Is the iPad having an outcome on the personal computer securities industry ? Shockingly , two PC vender say “ no ” ! For some effectual psychoanalysis on the iPhone trailing issue , the Macalope turns to the least trust name in Apple news . And last , is n’t comparing the iPad to the PlayBook and Xoom unfair ? OMG , it ’s so totally unfair !
If we ignore it long enough, maybe it’ll go away
Dell insists pill having no effect on PC in enterprise
Dell , honey . Do n’t .
On Monday , Dell published a field it had conducted in the hopes of steering companies out from tablet .
The Macalope ’s alreadyflagellated himself for underestimating IT department ’ willingness to acquire the iPadso he ’s going to resist his articulatio genus - jolt reaction of suspecting that corporate IT managers are so chummy that this strategy would actually work . Some belike are , but apparently there are n’t as many of them as there used to be . believably they all die out when they could n’t figure out how to use their hands to get food into their mouths .
The study is somewhat shady as it was paid for in February by Dell and Intel , both of whom would see the most benefit from keeping the iPad and its competition out of the work .
Hmm . Yes . Thatissuspicious .
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OK , is the iPad going to completely supercede the PC ? Of course not . But it most surely is having an effect — and it’sreallyhaving an effect on netbooks . Acer in peculiar seems to betaking it in the shortsin this area and has also switched tofull denial mode , at least publicly .
If it ’s not the iPad , ladles and microbe , then what is it ? Apple’sselling MacBooks hand over clenched fist . How come you ca n’t ?
Speaking of stupefied response to the iPad :
Microsoft wo n’t prevail out virginal tab OS , holding off
Oh , well , take your time . No motivation to step on it .
“ We wo n’t do anything in the tablet market unless we can be distinctive , ” he say .
Again , this is where the Macalope gives Microsoft some credit . Windows Phone 7 has mountain of problems ( starting with the name ) , but at least it ’s not just an iOS knockoff . And candidly , this approach has a good chance of helping Microsoft get its point out of its Ballmer in the tablet arena than just grafting some spot gestures onto Windows 8 . Which , unfortunately , seems to be their only plan right now .
Highfield personally remained firm to Windows and tell he used a Dell Inspiron Duo as a “ best of both worlds ” lozenge and computer mix . He quickly acknowledged that , like owners of most other tablets , he had a ceremonious Sony VAIO notebook for “ hard lifting . ”
Oh . So , notthe best of both world . Highfield let in it ’s not a in force laptop , and you could tell it ’s not a expert tabletjust by looking at the thing .
Microsoft , you ’ve been try on to cross a pad with a laptop for years and it has n’t worked . It ’s time to attempt something else . Hopefully something less offensive to the eyes .
Yeesh .
Is it irresponsible to speculate? It would be irresponsible not to.
What are we to suppose of this iPhone locating track dirt ?
One could take a measured approach and admit that , while Io really should sick this data frequently , likeAndroid does(tip o ’ the antlers toRob Wensing ) , this is n’t even technically news program . Alex Levinsonpoints out that Apple is not collecting the data and the file cabinet is neither hidden nor new because , well , he ’s been write about it for calendar month .
Oh , OK , Mr. Expert ! Ifyouwant to conceive there are n’t slight men who do work for Apple living in your iPhone , reporting back to Cupertino on your every move , that’syourbusiness . The Macalope frankly finds this “ logic ” and these “ facts ” to be rather naive and boring and as itchy as gunny underclothing .
Hmm . Who can we turn to to give us a hysteric , reactionist rendering of this situation ?
Ah!Gizmodo , of track ! ( Tip oxygen ’ the antler to Anne . )
Until Apple discontinue doing this , or explain why they are doing it , I do n’t feel safe . I find uncanny having all this data that I do n’t want recorded on my iPhone , and so do others . Maybe they ’re doing it for the government .
Yes , yes , yes!Maybe theyaredoing it for the government . Now we ’re getting somewhere . Or … OR … maybe … stay with the Macalope here …
peradventure they ’re doing it for infinite aliens .
