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Note: this is my opinion and Chippy probably doesn’t agree : P
A Graph Regarding The Apple iPad 2 Announcement
Posted on 03 March 2011, Last updated on 10 November 2019 by Steve Paine
Boring specs. Your chart is Crapple.
I think you missed the point, buddy. This nice chart but you forget to quantify variables for “elemenet unknown” jaja XD
I beg to disagree. Apple did not release the first dual core processor tablet. It was motorola xoom. And how many megapixels does their camera have? Sub par compared to honeycomb tablets. Technically, they are not raising the bar. Competition just caught up up with them because they introduced nothing new.
I’m fully aware that Apple doesn’t usually have the fastest specs on paper, but I still think they make a better product that is more useful/usable for the most number of people. I shouldn’t have used the word “hardware” in the parentheses next to quality, “build-quality” would have been more clear.
What I’m driving at here is that Apple delivers an impressive “complete” package, and others catch up, but only as Apple is moving on.
For instance, Google only recently added Google video chat to honeycomb devices, and now Apple has shown several new things that make the iPad an even more complete package. The others will get there, but probably not until the next device from Apple.
I like how you put quotes around “complete”, I think the more apropriate word though is “solid” (as opposed to fragmented). Consider the fact that it doesn’t support flash so you don’t get a ‘complete’ web experience. The iPad is not a ‘complete’ replacement for a real PC. If the first iPad were ‘complete’ they wouldn’t need to add things like cameras to the second iPad. Etcetera. But they do make a ‘solid’ product.
I believe useful/usable is a relative term. What can you do on the iPad that you cannot do on the Motorola Xoom? Browse the web? Play games? Read e-books? You can do all of that to the Xoom and more.
Furthermore, Honeycomb tablets have widgets that maximizes the 10.1″ screen real estate and lets you flick through your emails, pictures, movies, and Youtube content on a single screen. While iPad2 still requires you touch the App icon to navigate a program.
Facetime and Google video chat are nothing new. They are still classified as video calls by another term. You can already do that with Yahoo Messenger.
So the only thing going for the iPad2 are the apps, which is technically not “raising the bar” since they are available since the first iPad.
The most innovative thing in new ipad is the cover. Or shall I say the only innovation.
It might have been true with the first iPhone 3G and 3GS (and arguably with the first iPhone).
But I think the trend has reversed now and Apple starts to lag behind the others or at best advancing at the same speed but on a different path.
Agree with czarnikjak :) Most new tables come with 1280×800 resolution, while iPad 2 is still 1024×768. Where is the promised double resolution? I think they are trying to catch the bar not to raise it :))
This isn’t a “suistinable” concept of what makes a better product. By your definition: “if it doesn’t have a higher resoltion screen, it’s worse”, I’d be happy to buy an iPad 6 at 1024×768 with thousands of apps that work great at that resolution than to buy the Xoom 4 with a 2600×1464 which is twice the resolution of the Xoom 3, and only has 10 apps at launch, and will only see 100 apps that work at that resolution before the Xoom 5. Not to mention that constantly increasing the resolution is only going to needlessly pack the screen pixel density, and raise the price.
No kidding! I hope some Chinese rip off the smart cover really quick!
The graph is wrong, quality isn’t a quantificable variable.
My dear, how much $$$ Have U got from CRAppel for drawing this CRAP graph ??? U can’t be serious only for once ????
I find it funny how everyone comes in and starts questioning the validity of Apple’s quality or how they are trying to play catchup to Motorola and the rest, or how much money you got for making this chart.
Is it so stuck in your mentality that Apple has to be the underdog when it comes to hardware specifications that it’s impossible for any of you to visualize a time when Apple is ahead of the competition? I hope that is not the case, because that means you are just blindly throwing ignorant questions around to justify your reasoning.
Apple can still be ahead of the curve this time because the iPad 2 is the first dual-core tablet to come to the market with a complete and stable software package. The Motorola XOOM didn’t come with that.
Apple can still be ahead of the curve if their graphics performance figures translate to real-world performance, because 9x faster than the last generation would make the A5 chip twice as fast as Tegra 2.
It is just insane how I’ve seen the technical world crack down on anything Apple lately, as if Apple must never be successful in their mind. Did they ransack your house? Burn your crop? Kill your children? I don’t think so.
They are just a tech company, bringing products to the world. And I, for one, would commend them for their products as a whole package, not because it’s Apple that made those products.
I’m very doubtful 9x would translate to real world performance. Chances are apps would have to be rewritten to get even 4x the performance. Most manufacturers boast theoretical numbers based upon synthetic tests, it’s common practice, just as hard drive disk space used to be in GiB like RAM, but as soon as one started calling their GB in billions of bytes, every one else started doing the same and people are always left wondering why the hard disk they just bought seems smaller than advertised.
The more important thing about having faster hardware is in the difficulting in taking advantage of the hardware. If it requires large amount of refactoring of an apps architecture most app developers will be reluctant to do it and most app performance will not be that much faster. This is why in console games it takes several years and iteration of games before games start looking better and feeling better as developers are still learning how to take advantage of the hardware.
Great post I will rss this for sure!