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Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead?

From Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android
Subject Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead?
Date 2018-11-03 21:09 +0000
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123456789 <12345@12345.com> wrote:
> On 11/3/2018 9:42 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> > 123456789 <12345@12345.com> wrote:
> 
> >> What would most people use them [tablets] for without an Internet
> >> connection?
> 
> > For me: - (GPS) navigation, route planning, etc..
> 
> Online route planning gives me current road conditions and suggests
> local stores and restaurants.

  Where I need navigation, there are no stores and restaurants, I *feel*
:-) the current road conditions and there's no mobile coverage anyway,
so there you go! :-) (Yes, that's uncommon - as in minority - use, but
it's our use and of others like us.)

> > - Campsites.
> 
> Agreed. Fortunately I stopped camping years ago. I've come to like
>   a little comfort in my old age... ;)

  We have a 'small' 4WD camper. All the luxury we need, the weather
permitting. And yes, every so often we want the luxury of a cabin,
motel/hotel room, The Ritz, etc..

> > - Music.
> 
> Agreed. My 2200 song collection is accessed from an SD card.
> 
> > - eBook reading.
> 
> While reading an ebook I may need (or want) to change devices at a
> moments notice. Having them synced online keeps my places in all my open
> ebooks.
> 
> > - Reading downloaded magazines.
> 
> Same response as ebooks.
> 
> > - Podcasts.> - Offline reading of RSS feeds.
> 
> > My tablet is actually more offline than online.
> 
> My tablets are never offline since they all live at home. But the
> question was what would MOST people use tablets for without an Internet
> connection. I'm not sure either of us represent most people....

  Who cares about 'most people'! Are you nospam's alter ego or
something!? :-)

> > - Some people even use it as a phone, because they don't want to 
> > carry/own two devices.
> 
> Some yes, but in this case I'm pretty sure not MOST.
> 
> > the hype was that Google would converge to one OS for smartphone,
> > tablet, 'netbook' (Chromebook) and even laptop/PC, but none of that
> > is happening and - as the article says implies -, tablets might even
> > change their OS (from Android to Chrome OS).
> 
> Ah. Well there was a time when the Palm OS looked promising. It ain't
> over til it's over... ;)
> 
> > Indeed choice is good, however the point is that there is hardly any 
> > choice if you want a certain category of device and you do not want
> > to pay the price of an Apple device,
> 
> I recently bought the wife a new iPad. Was a little over $300 US. The
> quality seemed good to me and comparable to similarly priced Android
> tablets. I have no complaints with the device and don't think it's 
> overpriced.

  We regularly get these kind of 'Apple devices are same-priced as
comparable non-Apple devices' arguments from nospam. Most of them are
debunked. The ones which seem to be legit for the US, seem to be valid
only/mainly for the US. I.e. in the US, non-US products are probably
higher taxed than US products.

  So for those of us in the rest of the world, we look at Apple's prices
- which are way higher than in the US -, compare them to prices of
non-Apple products and always the Apple product is more expensive, often
quite a lot.

> > you're stuck with only one or two choices of OSs, mostly just one,
> > i.e. none.
> 
> Depends on what you want to do. For example if I want to read my
> favorite Android apps I can't do it on my W10 tablet. If I want to use
> Tbird to post here I can't use my Android tablet. On and on. Truth be
> told though, I kinda enjoy playing with these different toys.

  Well, SWMBO is sitting just a metre away, so I'm not going to agree
with you, am I!? :-)

> > My oldest grandkid (14) has better toys than I do, so he would have 
> > only pity on poor granddad! :-) And my youngest (5+) is in an Apple 
> > houshold, so she would also frown on my left-overs! :-) But I love'm
> > to bits anyway and vice versa, so all's good.
> 
> My oldest grandkid is 31 and have a greatgrandkid that will be a
> teenager next year so looks like I have a few years on you. There's 2 in
> the bucket and the total will be 37 (IIRC) when they get here. The
> biggest challenge is remembering names, especially when my memory is
> heading south fast... ;)

  If you want to think I'm 50, I'm not going to contradict you! :-)

  Have a good one!

