If in these countries the 4G LTE does not work, that specifically has to do with carriers and carrier roll out as well as the different bands. LTE mind you still does not have a unified standard, otherwise there wouldnt be a need for a Verizon and AT&T 4G iPad, even so providers may claim 4G capability using HSPA+ as AT&T does in United States. There is no standard or regulation for 4G. 4G is quite simply a marketing term. Now they could possibly get in trouble saying "4G LTE" had it not been available in the area but not Apple, the actual carrier.
Bull crap. It is all about the frequencies.. and the US frequencies are different than those around the world. Tell me then.. why is it that Samsung and other LTE/4G tablets and phones have no problem what so ever? No, Apple dropped the ball big time here and have to own up to it before it is too late. The outrage in Europe is growing and if there is one thing that people hate.. it is being lied too.
Siri however still works better and in a more integrated fashion than other voice dictation software out there. While true it is still in beta, what it is able to do right now is pretty amazing.
No it aint.. it is a gimick pure and simple. Plus it cant do much of what Apple claims it can do.. and Apple is getting sued now. Plus you need an internet connection to get it work! But in the end it is a pure and simple gimmick, that has not practical usage what so ever.... other than to show off.
The wifi bugs you speak of more specifically have to do with what happens when Apple devices talk to a network that has several devices on it that are in different bands.
No. The bug was that you got disconnected. It has been fixed some what now, but it took quite some time and the very fact that Apple is basing its whole eco-system around wireless technology.... well huge own goal.
This isn't common to just Apple. HP for example, I cannot get my girlfriends HP netbook to hook to our network. HP does not have an easy fix for it, and it is common.
The only times I have had problems getting on a wireless network is when I dont have the password, the wireless modem is defective (or lacks drivers) or the wireless router is defective. I have never had Windows or Linux have a bug in the OS that prevented me from logging onto a network
I'm curious what incompatible software you refer to.
iMessage was one of them. And it was mostly because they finally got rid of bonjour.. problem was they did not announce it .. it just happened.
As for battery life, true battery life wasn't the best if you had bluetooth, location services, and so on on. I could maybe go 9 hours without charging from 100% and get home and the charge would be down to 20%. Since this update the charge now hovers around 50% when I get home from work. This is with using Siri, location services, some gaming, some writing, texting, facebook, watching videos, and it searching for the network off and on in my place of business (AT&T's towers suck out where my work is) which honestly seems to drain the battery more than anything. Currently while on wifi the phone has 60% charge, 8 hours of charge left and/or 1 day, 2 hours of stand by.
That is because you were one of the lucky ones. Many iPhone 4s users complained (and still have problems) about max 6 hours battery life on standby. Go look at the Apple forums.. Apple released a supposed fix that did nothing for most people, and have yet to fix the issue. Their commendation.. a full factory reset, with wiping of everything... not that it worked for everyone.
Forbes is hardly unbiased... just saying.
It essentially is the MS vs Apple of today; it will end out with a company or companies paying out Apple a couple hundred million to quiet them, and to have a cross-patent agreement similar to what Apple and MS share today.
No it aint. You are seriously badly informed on the amount of "power" Apple has in this patent war. Apple tries to patent vague crap like trying to patent the rectangular tablet, where the competition has actual technical patents to bonk Apple over the head with.
You seem seriously misinformed. Just to name one single example, Apple owns, and originally applied for the multi-touch patent. Please enlighten me as to what multi-touch devices there were before 2007?
Apple Offered Licensing Deals To Some Patent Foes -Sources
Multi-touch has been around (and patented) before Apple came around. Apple has tried to patent parts of multi-touch and been some what successful in the US, but there is serious doubt if the patents will hold any water and if they do, they will be FRAND patents.
In the end it will be Apple who will be paying the big bucks to Google, Microsoft, Samsung because they are the ones who own the real technological patents that matter... you know 3G patents, 4G patents and so on.
In fact, the new iPad is more Samsung than Apple.. the screen, processor and ram is all.. Samsung.
Apple has in fact been doing this for quite some time, has won a couple of injunctions, even if they were temporary. For example, the Galaxy Tab was so similar to the iPad they got it banned in Germany for quite some time until Samsung altered the design.
Yes a hollow victory since Apple lost the same case in the Netherlands. In fact, Apple lost a major case against Motorola in Germany not long ago and were forced to pull services and even products for a time because of this. It has been appealed now. Apple has lost pretty much every important patent case it has filed, and actually had several patents tossed out the window because of it. The only victories Apple have had are minor ones, that were easily corrected by the offensive party.
The core and basis of iOS was borrowed from Apple's own products such as OS X.
Which is based on freeBSD. Again Apple did not "invent" jack.. they just exploited already existing technology.
Of course, later on certain things such as notification center were borrowed from Android but Apple borrowing a couple ideas here is nothing compared to a couple hundred ideas all the way down to how the core software works.
Yes so Apple claims.. and yet has never proved a thing..
As for marketshare, any figures I've seen depending on quarter, etc shows no number below 60%. The lowest numbers I've been seeing is 68%. I've seen 2011 as them maintaining between 68-85% marketshare depending on how you look at it.
iClarified - Apple News - iPad Market Share Slipped to 54.7% in 4Q11
Apple's iPad market share slipped to 54.7% in 4Q11 down from 61.5% in 3Q11, according to IDC. The drop is largely due to the introduction of the Amazon Kindle which reached 16.8% market share in 4Q11 and increased awareness of other non-Apple tablets.
Now that share could increase this quarter of course with the new iPad.. depends on how many of the sales are replacements or new buys. But the iPad is projected to be surpassed by Android based tablets by 2015. What is not figured into these projections is Windows 8..
Also Office is coming to iPad.
Doubt it will before Windows 8 comes out.. if ever. Windows 8 will have office, and it will be a huge selling point for the enterprise industry where Microsoft is dominating and Apple cant get a real good foothold.
In a matter of fact, several incredibly well done Microsoft apps are on iOS, many of them such as the Xbox Live component of Windows Phone, are exactly like Windows Phone. I also have Microsoft Photosythe, a Halo app, my gf plays Kinectimals, and Dance Central...you know Microsoft stuff. Face it. Ipad is synonymous with tablets just as iPod is with MP3 players. They created the modern smartphone and tablet industry. I'm not saying you have to like it, just respect it. Besides that why do we defend multi-billion dollar companies?
Again I disagree some what. Apple did not make the smartphone market or the tablet industry. They were around before Apple came around, but they were concentrated with the business/enterprise sector... a place Apple still has a hard time getting into. What Apple did was to expand that market into the average user area, and that they have my respect for... even though they are taking most users for a ride so to say. RIM and Nokia had smartphones long before Apple came around with the iPhone. But they were marketed towards the business community.
They spend enough time doing that themselves. I just like to educate the uneducated.
Sorry but Apple is nothing but a propaganda machine trying to keep an image they have created over a decade.. an image that is slowly falling apart the more popular they get and get exposed for the lies and half truths myth they have built up... the old "apple just works" bullcrap.
As for educating the uneducated... Apple users are the MOST uneducated (about technology) out there, and are prime targets for crooks.. more and more malware, spyware and viruses are targeting Apple products and Apple users and Apple are having a very hard time defending themselves because they are living in the Apple made up world where it is only Windows users that need protection. They have gotten a rude awakening the last year... and are still getting it. Apple just pulled a number of apps from the store because they stole money from people. Apple also has massive security issues it seems with its iTunes/app store payment system.