“The South Korean company also plans to launch a tablet computer globally by the fourth quarter under its Optimus line, said Chang Ma, vice president of marketing for LG’s mobile-devices unit,” Cheng and Lee report. “The first LG tablet, which will run on Google Inc.’s Android software, will set itself apart from Apple Inc.’s iPad by focusing on the ability to create content, rather than simply display it, Mr. Ma said in an interview.”
Cheng and Lee report, “Mr. Ma said that the iPad is a great device, but he doesn’t do much work on it. ‘Our tablet will be better than the iPad.'”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Bring it on, Mr. Big Talk. Bring it on.
Bwaaaa ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Mr. Ma? Lol
iCal’d
What he meant to say 오랫동안 당신을 사랑
Costs him nothing to say it.
This is great. Someone throwing down the gauntlet. Let this spur innovation so we can get even better products (Apple or otherwise).
Crack must be popular in the R.O.K.
I guess he’s having too much fun with his iPad to do any actual work.
I can say the iPad has definitely changed the way I work. It has replaced my MacBook Pro in most mobile situations. When I need to do real detailed design work, I use a Pogo stick instead of m finger.
Pages, Keynote, Numbers, Mail and Safari provide all the functionality I need to satisfy all my roving business demands.
“Look what they’ve done to my tablet, Ma…”
Someone is smokin’ opium!!!!
Someone is smokin’ opium!!!!
Someone is smokin’ opium!!!!
Someone is smokin’ opium!!!!
Someone is smokin’ opium!!!!
Someone is smokin’ opium!!!!
Someone is smokin’ opium!!!!
Of course, it’s the Marketing VP not the Engineering VP saying “Me too!”.
Did the old CEO of Creative change his name and get a new job at LG?
Based on bullet-points, most tables are “better,” but try and use them. LG should make ear-bud headphones better than Apple’s; maybe they’d have success there…
My father gave 8 hour long lectures this week at a conference and as he is computer illiterate I created his presentations for him according to his notes. I used my iPad to create every single one of them, and he used it to present each lecture. Worked absolutely beautifully with no problems.
Anyone who says the iPad is not for content creation is quite simply ignorant of what it can do, or lying for their own purposes.
Forgive me for suggesting this, but having actually used an iPad for some time now, I find that it lacks certain functionality that keeps me from buying one for myself (in lieu of a laptop). I’d like to see:
1) Mouse compatibility – bluetooth or even cabled.
2) A cabled external keyboard (or perhaps one that pulls out, ala non-iphones). The software one is just too obtrusive, and not very functional if you have to do a lot of switching between numbers and letters.
3) A USB port with the ability to access an external hard drive (for picture storage, file storage or transfer, etc.).
I know, I know – that’s not what the iPad is for. But it could be a valid portable laptop replacement with these slight concessions. That’s what it would take for me to buy one.
And I’m guessing that’s what you’ll be seeing from LG and others by the end of the year. If they don’t go that hybrid route, there won’t be anything they can do better than the iPad does now.
Well isn’t he just so cute trying to fight with the big boys. It’s like watching a child put on his dads shoes, except lg will never grow big enough to take on iPad.
Pages needs to be able to read and save directly to iDisk. Work means being able to read and access all my files easily and seamlessly, in their existing file structures. Once this happens iPad will be unstoppable. Fortunately, I don’t see LG or any of the other halfwit Androids solving this problem first.
You can buy the iPad camera connection kit, which allows you to not only plug a USB camera or SD card directly into the iPad for photo transfer, but external USB drives as well:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC531ZM/A
A simple jailbreak allows you to use a Magic Mouse with the iPad:
http://www.perivision.net/wordpress/?p=2964
More like someone is smoking PCP