Who else just ordered one of these?

Very interesting, but chances are I'll throw it out when in a few months the Surface hits. I do however think it's a really great move by Google to get something like this out there at that price point.
 


Meh, might as well just get the Samsung Galaxy 7.0+ now.

Or just wait a few more months for the iPad Mini :)
 
gide_gnome said:
The huge off screen borders, and the non expandable memory kill it for me. I'd prefer this over the Kindle Fire though, for sure.
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The bezels are that size so you have somewhere to place your fingers when you're holding it. 7" is bigger than what most people's hands can hold like a phone (without having to wrap their fingers around the edges)
 
I like my Google Galaxy Nexus phone so far. Nexus has big development over to the XDA forums, so if you're into tweaking it might also be a good grab in that respect as well.
 
I just bought three. I want to see if I can pay them off on youtube.

1. First "I shot a nexus with a pistol"
2. First "Nexus in a microwave in slow motion"
3. First "I took my Nexus apart and put it back together and have an extra screw fuuuuuu"
 
dchuk said:
Jobs always said that he never wanted to make a 7" tablet, I doubt they'll ever do it. An iPad mini is just an iPhone in Apple's eyes.
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Steve Jobs also said they would never make a tablet and tablets are going to fail ;)

Apple will not sit back and let Google and Amazon take over market share for the 7" tablet.


Steve Jobs: There are no plans to make a tablet. It turns out people want keyboards. When Apple first started out, "People couldn't type. We realized: Death would eventually take care of this." "We look at the tablet and we think it's going to fail." Tablets appeal to rich guys with plenty of other PCs and devices already.

"And people accuse us of niche markets." I get a lot of pressure to do a PDA. What people really seem to want to do with these is get the data out . We believe cell phones are going to carry this information. We didn't think we would do well in the cell phone business. What we have done instead is we have written what we think is some of the best software in the world to start syncing information between devices. We believe that mode is what cell phones need to get to. We chose to do the iPod instead of a PDA.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPAsWAcmrlE"]Steve Jobs: tablet is gonna fail - YouTube[/ame]
 
pocketrockets said:
Steve Jobs also said they would never make a tablet and tablets are going to fail ;)

Apple will not sit back and let Google and Amazon take over market share for the 7" tablet.


Steve Jobs: There are no plans to make a tablet. It turns out people want keyboards. When Apple first started out, "People couldn't type. We realized: Death would eventually take care of this." "We look at the tablet and we think it's going to fail." Tablets appeal to rich guys with plenty of other PCs and devices already.

"And people accuse us of niche markets." I get a lot of pressure to do a PDA. What people really seem to want to do with these is get the data out . We believe cell phones are going to carry this information. We didn't think we would do well in the cell phone business. What we have done instead is we have written what we think is some of the best software in the world to start syncing information between devices. We believe that mode is what cell phones need to get to. We chose to do the iPod instead of a PDA.

Steve Jobs: tablet is gonna fail - YouTube
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Apple has never been a company (at least in the last decade) to enter an races to the bottom. They'll never compete on price, and they are dominating their form factors with the iphone and the ipad.
 
dchuk said:
Apple has never been a company (at least in the last decade) to enter an races to the bottom. They'll never compete on price, and they are dominating their form factors with the iphone and the ipad.
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Sure, but how would it be considered a race to the bottom? The 7" form factor serves a market that would like an e-reader/browser that is more portable than an iPad. Yes, the margins aren't as good per unit but the Apple eco-system would make up for it (Google and Amazon make $0 from their tablets upfront)

Personally, I hope they build the smaller tablet because the Kindle Fire and Galaxy Tab just don't live up to the overall function and quality of what Apple can likely produce.
 
I might try this thing about. I don't think it will provide much competition for the ipad but kindle for sure will be screwed if this thing is worth it
 
pocketrockets said:
Sure, but how would it be considered a race to the bottom? The 7" form factor serves a market that would like an e-reader/browser that is more portable than an iPad. Yes, the margins aren't as good per unit but the Apple eco-system would make up for it (Google and Amazon make $0 from their tablets upfront)

Personally, I hope they build the smaller tablet because the Kindle Fire and Galaxy Tab just don't live up to the overall function and quality of what Apple can likely produce.
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Apple is a hardware company first, and the most profitable one out there. A new non contract iPhone is like $750, I'm sure they profit quite a bit from them considering carriers have to pay them full value for the phone even if they turn around and sell them for two hundred to new contract customers.

A race to the bottom would be to build a low margin seven inch tablet simply to compete with google and amazon. Apple hasn't made many decisions based on the actions of other companies in a long time, they march to their own drummer and have phone calls with stock holders to discuss all that cash they have because of that mentality
 
dchuk said:
Apple is a hardware company first, and the most profitable one out there. A new non contract iPhone is like $750, I'm sure they profit quite a bit from them considering carriers have to pay them full value for the phone even if they turn around and sell them for two hundred to new contract customers.

A race to the bottom would be to build a low margin seven inch tablet simply to compete with google and amazon. Apple hasn't made many decisions based on the actions of other companies in a long time, they march to their own drummer and have phone calls with stock holders to discuss all that cash they have because of that mentality
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Actually, Steve Jobs has constantly stated over the last decade that Apple is fundamentally a software company first. The Macs, iPod, iPhone are really just software products packaged in a shiny object. The OS software is the "guts" and the secret sauce that really make it all work and that is what differentiate it from others.
 
pocketrockets said:
Actually, Steve Jobs has constantly stated over the last decade that Apple is fundamentally a software company first. The Macs, iPod, iPhone are really just software products packaged in a shiny object. The OS software is the "guts" and the secret sauce that really make it all work and that is what differentiate it from others.
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But the majority of their profits come from their hardware sales. Google can benefit tremendously by selling a tablet at cost because they are an advertising company at their core so the more data they can collect from more devices, the better they can run their ads and increase their revenues.

Apple, on the other hand, makes most of their money from hardware, so they prefer to sell high margin, high end products to maintain their massive revenue numbers.
 
dchuk said:
But the majority of their profits come from their hardware sales. Google can benefit tremendously by selling a tablet at cost because they are an advertising company at their core so the more data they can collect from more devices, the better they can run their ads and increase their revenues.

Apple, on the other hand, makes most of their money from hardware, so they prefer to sell high margin, high end products to maintain their massive revenue numbers.
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Right, but my point was that Apple views themselves as a software company first -- it's the foundation and without a great OS the hardware doesn't really matter. Why didn't Sony, who invented the Walkman, be able to compete with the iPod and make a better device? Because they couldn't figure out the software part.

Steve Jobs said, "the reason we won't make a 7-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit a lower price point, it’s because we think the screen is too small to express the software."

Anyway, I really hope to be holding an iPad Mini and the iPhone 5 in my hand this Fall :D
 
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