I watched the MS presentation and it was very amateurish and clumsy! I just don't think MS has the skill to successfully implement a competitor to the iPad. They have to be very worried about Apple and iOS!
To ever be a competitor against the iPad, they would first of all have to get rid of their CEO Clown.
As long as they keep him in place I can only see them slip ever further in to the mud they are in.
Sell a flash memory device with a 11 inch screen that has a pointing device where you tap, slide, pinch with your fingers, but have to coordinate the actions of your fingers with a virtual finger that's on the display. give it a mandatory physical keyboard and you have a "PC".
Move the pointing device onto the screen itself where you can directly manipulate the content, shrink the screen by 1", make the physical keyboard optional and instead use a virtual keyboard when needed. Suddenly it's not a "PC" according to analysts, who then talk about the shrinking computer market.
The PC market isn't shrinking, it's booming and Apple is dominating that boom. Apple isn't down there with "other' in worldwide market share. Apple is at the very top. They sold 20 million iPads in the june quarter. The iPad alone makes apple #1 in world wide market share and it's not even close. They sold about 2x the computers HP sold. They sold about as many computers as HP and Lenovo combined.
PC is "Personal Computer". The iPad with WiFi+Cellular is the most "personal" computer ever made.
Well said. One can imagine the additional confusion had Apple's smart cover contained a keyboard like MS's Surface.
It'd be interesting to take a poll and see the percentage of people that think of the iPad as a computer vs. merely a consumption device.
I agree with your analysis completely. But I think most people get tripped up by the form factor, lack of a physical keyboard, and the lack of a file system that adheres to the common desktop metaphor.
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As long as they keep him in place I can only see them slip ever further in to the mud they are in.
Well said. One can imagine the additional confusion had Apple's smart cover contained a keyboard like MS's Surface.
It'd be interesting to take a poll and see the percentage of people that think of the iPad as a computer vs. merely a consumption device.
I agree with your analysis completely. But I think most people get tripped up by the form factor, lack of a physical keyboard, and the lack of a file system that adheres to the common desktop metaphor.