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NO U.
but seriously, look at your posts, nothing but venom and vitriol.
get your act together, or ban-town will be your next destination.
just a piece of "friendly" advice.
Thats actually called being Pissed-Off.
OP is repeatedly emphasizing on poor ISP and Low Income coming in way of Indians to USE Devices like Ipad and calls iPad a niche Product.
Thats an opinion that is meant to vary from person to person.Those who have access to Decent connection,power and enough ca$h in pockets are good enough to Ride on iPad novelty or any other product or service like Netflix,hulu etc.
I know people in India who pay for using Last.fm,Subscribe to Premium Web Services Like Dropbox and many more.Its all perspective of people divided by the attitude they want to bear towards any thing available for consumption.
Anything that has been said for Ipad here applies equally to any other device running on Ios5.The thing is its an era
OF CONNECTED DEVICES.We cant deny it.and more specifically to iPhones and Ipods which sells like hot cakes at any given time irrespective of the latitude and longitude.Apple has the skill to Capture Human Emotions and Lust and to Build upon it strategically to deliver performance and service that indeed are classy if not Mind Blowing,I may sound like a Fan-boy here but as said,its otherwise.
Even Smart-phones have all the evils of Tablets or Say Ipad for the Time being.
You need to be ALWAYS CONNECTED To the cloud to be able pull you emails,receive essential device Updates,Stream Media from Services Like Youtubes,Spotify etc.
To download your favorite apps and again to keep them Updated.
Difference between a Tablet is maintained by thin line of what we call as form factor.Currently all the Computing Devices rely more or less on a Good Internet connection to deliver a satisfying and compelling EXPERIENCE.(Unbound by Demographics and Geo-graphics.)
Most modern gen apps and Software rely on Internet to provide real time Live-n-Hot content to the end user.There is nothing wrong in that.We all like are our Smart phone Screens with those tiny Fb/Twitter etc Updates rolling and flashing every few minutes or seconds.Its gives the sense of use being CONNECTED to the world as we know or more precisely way we prefer to Know it.
A lot of us if not all of us,are somehow able to keep our devices fueled by a 2G/3G connection to have the best possible from our Phones.Anyone Having a Smart-phone and more specifically an Iphone or Android can tell that very easily..and yes i am talking about Indian Users Only!
Of course relatively High Data rates,FUP and serious downtimes with Poor Bandwidth are there to mar the experience but not at all the time neither everywhere.It Varies,from connection to connection,device to device,Place to Place and most importantly from Person to Person.
Just Because India doesn't have a Economy as strong as US/UK or less literate(if not educated and informed) people doesn't take away the Right and freedom of choosing the device we like or love to use.To Call Apple Products or a even a service Like OnLive Gaming for instance ,to be crafted for First world countries would be Injustice if not incorrect.The fact is that they eventually turn up to seem so.For eg OnLive service which promise to Bring MAINSTREAM Games to Tabets and Smart phones has received Average Reviews (Yes in US).AFAIK it requires minimum connection of 4mbps+ to deliver smooth experience and yet even US Users haven't found it that Great.(Alteast most of them).
SO why did I Service/Product like this Which is sort of Ground Breaking in Mobile Computing is Underrated(really?).Dont have US People have got a decent 4mbps+ connection,,ummm...no they have got one...then...too pricey..umm..not that expensive for whats on offer...then...!..Oh crap..the answer lies right in the Core of the whole Idea of Onlive..what is it?...Delivering mainstreaming gaming experience on an efficient Mobile Device like Ipad(not good on Iphone..screen too small.!).And here is the real deal.Its not that Mobile after-all as it sounds..cause even US doesn't posses an seamless and hi-speed Wifi/Wi Max connection through its Physical borders..what about 3G/4G..Still Pricey for People even in US..Read Verizon,AT&T,Sprint,T-Mobile Contracts.
Its not the location or country,its The idea and need,Apple managed to deliver a NO-NONSENSE PRODUCT which fits well into pockets(thats metaphorical..dont take it other way!) of People while proving its worth.Yeah for most of them.Even in India we have connection just well to Keep us Updated on Web,Check Mails,Backup stuff to Dropbox or Google Drive,atleast the essential files and documents if not dumping the whole 16gigs+ stuff,Download our favorite songs from i tunes,Scrobble To Last.fm,Stream from Grooveshark,Read ebooks(ofcourse download them too),And do that 9gag stuff whole day long,and LAST BUT NOT LEAST Game on with Titles like Infinity Blade,Angry Birds etc and those who complain of large Size end up more often downloading it on their pc than being disappointed completely.
Yes if we can leave our PCs on for those 3 star rated 700mb movies for days and weeks then ofcourse we can leave our systems on for few hours to grab those 300mb games or apps rated 5 star ..no rocket science in it.!
Not to forget a 2mbps connection paired with(on Wifi) Ipad or any other device+Some yoga (during buffering..for the impatient ones) owes a good Youtube Viewing Experience.(
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I am not asking to be complacent of what is available to use ,but rather to sort out the mess for the time being.For sure we need to improve,evolve and develop,we may be 100 yrs far from THAT ,we cant FLY there,but to RUN or to CRAWL is upto us only.
The only thing here is that We have moved Past the
Life Tagged as Disconnected and Its now Unbearable for most of Us.
For many Lack of Internet connection is good enough reason to call even PC as useless piece of Junk.As is clear from some previous post by other users.
And for sure they were pretty serious about it.So am I.
Its the "Living-style" ,the virtual World we prefer to seek on web,on social networks and our own Tangible Life that makes us carry forward the Experience w.r.t to any Service Or Product.
"Those Smart Device can keep Us Smart Only if We Behave Back Smartly to Them".