Wall Street expects Apple's risky iPad to sell 1M-5M in first year - Page 3

You must know a lot of...high school kids?

And these new netbooks out of CES rock! Add to that Windows 7 now and what a sweet deal is that?

the enterprise dev licecense from apple

downside is if you were to buy say 30,000 of these ipads, deployment sucks. For the Microsoft rent a software customers there are products MS makes to install software remotely on any PC from one server. MS has had software like this since the 1990's. there are competitors as well. no fortune 500 company is going to hire help desk people to deploy software on these things. they will just buy Windows tablets

And let's not forget about games.
Parents will be suckered by kids to get them one for the digital textbook savings (muscle & wallet fatigue), while planning the next MMPOFPSG* that they are going to play on it.


*massively-multi-player-online-first-person-shooter-game

Would lack of imagination cover it? I see Microsoft as being totally committed to the shoehorning of Windows approach, and as disinterested in endorsing any other concept.

YouTube and Hulu are web-based sites. I can't tell that these sites are "a few old websites"

The thing I'm disappointed in most is the camera connection kit. It seems to me they could have had one internal SD slot and one USB jack. I don't like having to keep track of adapters, and I don't like rigid lever-like tabs sticking out a device, that's too much of a risk of damaging the port.

This is America, last time I checked you don't have to support every protocol on world wide web. Flash is okay, not great but okay - but a much better experience lies ahead with raw HTML evolution. Simple.

1. It's an ergonomic decision. How else would you hold the iPad?
2. Didn't you hear Jobs "its between iPhone and Mac" if it has OSXthen its a mac.
3. How else would you make $499 price with ALL features
4. Look at #3
5. iPod was a horrible name too in 2000, but hey 250Million iPods later everyone loves it.

Good luck with Windows.

5 million?

Make that 6. Easy.

But companies are already doing this.
If i remember correctly, 3Com, Oracle, and another were the first to go full tilt.
They talked about how the saved so much money and resources with the iphone. Time sheets were accessible on the iphone and more.

It already has its own image...a feminine product. The iMaxiPad, the iTampon, the iPad. Watch the MadTV clip on YouTube making fun of the iPod...called the iPad.

I call your six. What have you got?

Didn't google state that they are working on dropping flash and going to HTML5?

Completely off topic:
I read an analyst report this morning saying the iPad was going to cannibalize iPod sales.
I immediately imagined someone running on a treadmill with the iPad strapped to their arm.

I started to laugh, but then saddened that Im not better at using Photoshop.

My interweb pokerface.

They did get something right...it is clearly NOT a revolutionary product. It is an iPod Touch Grande, nothing more. It was funny when Steve Jobs was trying to claim what a great web experience the iPad is, and then the web page he went to showed the missing plug-in icon! Great web experience! In 2011, maybe it will be dead like the G4 Cube was after a year. I don't see many people carrying around the iPad like they do with an iPhone or iPod Touch.

Dead to whom exactly? I need flash due to content posted from school and being able to view videos beyond just youtube. The Pre seems to be able to handle Flash modestly so Apples reason is what, especially on a more powerful device...that doesnt multitask.

Apple products in general are popular with women.

They'll get one of these too.

You are correct.

The iPad has YouTube built in, including HD. Solved.

Hulu offers some content, free, but not for all machines. You pay quite the price in terms of battery life and CPU performance, unless you have a new machine. iTunes has the same content and much more, not free.

If the choice was mine, I would opt for purchasing every time. The only thing Apple needs to do is sweeten the deal is lower the price tier to 0.99 and 1.99, SD/HD.

Aren't there already several Touch pens on the market? I heard that Apple's replacement for the Symbol WinMo devices has a "pen" for taking signatures.

These predictions, as always are laughably wrong, just as with the iPhone, the iPod and even the wii.

All three of these devices shared similar "problems"

-missing "vital" hardware that's actually unnecessary fringe benefits at time of release (camera (ipad), gps + 3g(iPhone), hardware power (wii), fm radio (iPod)

- no purpose

- too locked/proprietary for nerds

etc.

guess what, people don't care.

This will sell like hotcakes because guess what? It's shaped just like the book I've been laying around with in bed, on the couch, in a car, on a train, in class, in ny living room, in the bathroom, on a plane, Aka everywhere.

Maybe some if you are too young or only nerds in the computer sense of the world, but for everyone else we've been practicing living with and getting our information from something this size our whole lives.

One 1.5 lb device less than a half inch thin I can read and store all my books, magazines, web articles, textbooks, recipes, addresses, and the seciest most useful daily planner I've ever seen?! How will this not absolutely kill in sales. World wide launch, it's gonna sell 1-5million in a couple months, not a full year.

How many times can one repeat the incorrect notion that the iPhone/iPad does not multi-task?

I use HTML5 version of YouTube in my Chrome browser, but it's a looong way to get all features implemented properly (codecs, etc)

I wouldn't say they are a disaster. The fact is as I have mentioned here before Tablets are not considered all that functional or needed and never have been. The current marketshare for Windoes Tablets is about 2-4%.

