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iPad Competitors Begin to Disappear Even Before Being Released
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CarlHeanerd
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I'm simultaneously amused and disappointed. I like competition, so I really think that the lack of a solution from Microsoft (at the present) is going to lead to only market stagnation. HP/Palm had better had something good up their sleeves, don't let Apple rest on its laurels!
kiljoy616
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What competition, if only, this was VaporWare. I remember seen this 2 year ago, when Ipad was not even in the news, if MS is competition for innovation we are all screwed.
Just be glad they do come out with at least something worth buying from time to time. 🙄
Vapor for sale, cheap
You would have bought one? Without knowing the cost? Without knowing battery life? Without knowing how heavy it was? Without knowing how well it actually worked in real life?
Really?
This is why Apple doesn't do concept products. They aren't products!
The final line from the linked article:
You would have bought one? Without knowing the cost? Without knowing battery life? Without knowing how heavy it was? Without knowing how well it actually worked in real life?
Really?
This is why Apple doesn't do concept products. They aren't products!
The final line from the linked article:
Same here! I saw the CES Slate demo as just another piece of "me too" quick to patch together, vaporware to keep the stock price from falling so they can say to the analysis types "We demo'ed a pen computer."
My outside guess, knowing those corporate cultures, is that the Slate architecture died the death of a thousand committee meetings, focus groups and emails. HP management probably got sick of Microsoft's lack of response on technical issues and took a working and local solution.
This kind of reminds me of the Palm / Be merger to rescue the ARM-based Palm development about nine years ago. While the Palm name was on the outside the OS guys from Be were better, management knew it, purged the internal Palm engineering and let the "Be boys" run the show. I remember being told there was a big "BeOS" banner over the engineering building on the then Palm campus on Great America Parkway near 237 letting everyone know who was in and who was out.
Will the kick ass Palm webOS group come into HP and make a space for them doing tablet computers right as the Redmond devotees get the ax or worst "remote reassignment" with this merger? My bet is that how this will go down.
Your comment assumes that Microsoft was serious about Courier as a product in the first place. It never was. MS has never been good at making money from hardware, except for the Mouse I guess. They make money by selling Windows and Office, and locking in people with the network effect and constantly shifting, obscure, poorly defined and complicated defacto standards. They do anything they can do to delay or discourage competitors.
People in the Engadget comments were the worst offenders. I never thought a CG video could fool so many people. Boy was I wrong. It's alright, I've sanctioned them off into one category known as the 'anything-but-apple' crowd.
To bad so sad
Microsoft will be buying someone to fill the hole left by their fail. Does HP going around Microsoft indicate a rift? HP products truly suck. Microsoft OS truly suck. Its a race to the bottom.
Microsoft will be buying someone to fill the hole left by their fail. Does HP going around Microsoft indicate a rift? HP products truly suck. Microsoft OS truly suck. Its a race to the bottom.
Uh, just to clarify as I think some people are getting confused: The HP Slate is NOT the Courier project. The Courier was a prototype device leaked from Microsoft at the tail end of 2009 (I believe) using a unique folding form factor (uh, unique if you exclude the Nintendo DS anyway) and bespoke software. The HP Slate is a more traditional tablet running Windows 7 that'll be out fairly shortly and... probably sell about as well as every other Windows tablet has over the years, i.e. not well.
Courier is dead, HP Slate is not.
JediZenMaster
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I'm laughing so hard my stomach is hurting. All of these apple haters swore up and down that the Ipad was going to be a failure.
Endless chants of failure and epic fail,etc and then turn around and then the
Apple Haters wetdream a.k.a HP slate has been shelved! Funny how things turn out 😀
Apple haters head down to your local Diner because Crow is now being served!
PWND!
Endless chants of failure and epic fail,etc and then turn around and then the
Apple Haters wetdream a.k.a HP slate has been shelved! Funny how things turn out 😀
Apple haters head down to your local Diner because Crow is now being served!
PWND!
JediZenMaster
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Well considering what HP has done to compaq,Voodoo PC and Digital. I doubt the webos tablet will even make a dent.
HP will probarly market it as a low cost device putting very cheap components into it. So cheap that it will have build quality issues. And Lest not forget that famous Bloatware HP is known for. That will end up on the Tablet too.
And that is even dependent on how much HP micro manages WebOs. Because they could be saying they will leave Rubenstein and Co to their own devices. But the minute this deal closes it will be a whole new ballgame
iPad Competitors Begin to Disappear Even Before Being Released
Yesterday I only thought two dead flies were lying on the floor with their legs in the air.
But today we learn that Microsoft, the very company that's spent the past 9 years telling us they've "got some very exciting products in the pipeline", including at least two tablets, is also now giving up the game!
I'm a huge fan of Apple's very clever and highly successful business model, and I know it's a serious force in the tech world, but now we have proof that they're actively killing MS. And that's significant.
Yesterday I only thought two dead flies were lying on the floor with their legs in the air.
But today we learn that Microsoft, the very company that's spent the past 9 years telling us they've "got some very exciting products in the pipeline", including at least two tablets, is also now giving up the game!
I'm a huge fan of Apple's very clever and highly successful business model, and I know it's a serious force in the tech world, but now we have proof that they're actively killing MS. And that's significant.
farmboy
macrumors 65816
Yeah, what I'm taking away from this is that they've played with the iPad for a little while and realize this is the right direction to go (with quibbles), so they'll try to imitate it without crossing IP lines (which may be difficult). Even PC-centric sites (Cnet today) really buy into the way the iPad works as opposed to existing devices. Five years from now Apple will be on Gen 5. Still without Flash-Blu Ray-Ethernet or Keyboards, and still selling every one they make.
No they are both dead.
They are probably going to redo the Slate with webOS, therefore, it's no longer the Slate.
Bottom line, x86 sucks for mobile computers, as compared to ARM.
Competition
Apple has made the innovative products without "competition". The argument that we need competition to "make sure Apple stays on their toes" is just not valid. In fact, the reverse is true. Apple defines the market with a new device and the others follow. Apple is keeping the industry on it's toes....
Apple has made the innovative products without "competition". The argument that we need competition to "make sure Apple stays on their toes" is just not valid. In fact, the reverse is true. Apple defines the market with a new device and the others follow. Apple is keeping the industry on it's toes....
It's truly outstanding that they appear unable to break this cycle - MS are becoming more and more irrelevant everyday.
Cheffy Dave
macrumors 68030
