Apple's Tim Cook on iPad competition> Android tablets just 'scaled up smartphones'

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Bateluer

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http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/18/apple-on-ipad-competition-windows-is-big-and-heavy-android-i/

Apple's COO (and current Steve Jobs stand-in) Tim Cook thinks "there's not much" competition to the company's iPad tablet. When queried about Apple's view on what the rest of the market offers, Cook was brutally candid in describing Windows-driven machines as generally being big, heavy and expensive, while current generations of Android-based slates are in his opinion merely "scaled-up smartphones." While we agree that Windows 7 isn't a terribly touch-friendly affair, we don't know that Cook's comments on Android are quite so pertinent now that Google's tablet-savvy Honeycomb iteration has been unveiled. Then again, he has something to say about the next generation of Android tablets as well, noting that the ones announced at CES lack pricing and release schedules, leading him to conclude that "today they're vapor." Ouch. As a parting shot, Tim took a moment to reaffirm Apple's belief that its integrated approach will always trump the fragmented nature of Android and its plurality of app stores. Hear his comments in full after the break.
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Agree with his comments on Windows 7, its not an OS that's build for lightweight, slim, touch interface devices. Course, that is why Microsoft developed WP7. But his comments towards Android tablets are kinda like the pot calling the kettle black. Scaled up smart phone? Isn't that exactly what the iPad is? Major differences being the larger screen and larger battery. Same type of RAM, just less of it. Same CPU, just clocked slightly higher.

More information at the Engadget link
 
Patranus

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Didn't Google admit that the current version of Android was a "scaled-up smartphone"?
 
zerocool84

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Well on Android tablets you can't get the market and all apps for iPad are upscaled for the size/resolution for the screen so everything with half a brain knows it's a better tablet experience. With Honeycomb coming later this year, we can only assume it'll be better but obviously have to wait until they actually come out but competition is going to be fierce this year in tablet land.

It's the iPhone all over again, Apple jumped ahead and made everyone scramble and work to catch up, except everyone seems to be wanting to catch up quicker than they did in smartphone land so competition is going to be that much better.
 
KentState

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What else is he going to say? He's an Apple executive and their job is to be a corporate cheerleader. He has huge shoes to fill and wants to continue the company line. Next shock will be Coke announcing that their drink is better than Pepsi.
 
Fingolfin269

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Hell maybe he's just trying to lure Google into revealing pricing/release data on Honeycomb equipped Android tablets.
 
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gsaldivar said:
It's not hard to compete against something that isn't for sale yet.
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Exactly.

Everyone is like "Honeycomb this, honeycomb that" well guess what, the iPad is for sale and honeycomb isn't.

You have to compare it to what is currently for sale and the competition is a joke.
 
Bateluer

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You guys do know Froyo actually works just fine for tablets, right? Without Google's blessing, most of the Froyo tablets don't get Market access without some trickery though. However, most apps run and look perfectly fine. Its only a minority that have issues, again, usually fixed with some trickery.

Honeycomb will resolve a lot of the perception problems though, by officially giving tablets the Google Blessing.

And of course he didn't mention the Playbook, the Playbook is a complete joke. :p
 
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Bateluer said:
You guys do know Froyo actually works just fine for tablets, right? Without Google's blessing, most of the Froyo tablets don't get Market access without some trickery though. However, most apps run and look perfectly fine. Its only a minority that have issues, again, usually fixed with some trickery.

Honeycomb will resolve a lot of the perception problems though, by officially giving tablets the Google Blessing.

And of course he didn't mention the Playbook, the Playbook is a complete joke. :p
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Well, technically, not quite yet, but soon... very soon...

I'm running eclair on the nook color, it's pretty good, can't wait for Froyo on it, and if it'll run Honeycomb, I'll be in heaven...
 
zerocool84

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Bateluer said:
You guys do know Froyo actually works just fine for tablets, right? Without Google's blessing, most of the Froyo tablets don't get Market access without some trickery though. However, most apps run and look perfectly fine. Its only a minority that have issues, again, usually fixed with some trickery.

Honeycomb will resolve a lot of the perception problems though, by officially giving tablets the Google Blessing.

And of course he didn't mention the Playbook, the Playbook is a complete joke. :p
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It works ok but not ideal. iPad was able to just scale all the apps to the iPad rez to it worked out well. Android apps don't have that yet at all and not having the Market stock is was hurts it. Having to do things for the basic things to work is not how it should be done and obviously hurts them.
 
rcpratt

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Stunning revelation, all tablets are scaled up smartphones, including yours. You're off to a good start, Cook.
 
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rcpratt said:
Stunning revelation, all tablets are scaled up smartphones, including yours. You're off to a good start, Cook.
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Why can't smartphones be scaled down tablets? Considering that iOS first lived on a tablet, this would be completely different from Android tablets which were designed from smartphones.
 
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ChAoTiCpInOy said:
How are tablets stupid?
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I'm not a big fan, as they are indeed nothing more than scaled up smart phones without the phone part. I've never understood their appeal beyond their portability. If I need to get a long document done, the bottom line is that the ipad's native keyboard (and touch screen native, really) won't get it done.
 
Phokus

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Apple is just angry that Android's smartphone userbase surpassed apple's recently.
 
zerocool84

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DivideBYZero said:
Apple's argument is that their phone was a tablet before they decided to make it into a phone form factor.
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Well which is what we have to believe as Jobs was the only one who said that which doesn't mean much cus anyone could say that. Obviously they didn't complete anything which is why we just got the iPad last year so you can only take it with a grain of salt cus we know Jobs is far from truthful with things he says.
 
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