Amazon Uses Homepage to Take a Shot at iPad Mini
Apple's iPad mini competes with Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet and Google's Nexus 7 in terms of size. However, Apple's iPad mini is quite a bit more expensive and Amazon doesn't want anyone visiting its site to forget that the Kindle Fire HD offers more bang for your buck.
The etail giant's homepage has been displaying the image below for the last 48 hours. The side-by-side comparison of the Kindle Fire HD and the iPad mini is complemented by a quote from technology news blog Gizmodo highlighting the fact that the iPad mini has fewer pixels than the other 7-inch tablets.
" [... ] your 7.9-inch tablet has far fewer pixels than the competing 7-inch tablets! You’re cramming a worse screen in there, charging more and accusing others of compromise? Ballsy."
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently said that the company would never make a 7-inch slate (the iPad mini has a 7.9-inch display). "We would not make a 7-inch tablet. We don't think they're good products," he said recently, adding that the iPad mini is "in a whole different league" compared to competing devices.
Yes its called math. 1024000 pixels - 786432 pixels = 237568 pixels
237568/786432 = 30.2%
You're welcome.
anything that educates the masses that Apple's overpriced, underspeced products are not worth the money is worth mentioning on news sites imo - the greater exposure the better
Just watch
http://mashable.com/2012/10/30/conan-ipad-mini-mega/
anything that educates the masses that Apple's overpriced, underspeced products are not worth the money is worth mentioning on news sites imo - the greater exposure the better
Ahem.... 1280x800 vs 1024x768.
Yup. Seems legit.
Yes its called math. 1024000 pixels - 786432 pixels = 237568 pixels
237568/786432 = 30.2%
You're welcome.
Given that the iPad mini is much larger than the iPhone 5 it should be able to have equal specs to it not worse. It should at least be equal to an iPad 3 in every respect.
He certainly got that right, but not quite in the way he meant it...it's in a lower league of its own.
no one who cares about quality uses the built in speakers, its a nice feature, but when 20$ earbuds beat out the speakers, nomater what you put in them, i cant justify spending much money on it... stereo is just a marketing bullet point in this case.
^Fail ...
A new update allows you to turn off the "users also bought" recommendations. As for the lock screen ads, you can get rid of them for $15. So yes, you can turn them off.
no its stereo apparently. i dont think its front facing like the nexus 10
really, no one? sounds like youre just trying to take as hit on apple for unjust reasons. i care about speakers. when im on my bed, id rather hear from speakers than put on headphones. now what?