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    Android phones more in demand than iOS phones -- Neilson

    Nothing is really hurting Apple at the moment. Who cares about market share? As long as Apple has biggest revenue in the industry and it is still steadily increasing, what's the problem?
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    Recommended free space on SSD

    It's not really a problem if it doesn't support some of the weird and rarely used partitioning schemes. If controller cannot recognize partition table, it would just assume that all space is used, and won't interfere with anything. Also, most of these schemes anyway contain an MBR partition...
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    Recommended free space on SSD

    All partitions are defined in partition table on disk. Controller can just read it and see what space is unpartitioned. It doesn't have to know anything about file systems used in partitioned space.
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    So how many Android tablet flops and disasters will it take?

    Pen just sends coordinates to the app, it doesn't need any special processing. There already exist usable drawing apps that perform well, if you use them with a precise pen, it will simply mean that they will receive more precise coordinates where to draw, there's nothing that would affect their...
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    So how many Android tablet flops and disasters will it take?

    I think he meant stylus as a pointing device, and that's perfectly reasonable. You'd never want to control a tablet with a stylus if you can just touch it with your fingers. But to dismiss the most natural writing and drawing tool on a device with form-factor that is perfect for writing and...
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    Which Tablet to read PDFs Only

    If you want just to read PDF's, you don't have to root it anyway.
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    So how many Android tablet flops and disasters will it take?

    Don't need doesn't mean they won't use it. They don't need a tablet to draw either, yet many of them are using tablets. They draw without (proper) pen currently because there's no other way, but if there was a pen, I hardly believe that they'd use anything else to draw.
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    So how many Android tablet flops and disasters will it take?

    I think you understood me completely wrong. I don't mean that tablets should move away from finger touch based interface, of course all interaction with tablet's interface should be done with fingers, I don't propose any changes to this. But there should be an additional digitizer layer on...
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    So how many Android tablet flops and disasters will it take?

    Why would they have to worry about stylus input? With stylus it would be exactly the same device as it is now, but just with additional possibility of taking notes or drawing like on paper, how could that affect its success negatively?
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    So how many Android tablet flops and disasters will it take?

    The stylus tablets failed because they had a couple things done right and 10000 things done wrong. iPad and similar tablets became popular because they have 10000 things done right, and only a couple wrong (including stylus input). I know that generally devices aren't perfect for everything, but...
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    So how many Android tablet flops and disasters will it take?

    The Eee PC with Wacom digitizer that I tested was around $500, so the digitizer is probably not that expensive. And I'm not sure yet that those iPad styluses really can get the job done. That pixel-perfect precision of Wacom is what makes it feel so close to usual pen and paper, because it...
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    So how many Android tablet flops and disasters will it take?

    Well, the discussion is not really about how should I take notes. It's about usability of a tablet. Of course it's absolutely possible to take notes on paper and use tablet for other stuff, but it's like having a razor that can shave everything except the mustache area - just one step from being...
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    So how many Android tablet flops and disasters will it take?

    This would be unnecessarily complex workflow for me, and it would probably need more attention than lecture itself :) I want to just make some notes so that I remember stuff easier later, last thing I worry about is the accuracy of typesetting or stuff like that.
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    So how many Android tablet flops and disasters will it take?

    Because keyboard is useless when you're dealing with formulas, equations, schemes, graphs, etc.
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    So how many Android tablet flops and disasters will it take?

    No, there are not. They are not pressure sensitive and you cannot rest your palm on the screen. You can't just draw on capacitive tablet with such stylus, you either have to put it on special stand like the guy in the video does or hold stylus in a very uncomfortable way. I tried one of those...