Everyone needs a phone. So android can dominate in terms of sales because no one company can supply everybody in the whole world with a smart phone.
However no one needs an iPad. And that’s where Apple have to be congratulated. They are managing to sell a device to people who don’t actually need it. And that’s what perplexes so many Apple detractors!
Yes you can do a lot of the things you can do on an iPad with a number of other devices so you would think that no one would buy an iPad if that was the case.
What seems to be happening is that that is exactly what happened with the android tablet market where there was no inbuilt demand for it like there was for android phones. Without that inbuilt market and no decent software / hardware eco system to “sell” android tablets it just died.
The iPads success has come from Apple concentrating on software and user experience beyond the basic “watch movies and surf the net” use cases that iPad detractors seem to think is the only thing they are used for.
I feel that in a lot of ways the iPad story is a bigger achievement than the iPhone. Because Apple is actually “selling” the concept of the iPad to people who have alternatives and do t actually need it. That’s pretty hard to do.
And this has been at the expense of low end laptop suppliers. If you remember way back
When Apple explained the iPad it was there answer to netbooks which were then undercutting normal laptops. The cry was that Apple should make a netbook. But they said they couldn’t make a good computer for that price. Many people criticised them. But they made the iPad instead.
I think it’s safe to say Apple were right!
However no one needs an iPad. And that’s where Apple have to be congratulated. They are managing to sell a device to people who don’t actually need it. And that’s what perplexes so many Apple detractors!
Yes you can do a lot of the things you can do on an iPad with a number of other devices so you would think that no one would buy an iPad if that was the case.
What seems to be happening is that that is exactly what happened with the android tablet market where there was no inbuilt demand for it like there was for android phones. Without that inbuilt market and no decent software / hardware eco system to “sell” android tablets it just died.
The iPads success has come from Apple concentrating on software and user experience beyond the basic “watch movies and surf the net” use cases that iPad detractors seem to think is the only thing they are used for.
I feel that in a lot of ways the iPad story is a bigger achievement than the iPhone. Because Apple is actually “selling” the concept of the iPad to people who have alternatives and do t actually need it. That’s pretty hard to do.
And this has been at the expense of low end laptop suppliers. If you remember way back
When Apple explained the iPad it was there answer to netbooks which were then undercutting normal laptops. The cry was that Apple should make a netbook. But they said they couldn’t make a good computer for that price. Many people criticised them. But they made the iPad instead.
I think it’s safe to say Apple were right!
