Interviewer: "Hey guy who works for QNX, is your OS the best?"
Guy who works for QNX: "Yes."
Interviewer: "Oh, okay, I'll take your word for it then."
Dr. Z
Does anyone here have tablets/is buying one?
Dior Homme
i might buy an ipad 2 for my mom. she sometimes uses my computer to surf the net but she could use it to facetime relatives for the most part which saves on long distance bills.
id prefer to hold out for the ipad 3 (fall 2011) because it will most likely have an sd card slot and newer features.
id prefer the motorola xoom/playbook but id like to test it out first since this is a new buy for me. apps and features will be factor for me. id also like to spend less than $700 ish for whatever unit is available at the time. maybe even wait till christmas time to get one. we'll see.
Jem_hadar
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Originally posted by Dior Homme
maybe even wait till christmas time to get one. we'll see.
Thats my plan, unless an android tablet really just WOWS me this summer and the price is right.
Dior Homme
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Originally posted by Jem_hadar
Thats my plan, unless an android tablet really just WOWS me this summer and the price is right.
Such a long time in terms of technological change. People will find so many uses for tablets by the end of the year. Even development of apps will blow up tenfold after all the apps on phones.
I'm predicting a big want for the masses this holiday.
Mach X
May not have the biggest growth in recent years, they are working on it IMO, but they still dominate the market share with more than TWICE of the share than Apple coming in 2nd in behind.
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Originally posted by VERTiG0
Nobody will buy a Playbook
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Originally posted by Dr. Z
Does anyone here have tablets/is buying one?
I'm buying a Playbook as soon as it comes out April 10th. I can get one from work, but prefer to have my own. Besides the SD card gripe, it has everything else I want, especially as a current BB user and it being work related. I will be working very closely with the Playbook once it is launched in the North American market. Which one I buy, and from where is yet to be determined once actual prices for each model is released. I would like the 64GB with the 4G capability if available. Depending on how much it costs I'll either buy one outright, or perhaps get it on a 90days or 1year no interest with a Future Shop or Best Buy card. Maybe even Rogers may have some sort of subsidized price plan for the Playbooks if you're already a Rogers/BIS customer.
Dr. Z
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Originally posted by Mach X
I'm buying a Playbook as soon as it comes out April 10th. I can get one from work, but prefer to have my own. Besides the SD card gripe, it has everything else I want, especially as a current BB user and it being work related. I will be working very closely with the Playbook once it is launched in the North American market. Which one I buy, and from where is yet to be determined once actual prices for each model is released. I would like the 64GB with the 4G capability if available. Depending on how much it costs I'll either buy one outright, or perhaps get it on a 90days or 1year no interest with a Future Shop or Best Buy card. Maybe even Rogers may have some sort of subsidized price plan for the Playbooks if you're already a Rogers/BIS customer.
For me the biggest thing is travelling. I don't want to have to carry my laptop everywhere I go; the PlayBook is perfect. Even saves me once piece of carry on. Can't wait to get it.
It's the little things like that that are so incredibly valuable.
srussell0018
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Originally posted by Mach X
May not have the biggest growth in recent years, they are working on it IMO, but they still dominate the market share with more than TWICE of the share than Apple coming in 2nd in behind.
That's irrelevant. Blackberries are much cheaper than iPhones (some of them even come free with a 2 year plan on Verizon in the US). Plus, tons of corporations buy massive amounts of blackberries for employees, because all they need to use them for is email. Every single person for the company I work for who is a Manager of a division or higher has a corporate provided Blackberry. Their market share has nothing to do with the quality/performance of their phones.
Mach X
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Originally posted by srussell0018
That's irrelevant. Blackberries are much cheaper than iPhones (some of them even come free with a 2 year plan on Verizon in the US). Plus, tons of corporations buy massive amounts of blackberries for employees, because all they need to use them for is email. Every single person for the company I work for who is a Manager of a division or higher has a corporate provided Blackberry. Their market share has nothing to do with the quality/performance of their phones.
Ok then, so if iPhones are so great, why don't companies buy massive amounts of them for their employees? What does BlackBerry have something that is superior to the iPhone and Androids that make them so desirable by corporations globally and are the industry standard for business communications devices?!
(The question was rhetorical, I know the answer, u don't need you answer it, I was just was making a point) :toothless
srussell0018
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Originally posted by Mach X
Ok then, so if iPhones are so great, why don't companies buy massive amounts of them for their employees? What does BlackBerry have something that is superior to the iPhone and Androids that make them so desirable by corporations globally and are the industry standard for business communications devices?!
(The question was rhetorical, I know the answer, u don't need you answer it, I was just was making a point) :toothless
Well I should hope you would know the answer, because it's painfully obvious. :p
I wish my company provided iPhones :(
Mach X
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Originally posted by srussell0018
Well I should hope you would know the answer, because it's painfully obvious. :p
I wish my company provided iPhones :(
And then you can't deny their place in the smartphone industry, or knock them down for their recent releases or offerings to the tech world. Having a BlackBerry and a BIS/BES is what makes them who they are, what they came for and what they do. They are the industry leader/standard for what their prime and intended purpose is.
So be it if that reason doesn't exactly resonate with the average end user anymore because they rather throw birds at things and have an app that makes fart noises.
I just need it to communicate, so BlackBerry does what I need it to do. I get my emails, can send them, use BBM, I have access to social networks and make calls and send txts. I got a few apps and I'm sorted.
And my eagerness for the Playbook is to perhaps bridge the gap or fill the void that may be missing without a iPhone. I can use it with my BlackBerry, and utilize it as a more media and app based device. I don't need it to be my in computer, I have one of those at home.
Everyone thinks I'm pissing on iPhones and other apple products. I'm not, I think they are great, but too in expensive and often overrated by obsessive fanboys and this mystique of sexy-elite-nerdom.
I just get really in irritated when I see some douchebag with a iPhone4 on a pay as you go voice only plan or some like that just so that piece of can say he has an iPhone and whip it out whenever and use it as visual accessory to appear cool or hip over it's actual capabilities as a smartphone. :whip: Same goes for retards who go and buy macbooks and macbook pros with specs that are ridiculous, drop over $2k on one and then use it for browsing the in internet and playing movies.
