#3, predictable bounce-back of the entire market after Wall Street got over its hissy-fit at being called on the carpet for being thieves.
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iPad Competitors Begin to Disappear Even Before Being Released
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#3, predictable bounce-back of the entire market after Wall Street got over its hissy-fit at being called on the carpet for being thieves.
Long live WebOS!
Imagine a world with iPhone OS, Android and WebOS all in competition for daily computing (most of which will ultimately be touch-based), and all being fairly considered by large numbers of consumers. Compared to the classic world where Microsoft shovels out Windows and most people look no further. Big improvement!
I no signs of any OS coming close to the iPhone OS experience yet, but that day may come and it wont be from Microsoft.
Imagine a world with iPhone OS, Android and WebOS all in competition for daily computing (most of which will ultimately be touch-based), and all being fairly considered by large numbers of consumers. Compared to the classic world where Microsoft shovels out Windows and most people look no further. Big improvement!
I no signs of any OS coming close to the iPhone OS experience yet, but that day may come and it wont be from Microsoft.
just like everyone else, i called vaporware on the courier months ago... actually, from the first moment they announced it. i never for one second believed it would ever see the light of day.
and by "the internal team that had been working on the tablet device" they mean that one guy who had mentioned something about it, once last week.
that whole MS Tablet nonsense was so obviously phoney. just marketing trying to do damage control. i mean, duh.
and by "the internal team that had been working on the tablet device" they mean that one guy who had mentioned something about it, once last week.
that whole MS Tablet nonsense was so obviously phoney. just marketing trying to do damage control. i mean, duh.
Say what? Media Center is included with Win7 and it is far from magic.
Unless by magic you mean borderline unusable. XBMC is MUCH better.
This news provides a stark contrast in the way Apple manages expectations versus the rest of the industry. Apple doesn't show off "proof-of-concept" items, or fancy prototypes with mocked-up interfaces and no provided specs -- when Apple shows a hardware product to the world, it is always already in production, and often announced for sale at the same time as its official unveiling. Apple doesn't trade on vapour and dreams and "what-if" and "wouldn't-it-be-cool" -- Apple delivers.
Wasn't the consensus that the iPad was priced much lower than anticipated?
Didn't Tim Cook say that they were expecting eventual costs reductions to get the margins more in line with other products, but that they wanted to price it aggressively to ensure marketshare?
geez dude, thanks for the keen insight.
from someone who has obviously never been in the same room with one.
History repeats itself
1. Apple once again defines a market with a single product.
2. Apple's product is poo-poo'd by Apple wannabees and by those with a vested interest in the wannabees.
3. Apple's product is a spectacular success.
4. The wannabees scramble to duplicate Apple's product as closely as possible.
5. The wannabee products fail spectacularly.
It would be funny if it weren't so pathetic and predictable. This pattern says less about Jobs' genius than about his competitors' complete lack of ability to compete.
1. Apple once again defines a market with a single product.
2. Apple's product is poo-poo'd by Apple wannabees and by those with a vested interest in the wannabees.
3. Apple's product is a spectacular success.
4. The wannabees scramble to duplicate Apple's product as closely as possible.
5. The wannabee products fail spectacularly.
It would be funny if it weren't so pathetic and predictable. This pattern says less about Jobs' genius than about his competitors' complete lack of ability to compete.
Yes indeed
"Real artists ship."
-- Steve Jobs
I'm sure y'all can come up with some appropriate quotations describing those who don't ship.
And here's a nice essay at Counternotions which explains why Apple doesn't do concept products.
"Real artists ship."
-- Steve Jobs
I'm sure y'all can come up with some appropriate quotations describing those who don't ship.
And here's a nice essay at Counternotions which explains why Apple doesn't do concept products.
Without Apple, we would still be stuck in the past with such wonderful things as the RAZR, the Sony DiskMan, MSDOS, and other such POS's. Apple has revolutionized the world of computers and consumer electronics so many times now that people expect miracles every time they release something new or update and existing product. How many other companies can you think of have made such a drastic difference in this industry in the last 35 years?
