quote: it doesnt matter why - if you going to make a tablet then you have to compete against the nexus 7 price tag.
quote: Their hardware Q2 of 2012, Apple Generated $1.9 Billion in revenue from Itunes
quote: Supposedly, the Nexus 7 has twice the number of cores as the iPad Mini
quote: Twice the cores referred to cpu, not gpu. And in that regard, tegra3 is indeed faster. Browser display and the like.
quote: iPad beats Nexus 7 by a marginal 0.04%.
quote: Apple also points to 275,000 tablet-specific apps for the iPad platform versus a plethora of "stretched phone apps" for Android devices.
quote: When you pay too much for the iPad, you get ripped off.When you get ripped off, you start going into denial.When you start going into denial, you see the reality distortion field.When you see the reality distortion field, your common sense vanishes.When your common sense vanishes, you start speaking gibberish.When you start speaking gibberish, you major in marketing.And when you major in marketing, you end up as a guy named Phil Schiller.Don't end up as a guy named Phil Schiller.
quote: Apple is selling a refurb iPad 3 for $379. Why in the world would you get this for less power/resolution unless you just had to get a smaller tablet?
quote: OK, but you can get a brand new iPad 2 for $399
quote: There is nothing new about the iPad 3.5 - the only thing new here is a straight die-shrunk A5X chip and possibly the connector switch from 30-pin Dock to 8-pin Lightning. Meanwhile the iPad mini shrinks the iPad 2, has most of the internals of the iPhone 4S, 8-pin Lightning, and can be stuffed with an LTE radio.
quote: And of course, Apple also points to 275,000 tablet-specific apps for the iPad platform versus a plethora of "stretched phone apps" for Android devices.
quote: it has basically no useful tablet optimised apps
quote: Drop the distortion field.
quote: I did take another look at the Anandtech Nexus 7 review. I see that the iPad 2 performed well in a single GPU benchmark, mostly in off-screen rendered tests.