Oh , sure , you gibe . Why would they be doing it for space aliens ? Ha - ha ! The whim is absurd ! Of what pursuit could our localization information be to outer space outlander ?
IT security expert Jonathan James has poked around inside the iPhone placement database single file in question and discovered tables label “ Harvest ” and “ HarvestCounts , ” although their employment is still unknown .
Is it , Gizmodo?Is it?Think about it . Who does “ harvesting ” ?
What ? No , notfarmers .
Space aliens . Harvesting of our national organs , which are as delicious to them as donuts are to us . Apple is clear tracking the emplacement of iPhone users and then transmitting that data to their giantEarth - put down data point centerso the space unknown can site iPhone drug user and harvest their organs . Why do they want iPhone user and not Android users , you say ? Ha - ha ! Please ! Because iPhone user , they ’ve been told , have better tastethan any other smartphone exploiter .
And distance aliens , as we all eff , do n’t understand homonyms .
Q.E.D.
There . That seems about the right level of hysterical paranoia .
We’ll spot you 15 points
John Gruber has of late beentaking to taskreviewers who seem to continually bend over backward to grade the iPad ’s would - be contender on a breaking ball .
These are the big leagues , this is The Show . They ’re charging customers real money to purchase these things . They should be judged by the same standards .
Indeed . For his part , Harry McCrackenhas shot back and said that ’s not what he was doing at all , but now we have one punch-drunk pundit — eWeek ’s Wayne Rash — who ’s come right out and say it : the PlayBook should n’t be compared to the iPad . ( Tip type O ’ the antlers tothe Curious Ratandthe Angry Drunk . )
… at least the Xoom has the advantage of its own set of overzealous Android fanatics to hold up its end of the perceived controversy . The PlayBook does n’t have that and worse , RIM has had to manage with a set of unfortunate public statements by aged executives that process to make the company look as if it ’s out of touch .
Yeah ! Poor RIM ! Having to deal with the inauspicious public statement of …
Wait , what ?
Does Rash know that Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are not some sort of malicious imps sent by Loki to throw wrenches in the gears that slowly and stupidly grind out PlayBooks ? Does he know they actually execute the ship’s company ? Because they do .
True , they do n’t black market it very well .
But wait . Why is it that I ’m comparing the PlayBook against a Virginia ham ? Well , why not ? It makes at least as much sense as compare the PlayBook against an iPad …
Other than the fact that you ca n’t get Es - mail on a ham either , this is just making excuses . They ’re both tablets that are marketed to befit a miscellany of superposable enjoyment cases for consumer and corporate customers . habituate cases that a ham , however delicious , can not satisfy .
The PlayBook is a different story . It comes with Web ring armour links , and RIM says that there will be an electronic mail client in a few months . But clearly the PlayBook was n’t designed as an electronic mail equipment .
intelligibly not . Inasmuch as it does n’t , you know , have an due east - mail client .
So for the same reason that it does n’t make sense to liken the PlayBook against a Virginia ham , it does n’t make sense to liken it against an iPad . They are unlike product intended for dissimilar purposes and unlike users .
No ! Other than the fact that RIM is but not competing with the iPad in the atomic number 99 - ring armor outer space , they are not ! The iPad is eminently worthy for a variety of clientele chore which is credibly why it ’s doing so well inthe bodied market . It ’s honest the PlayBook , as ship , is pretty much designed for someone who already possess a BlackBerry , but that’shardly a win scheme .
While I think it was credibly a mistake not to include BlackBerry messaging and email clients on the PlayBook , … that was a marketing decision more than anything .
Oh , so we should disregard it ?
I surmise RIM now wish it had made some other determination , but that ’s already behind us .
Yes . We should whole not let determination made about a product ’s design in the past affect our decisiveness whether or not to buy that product in the present .
Is there any part of this article that makes any common sense at all ?
Do n’t found that decision on whether or not it ’s an iPad clone ; or else , base it on whether or not the machine does a better Book of Job of supporting your needs than another twist might .
Right . Don’tcompareit to an iPad . Just face at it and the iPad and decide which one does a better problem .
But do n’t compare them .
No , you ’re doing it wrong .
