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[rpo]

He doesn't need to respond, the iPad is better, you know it. Unless of course your last three iPads burst into flames because your house is possessed...

We were not arguing over which was better......we were arguing over the completely false "return rates" the author of the article made up and nomad backed. I proved that premise entirely wrong.

[tgianco]

Everyone I know that has the Kindle Fire loves it. Personally, I don't think it will fit my needs, as I do plan on using a tablet for some business applications as well.

For the last 2 months, I've been researching these things, and I'm still a little torn. People that have the iPad love it, but it does cost more and you're really a slave to Apple, who nickels and dimes their customers to death. The more I look at the ASUS Transformer (and their new Transformer Prime, with the quad processor), the more I think an open-source technology like Android is for me. The eee Transformer has a better screen, better resolution, close to the same weight, a better camera, same processor, bigger screen... and I've only seen positive reviews for the Transformer.

I've also heard a lot of positive about the Samsung Galaxy, but not as much as the Transformer.

Still, I know Apple is probably coming out with their iPad3 in about a month, but will that offer anything more than the Prime? Also, Intel and their "ultrabooks"?

It looks like analysis-paralysis for this kid.

[nomad]

We were not arguing over which was better......we were arguing over the completely false "return rates" the author of the article made up and nomad backed. I proved that premise entirely wrong.

Uh not really professor. You just gave your opinion of what you thought. I didn't see any data to show that reviews don't correlate to actual return rates. Can you provide something more than your opinion to actually disprove the premise?

[rpo]

Uh not really professor. You just gave your opinion of what you thought. I didn't see any data to show that reviews don't correlate to actual return rates. Can you provide something more than your opinion to actually disprove the premise?

When facts are made up out of thin air with NOTHING to back them up, there is no need to prove it wrong. That is the same as me claiming that a specific hard disk drive must have return rates of 60% because 60% of the reviews are negative. On top of that, I must be right because you have no facts showing it is wrong.

How can you not see how asinine of a comparison that is? I am stunned you would think that is a logical argument, and yet that is the same argument you are making with the Kindle Fire.

[rpo]

No you didn't, you wasted time going over all the reviews and coming up with a total to support your argument ("I'm always right"). That wasn't proof of anything, that was you CLAIMING you found some data, but you did not post any links or any real facts.

Uh, I did prove that the premise of the argument is entirely wrong. You obviously skipped over that part of the thread, so here is a quick summary:

The authors premise is the number of one and two star reviews divided by the number of total reviews equals the return rate of the devices sales as a total. If it were logical to make such an argument by linking reviews to return rates, that would mean 17.5% of the Kindle Fires were returned.

I proved that premise wrong by showing that the highly rated iPad has a higher percentage of one and two star reviews (20.5%), and we all know there have not been 10,000,000 iPads returned. (20.5% of 49,000,000 sold)

I am the only one here posting real facts and figures. You should try it sometime instead of attacking others. It is really eye opening.

[caligirlz]

Come on kids

No name calling otherwise you're all going to get warnings.

[Darth Lefty]

My gf has one, I've played with it, I generally like it. It's not perfect and it's very much a conduit for you to buy things, but it works pretty well at that. It really does lack for some Apple-patented features like the pinch zoom.

[rpo]

My gf has one, I've played with it, I generally like it. It's not perfect and it's very much a conduit for you to buy things, but it works pretty well at that. It really does lack for some Apple-patented features like the pinch zoom.

Pinch zoom works fine on my Kindle Fire. I am not sure what is wrong with your gf's.

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