All of the advertising and attention pales in comparison to the acceptance from the masses due to having a kick ass product.
It's the product that is selling, not the hype.
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iPad Still Dominating Corporate Tablet Usage as Competitors Arrive
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All of the advertising and attention pales in comparison to the acceptance from the masses due to having a kick ass product.
It's the product that is selling, not the hype.
I work at a TV station and the iPad is resolving so many presentation problems, the technology is reducing technical hazzles.
Imagine, to check a new TV show we needed to edit the show, export it on DVDs, give them to each person and play it back in laptops or DVD players.
Now we edit, export and transfer via wifi to every one and they can watch it anywhere and make share coments without loosing mobility or getting stuck behind a TV or computer.
Imagine, to check a new TV show we needed to edit the show, export it on DVDs, give them to each person and play it back in laptops or DVD players.
Now we edit, export and transfer via wifi to every one and they can watch it anywhere and make share coments without loosing mobility or getting stuck behind a TV or computer.
Interesting. I work for broadcasting. We were doing that about 10 years ago. Now we have this thing called a Streaming Media Server. People do all of there editing on FCP Server and than push it to a streaming encoding server which than puts all the digital content up on a CMS for editors to view in real time.
Our iPad pilot has proven thus far that the iPad is a really cool device yet it still hasn't found a real place yet. I'm telling most of my potential iPad people to get an 11" Macbook Air instead. Why not get it all in an equally as small package.
sounds like you TV stations was over a decade behind the times. Not a good argument when your stations is really far behind the times in terms of technology.
Do some arithmetic. How many are left over, and not even **somewhat** satisfied? Apple 3%. HP 31%. Dell 26%.
Not only are more people buying ipads, they're **much** more likely to be happy with them.
I think the iPad *is* a shiny object in the sense that everyone is talking about it and that makes people want it whether or not they need it. I love my iPad but I don't think there's enough competition to know if large numbers of corporate purchasers will continue to buy it once they have more of a choice. Doubly so if other tablets are focused on the corporate market rather than trying to be all things to all people.
If the iPhone is any indication, iPad sales will be strong in corporate environments but Apple will be in for a fight.
Once the next iPad is out we'll all be talking about how primitive and limited the first iPad was!
Think of "very satisfied" as "it really rocks, the return on investment has paid for the device in 3 months. I made the right choice".
Think of "somewhat satisfied" as "darn, we've spent all this money and it's just slightly better than a pad of A4 / the old Nokia phones we dropped to get these. I have to say 'somewhat satisfied' because of the money I've spent and if theboss finds out they're a waste of money, I'll be fired".
Take the rest of the 100% in each product as "unsatisfied", think of that as "I didn't read the product spec, I thought I could run Windows 7 on it".
I can never remember the names of the "competitors", all that comes into my head is that it's the HP ONIS, or Dell ONIS. Of course, ONIS is the first reaction for many of the users of those devices, it stands for "Oh No It's S..t".
True, but even adding up the "somewhat satisfied" and the "very satisfied" apple is still FAR ahead of everyone else. In the 90s in fact.
I was one of those who thought iPad is a pointless product to have, not anymore.
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And I will tell you right now Apple 3% does not add up and that also tells me that the numbers have other faults in them.
3% is statical to low of a number. That or just proof that Apple has a lot of fan boys that will cover the truth up and say it is better than it really is.
Agreed to a point.
Your ARE correct that this is just TOO early to tell. This research is HORRIBLY flawed.
1. First graph shows RIM/BlackBerry - when their tablet is ONLY available in limited release for TESTING to 2 company's only - Sun Life Financial (Canada) and Globe & Mail. This has been public for early research.
2. The source, linked, clearly states "A November ChangeWave survey of 1,641 business IT buyers has taken a close-up look at 1st Quarter corporate tablet demand." This MAY BE good for 2-5AM Informationals to convince those braindead but for this site ... I'd assume better quality research was posted on main page.
RIM already has a new market segment eyeing the PlayBook - Medical Research & Development. Regardless of the rumors of the iPad 2 having 1/2 camera's ... if it doesn't ship by April Apple will have some SERIOUS competition of mindshare.
3. Dell Streak is STILL a phone, a BIG one but its targeted for smartphone users that need slightly larger than 4" screen yet still front pants pocket portable.
> This should NOT be in the research, nor should HP's 500 tablet (if that is the new Win7 model that was to debut before mid-summer 2010) that thing wouldn't entice a hamster on its own treadmill.
Please explain your theory on how this is "statical to low of a number". Also, could you tell me where you went to college?
This is my first message here. Been reading this forum for years though.
In any event I just got my first iPhone 4 and LOVE it. And I'll be buying the iPad 2 within a month after it comes out for sure. I'm also going to get rid of my MacBook Pro and buy Mac Book Air and I'm going to upgrade my old 2005 Mac Pro to the either the latest or possibly a top of the line iMac. All of this within the first 4 months of 2011.
