iPad usefulness?
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From: David Kennedy on 6 Apr 2010 08:57 Howard wrote: > > So when the iPad ships 300,000 units on it first day .... and god knows > how many millions by the end of the year - you figure that site > operators will just sit back and ignore these users ... and write off > the iPad users as lost customers ? > > Please.. The piece in the Times quoted Jobs as predicting 2.7 million in the remaining 9 months of 2010 -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com
From: David Kennedy on 6 Apr 2010 08:58 Howard wrote: > D.M. Procida<real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > >> Consumer-facing sites that rely on Flash are going to be changed so fast >> it will take your breath away. > > 100% agree. > > Howard In many cases the main reason for using flash is to prove to the client how clever the web designer was. -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com
From: David Kennedy on 6 Apr 2010 09:05 Howard wrote: > David Kennedy<davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: >> >> That would be a BIG own goal for Apple. I'm sure that, as in Peter's >> case, many non computer users will be attracted to the device; either as >> a type of net book and organiser or in lieu of a Kindle etc. or, most >> probably, as a combination of these things. If Apple require a computer >> to keep things up to date then this will [IMHO] reduce sales >> considerably. There are already people who see that side of it as a >> drawback with the iPhone as there is really no reason for the device to >> be tethered to a computer. > > This is yet another silly misinterpretation of the value of the tablet > device format and the iPad format - by focussing irationally on the > absent functions. I don't really feel either silly or confused about the ipad. It will sell and it will prove useful. But, as I said, if it can't function as a stand alone device, then it will limit it's own market. If that is silly then blame iSteve for the confusion. > This is clearly not designed or intended to be a sole device - but an > auxiliary device. To try to compare it with a standalone desktop or > latop device is to miss the whole point. It's about doing important and > useful stuff on the move - it is not about doing EVERYthing. Then I have clearly failed and my prediction that people will use it as such is clearly wrong. Clearly it won't sell, iSteve has misunderstood his market and will die... There is little need for you to bang on Howard. People WILL want to use it as a stand alone device - surely even YOU can see that - they did with the iPhone let alone this. And, what's wrong with that. If I'm not a computer user at present then the iPad could tempt me. But, if I then have to buy another one to use it with there is no chance. -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com
From: Peter Ceresole on 6 Apr 2010 09:28 Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote: > > But they will also have a desktop device. This iPad device format is not > intended and I believe will not really be used as a sole computer device > in the vast majority of homes. I suspect you may be wrong. The only person I know personally (sister in law) who actually wants to buy one would have it as her sole machine; she's attracted to it because it's smaller and neater than a laptop or desktop, and because it looks elegant. She doesn't need to be able to do much beyond email, online shopping, iChatting, text processing- and printing. There are a lot of people who think this way. -- Peter
From: Peter Ceresole on 6 Apr 2010 09:28
Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote: > It is easy to pass anything that really needs printing on the iPad > through email to a desktop if printing is really needed. What desktop? You may not need to print anything, but in real life people do. -- Peter |