Posted on 09/28/2011 1:24:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I agree about the iPad size. It's too big to fit in a jacket pocket. If I need to drag it around in a briefcase, I would want a bigger screen than 10 inches.
Ok he has his belief, others have theirs, right now the facts are not there to support the speculation..
The cheaper wannabes are the ones that will have trouble. To be honest it is a different market all together than the iPad, with some crossover in the consumer stuff.
Absolutely not.
But it is going to be a success exactly because it isn’t competing with the iPad.
your troglodyte tag line cracks me up.
I havn’t had a watch since the eighties when I started carrying a programmable calculator with a built in clock and alarm clock. It was an HP 48SX that I programmed to use as a phonebook and checking account balancer. I made a case for it that merged with my checkbook.
Then came pagers, cell phones, PDAs, and laptops. all of which had built in clocks. Cell phones and smart phones killed watches. Period. there is literally zero reason to wear a watch nowdays aside from bling and narcissism. everything has a clock built into it.
When I first started carrying a cell phone, I always picked out a model based on which had the best, easiest to read at a glance, clock, and the most resistant to heat and perspiration while in my shirtpocket. At the moment that happens to be the casio g’z one. I think the worst ever made by my metric was the motorola razor...although it was a perfect size and shape for a shirt pocket.
Miss the old keyboards no more! link
Now why do you s'pose the Feds ain't kicking down Amazon's doors....?
Except that what you wrote, the first time, was "table." A table, you see, is a piece of furniture like the other items listed.
It was a joke riffing on your typo. Lighten up, Frances.
Remember the first watches used LED’s that required you to press a button to see the time. I haven’t packed a watch since my Casio Data Bank watch with the phone dialer built in, died.
Just cell phone now. I started with the first Samsung Palm powered then their flip model came along. Those died and I switched to the iPhone, never looked back. In fact I don’t even need a phone anymore I just keep it for the clock {:-)
I can do it with a cable too... But why? Wireless is better and easier. Plus the AppleTV gives me a lot more options for other things.
You're overlooking something. The Kindle Fire has only 8GB of storage! There isn't room for OS, apps, music, books, games, and your whole movie collection. There's barely room for ONE DVD at 4.3 GB if you're carrying much of anything else. Any movies would have to be really low Rez and highly compressed. . . Or streaming, so not much content on the road... Sorry.
DVDs are loaded with extras and use MPEG2 compression, which isn't as efficient as H.264 and other modern codecs, so the 4.3GB figure isn't terribly useful.
iTunes movies run about 900MB an hour. Assuming that Amazon's compression is similar, the Fire would hold 3-4 movies with a fair amount of room for music and books; if more highly-compressed versions are available, you could squeeze more in. If you're traveling with kids, that's about as long as you could reasonably expect to go without stopping anyway, and it wouldn't be too hard to find WiFi at any well-populated highway exit and reload. It's not seamless, but neither is carrying around a ton of DVDs.
It wasn’t my joke. I just pointed it out since you apparently missed it. You’re welcome. I suppose I should have expected hostility, because your previous post was dripping with humorless, condescending earnestness.
You know, there are some very tasty decaffeinated brands out there. Just a thought.
Okay, so it wasn’t your joke. So, why not let the joker respond to my retorts, and why did you have to butt in?
Anyhow, my bad for not noticing.
However, you and the other poster must’ve, by now, seen how people can, sometimes in haste, misspell or create a typo, and that’s the only think I was pointing out tot he other poster. I’ve actually done the “table” vs “tablet” thing in other forums and other discussions, and I still haven’t seen a joke about the typo.
But, perhaps I’m being a bit too defensive and it wasn’t anything to make a big deal about. So, I’ll apologize and let it go.
the first digital watch maybe...not the first watch. IIRC, fred flintstone had a sundial on his wrist. I had a red LED watch when they first came out. They weren’t cheap to buy and they used *TWO* hearing aid batteries.
Has anyone got the Kindle Fire yet? If so, thoughts?
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