“Steve Jobs had some strong words for Apple’s competitors as he launched the iPad 2 in San Francisco earlier this week. Apple’s chief executive said that the original iPad, released less than a year ago, had left the competition ‘flummoxed,'” Shane Richmond writes for The Telegraph. “‘They went back to the drawing boards,’ he said. ‘They tore up their designs because they weren’t competitive.'”
“What might sound like hubris to those who are unconvinced by the fervour that sounds any new Apple product is largely supported by the facts,” Richmond explains. “By the end of 2010, Apple had sold 15 million iPads. The company estimates its share of the market at 90 per cent or more.”
Richmond, “As many competitors are readying their first tablet computers, Apple has now announced its second. The iPad 2 is lighter and thinner than its predecessor, is powered by a faster processor and has front and back cameras for video conferencing. Crucially, though, it can take advantage of an existing ecosystem: a new version of Apple’s iOS operating system and around 65,000 iPad-specific apps. Who can take it on? ‘None of the ones that we’ve heard from so far,’ says Sarah Rotman Epps, of analysts Forrester.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
It’s just a flesh wound.
I can hear the competition saying, “I’m not dead yet. I feel fine. I want to go for a walk!”
It’s always nice to stumble upon another MP fan 🙂
From the movie Hot Shots (maybe part duex?) starring that winner, CS. The half man, on the show Two and a Half Men…
Scene: stretcher bearing a pilot that just crashed says to his concerned wife who is looking on…
“What can go wrong? I’m in a hospital!”
Scene: Wife dressed in black, mourning at a funeral.
ROFLMAO…
In fact, I think Motorola is going to hire CS for their next ad campaign…
[Scene: Charlie sitting in a Motorola boardroom watching Steve Jobs talking about it’s competitors on TV]… Flummoxed?!?! No way… We’re Flum-WINNING!!!
The competitors will sell units but it will pale in comparison to the iPad. Same as the iPod.
Apple has to keep the pressure on those wannabes. Guaranteed that Apple is going to sell more iPad 2s the first weekend than most of the copycats will sell for the entire year. If Apple announces cloud storage and streaming, that will totally knock the crap out of the rest of the tablet market. The iPad 2 design makes the rest of the tablets look like crap. Apple retail stores are going to stay packed for weeks selling iPad 2s and the halo effect is going to be tremendous for Apple.
Upon hearing that Microsoft won’t have a tablet OS ready by 2012, Apple is going to steamroller Windows slates, too. I hope the iPad market turns into a second iPod-type market where Apple holds onto 70% share for years. 40 million iPad 2 sales this year should be a piece of cake as long as Apple can meet demand.
Steve Jobs has played this like a grand master playing a game of chess. Starting with OS X and the iPod, he has patiently moved his pieces into position. Now, he’s sprung his trap. Checkmate. Game and match.
Correction he played this like a grand piano at carnagy hall
or Carnegie Hall, even….
This chess game started WAY before the first ipod! How? Quicktime: the baby Apple refused to knife.
Once Quicktime got installed on windows thru itunes, it was all over and no one was wise to it.
Next came Bonjour, completing the grafting of a superior graphic and networking layer on a terrible OS.
Basically an APPL trojan, once the best core technologies were in place, there was no hope for M$. An inexorable creeping takeover that showed the world that not only could Apple make great things, but they could run circles around their inept counterparts at MicroShaft.
Another great move was distracting the whole industry, Microsoft, of course, mean target, with the “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” marketing campaign. While everybody was trying to copy iMacs, MacBooks & Mac OS X designs and functions, Apple was already working on a master move: The iPad, for which the iPhone & iPod touch were mere pawns, rooks and knights very well positioned to open the way for the Queen.
“What happens when all the ginormous alien ships are in position and the PowerBook 5300 timer counts down to zero?”
Jeff Goldblum: “Checkmate…!”
The F word, flummoxed.
I like that. Apple gave the competition the “F” word!!!! LOL
The market that Apple doesn’t go after, the Walmart cheap knock-offs, will be relatively large as Bubba buys his $199 Android tablet made by bottom-feeders ala the Dell business model. Bubba will be as satisfied with his tablet as he is with his grey-box Windows PC, not understanding “value” as an abstract which doesn’t equal “1/price”. Apple will keep it’s huge share of the total profit base. And my AAPL will keep going up.
Hey, that’s the incredible thing… “the cheap knockoffs” are gonna cost $500. They are toast.
The thing is that bubba already has an iPhone, so the cheap Android tablet will not measure up.
the only person flummoxed is me, I dont get how any one though the XOOM ever stood a chance…
any one remember the Sprint instinct, the “iphone killer” lol every-though that was it for the iphone, and one after another the iphone crushed the competition. so, here we go again.
this is going to be just like the iPod, Apple will be the market leader and there will be the “others”. It will be like in school (for me at least) when you were only cool if you had an “iPod” and not a “MP3 Player” lol
Even if one or two iPad competitors are able to grab some sales initially, I predict that the same will happen as did with the iPhone, at least in many places: they bought Android devices, got to experience the differences between their device and the iPhone, a few months later they had iPhones.
