Jaroslovsky reports, “The screen on the Galaxy is a disappointment… You might be willing to live with the Galaxy Tab’s compromises if you were at least saving a bunch of money over an iPad. You aren’t.”
“There’s no question that Jobs and his iPad need a worthy competitor,” Jaroslovsky reports. “The Galaxy Tab just isn’t it.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Actually, Rich, there is a question. In case you haven’t noticed, Apple didn’t “need a worthy competitor” to create the Mac or the iPod or iTunes or iTunes Store or iPhone or the iPad itself. Apple competes against Apple. They have to: It’s too easy to “compete” against the mediocre-at-best junk produced by the world’s Apple wannabes. The “Apple needs a worthy competitor” line sounds great, unless you think about it for half a second. It’s an old wives’ tale.
My best friend recently got a Droid, top line LG or something because he wanted to stay on verizon (couldn’t really give me a good reason for that reasoning… but I digress.) In less than a month it crashed so bad Verizon had to replace it. The battery life was such that it always ran out of juice after a couple of hours. I asked him what he was running, but he had no clue. Flash, or otherwise all the hidden adware and crap load on his phone just ate the battery up, maybe he got two hours… He’s not happy, let’s just put it that way. I told him to get rid of it, and wait for iPhone on VZ coming soon. I think he finally heard me. Sometimes, folks just gotta learn on their own.
… meanwhile a brand new iPad 64gb waits downstairs for some break-in time. It’s already blown me away. My HD Youtube videos display better with the youtube app than they ever did via a web browser… I’m thinking the AppleTV is next to plug into that 63″ Samsung plasma set.
No one will EVER equal what Apple Inc. is capable of doing!
No one will EVER equal what Apple Inc. is capable of doing!
MDN, Well put!
@Bunchies of Munchies
Really, HTML 5 takes the same processing power as flash? Really? Interesting then that I need to install a third party application plug in to play flash video and all i need for HTML 5 is an up to date browser. And you dont think that plugin third party plug in isnt going to hog additional memory, processing etc.
Hasnt it already been shown that flash eats away battery life based on the requirements over and over again? So what are you disputing?
It’s pathetically hilarious how some doofii (plural of doofus?) get sooooo wound up about Flash, or the lack of it, or the reasons WHY it sucks and refuse to see that a proprietary plug-in is not the best solution.
Case in point:
I have design client who is attending a trade show abroad. They wanted to add a splash page with info about the show and links to show info and to a particular project on their web site.
Simple, no? NO!
The site is one giant Flash container and the dodo (dude) who built it spent a week trying to find a way to make an internal link. He couldn’t and ended up making an HTML page with a Java slideshow of images. Hell, I could’ve added a page with Freeway Pro in a few hours with all the links we needed plus a slideshow with ZERO coding on my part.
Okay, thus has nothing to do with no Flash on iPads, but it illustrates a point where technology gets in the way of doing what needs to get done.
@Michael Linehan
Nicely put!
Rich Jaroslovsky is a moron!!!
Apple does need a worthy competitor. Some of the features we have these days on the iPod, the Mac and the iPhone have been added because of competition, because consumers asked for them and only were listened to when they decided to choose another product instead just for these features. I know that other companies (try to) copy Apple’s products. But Apple copies others, too. And that is good because Apple does it better. Apple doesn’t simply copy the feature. The reason behind the feature is looked at and ,in most cases that I can remember, the copy turned out better than the original.
The point made about people comparing their devices is valid; it happens all the time. “Tech savvy” people on the Android side are always quick to point it out. Tech neophytes will quickly cave under their assertions, because they don’t understand why flash is bad (battery life and page load times). I promise you that my mother or grand mother would have no idea why they can’t view certain videos, unless I told them. As far as SKYFIRE is concerned I deleted it a few days ago, because it DOES NOT WORK AS ADVERTISED. It was hit or miss 50% of the time.
Apple needs to add an error message that pops up and says: Some content on this page will not work bc it uses flash technologies. OR Flash is disabled on this device to preserve user security, battery life, and to allow pages to load faster.
my $0.02
I’m sooo tired of this “Apple needs a worthy competitor” garbage! I do not recall a columnist for PCWorld or CNET or ConsumerReports write that Microsoft in the last two decades needed a worthy competitor…they spent all their time trashing Macs as often as possible and expressed disdain at any small success Apple had in the 1997 to 2007 time frame.
Went to a store yesterday where they had a Galaxy Tab on display, you could try the thing out for yourself, ok i’m spoiled with my Ipad, but this toy just lacks buildquality, it felt cheap but cost half more than a basic Ipad (The Netherlands).
