06-20-2011, 01:22 AM
When I had an ipad I found it an unacceptably poor substitute for the kindle, its heavier (which doesn't matter til you are reading for 3 hours on a train and then it gets annoying), more unwieldly (I can fit my kindle in my overcoats pocket, not an ipad), and the back light is worse on your eyes. Not sure how often the backlight is really a plus, I suppose if you are a coal miner and often trying to read in the darkness its a helpful.
I just read on my android (iphone works well too, although the screens smaller than the desire) if I dont have my kindle on me, no reason to waste money on a pad that does basically nothing different than a smartphone. If I did look at a tablet again (I already got rid of our ipad), it would be the asus transformer as a little netbook replacement, as with its keyboard docking station (which comes with an extra battery), it essentially is one..
Although gingerbread still needs some more work, hopefuly the fact that decent new tablets are being built that will come along quickly.. didn't take the phone OS to catch up with (and in some opinions surpass) iOS on phones.
Sorry, I didnt see that. Sure, 500 bucks says that 2 years from your posting date there will not be ps3 quality games on the cloud. Considering the best games available on pads/iphones at this point are from emulators, they have a long way to go.
Chaos Rings was squares big attempt to bring a 'real' rpg to the ipad and it was a hallow shell of a game - but thats the whole ipad marketing scheme, 5-10 buck micro games.. bah.
I just read on my android (iphone works well too, although the screens smaller than the desire) if I dont have my kindle on me, no reason to waste money on a pad that does basically nothing different than a smartphone. If I did look at a tablet again (I already got rid of our ipad), it would be the asus transformer as a little netbook replacement, as with its keyboard docking station (which comes with an extra battery), it essentially is one..
Although gingerbread still needs some more work, hopefuly the fact that decent new tablets are being built that will come along quickly.. didn't take the phone OS to catch up with (and in some opinions surpass) iOS on phones.
Grieve Wrote:Jakensama Wrote:We're not 2 years away from entire (real, not ipad) games being on the cloud.Care to put some money on that?
Sorry, I didnt see that. Sure, 500 bucks says that 2 years from your posting date there will not be ps3 quality games on the cloud. Considering the best games available on pads/iphones at this point are from emulators, they have a long way to go.
Chaos Rings was squares big attempt to bring a 'real' rpg to the ipad and it was a hallow shell of a game - but thats the whole ipad marketing scheme, 5-10 buck micro games.. bah.