it's awesome, but I think Windows 3.1 allowed you to be able to run two apps side by side back in 1990 (25 years ago)?
 
paperboyNC said:
I'm sure it's awesome, but I think Windows 3.1 allowed you to be able to run two apps side by side back in 1990 (25 years ago)?
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They also had tablets back in the early 2000s Windows based.. It's apple though.
 
Personally, I think tablets have hit their peak...it filled a niche left empty by cell phones and laptops.  With laptops become amazingly thin and light and phablets becoming the norm, tablets will occupy a very small niche.
 
Already happened. That's why they are targeting business/corporate use rather than consumer. This is a direct competitor to the Surface Pro now - albeit with less performance for a similar price.

Irvinecommuter said:
Personally, I think tablets have hit their peak...it filled a niche left empty by cell phones and laptops.  With laptops become amazingly thin and light and phablets becoming the norm, tablets will occupy a very small niche.
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peppy said:
Already happened. That's why they are targeting business/corporate use rather than consumer. This is a direct competitor to the Surface Pro now - albeit with less performance for a similar price.

Irvinecommuter said:
Personally, I think tablets have hit their peak...it filled a niche left empty by cell phones and laptops.  With laptops become amazingly thin and light and phablets becoming the norm, tablets will occupy a very small niche.
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It can work for certain industries but I still prefer my laptop with an actual keyboard and real programs for work.  There is very little cost saving in comparison to getting a Macbook or Mac Air.
 
My Galaxy Note 5 can multi task on one screen, has a pre-installed "apple pencil", and you can place phone calls with it.

My takeaway: Will be buying new Apple TV. Any Periscope users? ATV will have Periscope reader built in. Soylent Red wants to upgrade her 5s with a 6s soon so that's another check to be written out to the Steve Jobs Memorial Trust, it's successors and/or assignees, 1 Infinity Loop Cupertino CA.
 
Soylent Green Is People said:
Soylent Red wants to upgrade her 5s with a 6s soon so that's another check to be written out to the Steve Jobs Memorial Trust, it's successors and/or assignees, 1 Infinity Loop Cupertino CA.
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Papergirl is in the same boat
 
At this price point, I would rather do a Win10 2-in-1... even the Surface Pro is a better buy.

But, the Apple purists will surely add this to their collection.

(do you know anyone who has an iPhone, an Apple Watch, Apple TV, iPad mini, iPad, Apple TV and a MacBook?)
 
irvinehomeowner said:
At this price point, I would rather do a Win10 2-in-1... even the Surface Pro is a better buy.

But, the Apple purists will surely add this to their collection.

(do you know anyone who has an iPhone, an Apple Watch, Apple TV, iPad mini, iPad, Apple TV and a MacBook?)
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Rhetorical question?  I would imagine lots do. Families are an easy one to accumulate all those apple products. Kids have minis. Adults have iPad and MacBook. Dads got a watch. Family room houses Apple TV.  Everyone has an iPhone.  As kids get older, probably multiples of each product.
 
I was referring to one person.

I know a few people who will only buy Apple technology and some are adamant that Windows is the devil.

Our family will not be getting the Apple TV, the Apple Watch, the iPad Pro or another MacBook (sold the MBAir a few years ago). The kids like their Windows PCs... and wish the iPad had better stylus support (no, will not be getting a Pro and the Apple Pencil). We also have Galaxy Notes (a 2 and a 3) as phones (like Soylent) and the kids like the styluses (stylii?) so when we cycle out of those, will probably hand those down as portable WiFi writing tablets.

The wife used to really like Apple, but hated the smaller screen, she is still on the fence about getting a Plus but finds the stylus of her Note 3 useful so may just go up to a Note 5 (although I disdain the lack of SD card).
 
But one person is paying for all that crap so same difference no?

And while those are your choices, I'm sure others make different ones.
 
My point is that some people will buy something just because it is a certain brand, whether they need it or not.

I don't see a large market for the iPad Pro (or the Apple Watch for that matter) but it will sell because it's Apple, not because it's functional.

If I were an Apple purist, and my kids needed a PC to do homework, I would have to spend twice as much (or more) to get them Macbooks, or even iPads with keyboards, to do the same thing a WinPC could do (and arguably, the WinPC could do it better).

So just like someone will pay more for an Irvine house because of IUSD, you can probably get the same results by paying less for a Tustin house and a promise of new schools (although I would argue that Greenwood isn't much less price/MR wise)... that's called the qwerplan.
 
I love Google...think they are an incredible company and marvel at how they innovate, but at the end of the day, I will be happy when I replace my Samsung with one of those iphone's.  This of course is presuming I can get one of those phones for pretty much free.
 
You are thinking from a well-researched consumer POV. Plenty of folks just whip out their credit cards at the Apple Store to buy products they don't need and fully understand and/or overbuy a product they need but don't need to be so decked out. 
 
bones said:
You are thinking from a well-researched consumer POV. Plenty of folks just whip out their credit cards at the Apple Store to buy products they don't need and fully understand and/or overbuy a product they need but don't need to be so decked out. 
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Yes, because they just see the logo... which is what I was talking about.
 
Bullsback said:
I love Google...think they are an incredible company and marvel at how they innovate, but at the end of the day, I will be happy when I replace my Samsung with one of those iphone's.  This of course is presuming I can get one of those phones for pretty much free.
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Well...you could never get a new Iphone for free.  The point of an Android is competition...you don't like your Samsung...go get a HTC, a LG, a Xiaomei, etc...you can even get the basic version in a Nexus.

I have had issues with my Samsung phones in the past but I kept going back to getting one because I think it's a better phone with a far better OS.  Galaxy S2, S4, and now S6 (which is actually very much like an Apple phone).  Samsung Pay should be really good.
 
It's been several years since I converted everything to Apple. I was nervous at first but generally speaking, Apple products just work. There is something to be said about a company that can integrate both hardware and software. I also appreciate the simplicity of its user interface and and beautiful industrial designs.
 
Irvinecommuter said:
Bullsback said:
I love Google...think they are an incredible company and marvel at how they innovate, but at the end of the day, I will be happy when I replace my Samsung with one of those iphone's.  This of course is presuming I can get one of those phones for pretty much free.
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Well...you could never get a new Iphone for free.  The point of an Android is competition...you don't like your Samsung...go get a HTC, a LG, a Xiaomei, etc...you can even get the basic version in a Nexus.

I have had issues with my Samsung phones in the past but I kept going back to getting one because I think it's a better phone with a far better OS.  Galaxy S2, S4, and now S6 (which is actually very much like an Apple phone).  Samsung Pay should be really good.
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I've gotten them for free before. Maybe not the first day, but a month or two in. And I certainly hope I can again.  My issues with my android aren't hardware related, it is software related.  The apple just works better. Sorry, it just does (for my basic uses). Their are certain limitations of the apple too...none of them are perfect, but using both, I prefer the apple (if the costs are equal).  And I'm not an apple fan boy by any stretch.  Only apple products I've ever owned were an ipod, iphone (have owned 2 total) and a laptop (and while I like the laptop I'd never buy another apple laptop again...prefer PC). So it isn't like my house is littered with apple products. 
 
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