“Sure, the iPad will sell a few million units to the Apple faithful, of whom there are many. Being very little else than an oversized iPod Touch, or an extra-large iPhone without the phone, iPads will appeal to the same people who already use the minuscule versions,” Bylund writes. “But there’s a flash flood of competing products coming up… Hewlett-Packard, for instance, promises to present a tablet of its own that has been in development for five years, looks similar to the sleek iPad design, and gives you the full experience of a larger computer. This one has a customized Microsoft Windows 7 operating system and full Flash support.”
Bylund writes, “The HP slate rocks an Intel Atom chip while the iPad runs on an ARM processor developed in-house by Apple… The iPad is a market-defining device, but not likely to remain a top choice in the market it created for very long. It’ll cannibalize iPod sales and sink in a sea of choices… In the end, given these shortcomings the iPad will join the Apple TV in the footnotes of Apple’s history.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Genius prognostication sometimes hides in strange places. Anders has quickly shown us one strange place that we can safely ignore. There must be some unwritten rule where each publication has to have at least one stupid anti-whatever-Apple’s-about-to-launch article in the database for some unknown reason. Whichever hack draws the short straw has to stick his byline on it. That’s really our best guess; people can’t really be that obtuse can they? Regardless, we’ve iCal’ed this article for future use.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers "David E." and "Luis E" for the heads up.]
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