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iSuppli Boosts iPad Sales Estimates Through 2012 to Nearly 100 Million
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Between Android and WebOS, I'm thinking that the smart money will be on HP. They have the best chance of producing a cohesive product... experience with hardware and an OS that might be better on a tablet than it was on a phone.
I think Android will be a fairly profitable but fragmented bottom dweller, designed to push ads.
Its also successful because its a damned nice piece of kit, as the Brits would say.
You can easily come out with new sizes without changing resolution. You can use the IP4 960x640 for sweet sized 5"-6" one handed iPad.
Even so with already 3 resolutions to support, only brain dead developers aren't making a new resolution much more than a tweak and a recompile away.
Anyone wanting to make a few quid on the side could do worse than stock up on iPads for the Christmas season. You can bet your arse they will be fetching well over retail on ebay in Nov/Dec and stock will not be able to keep up.
Resolution is not the same as size. See: iPhone 4.
I didn't say they were. On the one hand he said changing the size would be an issue for developers because "iPad apps are about pixel-precision." He then suggests that they should put a higher resolution screen in. This would have the same impact on that "pixel-precision." It's not a big deal, he just made me scratch my head and go
Hopefully the SDK is device independent so it shouldn't be a big issue in either case but I haven't had time to work with it yet. My current endeavor is working with Google App Engine. (Now that is an odd beast.) As soon as I'm done with that I have an app I want to do connects the iP4 with GAE. Then I'll have to dive into the SDK and find out first hand.
Incidentally, I would love an iPad with a higher resolution screen to show off my photography. The current iPad is on the top of my list for devices but the only thing keeping me away is the closed ecosystem. On the road I would like to move my pictures from the camera's media (CF or SD) to the iPad to a remote system to be imported into Lightroom. So far I haven't found that missing piece of the puzzle. Until then the iPad is on my want list but not yet on my need list. But now I'm just rambling...
Face it. iPad is a sucess. The only reason I would not be an "early adopter" would be not having the dough to shell out. And I'll be first in line for the next generation as well, and can not see getting rid of the "Classic".
Resolution is not the same as size. See: iPhone 4.
From the software perspective, size is irrelevant. Pixel count is all the software knows.
I know, right?
Look at the iPod. It didn't do anything but play music, and just because Steve Jobs talked about it one day on some stage somewhere, everyone was brainwashed and had to buy it. Same stuff here. This thing doesn't do anything! DOES NOTHING! Will it drive your car? No. Useless. It only plays music, movies, does email and internet browsing, allows document creation and reading, eBooks, small apps and games, holds organizational data... totally worthless.
It needs an optical drive, a large hard drive, quad core minimal, and Flash. And it has to be under 1lb. and fit in a pocket.
It's a tool, if you don't know how to use it or what to do with it it's only your problem.
You obviously would be very happy in a world where 100% of the tech products were Apple. No competition is just fine with you.
I think he, like the more discerning people around here, would like some REAL competition, not copycat artists that churn out lousy gear.
