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iPad Competitors Begin to Disappear Even Before Being Released
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I've enjoyed being ultra-fan-boy lately, so I'll continue.
There's Apple, and then there's everyone else.
Just the same.....there's iPad and then there are wannabe iPads.
There's Apple, and then there's everyone else.
Just the same.....there's iPad and then there are wannabe iPads.
Vaporware at its finest.
Competition is great, but this news isn't Apple's fault. If people want to complain about lack of competition, then get mad at the likes of HP and MS who have failed to produce anything more than cool videos.
I'm not saying that the iPad is the greatest "tablet" style computer ever, but it now has the advantage of longer market presence compared to whatever MS, HP, or whoever might make. This means that competition is already playing catchup. It certainly bodes well for the iPad's future.
Competition is great, but this news isn't Apple's fault. If people want to complain about lack of competition, then get mad at the likes of HP and MS who have failed to produce anything more than cool videos.
I'm not saying that the iPad is the greatest "tablet" style computer ever, but it now has the advantage of longer market presence compared to whatever MS, HP, or whoever might make. This means that competition is already playing catchup. It certainly bodes well for the iPad's future.
Like anyone thought MS was actually capable of that . . . thing in the concept video. They can barely get a stupid mobile phone right, never mind a full-blown, entirely new platform. That kind of innovation is Apple's territory.
Please! The webOS isn't a BIG DADDY OS! WebOS doesn't have print drivers and codecs and other stuff to be that beast of an OS.
WebOS also doesn't play nice with windows.
And what freaking productivity suite are you going to put on webOS? OFFICE?
LMFAO!!!!
Apple has their game sewed up. Pages, Number and Keynote! The ipad integrates flawlessly within the Apple ecosystem. WebOS outside the celly is useless.
That's not the reason for the reaction.
Its more relief that we don't have to listen to the idiots who insisted on comparing the actual iPad to the vaporware Courier as if it really existed.
But really, who was surprised? This kind of FUD is how MS has operated all of its existence.
Yeah, that about sums it up, especially those who thought this was coming out this year.... *sigh*
Agree totally about the mobile space. WP7 is a massive step in the right direction but they're coming in to the market with ZERO marketshare for that OS and no legacy support whatsoever, not to mention that they're clearly going to be around... oh, let's be generous here and say iPhone OS 2 levels of functionality. To add to their woes if HP get Palm by the end of July they may just be able to squeeze the next web OS handset out before WP7 hits and it's gotta be at least 50% certain we'll see a web OS tablet before a WP7 device (unless there's a lot we haven't been told here which seems unlikely).
Certainly I don't see desktop OS's being the future of the mobile market outside of laptops... it just doesn't make sense to shoehorn them into form factors were those OS's will perform worse than the equivalent laptop for roughly the same money. If that turns out to be the case than Microsoft certainly have an uphill fight on their hands.
You got it in one! Now they have a few remnants of the Apple team that made the palm OS from what they learned on Apple's dime to try and find a way to emulate the iPad. M$'s photocopiers just don't seem to do the trick any more do they?
Who makes a concept video that doesn't look good?
"Wait Bob ... add a bit of lag in that animation, I don't know that the actual hardware will be that fast"
THERE WAS NO DEVICE AND THERE WERE NO SALES FIGURES!!!
I swear... the Courier crowd was the most delusional group I've ever seen.
the courier had some amazing pen+touch analogies and concepts. I'm disappointed to see it cancelled. I hope the industry (including Apple) move towards improving their interfaces.
HP abandoned this market many moons ago, when Carly Fiorina "reinvented" the company, and since ~2000 they simply put their name on junk like that 33S you were referring to that they didn't even design.
The recent 35th anniversary 35S is almost worthy of the HP name.
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I'm sure they're working on it, since Apple is now shipping theirs. Always two steps behind the real innovators.
It's the Microsoft Way.
You would think the HPs and Dells of the world would tire of being Microsoft's hos (no offense meant to Roz Ho, of Microsoft), taking it in the shorts to ship hardware at razor-thin margins just to feed the Beast of Redmond its per-unit tribute.
With HP buying Palm and Dell dabbling with Android, perhaps Microsoft's sidekicks are finally tired of getting walked on.
If both Microsoft and HP think that they can't build a tablet that can compete with the iPad, then how can Apple's prices be too high?
MS! You are the biggest losers ever!
Cannot even complete ONE freaking concept product that comes close to Apple!
Cannot even complete ONE freaking concept product that comes close to Apple!
MS cancelled a video-project that was designed to do nothing more than thwart Apple's "actual" product. It was all done to mask MS' laziness and flat-footed approach to consumer tech because they felt frustrated that Apple was yet again making them look like clueless fools. There is no evidence it was an actual product or even a prototype at any given time.
Windows Media Center had enough magic to get me to cough up $89 instead of $30.
10.04 looks like what I'll be trying to push in the house now.
Hahahaha the Courier is vaporware. I'm laughing because I'm reminded how the PC fanboyz kept boasting how it would be the next best thing.
Guess not.
The concept did look interesting. The competition is a good thing and so it is too bad that we have one less potential entry in the tablet space. At this stage one really has to wonder if MS execs have any idea about their longer term strategy here.