I personally have many friends and colleagues who bought Android devices because they were “just as good” as iPhones, only to turn around and get iPhones. with iPad 2 it won’t be any different.
You mean they won’t have learned their lesson the first time around?
Probably not.
People will buy a Xoom or TouchPad or PlayBook, run across someone with an iPad2, see it in action, develop a case of penis envy, and a few weeks later buy an iPad 2.
And then, they’ll try to force their junkpad on someone else
Wow! The comments on the original article are fierce!
There is no ‘tablet’ market. Just like the ‘iPod’, there is now the ‘iPad’. That is the market full stop. The iPad has defined its very own market, which, like the iPod Touch and iPhone, are seamless in their offering of a superior mobile experience, that nobody, not Google, not Microsoft et al can touch. Steve Jobs is right about the ‘Post-PC era’, what he did not say was that Apple Inc. have single handedly defined that era and the products that make up the era. Company boards across the world are not only flummoxed, they are also going to cut each other to shreds as they all race to the bottom, trying to match Apple on price for the iPad 2, but simply not able to grab any substantial volume, thereby crucifying their margin.
The only “up” is for the likes of Microsoft, RIM and HP to go for the enterprise market, where they can excel. Apple’s products are still geared for the consumer, but hopefully will have the enterprise tools needed by the time their products get to 2.0.
Their, I mean Apple’s competitors.
Totally wrong.
My company works with alot of enterprises and they are all taking up the ipad.
Infact I have a number of clients that this year will be replacing all their laptops with iPads.
Even the receptionists are using them to manage phone calls.
From what I’ve been reading, the iPad is a huge hit in the enterprise and will only become more entrenched as Apple’s so-called competitors scramble to bring their half-assed iPad imitations to market.
Keep in mind Apple has used its cash position to strategically purchase manufacturing and component capacity. Indeed, I suspect Motorola budgeted for a target price of $500 to $600 for the Xoom, but now has to put on a premium due to manufacturing and component costs which Apple has already “bought”.
You can probably thank Apple COO Tim Cook and his team for thinking so far ahead. Check and mate indeed.
The Video Mirroring feature on the iPad 2 will probably turn out to be the biggest new feature as far as professional use is concerned. Anyone who has to make a presentation – and most professionals in all fields do – is going to be ditching their PowerPoint etc soon. Using the iWorks software or a host of other apps that are already available, and those that no doubt will be created, Video Mirroring will allow an unprecedented amount of control, creativity and improvisation when preparing and making presentations. I do presentations, and I’ve always dreamed of having this kind of control and ability to “move the pieces” around on the fly. The only thing lacking? The fact that the iPad 2 has to be connected to the monitor with a cable for Video Mirroring. The day Apple is able to make wireless Video MIrroring possible, so that you can stroll around a room while doing your presentations, it will be game, set and match in the video presentation field.
Abdullah,
Wireless Video Mirroring is going to be in iPad 3! 🙂
Better yet, it would be nice to plug in the iPad 2 to the projector and use your iPhone 4/5 as the remote/presentation preview.
I’ve been using my iPad to make presentations with GoodReader (a great product that displays pdf, jpg, web pages, etc, to the projector) since last August. I agree mirroring is great, but it’s not quite the lack perceived on iPad 1.
Wireless presenting is also possible now, although it’s a bit clunky. Now if some developer would get busy and use the Bluetooth wireless to stream the mirror, that would be killer.
The best innovation, if it can be done, would of course be for a future iPad to have projection capability, so that there would be no need for even a dedicated monitor screen. Imagine being able to Video Mirror on any available surface e.g. a wall. Just point and project. But audio, especially if you are in a space where there is no external audio equipment, would be a bit of a challenge.
All you would have to do is hook your iphone up to the projector and then airplay over to it with the ipad 😉
You can do wireless mirroring with AirPlay through an Apple TV to a HDTV or projector under 4.3 even on many apps on the original iPad and everything out the iPad 2. The future is now.
I just wish you MAC sheeple would get over yourselves.
One thing is for certain—Windows tablet announcements at future Consumer Electronic Shows will shut your elitist, smug traps.
You’re very good at ironic humor. Kudos!
Err no.
Will never happen with fatty Balmer at the helm.
Long maybe guide microshit down the path of failure and desperation.
Is Zune Tang a registered trademark of a juice company or Microsoft?
It must suck to be Zune Tang these days.
Yup, Zune. Microsoft makes good announcements!
ZT… a pink zune and butterflies as your avatar?? Oh dear… so hard not to avoid mentioning the “G” word…, unless you’re a girl 😉
Oh deary me, is it hard to accept that a commenter might be G around here, unless said commenter is a girl?
Oh come on, I can picture you as a weenie-waver as well.
TomCatMac you aren’t a closet case are you? Most supposedly S guys that spend a lot of time obsessing about G’s… are really G’s. Just more dangerous. 😉 (cough – Ken Melman – cough)
Zun-tang for president!!!!
I thought he already was…;-)
ZT gay? I dunno….he rarely sounds happy on here.
