iPad2 Vs Blackberry playbook

No comparision.  9.5inch vs 7 inch.  iPad2 wins. Case closed.

 If you have a grandpa or grandma, would you suggest them a 10inch or 7inch ?

Carry in a pocket ? Yeah right....that's what Smartphone is for.

@CKurt:Are you serious ? MS has 10 year history of TabletPC going nowhere. 'nuff said.

28 minutes ago, Srikanth_t wrote

@CKurt:Are you serious ? MS has 10 year history of TabletPC going nowhere. 'nuff said.

Amen to that. It's such a tradegy really. Another hope that Moore's Law would eventually be kind to Microsoft's tablet efforts... And now they hope ARM will run Windows 8? That's just nuts.

@CKurt: Sorry about that. The " 'Nuff said " part is borne out of frustation. I feel MS is on the path to writing off Consumer market totally and relegating itself to Enterprise. But I think that kind of strategy is unwise as things could just as easily creep up there.

Playbook runs QNX, that thing is used to run nuclear power plants, so major score points on security front (for which Apple gets zero points considering how fast jailbreak is available for every new version). The only contradictory thing is why they allowed Flash on the platform, scrub that filth Blackberry!

1 hour ago, Royal​Schrubber wrote

Playbook runs QNX, that thing is used to run nuclear power plants, so major score points on security front (for which Apple gets zero points considering how fast jailbreak is available for every new version). The only contradictory thing is why they allowed Flash on the platform, scrub that filth Blackberry!

There's nothing to imply that somehow QNX is more secure than any other OS. If you truely want security then you go with BSD and Jailbreaks are irrelevant: there is no security when you have the physical hardware in your hand.

There's nothing to imply that somehow QNX is more secure than any other OS. 

It's ran in nuclear power plants, medical equipment, air traffic control systems. Reliability implies security because both come from the same origin - good, defensive coding practices and verification. 

If you truely want security then you go with BSD

Presumably you're thinking of OpenBSD. While some claim its source is considerably cleaner it seems the only thing that they pay attention is code verification while they blantantly forget about all other aspects that one would want in a system designed with security in mind: outdated packages, kernel patches require manual recompilation and application (which implies severe delay between when a patch is released and when everyone has their systems updated), full disclosure policy on security flaws and it comes without any sandboxing/jailing system besides barebones posix filesystem security. 

Jailbreaks are irrelevant: there is no security when you have the physical hardware in your hand.

Unless Apple's objective is to mimic Microsoft's piracy strategy (silently allowing it because "better we don't get paid than people using software from competitors") by silently allowing jailbreaking but still maintaing security in areas that matter then the ease by which hackers jailbreak devices is correlated with their security because usually software jailbreaks are done through security flaws.

3D is interesting for about 5 minutes, which suits the iPad just fine, I suppose.

I do think that bigger is better for Tablets/Slates. I got my wife an iPad 2 for Christmas because there really weren't any alternatives.

I've had a 12" Slate TabletPC for, as of this month, 6 years. Don't see how smaller is useful in this form factor. Even saw a CES photo of some "tablet" whose screen diagonal was 5 1/2 inches. Is it me, or is that a phone, and not a tablet.

Of course you don't want too big, or it's too heavy. But just imagine a 14" slate that weighs half of what an iPad 2 currently does. Now imagine playing stuff like Civ V on a thing like that.

That Samsung Slate they gave out at Build showed a lot of promise, hopefully the price point will be similar to the iPad.  meanwhile perhaps the ARM versions will have a chance to undercut Apple.

Optimistically speaking.

It depends on your main usage pattern:

Web browsing: 9"+

eBook reading: 6-7"

@PaoloM: or you could get a dual 7" foldable tablet and have it all covered. Pity nobody ever thought about that.

Mar 10, 2011 at 8:48 PM, RoyalSchrubber wrote

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Reliability implies security because both come from the same origin - good, defensive coding practices and verification. 

It really doesn't. It is, in fact, very easy to design a system such that it is incredibly reliable and yet hopelessly insecure.

I have and IPad2, HP Slate 500, Asus Eee Slate (MONSTER), and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10. I have played with Windows 8 on the Eee but the resolution really doesn't suit Metro so I reserve judgement on Windows 8 in Tablet form just yet, The one I use most is the Samsung Tab 10. The Android OS on this thing just plain rocks, and I have most of the web available to me. Sadly as Silverlight developer I dont have my own applications available to me on my tablet of choice...