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whilst i agree with your sentiments in principle you dont necessarily have to compromise to increase specs.
Nexus vs iPhone 4s
Nexus has a much bigger screen, better battery life, is allegedly tougher (if you gauge that on 'more likely to survive a drop') and yet manages to be lighter than an iphone 4s.
It also manages to squeeze in a barometer, NFC and widgets and flash
But just to be clear im not 'betting against apple' .... nothing of the sort. Apple are great at marketing and seem to be able to convince people that they know best what we actually need.....
Originally Posted by Dark 1:
“Never suggested otherwise. I think you misunderstand.
I'm saying, with the iPad, Apple have compromised by sacrificed some areas of spec and added a little weight to retain a good build quality and a long battery life. Other manufacturers may make similar compromises. But others, to differentiate themselves, may choose to sacrifice build quality and/or battery life to gain bigger bullet point spec numbers and/or lower weight.
Which approach the buying public feels is the best remains to be seen. But I wouldn't bet against Apple's.”
“Never suggested otherwise. I think you misunderstand.
I'm saying, with the iPad, Apple have compromised by sacrificed some areas of spec and added a little weight to retain a good build quality and a long battery life. Other manufacturers may make similar compromises. But others, to differentiate themselves, may choose to sacrifice build quality and/or battery life to gain bigger bullet point spec numbers and/or lower weight.
Which approach the buying public feels is the best remains to be seen. But I wouldn't bet against Apple's.”
whilst i agree with your sentiments in principle you dont necessarily have to compromise to increase specs.
Nexus vs iPhone 4s
Nexus has a much bigger screen, better battery life, is allegedly tougher (if you gauge that on 'more likely to survive a drop') and yet manages to be lighter than an iphone 4s.
It also manages to squeeze in a barometer, NFC and widgets and flash

But just to be clear im not 'betting against apple' .... nothing of the sort. Apple are great at marketing and seem to be able to convince people that they know best what we actually need.....




It really just makes things prettier at a closer distance. With 20/20 vision and fully resolved 1920 x 1080 signal, the maximum recommended viewing distance for 9.7'' 4:3 display is 1.2 feet / ~36.6 cm. If you hold it farther, the details start blend together, if you hold it much closer you start noticing the pixels. More pixels (4 times as much between iPad 2 and 3) means you can hold it even closer, but really, is the iPad 2 that bad that one can't use it at all? People are using lets say 13'' macbooks for ages and nobody cared that a screen resolution is pretty poor even for laptop standards, only 1280x800! The new airs have 1440x900 which is still not very exciting. Will they upgrade to retina as well? Well that would give a reason to current macbook owners to go and buy another one