Apple isn't gong to change that much with their offering. The fact this product doesn't even offer multi-tasking is a major issue for many. Some have said the price at 499.00 is perfect. I guess its perfect if you only need a device with 16gb of storage which is extremely small by todays standards. Also to pay an extra 130.00 for a 3G internal card is a joke which it typical over charging by Apple.

There is nothing innovative here, this is nothing more than a large iPod Touch. Nothing we haven't seen before.

A user with a Macbook and an iPhone has zero need for this product which is what I have been saying for months.

Which is exactly why it will do spectacularly well.

This thing has insane potential, in a beautiful package. The breadth, power, and variety of new apps developers can now sink their teeth into alone make this thing a winner.

Apple took a superior concept, the iPod Touch Experience and expanded and elaborated it into a total computing experience. This is the platform for the future. And the price is right, too.

THIS is what content distributors NEED, desperately.

I can't wait to try one of these things out. The hands-on reviews have been glowing so far, which comes as no surprise.

show us the numbers, we'd like to see some data backing your statement

iPhone )S v4.0 is likely not ready and they don't to make that reveal until it's time. I figure the iPad will run v3.2 for a few months before getting the v4.0 update along with the iPhones.

The lack of a camera helps keep the price into a more manageable area for consumers while giving them a place to go in the future. It's hard to add more bells and whistles when you're basically selling a picture frame.



I hope so. Having two apps side-by-side in landscape mode would be great. I think intelligent multitaskingnot what is found on WebOS, Android and WinMowill come to iPhone OS v4.0. I'll be surprised if it doesn't.

PS: Please stop feeding it!



Even outside of gaming and eBooks (spent $600 on a Sony eReader last year for 10yo nephew and he doesn't use it ) the parental controls allow for this to be a great first computer which parents can monitor.

I wonder if MobileMe will include Find My iPad? I hope the next Mac notebooks also include a GPS chip, optional 3G card and Find My Mac in MM (dreaming).



They make a killing off Office for Mac and nothing compares to MS' office suite when it comes to the Enterprise. I see Apple having more hubris than MS when it comes to making money so I'd hope they jump on the ball with this.



It looks like they don't want that to be the primary way you transfer images. I suppose you could Monoprice could make it simpler and cheaper so you only have one cable for your camera, or there is the potential for BT or WiFi in current and future cameras. HD video would still be an issue wirelessly.

Yep, only serving to push the hype further and get this known by its inevitable target audience.

The market doesn't agree with those numbers. And what was the predicted number before the release? Wasn't it well over 10 million?

I doubt even you can agree with your prediction that this product was going to change the landscape of Slate computing and take over notebooks.

The fact still remains even after this "major" offering Tablets are simply very small segment of the market and will remain so.

Every good handheld Tablet has a stylus. This is just typical of Apple trying to be different even if that means making something less functional. Kind of like the no Flash issue.

The no multi-tasking however your going to have to answer that one for me because I am beyond stumped by that one.

http://www.marketingcharts.com/inter...-apple-1-9226/

http://lowendmac.com/newsrev/09mnr/0529.html

http://www.cultofmac.com/report-youn...just-fine/9302

http://www.srgnet.com/us/?p=240

http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/24/app...e-service.html

I think the market was, like the rest of us, buying into a lot of the hype and rumor surrounding the iPad prior to the announcement. Anything short of Jesus popping out of the device onto Steve's lap was going to disappoint many.

Steve himself, despite saying it was a better experience than using a smartphone and a laptop, stated that it was more in competition* with the gimmick known as the netbook.

*for lack of a better term.

i have a stylus for my iphone. i use for my sketchbook app. it works great. haven't found a use for it yet other than Sketchbook and Zosh for digital signatures on forms.

They've been going that route. HTML5 video beta of YouTube is nice. Lacking some controls right now and full screen mode, but it uses so much resources that it's clearly the future.



I don't think it will be too long before Hulu offers an viewing mechanism for the iPad. App, HTML5 or both. I'd wager on both but the former will be come this year.



Yeah, but they haven't been popular. I think we'll see an actual market crop up with better selection.

I don't think Apple is selling that pen or that attachment and I've read that some stores are just having you use your finger to sign the Touch.



The codecs for HTML5 video in WebKit browsers are MP4-based. You shouldn't expect anything else until H.265.



Except that there has never been a good handheld tablet.
-or-
Just like every good smartphone has had a physical keyboard and or stylus?

There was never a "good handheld tablet."

EDIT:

Sol beat me to it by a hair.

How does a forbes article written back in mid 09 show the Tablet is going to sell over 5 million?

OK your women like Apple best, but that does not translate into more women buying apple than men buying apple.

what it does translate into is that your more likely to get a beautiful japanese girlfriend if you have an apple ipad.

If only there was a mechanism for seeing what comment he was replying to.

Well if thats the case yesterday didn't change that fact. And for people that do benefit from a Tablet the HP is a rather good one.