I tried one today in a Carphone Warehouse store. Built quality seems to be quite good. Much, much more complex to use than an iPad though. When I changed applications after I found them, I felt vibrations into my hands from the processor, which I found a bit disconcerting.
I did not get to try gestures since the whole thing was far from intuitive to use. In my 5 minutes I took a photo but failed to get the browser to work.
I think 7 inch screens are viable. Icons were smaller though. If a 7 inch screen is not viable how is it that folk are coping with iPhones etc?
Apple needs competition. That sounds great in theory, but the truth is no one competes with Apple. They copy Apple. They insult and deride Apple, and then crank out the derivative junk. Other companies follow the old business maxim of ‘put the least amount of time, effort and money behind a product in order to produce acceptable profit.’ Apple follow a different mantra. ‘Put out a great product that people will want to use.’ You may not agree with their definition of great, but that’s your perogative.
This is the same, rehashed storyline that we saw for the iPod and the iPhone. Might as well make it generic for the next series of Apple products…
“There’s no question that Jobs and his [insert Apple product name] need a worthy competitor,” Jaroslovsky reports. “The [insert would-be competitor product name] just isn’t it.”
Meritocracy that is Apple versus Mediocracy that represents the Windows and Android world.
Of course apple doesn’t NEED a competitor. But I’m pretty sure they would want some. Ever try playing Monopoly by yourself? Pretty boring. Same theory
@ jubei…. ah poor jubei. No one running android runs flash mobile fine. Even if you have the latest and greatest flavor of android… what is this week? cherry bon-bon? fruitcake? As a former flash designer, even some of the best coded and efficiently coded/designed websites will not work right on a touch mobile device. I mean unless you mean ads or porn. In any other case, the flash platform was designed to run keyboard and input devices with a click. You do know that rules out most games, websites with any kind of creative UI, worthless and these completely unsecure trojan apps have to be rewritten. I will not even go thru the trouble, unless I get paid big time. Besides that, these “web” sites are intended for monitors, not small portable devices. So fine text, graphical elements, and other numerous hovers, text boxes, and things that trigger animations and scripts are too small for your sausage fingers..
I assure you no one running android has a pleasant user experience viewing any real .swf files, that are not ads or porn. The mobile devices neither have the security or horsepower to run flash optimally, hell even powerful PCs have the same trouble with hardware accelerating and other tricks. Then again why would you allow an adobe product a backdoor into computer? and anyone allowed to make what they want, without covering the security flaws. The last update for 10.6.5 over a third were covering security holes created for flash. I am sure you windows people do not even get those patches from M$…
1st, Apple is its own competition. The iPod mini was the best selling iPod hands down. Apple killed it at the height of its sales to do something better. Any other company would have continued the mini line, with maybe marginal updates/upgrades, and milked it for all it was worth. Apple moved on to bigger and better things without being driven by any other company.
Look at it from the reverse angle, and WOW! Competition from Apple has driven the other lazy @$$ed complacent companies out of their milking and comfort zones and forced them to actually do something. They are pissed about it.
Customers should be pissed at the other companies for maintaining the status quo and not pushing the boundaries like Apple has done, but instead what has happened? People cry and whine that Apple has somehow gained an unfair advantage, and now must somehow be punished by being forced to include crap like flash on their systems, or give iPod profits to music companies, or make their IP available for free to competitors so they can compete….
Completely ridiculous
The ‘movie’ in question was made for Samsung to show off the Galaxy S’s capabilities. It does present itself as epic and I am sure it would attract the crowd that enjoys a great swords and sorcery flick.
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Anonymous ‘Bunches of Munches’ sez: “It’s more like Steve doesn’t want Adobe having control, because HTML 5 takes just about the same processing power as Flash!!”
Bullshit. I hope you didn’t perpetrate that nonsense out of a need to troll. That wouldn’t be a good thing. I don’t tolerate trolls.
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Adobe know exactly what is the problem with Flash. They are unwilling to state it publicly. They are also unwilling, or even worse UNABLE to fix the problem. This has been proven out by the crap version of Flash they’ve perpetrated on the Android platform.
Adobe are a company in decline, and Flash hell is only one aspect of the problem. Another glaring Adobe problem is their horrible and unrealistic attitude toward software security. Every single month this summer Adobe has had to patch exploited security holes in their software, despite their ridiculous quarterly security update schedule. Adobe is a company with its head up its rectum.
This is no time to be an apologist for Adobe. This is the time to kick Adobe in the ass and return them to being a quality company again. It happened to Apple. It can happen to Adobe. Making excuses for Adobe only lets them fall deeper into decline.