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Are Android Tablets Really Dead? 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2018-11-01 23:53 -0700
  Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-11-02 19:42 +0000
    Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2018-11-02 14:24 -0700
      Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-11-02 21:49 +0000
        Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2018-11-02 20:26 -0700
          Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? Tim <onelydad58@gmail.com> - 2018-11-03 04:46 +0000
          Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-03 12:48 +0100
          Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-11-03 16:42 +0000
            Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2018-11-03 13:41 -0700
              Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-11-03 21:09 +0000
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-03 18:00 -0400
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? Bill <Billaboard@gmail.com> - 2018-11-04 00:22 +0000
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-03 21:01 -0400
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-03 23:11 +0000
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-11-04 14:45 +0000
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2018-11-04 12:27 -0700
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2018-11-04 11:59 -0800
                stored maps (was: Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead?) "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-04 20:32 +0000
                Re: stored maps The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2018-11-04 14:18 -0800
                Re: stored maps "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-05 02:04 +0000
                Re: stored maps The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2018-11-04 22:18 -0800
                Re: stored maps "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-05 11:26 +0100
                Re: stored maps Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-11-05 16:42 +0000
                Re: stored maps "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-05 19:08 +0100
                Re: stored maps Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-11-05 18:22 +0000
                Re: stored maps "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-05 19:52 +0100
                Re: stored maps Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-11-05 19:15 +0000
                Re: stored maps "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-05 19:34 +0000
                Re: stored maps nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-05 14:55 -0400
                Re: stored maps "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-05 20:13 +0000
                Re: stored maps nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-05 15:44 -0400
                Re: stored maps "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-05 21:58 +0100
                Re: stored maps "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-05 21:39 +0000
                Re: stored maps "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-06 01:18 +0100
                Re: stored maps The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2018-11-05 20:39 -0800
                Re: stored maps "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-06 14:28 +0000
                Re: stored maps The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2018-11-06 09:58 -0800
                Re: stored maps nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-06 14:23 -0400
                Re: stored maps nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-06 10:57 -0400
                Re: stored maps "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-06 14:23 +0000
                Re: stored maps "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-07 23:11 +0100
                Re: stored maps Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> - 2018-11-05 21:42 +0100
                Re: stored maps "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-05 22:05 +0100
                Re: stored maps "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-05 21:41 +0000
                Re: stored maps Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> - 2018-11-06 22:36 +0100
                Re: stored maps "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-07 01:20 +0000
                Re: stored maps Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-11-07 16:23 +0000
                Re: stored maps Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2018-11-07 16:53 +0000
                Re: stored maps Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-11-07 18:47 +0000
                Re: stored maps The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2018-11-07 13:49 -0800
                Re: stored maps nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-07 19:10 -0400
                Re: stored maps "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-08 00:21 +0000
                Re: stored maps The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2018-11-07 20:53 -0800
                Re: stored maps nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 00:01 -0400
                Re: stored maps Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-11-08 13:26 +0000
                Re: stored maps nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 10:09 -0400
                Re: stored maps Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-11-08 16:11 +0000
                Re: stored maps nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 11:57 -0400
                Re: stored maps 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2018-11-07 18:41 -0700
                Re: stored maps The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2018-11-07 21:04 -0800
                Re: stored maps Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> - 2018-11-08 05:55 +0100
                Re: stored maps Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2018-11-08 06:55 +0000
                Re: stored maps Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-11-08 13:38 +0000
                Re: stored maps "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-05 19:31 +0000
                Re: stored maps "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-05 22:08 +0100
                Re: stored maps Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-11-06 11:25 +0000
                Re: stored maps "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-05 19:18 +0000
                Re: stored maps nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-05 14:55 -0400
                Re: stored maps "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-05 20:16 +0000
                Re: stored maps nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-05 15:44 -0400
                Re: stored maps Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2018-11-06 08:11 +0000
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2018-11-04 14:31 -0700
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2018-11-04 14:23 -0800
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-05 02:08 +0000
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2018-11-04 20:10 -0700
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2018-11-04 22:24 -0800
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-05 10:13 +0000
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2018-11-05 10:25 -0800
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-11-05 19:15 +0000
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-05 14:16 -0400
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-05 19:56 +0100
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-05 11:23 +0100
                navigation (was: Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead?) "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-05 10:29 +0000
                Re: navigation (was: Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead?) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-05 15:40 +0100
                Re: navigation "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-05 14:47 +0000
                Re: navigation "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-05 19:04 +0100
                Re: navigation 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2018-11-05 09:34 -0700
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? Piet <www.godfatherof.nl/@opt-in.invalid> - 2018-11-05 13:08 +0100
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-05 11:20 +0100
                navigation (was: Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead?) "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-05 10:34 +0000
                Re: navigation (was: Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead?) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-05 15:51 +0100
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2018-11-05 09:34 -0700
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-05 19:21 +0100
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2018-11-05 12:11 -0700
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-05 20:19 +0100
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-05 14:16 -0400
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-05 20:28 +0100
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-05 14:55 -0400
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-11-05 20:21 +0000
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-05 15:44 -0400
                Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-05 22:11 +0100
        Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2018-11-03 20:25 +0000
      Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? Tim <onelydad58@gmail.com> - 2018-11-03 04:40 +0000
        Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2018-11-03 00:22 -0700
      Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-03 12:43 +0100
        Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2018-11-03 13:41 -0700
          Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-11-03 22:40 +0100
  Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2018-11-02 13:12 -0700
    Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2018-11-02 14:24 -0700
  Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? Steve Oates <steveoates@tiscali.co.uk> - 2018-11-04 17:53 +0000
    Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2018-11-04 12:27 -0700
      Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2018-11-06 23:37 +0200
    Re: Are Android Tablets Really Dead? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2018-11-04 19:35 +0000

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