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 More options May 9 2012, 2:21 pm
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From: Alan Baker <alangba...@telus.net>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 11:21:33 -0700
Local: Wed, May 9 2012 2:21 pm
Subject: Re: Good question...
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In article <pan.2012.05.09.12.13...@nospam.tampabay.rr.com>,

 Carbon <nob...@nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 08 May 2012 11:18:05 -0700, Alan Baker wrote:

> > First off, Android phones are replacing feature phones at the low end.

> The low end? I don't think so. I have a Samsung Galaxy S2. This thing is
> a beast. My work phone is an iPhone. It's nice for what it is, but it
> doesn't have the power of the latest generation Android phones. I'm sure
> the next iPhone will change that, but for now that's how it is.

> Alan, have you used any of the current Android phones?

> > Apple is the company making the real money; to the tune of 73% of the
> > profit made in the entire mobile phone industry.

> > Second, in the real world, many of those Android tablets are--again--not
> > really being used as full featured tablets, but rather as e-readers.
> > According to a recent source, the iPad accounts for 96.64% of all their
> > web traffic.

> I bought my wife an Android tablet for Christmas. Well actually, funny
> story, I bought her an iPad first. It demanded that she enter her credit
> card information before it would let her actually use the thing. She
> thought this was a very strange precondition for using a computer. So
> did I.

> We exchanged it for an Android tablet. It's in the living room. We never
> use it as an e-reader, though I'm sure it would work fine at that task.

I'm glad they're working well for you.

It doesn't change the reality of how most Android phones and tablets are
being used.

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling four feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect if you
sit in the bottom of that cupboard."


 
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