<p>I thought that was the case. I’ve never used any apple products nor has my wife. We were so clueless of this device, that I accidentally turned it on and couldn’t figure out how to shut it. I had to go online to figure it out.</p>
<p>How about with android tablets?</p>
<p>Don’t know. I have had to ask for help for aapl products.
I do like them. Profit margins are going down.</p>
<p>It seems like the Samsung Galaxy tablet does support microsoft programs. I had an htc smartphone and just got a samsung galaxy s3 today. I’m struggling with this also. I guess I’m at an age where I don’t like change.</p>
<p>I have an android tablet. I use mobile apps or the browser. The iPad has a few hundred thousand iPad apps. Android has about 10% of that.</p>
<p>You can run Microsoft Office on Windows RT or Windows 8 tablets like the Microsoft Surface RT and the Microsoft Surface Pro.</p>
<p>I hardly ever use apps on my phone. I just use the internet.</p>
<p>I use schwab’s app. Not sure it is better than the web version.<br>
No apple phone doct?</p>
<p>BCEagle91, android because of cost?</p>
<p>No I have never bought apple products. When I first got a smartphone almost 2 years ago, everybody I know convinced me not to buy an iphone.</p>
<p>I like the iPhone5. I like the iPad. I think msft excel will soon be available on some of these aapl products.</p>
<p>I am sure the Samsung products are good too.</p>
<p>I got the Android Nexus 7 as it was the only 7-inch tablet out there. If Apple had the iPad Mini out at the time, I would have gone with that.</p>
<p>Apps are more efficient than web apps. They typically have better navigation too. Take a look at the Ameritrade, Fidelity or Etrade apps on an iPad and compare them to their static browser pages or the mobile versions of their apps. There’s no comparison.</p>
<p>Microsoft has Office ready for the iPad. They are just haggling with Apple on the revenue cut that Apple gets on Microsoft selling Office in the App Store.</p>
<p>Wonder what the cost will be…</p>
<p>More tablets…
Not quite as cheap as a frisbee yet…</p>
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<p>They skimp on something or other. The HP only has 8 GB of flash and only 5 hours of battery life. Is that worth $30 compared to the Google Nexus 7?</p>
<p>Not to me. </p>
<p>Another loser from HP?</p>
<p>I saw a picture of Melissa Mayer in a meeting with other employees and the thing that struck me was how large and old-fashioned the laptops were. They look like your typical 5-7 pound corporate laptop - relatively well-built, inexpensive but not cheap but boring and heavy. Intel and Microsoft are pushing Ultrabooks hard - higher price points, nice battery life, thin, light, fashionable. Sales have so far been disappointing outside of what Apple has been doing with their MacBook line for many years.</p>
<p>I see other employees with MacBooks but these are personal systems. All of the corporate laptops are dull and boring and I think that’s the way it will go. Ultrabooks get bought by consumers or professionals that will spend the money for the benefits of an Ultrabook. Companies and those on a budget will look at lower-markup stuff.</p>
<p>There’s a rumor going around that Intel is going to announce some bad news on Monday. The news is put out at SemiAccurate by Charlie Demerjian. Some are speculating layoffs and some are speculating a delay at MWC. I’m not willing to pay $50 to find out but it should come out tomorrow.</p>
<p>Great… I could lose more money in Intc tomorrow.</p>
<p>My wife really likes her Lenovo. I didn’t realize Lenovo is a Chinese company. The unit looks good. Not clunky like her old computer that I occassionally use.</p>
<p>Well, there are rumors of good news too - just saw one on an announcement for large-scale computing on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Lenovo bought out IBM’s PC business several years ago so they bought a lot of corporate good will. I think that they could have gotten some mileage out of branding them Lenovo-IBM but I guess that they wanted to build their own brand - and they have been successful.</p>
<p>Ok…I will ignore the bad news rumors then. :)</p>
<p>Yeah…I think Lenovo is doing well. I think the company has ambitious future plans.</p>