{"id":33,"date":"2010-10-30T21:31:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T05:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erickyao\/?p=33"},"modified":"2010-10-30T21:31:03","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T05:31:03","slug":"tablet-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erickyao\/2010\/10\/30\/tablet-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Tablet PC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, Apple came out with a \u201ctablet PC\u201d called Ipad. It can be used to watch movies and read books in a bigger screen. Other than that, the Ipad is nothing else but a huge Ipod.\u00a0 In doing so, Apple has developed a competitive advantage as no one in the industry has ever manufactured such products.\u00a0 The IPad (9.56X7.47X0.5 inch) has a 1GHz Apple processor, several sensors (light and speed), built-in speakers, microphone, and up to 64 GB of flash drive memory.\u00a0 It can be used to read ibooks, watch movies, play games, listen to music, or surf on internet.<\/p>\n

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Blackberry is soon launching its own version of the tablet: the Playbook. The Playbook is slightly smaller and lighter (7.6X5.1X0.4 inches). The Playbook is slightly better in terms of technology with its 2 integrated cameras and internal RAM. It, however, lacks a main component that customers are looking for: the giant pool of applications that Apple possesses.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Samsung also came out with its own version of tablet: the Galaxy Tab or the APad (Android Pad). This Galaxy Tab is almost similar to Blackberry\u2019s Playbook and Apple\u2019s Ipad. The only main hardware\/software differences is that it has a GPS, Swype (typing without lifting fingers\u201d \u00a0and use an android operating system. Another important factor that consumer look at before buying the Galaxy Tab is its price. The little device costs $100, which is relatively cheap compared to Apple\u2019s Ipad ($499) and Blackberry\u2019s Playbook (NA).<\/p>\n

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All those companies seem to target the same market segment by creating those products: people who find it convenient to have a gadget lighter and better looking than a laptop which would facilitate its transportation to\/from school\/work. Because of all its limitations, I find it less practical than a regular laptop. Its virtual keyboard considerably lowers productivity as it will be slower to type on a touchscreen.\u00a0 Microsoft word\/ excel documents or internet articles that require adobe flash cannot be opened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year, Apple came out with a \u201ctablet PC\u201d called Ipad. It can be used to watch movies and read books in a bigger screen. Other than that, the Ipad is nothing else but a huge Ipod.\u00a0 In doing so, Apple has developed a competitive advantage as no one in the industry has ever manufactured […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4037,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erickyao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erickyao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erickyao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erickyao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4037"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erickyao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erickyao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erickyao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erickyao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erickyao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erickyao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}