On 4/3/2014 3:38 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
> iMOOSE wrote:
>
>> In an iEnvironment, and with a little Settings play, all the portable Apple
>> stuff is pretty nicely integrated. Much of my family had already gone "i",
>> and we came a little late to the party. When everyone you do much
>> communication with outside of email is on iDevices, it's very seductive.
>> Siri and Message are a great combo, without paying for text service to the
>> cell provider.
> All present within the Googleplex, but I do agree that if you are 100%
> iThingy, it works very well. Till they change it, but we know that
> Apple never does that.
>
>
>> With a WiFi printer with Airprint, printing is transparent. We have the HP
>> model before Airprint, so have to rely on HP's iApp for printing, which
>> works fine, if not transparently.
> No app cost for printing from my Android phone. iThingy app costs
> extra
Nope, free.
> and is only available for very very limited models.
Yup
> Android apps exist for working with steam printers.
Got ridda all 'dem.
>> I was not that impressed with the Android environment. As reported, I bought
>> a Toshiba Thrive last year...
> Which was part of the problem as it was already an obsolete device and
> rather poorly spec'd.
BUT - the best one that met my criteria of SD card and HDD connection at the
same time.
> That's understandable, though, because the
> Android world is the wild-wild-west with absolutely no reasonable way
> of knowing what is going to be dogmeat or not. I see no end in sight
> on that.
>
>
>> The hardware was capable of using SD card and external drive at once, but
>> none of the 9-10 file management apps...
> Yes, file management is not a strength. However, I've had reasonable
> success with one of them. Doesn't matter much now because I use
> Googledocs and Dropbox very heavily,
People trot that out all the time. All lovely - unless you are in the woods 1/3
of the way up Lake Koocanusa.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Koocanusa>
A LOT of my photography is carried out far from any sort of cell reception, let
alone 4G or WiFi. And we are often
staying where there is none, either. The only clouds there are condensed water
droplets.
That's also why we carry a separate GPS unit and I have YouNeedaMap on the
iThingies, which has the whole US in local
storage. It's nice, when far from cell towers, to bring up a map, tap and see
where one is on it.
> as well as do my backups through direct connection to my computer.
Yeah, and I do that, too, on the Netbook+, but I'd like to trade down in size
and weight.
> However, as flawed as file
> management is, it's better than what is available with Apple, which is
> nothing.
Not entirely true. It's pretty kludgy, but not a whole lot worse. File managers
on all this stuff suck. Where's
XTreeGold for Android?
>> The screen was also not much, far dimmer, less saturated, etc. than Carol's
>> iPad Retina screen.
> To paraphrase Moose on multiple other subjects, the iPad is
> essentially a couple generations newer than the Thrive. What are you
> going to expect? The latest/greatest screens utilizing OLED and
> super-high resolutions have addressed that and are no different than
> the Retina, except many of us think they look better. My wife's Lenovo
> Yoga computer/tablet thingy has one of these new screens and we did a
> direct comparison to Apple's Retina equipped laptops and found it
> better. Text on the screen is flawless and there are no visible pixel
> frames.
Yes, and I've seen color accuracy tests that show a tablet screen or 3 slightly
bettering the latest Retinas. Still, I
just plain like the new Mini, and it has a great screen with a few more pixels
than others - for now.
>> More recently, I looked at the market again. Things had changed. The iPad
>> Mini now has a Retina screen with the same pixel resolution as the
>> iPad3-Air. With my good visual acuity, that's a huge change.
> Agreed. Mini v1's screen is decent but outdated. The Retina display
> (or equivalent) is the only way to go now.
>
> Just a point of comparison:
> iPad Mini Retina: 7.9" 2048x1536, 326ppi display.
> Note 3 OLED: 5.7" 1920x1080, 386ppi display.
Yup, as I noted above. I also much prefer the squarer format.
> I do really really like my Note 3. The Samsung display beats the
> Retina display on the phones. Not by a lot, but if you know what you
> are looking for, it is evident. The Note 3's display is just big
> enough to be usable for a lot of stuff you can't do on a phone. I
> rarely use the iPad now, except for my audio apps.
Yup. As far as I can tell so far, the Mini gives me everything the big one
would.
>> But having excellent messaging, calendar coordinated with spouse, weather,
>> banking, and so on, and on, immediately at hand is wonderful...
> Again, all stuff that we are experiencing in the native Googleplex
> world. In our case, there are four of us coordinating our lives, as
> well as linking our lives in with everything from Facebook to
> Wordpress websites. Google "Now" is giving us even more features. Yes,
> I've swallowed the Google Cool-Aide. And I like it!
I don't have that option. The family was already all iThingie.
As with OSs, as they mature, the differences decline.
iMoose
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