A very happy Apple customer.
PS I ran my laptop into the ground with video compression/editing for 4 years..I put 10 years onto a 4 year computer! Anyway, I blew the motherboard...and a RAM chip...Bought it in to the Apple store on a Tuesday evening. They sent it out to Texas for 1 price no matter what was wrong...$310...got it back on Friday late morning with new motherboard and new RAM chips and it feels like a new computer again....amazing service. I'll pay for Apple any day of the week. Just wanted to put that down here.
In any event I just got my first iPhone 4 and LOVE it. And I'll be buying the iPad 2 within a month after it comes out for sure. I'm also going to get rid of my MacBook Pro and buy Mac Book Air and I'm going to upgrade my old 2005 Mac Pro to the either the latest or possibly a top of the line iMac. All of this within the first 4 months of 2011.
A very happy Apple customer.
PS I ran my laptop into the ground with video compression/editing for 4 years..I put 10 years onto a 4 year computer! Anyway, I blew the motherboard...and a RAM chip...Bought it in to the Apple store on a Tuesday evening. They sent it out to Texas for 1 price no matter what was wrong...$310...got it back on Friday late morning with new motherboard and new RAM chips and it feels like a new computer again....amazing service. I'll pay for Apple any day of the week. Just wanted to put that down here.
that 3% is with in the margin of error of being at 0%. You never get results like that on anything. It very easy to spot outliers in results and Apple is pretty far outside the normal outliers which tells me that the something is wrong with the test, question or the results. 3% should raise some huge flags when it is that far from other products.
If you can not understand that then you should tell us were you went to college because clear we should not want to go there.
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No real competition yet....
This is like the iPhone all over again. Let me give you a refresher.
iPhone announced: a lot of people were excited but a lot of other people thought apple could never succeed
iPhone released: phenomenal success, can't keep up with demand. over the course of the first year the iphone was mostly the only one of its kind. Everyone loved it. A few companies threw out a few copies towards the end of the 1st Gen iPhone's lifetime but they were clearly just iPhone clones that companies weren't prepared for. clunky UI's all over the place.
iPhone 3g released: iPhone still the only REAL guy on the block, but then over the course of the next year the G1 and a few other touchscreens are released that show that the competition isn't just resting. By the end of the year there are a few phones that are competitive on the level of the iPhone 3g
iPhone 3GS released: just as the competition caught up, the 3gs was released launching the iphone high above the competition again. This time it didn't take as long for the competition to recover. The Nexus One was released in January, and IMO was the first phone that I would call on equal ground with the iPhone 3gs (only halfway into the iphone 3gs lifecycle). Over the next 6 months many phones are released at the same level of the 3gs, even to the point of some being slighltly superior.
iPhone 4 released: just enough "umph" to put the iPhone a nod above all of the competition, but just a couple months was all that was really needed for the competition to catch up. Now there is more than a handful of phones that are just as good (and even better!) than the iphone, and we still have 6 months to go before an upgrade....
in short: first year catches everyone off guard.
second year everyone spends the whole time trying to play catch up
third year the competition is mature enough to provide some equals
fourth year competition is very diverse, numerous and advanced
This was just the first year of the iPad. There was no software support for appropriate tablets. Next year with the Playbook and Honeycomb the competition will finally start making a stance. in 2012 there will be tons of tablets out there on developed platforms. MS will release their own touch based software. in 2013 the iPad will be sunk so far in the competition that they will probably only sell around 30% of total tablet sales. Now bear in mind I think the iPad will still more than double or triple any other SINGLE tablet out there, but there will be around 40 respectable competitive tablets out.
This is like the iPhone all over again. Let me give you a refresher.
iPhone announced: a lot of people were excited but a lot of other people thought apple could never succeed
iPhone released: phenomenal success, can't keep up with demand. over the course of the first year the iphone was mostly the only one of its kind. Everyone loved it. A few companies threw out a few copies towards the end of the 1st Gen iPhone's lifetime but they were clearly just iPhone clones that companies weren't prepared for. clunky UI's all over the place.
iPhone 3g released: iPhone still the only REAL guy on the block, but then over the course of the next year the G1 and a few other touchscreens are released that show that the competition isn't just resting. By the end of the year there are a few phones that are competitive on the level of the iPhone 3g
iPhone 3GS released: just as the competition caught up, the 3gs was released launching the iphone high above the competition again. This time it didn't take as long for the competition to recover. The Nexus One was released in January, and IMO was the first phone that I would call on equal ground with the iPhone 3gs (only halfway into the iphone 3gs lifecycle). Over the next 6 months many phones are released at the same level of the 3gs, even to the point of some being slighltly superior.
iPhone 4 released: just enough "umph" to put the iPhone a nod above all of the competition, but just a couple months was all that was really needed for the competition to catch up. Now there is more than a handful of phones that are just as good (and even better!) than the iphone, and we still have 6 months to go before an upgrade....
in short: first year catches everyone off guard.
second year everyone spends the whole time trying to play catch up
third year the competition is mature enough to provide some equals
fourth year competition is very diverse, numerous and advanced
This was just the first year of the iPad. There was no software support for appropriate tablets. Next year with the Playbook and Honeycomb the competition will finally start making a stance. in 2012 there will be tons of tablets out there on developed platforms. MS will release their own touch based software. in 2013 the iPad will be sunk so far in the competition that they will probably only sell around 30% of total tablet sales. Now bear in mind I think the iPad will still more than double or triple any other SINGLE tablet out there, but there will be around 40 respectable competitive tablets out.
