HP pad instead of Ipad

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sundancekid said:
I wish I knew what that meant. With all of the excitement and anticipation of the coming generations of tablets I'm lending consideration to trying to learn how to develop for the Android OS. Anyone here have advice on where to start with this? I don't have any programing experience other than extremely basic HTML from the late 90's.

All of the hating on flash vs. HTML5 and Apple vs. Android/Google is pointless. What matters is the competition. If it wasn't for another company or individual looking at what the other guy is doing and saying "I can do that too and make it better" then we would only have the iPad. Personally Apple products are not where I'm headed but that is because I don't like where they seem to be taking their products. For people with simplistic needs or who don't care about how Apple is plans the future of their development and or they just like Apple; then to each their own.

My first smartphone was an iPhone 3G. When I first got it I was very excited and thought it was the sweetest piece of phone technology ever invented. But eventually it started to develop reliability issues and even though it is still functional I now use it as a paperweight until I can find a worthy individual to bestow it upon or maybe use it for app development. Now I have a Samsung Droid phone and I love it even more than when I got the iPhone.

What it really comes down to is what product is right for the person and their needs. The HTML vs. flash can just be left up to the web development geeks because it doesn't have a major impact most of the time for average users. Heck, even tonight my buddy and I were discussing how some websites just aren't geared for mobile browsers regardless of the software platform.

In some respects it is unfortunate that HP decided to murdercide the tablets but we as consumers benefit greatly from it, just look at what it has done to the tablet market. People who went to the stores to by the Touchpad only to find they were sold out still bought other tablets because at that point they had just decided they want a tablet. That speaks volumes to me about how little the importance is to many people about Android vs. Apple and HTML vs. flash
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Petraeus said:
What do you think of the zbar lib sdk?


i'm an apple developer (ios) I have ios5beta6 on my iphone 4 right now and I'll be the first to admit that apple's products are not only inferior to android by a metric mile, but that 99% of apple's users are blind sheep who couldn't think their way out of a wet cardboard iphone case.:)
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So the substance of your beef is that Apple didn't release some new tech until a few years after it came out? As if we all needed to be cloud computing 5 years ago. And tens (or hundreds?) of millions people are stupid sheep? You sure maybe your perspective isn't a tad bit skewed. I mean, I don't know where you are exactly right now, but I know there's a nerd in that room. Thinking like a nerd instead of thinking like the "stupid sheep" will get you where IBM, BB, WebOS went.
 
I'm not sure where I suggested I had any "beef" with iphones, ipads, ipottys, iSheeps or anything else apple related. I develop for apple products using a *gasp* mac

All I stated was that apples products are inferior to android by a metric mile. This is a true fact and in no way suggests I dislike apple. If you hav a problem using inferior overpriced sheep products, well that's your own problem and not mine.

:)



fastar1 said:
So the substance of your beef is that Apple didn't release some new tech until a few years after it came out? As if we all needed to be cloud computing 5 years ago. And tens (or hundreds?) of millions people are stupid sheep? You sure maybe your perspective isn't a tad bit skewed. I mean, I don't know where you are exactly right now, but I know there's a nerd in that room. Thinking like a nerd instead of thinking like the "stupid sheep" will get you where IBM, BB, WebOS went.
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Palm Pilot's going alllllllllllll the way.
 
and you do realize your idol steve jobs is the biggest self-professed nerd out there right?

rim, hp and ms aren't being done in because of a lack of nerds but rather a lack of foresight, which few nerds posses ;)

fastar1 said:
So the substance of your beef is that Apple didn't release some new tech until a few years after it came out? As if we all needed to be cloud computing 5 years ago. And tens (or hundreds?) of millions people are stupid sheep? You sure maybe your perspective isn't a tad bit skewed. I mean, I don't know where you are exactly right now, but I know there's a nerd in that room. Thinking like a nerd instead of thinking like the "stupid sheep" will get you where IBM, BB, WebOS went.
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Petraeus said:
I'm not sure where I suggested I had any "beef" with iphones, ipads, ipottys, iSheeps or anything else apple related. I develop for apple products using a *gasp* mac

All I stated was that apples products are inferior to android by a metric mile. This is a true fact and in no way suggests I dislike apple. If you hav a problem using inferior overpriced sheep products, well that's your own problem and not mine.:)
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Whatever, replace the word 'beef' with 'criticism'.

My, you are a nerd.
 
Petraeus said:
I'm not sure where I suggested I had any "beef" with iphones, ipads, ipottys, iSheeps or anything else apple related. I develop for apple products using a *gasp* mac

All I stated was that apples products are inferior to android by a metric mile. This is a true fact and in no way suggests I dislike apple. If you hav a problem using inferior overpriced sheep products, well that's your own problem and not mine.

:)
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I think there are several parts of this post that suggest you dislike apple.
 
Duster929 said:
Sounded like you said you were a developer for ios but you thought it was an inferior product. If I spent my time working on something I didn't like, I'd change careers.
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Maybe the benefits package is awesome?
 
They're popping up on fleabay, and people are paying $300 for them. And they call the Apple users sheeple.

Shidiots.
 
CruisnGrrl said:
bahahaha paying 3x as much for dead tech?
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There has been talk of this being a marketing gimmick by HP.. Get'em out there, expand the userbase... I have no stake in this, just mentioning what I heard :cool:
 
FiReSTaRT said:
There has been talk of this being a marketing gimmick by HP.. Get'em out there, expand the userbase... I have no stake in this, just mentioning what I heard :cool:
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Yup, you'll have a giant user base of folks who won't pay more than $100 for a tablet. I'm guessing that isn't exactly the target market HP was hoping for.
 
Petraeus said:
I'm not sure where I suggested I had any "beef" with iphones, ipads, ipottys, iSheeps or anything else apple related. I develop for apple products using a *gasp* mac

All I stated was that apples products are inferior to android by a metric mile. This is a true fact and in no way suggests I dislike apple. If you hav a problem using inferior overpriced sheep products, well that's your own problem and not mine.

:)
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LOL...why are you guys even taking him seriously after he makes statements like this??
 
fastar1 said:
So the substance of your beef is that Apple didn't release some new tech until a few years after it came out? As if we all needed to be cloud computing 5 years ago. And tens (or hundreds?) of millions people are stupid sheep? You sure maybe your perspective isn't a tad bit skewed. I mean, I don't know where you are exactly right now, but I know there's a nerd in that room. Thinking like a nerd instead of thinking like the "stupid sheep" will get you where IBM, BB, WebOS went.
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webOS just went to over a million users this weekend and straight up to number 2 tablet software in the world. That my friend is where webOS just went. Remember HP said we are only stopping making the pad ourselves, webOS their number one priority, hence why they just spent over 1.2 billion a year ago.
 
CruisnGrrl said:
bahahaha paying 3x as much for dead tech?
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Lisa, I suggest reading the latest articles about the future of webos,it will be licensed, how is that dead tech?
 
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