iPad's 'Cannibalization' of Notebook Computers Disputed

I think ill believe the guy who has actual sales data.

 

the best buy CEO made his comments right about the time the iPad came to Best Buy. he was trying to get the herd instinct stimulated. everyone is buying it so i better get it as well

 

He should have known better than to give hard numbers. Vague terms like some, significant etc. are much better in that you have a lesser chance of needing to recant.

 

while he is true, most of the things we buy are not things that we actually "NEED"

 

i must be missing something about these reports.

how can the ipad cannibalize Notebook sales when you need a computer to set it up? i guess more people have desktops than notebooks and are using them to set the ipads up?

 

I'd trust sales numbers over a poll any day of the week.

 

heh, people sure are suddenly being defensive about iPad sales.

 

Are you saying that households who own 1 computer never buy a 2nd?

Are you saying that households with 1 computer never plan on upgrading it?

Yes, you are missing something....

 

You answered your own question. I had a MBP (early 2006) and I gave it away because I bought an iPad and I found that I was using my iMac at home and iPhone on the road but I needed a bigger screen so I did not "upgrade" my to a newer MBP.

 

I think that it's a bit too early to say for sure. Let's wait and see what the situation looks like a year after the iPad was introduced.

Also, how are the Android devices going to affect the Notebook/Netbook market?

Say it isn't so .... please.

 

This is a misleading statement. Just because customers were not intending to purchase a PC, does not mean that the iPad has not replaced this share of the market. If a customer responds that they had no intention to purchase a notebook PC, this can simply mean that the market is changing, there are newer and more convenient alternatives to suit their needs, and thusly, notebook PC's were not being considered in their search. The means the newer technology, (ie. the iPad, eReaders) has vastly changed the market we're used to, and does not necessarily mean that customers are still interested in notebooks the way they always were.

Markets change, get over it.

 

Wait, from what I understood the Best Buy CEO had clarified to say that he was talking about netbooks, not notebooks. In fact all the comparisons I have heard have been about netbooks.

 

well - I sold my iPad to get a Macbook Pro... I wonder how prevalent that is.

 

um, because you can use a desktop, not just a notebook?

 

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

 

So 13% bought an iPad instead of a PC.

I wonder how many of the total iPad purchasers will forgo buying/upgrading any computers in their homes within the next year based on their iPad purchase. Obviously, that data would have to be collected a few months after purchase.

My point being that I think most purchasers will find that they will use their desktops, laptops, and portable devices far less as a result of the iPad purchase. This could lead to future cannibalization.

Just a thought.

 

ok, that's what i thought. makes sense.

 

Who bought/buys an iPad (or computer for that matter) for one function? Did the survey allow for multiple choices or only one? I know I sat up and took notice when Steve Jobs demo'd the iPad in late January and said it would do 7 things better than either a smartphone or a laptop:

Email
Internet
Photos
Games
Music
Video
eBooks

Then I knew that the App store would bring that number way up and pre-ordered. I have never looked back or regretted the purchase (and I bought the 3G/64GB model.) Money well spent.

 

All I can really judge by is our own experience.
We have a modern iMac (ours) and an pre-Intel iMac (daughter's.)
We'll need to replace our daughter's soon, and not long ago we would have probably gotten her a laptop to start high school.
But I've been using the iPad since rollout, and frankly laptops are no longer a part of the equation. My desktop use has dropped 90%.
We may get a 27" iMac and give her our current one, but the only reason for that is the bigger monitor for slingbox viewing.
By the time she starts high school next year, I guarantee that she'll be able to do everything she needs remotely with an iPad and bluetooth. I asked specifically, and no one in the house has any interest in a laptop now. Its desktop or iPad.

So for us, the iPad has definitely eaten one laptop sale.

YMMV.

 

My favorite is that "figures don't lie, but liars figure".

 

I bought my iPad, sold my PC Laptop and bought MBP... in that order...

 

Since when does 'NEED" come in to buying an iPad, it is a 'WANT' device!!

 

I haven't used my iBook or my MacBook Pro since I bought my iPad. Even when I took both on vacation, my wife used the MBP only once and I never touched it.

My primary computer is an iMac Extreme driving dual displays.

 

Or people already own an older notebook or desktop and instead of upgrading the bought an iPad...