Consumers lose interest in iPad after Apple's unveiling - survey - Page 3

Originally Posted by TEKSTUD

Would you prefer they sample at the Apple store or MacWorld readers?

Originally Posted by gumguy

Yea and one needs to evaluate how much data they would be using, i.e, 250mg or unlimited 3G ATT plan plus the 3G is PER unit or iPad. With MifI 2200 currently from Sprint or Verizon, one could justify the WiFi only iPad, purchase a 250mg Verizon MiFi plan (currently 39.95) and have up to 5 devices connect to it wirelessly. You really have to evaluate your personal needs. My health care practice will likely purchase WiFi only iPads because we have wireless internet access within the offices and also my home for that matter. If I want to take my iPad where there is no internet access, I have the MiFi. Just my thoughts.

Originally Posted by bdkennedy1

Apple needs to stop this nonsense of debuting a product and then saying it will be available X months later.

Originally Posted by FuturePastNow

Or free wi-fi just about, well, everywhere. Every McDonalds has it. Many other restaurants do, too. Every coffee shop, truck stop, and book store has wi-fi. Any urban area is going to be overlapping unencrypted access points.

You can't use wi-fi while driving, unlike 3G, but all that rules out is turn-by-turn directions using an online map. A function that, I submit, the iPad isn't going to be the best device for.

Originally Posted by hillstones

They actually think the iPad is more than an iPod Touch.

Originally Posted by swtchdtomak

You're right, it is way too much like Auto shows, or CES when they do stuff like that. \

Originally Posted by hillstones

It is amazing what the little fanboys here will believe in. They actually think the iPad is more than an iPod Touch. Not everything from Apple becomes popular.

Originally Posted by hillstones

And who is dumb enough to sit their fat ass in McDonald's to play with their iPad? So you are going to waste your money on an iPad just so you can go to each of these places to surf the internet? You might as well write DORK on your forehead. I don't even see Netbooks in use anywhere either.

Originally Posted by AdamIIGS

But plenty of troll.

Originally Posted by hillstones

And who is dumb enough to sit their fat ass in McDonald's to play with their iPad?

Originally Posted by FuturePastNow

What does trust have to do with anything I said?

Originally Posted by FuturePastNow

$130 extra for 3G is a rip-off. The chip and antenna probably cost $0.50. Hell, the chip is probably just disabled in the non-3G.

Originally Posted by OskiO

I just have the common sense to call them when they produce a dud.

Apple has mental market share though and I have no doubt they will make a profit on the iPad

Originally Posted by OskiO


I don't know why more "fans" aren't upset about this giant touch.

Thank you for an actual response to my post. You're right that testing and validation are expensive. However, given Apple's greater-than-50% margin on the base hardware, I think they can eat that cost pretty easily in the name of greater volume.

Originally Posted by OskiO

Lost interest AFTER unveiling? I lost interest WHILE they were unveiling....

no multitask, no flash, no camera, no interest....

Originally Posted by jnjnjn

Do you know anyone you trust who rips you off? Do I have to spell it out to you?
You must at least understand what you write.

And to give a somewhat more direct response, did you look at the weight of the iPad3G (compared to the non 3G iPad).
Do you know about shielding, testing etc, etc?

J.

Originally Posted by Oldandintheway

Most of my kids games use flash, without flash it is useless to me.

Originally Posted by TenoBell

The original iPhone didn't start out slow. The iPhone was the biggest phone launch AT&T ever had. It just grew and became bigger as time went on. Palm Pre, Droid, Nexus none of them matched the iPhones launch numbers.

How can you declare the iPad a slow starter when its not even on sale yet?

Originally Posted by Abster2core

MacDailyNews conducts polls as well. http://answers.polldaddy.com/macdailynews/

The poll re "Will you buy an Apple iPad is still ongoing.

Obvious the protocols are significantly different. However, they each tell us something. It will be interesting how it all turns out.

IMO, the iPad will succeed. And amazingly well. Just perusing the demos shown during the keynote and the fact that they were built in less than three weeks, the potential is mind boggling.

In particular, the MBL demo is a hint what could be done in virtually any business. Especially in medicine; viewing patient health record histories is certain. Combining that with a point-of-care patient record keeping is simply creating sets of forms and filling then in as required and as was demoed in the Numbers app. Pushing the info to a cloud server as we can do now with iCal, Mail and Address Book seems to me a no-brainer.

Writing prescriptions or ordering lab tests again is simply filling in a form, pushing it to a server and outputting it to from there.

