People wanted to know about Apple tablet: Steve Jobs iPad introduction did not disappoint
Apple changed the computing world and another industry again!Gizmodo tossed aside the vestments of Apple tablet prognosticator today and leaped into the role of Gizmodo reporting on the newly announced Apple iPad. It really does not suck. The new reporting or the new product.
The $499 to $829 price is hundreds of dollars less than people were expecting. The $30/month unlimited data service with no contract required is far less money than people were expecting. Let us up that their data networking service provider can keep up with the huge surge of data downloading that is going to materialize when this product is in customer's hands.
This product blows Windows netbooks out of the water. Netbooks are prone to all the Windows malware, no Windows system gets updates it needs before exploits attack because the malware is generally written before the updates now, netbooks have tiny screens and short battery lifetimes, and netbooks only run three applications at once.
The latter might not be too bad on a tablet computer. But if your netbook is just a cut-rate toy Windows computer, then it should be able to run more than thee apps at once.
The iPad is kind of a super iPhone. You can buy/write/run apps, download/play music, and
of course visit the iBookStore to buy electronic books. It is way bigger than an iPhone, the size of a small computer screen. Interestingly, it might be the size of a netbook screen. With an optional keyboard, it becomes somewhat like a cross between a netbook, an iPhone, and a Macintosh. it is none of those things but there are some parallels with each.
People should compare this with the price, capabilities, limitations, and "oh, yeah" extra costs of owning a Windows notebook or netbook computer. The Windows-based products have more costs & dangers associated with them but some people are used to the risks and extra work Windows entails. That is, it might be worse in lots of ways but it has some strengths they really enjoy that offset those problems.
Tens of millions of people have iPhones too - not to mention how many have bought iPhone Touch this past year. They see nothing wrong with Apple's way of doing things and will leap at a chance to get an iPad instead of a Windows netbook, I think. Apple managed to price their least unit down below $500 which is something that was considered the holy grail of low cost computing not so many years ago.
With iPad, Apple managed to meet and exceed expectations. In retrospect, they delivered exactly what people wanted - which was more than people generally expected they would get. Apple managed to deliver it for a lower price than everyone expected. Once again, Apple blows away the critics & analysts.
Labels: apple, computing, mobile, reading
posted by John Collins @ 4:02 PM
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