Survey, is it?
The funniest thing about this kind of publications: folks actually believe that somebody was working really hard to come up with this figures. In reality, all this info is sucked from under the nail(s) by some shmack(s). So naive, sorry honey...
The funniest thing about this kind of publications: folks actually believe that somebody was working really hard to come up with this figures. In reality, all this info is sucked from under the nail(s) by some shmack(s). So naive, sorry honey...
Whaaaat?
Perhaps you're not reading them right? A buyer satisfaction index of 74% (as Dell has here) is actually average or better than average for many industries. Computers (especially over-$1000 computers) tend to have a higher CSI but this is in large part due to a well-known psychological effect, where people who have paid more/sacrificed more for a product tend to view that product more highly. For comparison, the highest customer satisfaction index in the entire industry for non-smartphone cell phones is around 73%.
CSI tends to be lower for initial offerings, which would be magnified in this case, as there is next to no software out there that's optimized for the Dell at the moment.
The right way to read this is that Dell owners are mostly satisfied with their purchases, and iPad purchasers are tickled pink.
(Data for cell phone CSI: http://businesscenter.jdpower.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?ID=2009082 )
Perhaps you're not reading them right? A buyer satisfaction index of 74% (as Dell has here) is actually average or better than average for many industries. Computers (especially over-$1000 computers) tend to have a higher CSI but this is in large part due to a well-known psychological effect, where people who have paid more/sacrificed more for a product tend to view that product more highly. For comparison, the highest customer satisfaction index in the entire industry for non-smartphone cell phones is around 73%.
CSI tends to be lower for initial offerings, which would be magnified in this case, as there is next to no software out there that's optimized for the Dell at the moment.
The right way to read this is that Dell owners are mostly satisfied with their purchases, and iPad purchasers are tickled pink.
(Data for cell phone CSI: http://businesscenter.jdpower.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?ID=2009082 )
Psshh.
Ever done any actual statistical work? If you run enough tests, you see plenty like this. Hell, there have been satisfaction numbers in excess of 90% for appliance companies, in over-1000-person surveys, and most of those have a first-year failure rate well over 10%. The percentage of African-American people (out of over 1000) who supported John McCain in a particular survey was within one standard deviation of zero.
Also, it's well known that early adopters are always biased towards satisfaction with a product, at least a high-tech product. The reasons for this should be obvious to anyone. The satisfaction index for the iPad will come down at least somewhat as more people adopt them.
Ever done any actual statistical work? If you run enough tests, you see plenty like this. Hell, there have been satisfaction numbers in excess of 90% for appliance companies, in over-1000-person surveys, and most of those have a first-year failure rate well over 10%. The percentage of African-American people (out of over 1000) who supported John McCain in a particular survey was within one standard deviation of zero.
Also, it's well known that early adopters are always biased towards satisfaction with a product, at least a high-tech product. The reasons for this should be obvious to anyone. The satisfaction index for the iPad will come down at least somewhat as more people adopt them.
I don't see how iPad's could really be that useful as a full-fledged computing device. I did see an interesting presentation in a Starbucks once. I thought that was a great use of an iPad. But when I'm sitting at work or home doing my daily work, the last thing I want to use is an iPad.
Yes, it's time to enjoy the laughs and the lead now.
It's far too early in the game to claim a long term win.
Apple is their own worst enemy. Refusing to build a very popular 7" size was a huge mistake. One they may back pedal on yet.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it's time to replay the well worn out song... "but look at the bazillions we are selling now"
Yeah... go ahead... gloat.
We will see what happens when the competitors are fully ramped up and available.
If Microsoft decides to get serious and offer a windows tablet it will be a very interesting move.
Far too many people have no clue how deep Microsoft is as a company. They only see it from a consumer side.
Time will tell....
Thank you. This is what I was getting at. (Aside from the fact that no margin of error was mentioned in the article, "statical" isn't a word, and that Rodimus used "to" instead of "too")
Approximately three percent of my department are Chinese. I should tell them that they're actually Caucasian since three percent is, "statical to low a number."
"Normal outliers". LOL.
while true but how often do you see numbers that far out of wake compared to competitors. Same area I would expect them to be with in reason of eachother. Yes some better than others.
Anything numbers of similar products or area are out of line with others in the same area it should raise huge red flags that something is up.