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RE: The bigger the better
By MartyLK on 12/16/2012 8:38:58 PM , Rating: 2
Regarding this quote from Tim Cook:

I think a great number of those people would be much better off buying an iPad or a Mac.

I can't agree with it. When I had my iPad, I tried to replace my PC with it. The problem I had is the lack of mouse support. There was no GUI to support a mouse.

When I went to a popular Apple forum asking if there was a mouse that would work with the iPad, the response I received was, "It's a touchscreen! You don't need a mouse!"

Not everyone wants to sit or lay there reaching out to the touchscreen of the iPad to navigate it. I'm more comfortable holding my hand in one spot to navigate - I use a thumb-controlled trackball mouse.

I sold my iPad for enough funds to buy an Asus TF300 that, with the keyboard dock, has a full-size USB port that will run peripherals (wired or wireless mice etc) and HDDs. I now use my very same PC trackball mouse with my tablet.

The iPad won't displace any computer system so long as it can't do what a computer can do.

RE: The bigger the better
By Solandri on 12/17/2012 6:26:09 AM , Rating: 2
Until Apple seriously overhauls iOS' multitasking, it's not going to make a good PC replacement even if you add a keyboard and mouse. The way iOS works right now, nearly all apps can only run in the background for 5 seconds. They can ask for a 10 minute reprieve, but after that they're forcibly frozen (don't get any CPU time until they become foreground again).

Android is a bit more permissive. It lets apps continue running in the background so long as there is free RAM. But once you hit the point where a PC would start swapping, Android orders the longest-unused app to close. That's why Samsung's side-by-side view (two apps on screen at once) on the Note/Note II works - Android doesn't prevent any two apps from running simultaneously.

Remember folks, these are still phone OSes. They were designed to work best with the limited CPU and memory of a phone from several years ago. They don't work as well if you try to use them like a general purpose PC.


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