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At least it's not a blatent rip-off of something else...

justfinethanku

Sep 17, 2010, 10:16 AM
Oh wait...

it is.

But it's all good really, I mean, if companies didn't respond to obvious consumer demand then we'd only have one car company, one TV company, one computer, cell phone, shoe company etc...

I'm going to purchase a Samsung Tab myself, just to see how it stacks up to my iPad in everyday use.

Here's to a fun future of awesome devices, rip-offs or not!!!
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Menno

Sep 18, 2010, 4:27 PM
How many different ways are there to make a large all touchscreen device?
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bluecoyote

Sep 19, 2010, 3:07 AM
Quite a few. I wouldn't call the Galaxy Tab a blatant (or blatent) rip-off of the iPad, just close enough to remind everyone who the market leader is.
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Menno

Sep 19, 2010, 9:22 AM
The archos tablet series (winmo, linux, and android) all also have a very similar design and they were put out before the ipad was announced.

If you're going to make something with a screen that big (and no other real input areas) there's only so many ways you can position the speakers/keys/etc before the design just stops making sense.

People will immeadiatly compare the Tab to the iPad but for the same reason most consumers call anything with a touchscreen an "iphone" (aka, "is this the lg/verizon/sprint/motorola iphone?")

Heck, I had a customer a few months back who reffered to her Motorola Krave (horrible, horrible phone) as the Motorola iphone, and the touchscreen is about all that device had in common.
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Matrixbarf

Sep 19, 2010, 1:05 PM
Lol, I hear that. I remember a time when every flip phone I sold was called a Razr. I also remember a time when every pda phone I had available was called a Blackberry 🤣
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MrGuder

Sep 19, 2010, 4:24 PM
bluecoyote said:
Quite a few. I wouldn't call the Galaxy Tab a blatant (or blatent) rip-off of the iPad, just close enough to remind everyone who the market leader is.


Actually it reminds me that theres one born every minute. 🤣
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justfinethanku

Sep 20, 2010, 12:03 PM
The big similarity though is using a mobile OS previously used only on phones. It's a concept that hasn't been used before, to my limited knowledge, on a tablet device.

Previous generations of tablets have always used some form of OS as on typical laptops, making them incredibly hard to use for most people who'd just rather have a laptop.

From what I've gathered, apple started developing the iPhone after they came up with the iPad, steve jobs in a recent interview said "we designed this tablet OS and said to ourselves, this would make a great phone!"

Android, as a whole, is an obvious response to iOS and almost nothing else. Even in it's marketing it constantly compares itself.

By all means though, I'm not trashing google and ...
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Menno

Sep 20, 2010, 1:05 PM
for at least a year before the ipad was announced. Android 1.6 was actually built with support for x86 processors (PC chips). The ipad showed that the tablet concept was profitable, but tablets based on a mobile OS existed before it.

Android in it's current phone is a response to ios, yes, but io4 is a response to android. if the iphone never launched, android would still exist, but it would be competing with blackberry/winmo instead. If android didn't exist, do you really think the iphone 4 would change as much as it did in a single revision?

That's the beauty of the market. There are no "leaders" at the moment, it's all a cycle of innovation, with each platform pushing the others to improve as those others push right back.
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bluecoyote

Sep 20, 2010, 1:32 PM
The Archos Tablets are uh.... I don't even know what you'd call those. Maybe something along the lines of "nothing anyone would ever purchase" , as they are some of the most poorly conceived devices I've ever used. I don't even know who thought those things up.

Maybe I'd say the Nokia N700 is a better example. But the iPad is a clean break in that it seems to be all about giving developers a new class of device to write for, rather than shoehorning in an OS and saying "I don't know, see if anyone writes something for it" (Galaxy Tab.)
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Menno

Sep 20, 2010, 6:26 PM
I just brought them up to show that the idea of putting a smartphone OS on a tablet isn't something new.

And most items coded for phones will run just fine on the tab (unless they hard coded resolutions)

The real question is how many tablet specific apps will come about before Google officially releases a tablet targeted OS.
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