I know Job's is an arrogant *******, but he's obviously doing something right. I think the haters just like to hate anyone that is a success.
I'm sure Best Buy would be happy to give you their security footage if you asked nicely.
People shouldn't become so aroused by concept videos. 49% won't ever see the light of day, 49% will not work anywhere close to the concept and suck and 2% will actually become true.
Good thing though that HP scrapped the Windows 7 tablet. I can't for my life understand why people want to put a desktop OS in a tablet, makes no sense. A webOS (that name sucks a lot though) tablet could be very good - however I wouldn't bet my socks that HP won't screw it up in one way or another. Look at what Apple has done well and please for the love of god do not screw up..
Good thing though that HP scrapped the Windows 7 tablet. I can't for my life understand why people want to put a desktop OS in a tablet, makes no sense. A webOS (that name sucks a lot though) tablet could be very good - however I wouldn't bet my socks that HP won't screw it up in one way or another. Look at what Apple has done well and please for the love of god do not screw up..
I love the "I'll just take my ball home" and play with Ubuntu 10.04 comments. It keeps me in stitches 
Better to take the mocking now for vaporware with potential than to get mocked for a poor product later after millions or more spent in development.
Just to be clear up front, I don't actually agree with your assesment here, Apple have failures as well as successes and the 'wannabee' products aren't actually here yet and won't be until the second half of the year so can't be judged. BUT I think there's a very interesting point here which is that Apple is pretty much the only computer company which:
a) Makes its own software
b) Makes its own hardware
c) Does both well
d) Has sufficient money to take a chance on new product markets
That makes a huge difference and in the last few years we've seen Apple really take advantage of that to deliver unique products. Ironically the relationship that PC makers established with Microsoft over the last couple of decades is now hurting all concerned when it comes to adjusting to a changing market. Microsoft are finding it difficult to change direction quickly and get out from the shadow of the Windows / Office teams to go after radically different market sectors. The hardware guys just don't have access to the sort of high quality and innovative software developers that they need to go it alone.
Oh, it'll sort itself out I'm sure, probably with a move to Android (especially if Google figure out how to make it easy or trivial to roll an OS update out even after a third party has put their own UI on it) but it'll take time to establish those relationships and in the meantime they run the risk of Apple establishing the sort of lead in the sector they did with the iPod or, at the least, grabbing the high end, high profit market like they did with the iPhone.
You just painted a million diehard MSBots (and the Engadget Apple Hater Commenter Horde) with a very wide (and accurate) brush.
I'd love to see this. If HP doesn't put WebOS on the Slate, then their purchase of Palm would seem pretty silly. As Gruber says:
Daring Fireball said:
I actually thought the Courier was an interesting and innovative approach by MS -- until I saw the old video of Apple's Knowledge Navigator.
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Jay
Unfortunate
This is most unfortunate. While I love the iPad and want it to be the winner in the race, so I can get new and better ones, I also want to see competition to keep Apple on their toes. I actually liked some of the things about the Courier despite it being from Microsx. Of course, it was just a concept and not real. I like my concept computer even more and that is no close than theirs to reality...
This is most unfortunate. While I love the iPad and want it to be the winner in the race, so I can get new and better ones, I also want to see competition to keep Apple on their toes. I actually liked some of the things about the Courier despite it being from Microsx. Of course, it was just a concept and not real. I like my concept computer even more and that is no close than theirs to reality...
Credit where credit is due
If nothing else, we ought to give Microsoft credit for realizing they were about to lay an egg. I assume their next step is to somehow use WinPhone7 to make a "WinPad" that closely matches the iPad on spec but adds an FM tuner.
If nothing else, we ought to give Microsoft credit for realizing they were about to lay an egg. I assume their next step is to somehow use WinPhone7 to make a "WinPad" that closely matches the iPad on spec but adds an FM tuner.