Comparing Apple from 30 years ago? Not the same company, not the same products, not the same market penetration... There is little if any comparison of 1984 Apple and 2011 Apple.
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Comparing Apple from 30 years ago? Not the same company, not the same products, not the same market penetration... There is little if any comparison of 1984 Apple and 2011 Apple.
Nearly every tablet that came out since the iPad has tried to teach tablet users there are better features a tablet could use. Ports, slots, outputs, IR, stylus, keyboard/battery docks, etc.. The only one I've found I really appreciate is microSD or SD memory expansion. Despite having HDMI out, with DLNA there are better ways send content to a bigger screen and/or better speakers.
I don't doubt a tablet with a much more precise digitizer will find a market. I could use one myself. The IR remote apps in the Vizio and Sony tablets is a poor excuse for a tablet when any Logitech Harmony remote is far better at the task of controlling a home theater setup.
The best selling tablet out there appeals to the most common denominator: Those who never use a PC for more than email, web browing, and play. The more specific a set of features a tablet has, the more focused (and smaller) the potential buyers will be. JMHO
I don't doubt a tablet with a much more precise digitizer will find a market. I could use one myself. The IR remote apps in the Vizio and Sony tablets is a poor excuse for a tablet when any Logitech Harmony remote is far better at the task of controlling a home theater setup.
The best selling tablet out there appeals to the most common denominator: Those who never use a PC for more than email, web browing, and play. The more specific a set of features a tablet has, the more focused (and smaller) the potential buyers will be. JMHO
Apple may have what you define as limited success, but they have millions of iPads in business TODAY and have been very successfully penetrating the enterprise market.
Denying that fact does not change it.
We have another contract that will several thousand more iPads into the hands of real businessmen doing real work.....
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Denying that fact does not change it.
We have another contract that will several thousand more iPads into the hands of real businessmen doing real work.....
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The response was to a post that claimed Apple was making a major effort to attract business customers. I simply pointed out that this was not a new effort. It has been going on since the introduction of the MacIntosh and before. So far, it has not been spectacularly successful over a quarter century.
All of that may suddenly change. History may be irrelevant. Pigs may fly.
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Anecdotal evidence has limited value. That's why it's generally discounted in science. I have no doubt that "real businessmen doing real work" are using iPads. I'm one of them.
The point is to avoid double standards. If I tell you that Android tablets have 20% of the current tablet market, you can reasonably note that it is a small share of the current market. If I tell you that Apple has a 10% share of the computer market (and a smaller share of the business market), a response that it represents "millions" of users is what is called a "double standard."
I had to chime in here, because there is one thing I have recently seen that I hadn't for the last 2 decades. Macs are now appearing in the military. Not iPads or iPhones, I'm specifically referring to Macs. They aren't wide spread and appear to be used for specific niche areas of the military, which I can't get into, but they are showing up. iMacs and mac-mini's. The Mac-mini is what really surprised me. Apple is moving into predominantly M$ based areas more and more. I don't know, but I have to wonder if Apple is allowing the us government to alter osx?
Obviously it's difficult to comment on applications you can't discuss but it's certainly true that Apple has been successful in niche (business) markets for years, especially those that utilize some graphical design and music composition applications. I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple products being used in applications that make use of graphical functionality.