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If anyone is thinking about this app now is the time to buy.
http://www.sportys.com/PilotShop/product/17277
http://www.sportys.com/PilotShop/product/17277
If anyone is thinking about this app now is the time to buy.
http://www.sportys.com/PilotShop/product/17277
To me it's still not worth it over Foreflight.
Sure, but Foreflight missed 1/2 the market by not doing anything for those who are running Android
Sure, but Foreflight missed 1/2 the market by not doing anything for those who are running Android
Evil empire or not Apple makes a much better product.
According to who? Personal preference doesn't make it so.
Fair enough. But then I'll rephrase. It's an app for those of us who can see right thru the evil empire of Apple and Steve Jobs.
Evil empire or not Apple makes a much better product.
According to the huge market share that the IPad has.
The numbers speak for themselves.
You're using it wrong.Oh and my iPad doesnt overheat either.
To me it's still not worth it over Foreflight.
Sorry Ron, market share doesn't necessarily come from having the better product. It usually comes from better marketing (Beta/VHS is a pretty good example). And in the phone/tablet world, hire cool people to bless the product as "hip" and it's game over. A 10" Android has at least as good a screen, a built in, accurate GPS, open source, your mp3s belong to you, doesn't overheat, etc., etc., etc. I think Avilution's AviationMaps is fantastic, same as the Garmin Pilot. Won't be long before others realize that Android tablets offer significant savings and benefits over the ipad even with limited Android software, and then, the new software will follow.
Why not? I was thinking of switching over and I assumed it was comparable to foreflight.
Additionally, the ability to purchase an entire setup for less than 1/2 the cost of an iPad is what drove me towards the Lenovo tablet I use.
Not sure which Lenovo tab you have, but the one I see is 350 for the 16 gig, thats not less than half the cost of the same size iPad model. In fact you can get a refurb 16gig iPad 2 for that.
Sorry Ron, market share doesn't necessarily come from having the better product. It usually comes from better marketing (Beta/VHS is a pretty good example). And in the phone/tablet world, hire cool people to bless the product as "hip" and it's game over. A 10" Android has at least as good a screen, a built in, accurate GPS, open source, your mp3s belong to you, doesn't overheat, etc., etc., etc. I think Avilution's AviationMaps is fantastic, same as the Garmin Pilot. Won't be long before others realize that Android tablets offer significant savings and benefits over the ipad even with limited Android software, and then, the new software will follow.
Call me a fanboy all you want. The iPad has been proven in the aviation industry and approved by several companies. Zero Android devices can say this. And you a clearly making claims you cannot back up. Prove to me your external GPS out performs my iPads internal GPS. Mine seems to work fine in the flight levels, down low, fast or slow without error. That and it's not another accessory I have to attach, it's built in. Your Lenovo has half ass features even compared to the iPad 2. I think its funny how the anti Apple people can trwist things around in their head that they have an inferior product yet call Apples products crappy.
You have yet to point out how the Android product is inferior, other than spouting off on ad-hominem attacks. Have you ever considered that not everyone has $500+ to go drop on a tablet? Or that people prefer something other than what you do?
So, please point out the "half ass" features of my tablet.
Ok, the .3 mp camera is the only camera on board your tablet . It has half the ram of the iPad 3, a single core processor. Not to mention no option for cellular connectivity. Also a lesser quality screen. And the iPad has a huge following of aftermarket products, and thousands more applications.
Ok, the .3 mp camera is the only camera on board your tablet . It has half the ram of the iPad 3, a single core processor. Not to mention no option for cellular connectivity. Also a lesser quality screen. And the iPad has a huge following of aftermarket products, and thousands more applications.
While I agree that for flying, iPad is great, but for everything else, it's trash. I own iPad 2, and after it got in my way too many times, I picked up Asus Transformer Prime and only thing that my iPad does is ForeFlight.
iPad, while a great hardware device has serious deficiency with operating system that will name make it a good tablet for work. Think of scenario like this.
You need to confirm your domain for Google Apps. That requires that you copy/paste some text, put it in a notepad, save as .html file and upload it via FTP to a site. Can't do it.
Back in December I was in Memphis for training. During my first day there, I hurt my leg, so I was more or less hotel-bound for most of the time. Local TV sucked, internet speed made Netflix unwatchable. I had a portable hdd with some TV shows and a laptop. Thanks to iOS "one computer sync only" I was not able to take those movies and throw them on the iPad, because my main PC I sync to is at home. There are few apps that will let you do wireless upload, but due to wifi security there, it was impossible. With android, it's as easy as popping in a memory card, or simply drag and drop to the device.
So there you go. These are just few "half ass" features of your tablet. This is the reason I won't touch it for anything other than Foreflight and Cloud Ahoy. Plus with Apple's lawsuit-happy ass, where they patent items that clearly had prior art, I am unlikely to give Apple another dime willingly (yea, I know 30% of my ForeFlight subscription goes to them, but I do not have a choice there)
So, let's forget about notification system that was stolen from Android, and also let's forget iPad design patent, that has prior art.
If Apple would actually took all the money they spend on legal BS and threw it into R&D, maybe they will regain some of the market share lost to Android. Currently, there are 2 android phones for every iphone. And with iOS 6, there's not a single feature there that was not a catch-up to android.
probably garbage compared to foreflight. IMO I am convinced that from g1000 and up garmin is great, but all those vfr handhelds are pretty much overpriced junk that for practical purposes can be replaced with an ipad.