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iPad Sees Record-Setting Adoption Rate, Poised to Become 4th-Largest Electronics Category
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Bingo.
Add 3D holo-tech and facial recongition then the size of a computer for the next 10 years will be pushing to non-physical computing where you don't have to touch it.
The current iPad will get 4.2 with multitasking and printing in a month, next year the new iPad will get at least one camera for facetime, bumped up RAM and processor. I think they will stick to the same screen, but the weight of the device will be reduced to around 1 pound from the current 1.5.
The Galaxy Tab looks nice but I don't think people will want to sign up for new contracts.
The Blackberry Playbook could be nice but there is no actual hands on with the device yet, any media company can make a cool looking video. And it won't be out till next year.
The Galaxy Tab looks nice but I don't think people will want to sign up for new contracts.
The Blackberry Playbook could be nice but there is no actual hands on with the device yet, any media company can make a cool looking video. And it won't be out till next year.
Exactly. The iPad of 2020 will barely resemble today's version, but oh boy will it be popular!
I agree 100%... for some reason, others just don't seem to be able to "get it" yet (and they are probably the same ones that didn't think the iPod would last and didn't think a touch screen phone from Apple would ever sell!)
If you have $600 in your pocket, and you'd like to buy an iPad for $599, and you'd also like to buy a nice video camera for $599, then you'll end up buying one, but not the other.
You forget that people's existing iPod/iPhone iTunes software purchases will run on the Tab and Playbook as well. Oh wait... they don't. So much for that selling point.
I agree that tablets will start to become bigger for every usage; but it has a long ways to go. You might thinking typing on it is good, but even at lunch yesterday I heard several people talking about the iPad and how they want one but won't get it because of the soft keyboard.
It's a valid concern.
Three-year-olds get the iPad.
Elderly people get the iPad.
Geeks do not get the iPad. They are so good at today's tech, when a new paradigm comes along they tend to judge it based on current tech standards. No keyboard! No mouse!
But the average person who passes the display in Target or Best Buy, and who sees the commercials, and hears about a friend who has one, will try it and realize that they don't want to browse the Web or read email any other way but Touch from now on. Since that's what most people spend their time on when using computers, the vast majority of people will find a tablet does the job just fine. It will finally be a personal computer for the rest of them. The market will keep on expanding as more and more people realize this.
I have heard the same stories from a lot of people as well but when I show them several applications and the use of Griffin stylus, they were hooked and went ahead to buy them.
Apple does a good job showcasing it in the iPad’s commercials. People still have this old idea that typing is the most important function on tablet where it isn’t. They are used to the desktops/laptops form of computing whereas iPad is a completely different type of form, they just need to spend some time with an iPad. Apple knows this, that’s what the stores are for.
It is funny to see how some developers are starting to adopt iPad’s application designs into their Mac applications as well.
For those of us who grew up with keyboards, this will be true. It simply is not as comfortable for us to type long text on a tablet. So let them buy a keyboard with their iPad if they want.
But kids who grow up with Touch devices today will never look back, and they will shake their heads in wonder about those old folks who insist on that clickety-clackity, food waste collecting, finger-tiring devices that should have been left behind in the 20th-century. They will not only use soft keyboards, they will find it amazing that anyone wants to use anything else.
And they'll stomp us in speed tests.
For us oldsters, we can always use our laptops when it's time to write a novel or a blog post. But for answering email, or commenting on Facebook, or surfing the Net, even we find a tablet nicer than using a keyboard and mouse. Today.
Cannibalizing?
"...the iPad is likely to be "cannibalizing" even TVs and digital cameras..."
The iPad is neither a TV nor a digital camera, therefore it cannot "cannibalize" either of them. That is an absurd statement.
And how is it it's own category? There have been tablet PC available for many many years!
"...the iPad is likely to be "cannibalizing" even TVs and digital cameras..."
The iPad is neither a TV nor a digital camera, therefore it cannot "cannibalize" either of them. That is an absurd statement.
And how is it it's own category? There have been tablet PC available for many many years!
If that’s true, what’s amazing to me is not that the iPad sales climbed so fast, but that no OTHER consumer electronics product ever sold more than 350k in year one! That means the iPad was adopted hundreds of times faster than the next-fastest-selling non-phone. (OK, you can’t directly compare a day’s sales to 1/365 of a year’s sales... but still, the gap is big!) I’m skeptical... but regardless, the iPad has done well and deservedly so.
Those are the people that don't "get" the iPad, or what it's for. These are the people that still think of the iPad as a computer, or debate buying one instead of or to replace a personal computer. And even for these people, there are external keyboards available...
"...the iPad is likely to be "cannibalizing" even TVs and digital cameras..."
The iPad is neither a TV nor a digital camera, therefore it cannot "cannibalize" either of them. That is an absurd statement.
I can sort of see why that could be true, but it's a bit vague... like perhaps stating..
'Mortgages cannibalizing iPad sales'
Did you inform them of Bluetooth keyboard pairing? Desktop machines will cling on for life as special purpose machines, but the mass market is much better served with a tablet that can be used anywhere in the home and give them the news, email, commerce, and social networking that are the primary uses of home desktop machines today.
"...the iPad is likely to be "cannibalizing" even TVs and digital cameras..."
The iPad is neither a TV nor a digital camera, therefore it cannot "cannibalize" either of them. That is an absurd statement.
And how is it it's own category? There have been tablet PC available for many many years!
And how did that decade-old tablet category do? Not too well. So when Apple comes along and makes it an instant success, it owns the category. Everyone is now trying to make tablets that look like iPads.
The iPad actually is kinda a TV already, actually. If you use the ABC app, for instance, you are watching TV.
But I think what they meant is that if you have a limited budget, and you buy an iPad because you already have a TV, you might not want to spend the money to also replace the TV with a newer one. In that sense it cannibalizes sales.
I saw an iPad, finally, in public use this weekend...at a casino. With all the millions of these units being sold, where the heck are they being used?! Maybe just in family rooms. I dunno.
I'm waiting for Rev 2 or 3 to come out...just like how the iPods got better, cheaper, and more features over time.
I'm waiting for Rev 2 or 3 to come out...just like how the iPods got better, cheaper, and more features over time.
Mine never leaves my house except when I'm traveling. It's my home computer now.
But I've seen lots of iPads out and about, and it's increasing. Saw one this morning, and two the other morning, out in public. It used to be a rare sighting, but now I'm seeing it frequently.
"...the iPad is likely to be "cannibalizing" even TVs and digital cameras..."
The iPad is neither a TV nor a digital camera, therefore it cannot "cannibalize" either of them. That is an absurd statement.
I think it meant that, for people that are saving up to buy a tv or camera, they may shift and spend the savings on an iPad 1st, then start to save up for a tv or camera again, thereby taking longer to purchase the tv/camera, and thus, cannibalizing tv/camera sales for that quarter.