Galaxy Tab 10.1 Judged 'No Match For iPad' 302
tripleevenfall writes "Clayton Morris reviews the Galaxy Tab 10.1, and finds it lacking, especially at the $400 price point, saying 'I can't in good conscience tell you to go out and spend $400 on this half-baked experience when the fully baked iPad experience can be had for just a few dollars more.'"
So what (Score:5, Insightful)
Of all the different reviews of the 10.1 on the net why is this short, incomplete article from some-one i've never heard of so important?
What a worthless review (Score:4, Insightful)
Any reviewer who can say "Samsung has included about six apps of their own on top of the standard Android package. Subtract them and you're left with a bunch of shoddy applications that aren't really made for Honeycomb" and then never even discuss these apps is either a moron or an Apple fanboy. Since the review is on Fox News, I'd tend to the former. But I do tend to see this crap when ever somebody compares something to the iPad. One reviewer once said that the Blackberry pad was too small at 7" and then turned around and said another pad (I don't think it was the Tab, maybe the Zoom) was too large at 10.1". I do think Honeycomb is too soon and not ready, but these reviews are worse than useless.
iPad fanboy checking in . . . (Score:5, Insightful)
This article sucked even by my nuthugging standards.
Re:Much more detailed review at Ars (Score:5, Insightful)
On the one hand, Apple is typically very unlikely to promise a given feature on the box and not ship it, or show of a prototype before it is already in production. If anything, they tend in the opposite direction, being as tight-lipped as possible about upcoming plans and publicly rubbishing product categories that they don't consider sufficiently mature.
On the other hand, if you observe the history of changes in iOS devices since their debut, the number of features that started out missing(including minor niceties like cut and paste, and 3rd party applications that had been around for years on other platforms) and "came in a future update" is pretty large.
Either way, Samsung is in sort of a bad spot, since playing catch-up makes what you haven't delivered yet much more galling for the potential customer.
Re:What a worthless review (Score:3, Insightful)
is either a moron or an Apple fanboy.
... but you repeat yourself
Re:Much more detailed review at Ars (Score:3, Insightful)
On the other hand, if you observe the history of changes in iOS devices since their debut, the number of features that started out missing(including minor niceties like cut and paste, and 3rd party applications that had been around for years on other platforms) and "came in a future update" is pretty large.
Apple's approach seems to be to tell you that you don't need that feature and then release it later, whereas companies who can't get away with implying that their customers are idiots have to promise to release it later.
Re:Much more detailed review at Ars (Score:2, Insightful)
Apple's approach seems to be to tell you that you don't need that feature and then release it later
Apple never says you "don't need something", they say they want to wait until they can do the feature well before they ship it.
It's better to under-promise and over-deliver, than the reverse... you'll find that's true in all sorts of things.
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Re:fdsa (Score:3, Insightful)
Or are you just flipping your shit because you saw the words "Fox News" somewhere...
I don't like that station either man, but that's one helluva transparent reaction.