Apple might want to consider allowing more customisation of the iPad.
The same icons in rows begin to look dull – time for some different shapes, sizes – whatever.
The iOS needs a facelift – because its looking old.
I think you can see some GUI evolution in Lion which, presumably, you’ll see in a iteration of iOS 4 or 5.
You mean old as in less than a year or old as in no longer functional?
It works well. You want clutter and confusing shapes and sizes, go Android.
KISS, keep it simple stupid.
The day after the iPad 2’s release, a co-worker made his way over to me to let me know that the folding cover for the iPad 2 was a rip off of somebody’s else’s cover and that the internet was all talking about how Apple ripped off some poor company,
He then said how the iPad 2 still falls short because it does not run flash, does not have a memory port, does not have a USB port, does not have this or that and that iOS4 is not open source and on and on and on.
He and my boss does this to me about EVERY Apple product made.
I told him that he could feel free anytime to call Steve Jobs and tell him how to run Apple.
The thing about know it alls is that they really don’t know much about anything.
Mark, it seems to me that:
(a) your co-worker is an Apple hater (not a very big deal), and
(b) he is a big influence on your boss (a big deal – somebody needs to show your boss the light).
Well, he’s the boss’s butt licker and he and the boss are on the same page.
Both of them think they know it all, carry 2 cell phones, hate this country and so on. They pretend to be your friend.
You know the type.
So I ignore them the best I can and quietly show them up ever chance I get.
Mark S.
I have a friend that does this also. He thinks the galaxy tab is better than the iPad and that Android is better because it is cheaper.
I usually reply, then why does Apple OWN the market for iPods, iPads and iPhones? Why would people pay MORE for less?
He has no answer. I guess for such a smart guy, he knows little about quality or ease of use.
Apple haters will buy the second rate knock-offs convincing themselves that their Andro-pad is better than the iPad. Just so they can be “free”.
Little do they realize they are chained to mediocrity.
Well said indeed!
From an earlier MDN story… “Lee Don-joo, executive vice president of Samsung’s mobile division, said that Apple has presented new challenges for the South Korean company with a thinner mobile gadget that is priced the same as its predecessor,”… didn’t seem flummoxed to me!
But rather…
FLABBERGASTED! : ) LOL (miss emoticons)
At least Mr Lee is honest about the challenge the iPad 2 is posing. Unlike some North American rival company bosses who will run down the iPad for some imaginary shortcomings and then declare that their product will be the long-awaited “iPad killer”.
Most apple products are worlds ahead of the compitition in terms of ease of use. They aren’t flashy or fancy. They just plain work. My favorite thing about most apple products is that the hardware gets out of your way. The ipad just works very well at what it is supposed to do. It has been so well thought out that the only way to get remotely close is to copy it..
In closing, can someone explain to me why my dual core imac with 4 gigs of ram is faster than my quad core pc with 8 gigs of ram?
My belief is that the performance benefits are due to a combination of Mac OS X rather than Windows, plus no antivirus app wasting clock cycles and clogging disk I/O.
At work they recently began overlaying a security system on our Macs. It is a real drag.
Years ago (probably 2001) a good friend of mine commented that my PowerMac was faster than his new PC. It was a 1996 model upgraded with a G3/300 card for about $200. I never messed with the graphics and it was still running MacOS 8, I believe.
Anyway, that experience demonstrates the staying power and value of a Mac.
Go ahead, release the Android “Kin” tablets! Don’t be discouraged that R&D work on the iPad 3 started months ago…
I think it will be interesting to see the numbers a few months after the launch in relation to how many homes now have multiple iPads. I have a small IT consulting company that specializes in schools, hospitals, county and local government offices. We have been on board with the iPad since day one, my clients have also very much embraced the iPad as well. I still carry a laptop in my work vehicle, but may go weeks without having to touch it. (The only thing the laptop is still used for is the initial configuration of some network devices that require a direct com cable on first setup.) Will I get the new version of the iPad? Absolutely, I will order it on day one. The existing one will then become the property of wife and 6 and 7 year old (I will drop the data plan for it though, wifi will work fine for them). I wonder how much of the ‘trickle down’ effect there will be, leading to more homes with multiple iPads?
IMHO, extremely high. Who needs the drama of fights of who wants… NEEDS to go on the iPad first, for how long, messing up scores on games, whining when the battery is about dead when it’s their turn… Yup, you get the picture!
Too bad Jobs probably won’t be around for the IPad3, hopefully it will have Flash and USB.
FO.
Heartless bastard.
MDN, JD’s extremely offensive comment is the type of comment you should be deleting.
JD, even IF you only wrote that just to get a “rise” out of people, or to generate hits, you are still a Fscking Moron. I hope your mom gets hit by a drunk driver.
I think there is no doubt the Reality Distortion Field is powered by the Flummoxed Capacitor.
However, it is now charged with positive voltage, and has revealed not only that King Microsoft has no clothes, but the inspiration for their name.
As far as how it works, only time (or someone who finds one lying around in a bar…) will tell.
JD
Eat shit and die you MF’er