The Macalope must be thirsty because this hebdomad ’s analogies all have his mouth watering . While the iPad ’s competition still is n’t soup yet , the twist itself may have take a sharpness out of netbook sales . And Android may be selling like pancake , but is it a substantial meal ?
We’re still boiling the water!
So it ’s time to delay on the United States Department of State of the iPad ’s competition again . This has been a recurring featurechez Macalope , so we should probably come up with a name for it .
Since many of these would - be iPad killers have the aura ofa hastily - hold together meal , how about “ Is It contention Yet ? ”
What about this awesomeNvidia Android tablet ?
NVIDIA tonight showed a reference book tablet design that it [ says ] shows the potential of its dual - core Tegra 250 chipset . The design , made by Foxconn , should be a “ generation out front ” of the iPad as it runs at the same 1GHz clock speed but uses a novel ARM Cortex - A9 architecture that ’s theoretically 25 percent more muscular per core than the iPad ’s Cortex - A8 . The excogitation has about 1 GB of RAM , or four times as much as Apple ’s tablet .
Oh , no ! It ’s theoretically quicker ! Turns out it ’s also theoretically actual .
Either Foxconn or one of the company that practice it as a contractor is expected to send a production interpretation of the tablet eventually , but when was n’t cite .
ostensibly this is a reference spec , which Gizmodo ’s Matt Buchanan draw as “ a rounded , plasticky iPad . ” Soundsawesome , butBONG!Sorry . It ’s Not Competition Yet .
Well , how about much - hype HP Windows 7 pill — the one that Steve Ballmer ended up announce rather lackadaisically back in January ? C’m on ! The iPad was announcedafterthat matter ! What break ? Well , if HP does n’t kill it in favor of a Palm - based tablet , looks like we might see itin October . Oh , and it ’s expected it ’ll have half the stamp battery liveliness of an iPad and be $ 50 more .
GONG!No , It ’s Not Competition Yet .
Ugh . Sigh . OK , then what aboutAcer ’s 7 - in Android - found tablet ?
“ This fall . ”
BZZZT ! It ’s Not Competition Yet .
The Macalope know a real rival will come along some day . If you ’re pro - tablet but anti - iPad , though , you ’re still going thirsty .
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think of how last class we kept get a line how Apple had considerably get that pad out pronto or netbooks would cause a plague of locusts and a rain of pure hellfire on the Cupertino campus ? Now netbooks are yesterday ’s news and everyone ’s furrow the iPad .
Our sure-enough friend at Retrevo are back with another of theirlink - baiting surveys , this one suggesting that 30 per centum of hoi polloi consider a netbook buy an iPad instead and that 78 percent of potential buyers were leaning toward an iPad . The Macalope ’s slammed some of Retrevo ’s previous subject area for being nothing more than otiose pop - up internet site - visitor questionnaire , but it also commissions surveys such as this one from independent society .
The Macalope did determine this amusing from the write - up :
When Steve Jobs took the degree in January and announced the “ truly sorcerous ” Apple iPad , we were pretty sure it was work to give netbook purchaser intermit .
Oh , really ? That ’s not howthe Macalope remembers it .
Anyway , readers should takeallsurveys seek to predict future behavior with a grain of table salt the sizing of a Citrullus vulgaris , admit this one . Technology emptor are notoriously skittish and oft act as on impulse .
Not the horny one , of course . His purchases are always well - planned and logical .
He entirely require thatvelvet Elvis .
iPhone OS really satisfies
speak of surveys , the iPhone is still wizard , topping all other smart phones with a 77 percent atonement score . Android - based speech sound from Motorola come in in a “ close second ” at 67 per centum .
Good for Motorola ! Keep try out and maybe some day you ’ll be the kind of meet meal the iPhone is .
The Macalope ’s guessing Samsung ’s Android - based phones belike get a somewhat worse score sincethe troupe announced it wo n’t be update the Behold II beyond Android 1.6 . The Behold II that came out in November .
Ouch .
Google says it ’ll ready fragmentation by version 3.0 of the operating organization and that Android is still selling like those proverbial hotcake , even though some of these pancake woefully can not be advance with the much - desired butter and syrup enhancements . One wonders if they ’re selling so well not because they ’re thebesthotcakes but because they ’re just the best available to customer tie to cellular companieswhose name are n’t acronymsforthe later in 19th century engineering science .
This point is obvious , of course of action , but Apple is only eventually leaving the original iPhone behind when it ships iPhone OS 4.0 this summer . That ’s a three - year lifecycle ; it is n’t eternity , but lease ’s confront it , technology is like beer — you do n’t purchase it , you only rent it .
In fact , the companionship apparently sleep together the iPhone atomic number 76 so much it may be baking it intothe next Apple TV(tip oxygen ’ the antler toKhoi Vinh ) .
Ah , hearsay . You are the fluffy whipped cream on the chocolate sundae that is our lustfulness for Apple products . So lightsome and airy , you collapse at the slightest skin senses of our ramification and yet we can not help but eat you !
OK , the Macalope ’s going in hunt of something to eat now .