Really, data does not have to be stored permanently on the iPad. I can see a physician committing (filing) the patient's record simply by docking it after the encounter. Much like we do now with paper records. Since each individual record is relational, only one active file would called and set for viewing securely at any one time.

In essence, the demos presented during the keynote address is just the start of what is in the future. Whether you take only one of them and build apps with similar features for a particular program/enterprisse or a combination of two or all of them, the opportunities are endless.

For those that hesitate and say, 'wait for the next generation', think about what would happen if everybody waited for a 'second' telephone.

Originally Posted by Robin Huber

Flash, Americans lose interest in Super Bowl after the game. (Borrowed from another forum)

Originally Posted by FuturePastNow

$130 extra for 3G is a rip-off. The chip and antenna probably cost $0.50. Hell, the chip is probably just disabled in the non-3G.

Originally Posted by hillstones

It is amazing what the little fanboys here will believe in. They actually think the iPad is more than an iPod Touch.

Originally Posted by Avidfcp

well there were sone moans from the audience as well as no clapping when there should of been. I think some of this was due to all the hype only to find out it was a locked down big iPod touch. Without handbrake, you cannot watch movies or tv shows download from the net and to the general consumer, that means no movies at all.

Then there's "...This is Steve Jobs most important work" only to find out the OS is the iPhone OS, lack of installing your own mac programs to being tied down to the app store, cost and another per month fee and we know that 3G is slowly compared to the web. Had they allowed codecs like mpeg, avi, xvid, offered free 3g to iPhone customer and a lack of negative press (google, there is quite a bit, one in particular that spoke about how some netbooks were cheaper and much more powerful), I think the ipad would have been better received.

All this AT&T, app store, paid 3G ( not that fast ), price, no stylus, no flash for 75% of all web, 100% for all network /cable television, this turned out to not be Job's most important work at all. If Jobs made the white MacBook $500, the ipad would never sell.

YMMV

Originally Posted by bdkennedy1

It's easy to lose interest in something you can't buy.

Apple needs to stop this nonsense of debuting a product and then saying it will be available X months later.

People show as much interest in the iPad as the Apple TV, which Apple never advertises and word of mouth is not working. If Apple is going to keep public interest up, they are going to have to either debut it again or start advertising it.

Originally Posted by MarkHernandez

When I saw this mentioned a couple of days ago on another site I said it was "clickbait" and I'll say it here, too.

Clickbait!

What a meaningless waste of article space. Talk about something interesting and insightfu instead. Slow news day?

Originally Posted by swtchdtomak

You're right, it is way too much like Auto shows, or CES when they do stuff like that. \

Originally Posted by LTMP

So almost 10% say they will buy one?
If that reflects the population at large,

Originally Posted by hillstones

It is amazing what the little fanboys here will believe in. They actually think the iPad is more than an iPod Touch. Not everything from Apple becomes popular.

Originally Posted by libertyforall

They announced it too early, and the features don't elevate it higher than the iPhone...

Originally Posted by melgross

Neither of you understand this product.

Originally Posted by steviet02

Actually what made the iPhone a real hit was the 3G version and the opening of the App Store. Just because launch numbers were great doesn't mean it was sustainable. It clearly was not with the first Gen phone and they recognized the market wanted a 3G version or they weren't buying it.

Originally Posted by OskiO

Nice try...but I'm all Mac. Love Mac, three macs at home, carry a MacBook and iPhone, and do my part to convert people to mac... I just have the common sense to call them when they produce a dud. They should have kept this under wraps for another year and brought it out with a camera and multitasking, then I would be waiting in line.

Apple has mental market share though and I have no doubt they will make a profit on the iPad, I hope they do, I own stock. But, for me personally, I'll wait until I can use it to video iChat while I'm browsing the web and checking mail.

I don't know why more "fans" aren't upset about this giant touch.

Originally Posted by Quadra 610

A survey of more than 1,000 randomly selected customers at the online marketplace Retrevo

That explains it.

Originally Posted by TenoBell

You do not seem to understand or realize their had to be an iPhone for their to be an iPhone 3GS.

Originally Posted by transocean

No usb, no video, no outputs, no HiDef, no skype, similar functionality with iphone, iTunes only, no third party apps = limited use. Love macs, but this device simply doesnt fit

Originally Posted by Abster2core

For those that hesitate and say, 'wait for the next generation', think about what would happen if everybody waited for a 'second' telephone.