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“Why Should Somebody Buy This Instead of an iPad?”

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MichaelJ6/20/2011 4:51:38 pm PDT

re: #3 windsagio

I don’t recall the part where I categorized this as news reporting - it is an opinion piece that I happen to think makes some very salient points. As for business practices, which company do you see as having superior business tactics? You can find people that complain about Google’s tactics as well.

Your friend may have disagreements with Apple (he’s not the only one) but as you so clearly state, they’re the biggest market. Do you think they are cheating their developers? Then why is everyone doing it?

Finally, as for “advocacy”, I see that you didn’t even bother to read the small part I quoted where the author himself states,

As a reviewer of gizmos, I think that the iPad 2 is easily the best tablet on the market–and that most of the competition so far is too half-baked to be credible. As a lover of competition, though, I’m itching to see other tablets arrive that deserve to do well, too. So that question–”Why would somebody buy this instead of an iPad?”–is stuck in my head. I’ve been trying to figure out how an Apple rival can come up with a tablet that pretty much answers that question for itself.

Hard to call that comment advocacy, though it is clear that he likes the iPad.