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For iPad wannabes, it’s about to go bad and get ugly

Thursday, October 18, 2012 · 12:32 pm · 35 Comments

“Remember the pundits who laughed off the tablet form factor and called them toys? No? Neither does anyone else,” John Kirk writes for TechPinions. “They were as wrong as wrong could be.”

“Tablets are the second coming of the personal computer. Apple knows it. Microsoft knew it long ago but they were unable to successfully seize the moment and capture the treasure for themselves,” Kirk writes. “Google is only just now realizing the importance of tablets.”

Kirk writes, “The company or companies that win the tablet wars win the future of computing. The fight is only just begun but like a gunfight, the battle may soon – and very suddenly – be over… The world of personal computing is in flux. It’s a ‘truel’ world and for some tablet maker – and possibly for several tablet makers – it’s about to go bad and get ugly.”

Read more in the full article here.

Categories: Opinion

Tags: App Store, App Store knockofs, App Store roadkill, App Store wannabes, ios, iOS knockoffs, iOS roadkill, iOS wannabes, iPad, iPad also-rans, iPad knockoffs, iPad market, iPad roadkill, iPad wannabes, iphone, iPhone knockoffs, iPhone roadkill, iPhone wannabes

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35 Comments

Jubei

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 12:38 pm · Reply

No one had the smarts to make the technology work. Apple did. That is why its important for Apple to protect their IP. Yet these courts are allowing the blatant, slavish, copying of Apple products. Shame on you and shame on you idiots for supporting these thieves.
- Paul
  
  Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 12:49 pm · Reply
  
  Hear hear!
  
  However I think if Apple has the balls it can make a lot out of the UK court decision that forces Apple to say Samsung did not copy because it is NOT COOL enough.
  
  Several people of this board had really good idea’s on that. Maybe they can remind us.
  - Jubei
    
    Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 1:56 pm · Reply
    
    That would be a great ad!
    - peterblood71
      
      Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 2:08 pm · Reply
      
      New Samsung ad:
      
      ‘WE DIDNT COPY APPLE BECAUSE WE’RE SIMPLY NOT COOL ENOUGH. SO PLEASE BUY ONE ANYWAY AND PRETEND IT’S COOL LIKE ALL FANDROIDERS DO. EH HEH…”
  - The Other Steve
    
    Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 3:44 pm · Reply
    
    Samsung; Legally Uncool.
Ballmer's left nut

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 12:41 pm · Reply

Begun the clone wars have.
- ecrabb
  
  Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 12:47 pm · Reply
  
  Clone wars. Love it.
- Black Omega
  
  Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 12:57 pm · Reply
  
  Does that make Eric Schmidt Count Gooku?
- radtech5000
  
  Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 1:09 pm · Reply
  
  “Begun the clone wars have.” Nice!
- BoC
  
  Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 1:35 pm · Reply
  
  But the Truel gunslingers must provide with widest and best possible implementation of data hardware and services to their consumer customers.
  
  There is only one of the 3 that I see being able to do this effectively now, which is why they are dominating and building up incredible consumer loyalty for the day that ‘clones’ become more equal with the leader.
Agent Provocateur

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 12:51 pm · Reply

“Tablets are the second coming of the personal computer. Apple knows it. Microsoft knew it long ago but they were unable to successfully seize the moment and capture the treasure for themselves,” Kirk writes. “Google is only just now realizing the importance of tablets.”

Apple knew it a long time ago- the Knowledge Navigator
MacFreek

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 12:56 pm · Reply

Apple lost, get over it. Apple would be mocked for reviving the “I’m an iPad, I’m a Galaxy” commercials. Samsung couldn’t care less about the “cool” factor. It’s all about making money.
- billyjackblack
  
  Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 1:13 pm · Reply
  
  I beg to differ. Samsung obviously cares about the “cool” factor. Why else did they copy the king of cool to get in the smartphone game?
  - MacFreek
    
    Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 1:20 pm · Reply
    
    Judicially speaking, Galaxy is not as cool as iPad, but Samsung will still make ten of millions of dollars selling them….copying everything Apple does along the way.
    - Paul B
      
      Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 2:14 pm · Reply
      
      How much money are they really making now that they are losing Apple as a customer? ($ iPhone/Ipad copies – $ lost iPhone/Ipad manufacturing = $ real profit)
  - korgri
    
    Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 5:07 pm · Reply
    
    Making uncool copies worked wonders for Microsoft not so long ago. Not everyone operates from the presumption that
    ‘cool’ automatically equals ‘better’… or even ‘good’ for that matter.
    Look how ‘cool’ the emperor’s new clothes were?
    
    Mark Zuckerberg operates from that insipid ‘cool’ ethic,
    if that doesn’t give you some clue…
peterblood71

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 1:05 pm · Reply

And Apple is making all the money. Now that Surface is coming out the disingenuous trolls out there are foolishly again calling the iPad a toy. Must be hell to be so ignorant and stupid.
R2

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 1:06 pm · Reply

This war is what makes the iPad mini so essential. Apple would be probably be okay just making the iPad cheaper as they leave previous generations on the market, but the mini gives them a whole new front to attack. It’s a good sign that Apple will remain nimble and aggressive in the trenches.
Petey

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 1:40 pm · Reply

I use my ipad to run my business.

I guarantee you the ipad is no toy.

And regarding the blatant copying, I don’t give damn about all the other brands copying apple.

Using Apple products is the ONLY choice to make.
- Wp8!
  
  Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 1:47 pm · Reply
  
  You isheep are all the same… You buy a quality built product that works like its supposed to and makes life just a little funner… Ha! Keep following the herd, me, I like buying something @ top dollar, only to find it is worth less than half in about a month of ownership, and doesn’t really work properly.. I love the struggle. Baaaa, isheep! Baaaa!
  - peterblood71
    
    Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 2:13 pm · Reply
    
    Hey listen iDipshit no one said you can’t settle for third or fourth rate alternatives. Apple products have the highest return resale rate. Thanks for the disingenuous commentary! You can go back to your van down by the river now and rejoin the Microsoft or Android herd.
    - writingdevil
      
      Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 2:44 pm · Reply
      
      uhhh, I think you missed the (way over the top) humor there.
      - peterblood71
        
        Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 8:15 pm · Reply
        
        Sometimes it’s hard to differentiate whacked out humor with whacked out troll speak.
        
        Piccio
        
        Friday, October 19, 2012 - 7:30 am · Reply
        
        It’s not difficult if you actually bother to read and comprehend what’s written.
      - Ditchdoc68
        
        Friday, October 19, 2012 - 12:04 am · Reply
        
        I detected a hint of Zune Tang humor there.
        Zuney, is that you?
  - Kenm
    
    Saturday, October 20, 2012 - 9:57 pm · Reply
    
    Sometime putting the “/s” is helpfull, with all good intention lost in translation occurs with any heated subject.
    
    Nice point, and for those of you who missed the Sarcasm in “Wp8!” post, please read it again it was really well put together and not attacking Apple in anyway.
Jax44

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 2:05 pm · Reply

In a little known, but massive 30 year study by Harvard, the results can now be revealed:

” We invented Microsoft in an attempt to determine how many stupid people roam the earth. After 30 years the correlation between stupid and Microsoft users is definitive, a perfect one to one match”.
- botvinnik
  
  Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 2:30 pm · Reply
  
  lol
- hannahjs
  
  Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 2:55 pm · Reply
  
  aka “bijection”
dddd

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 2:11 pm · Reply

as far as I’m concerned, the surface is still vaporware until released and MS has pushed back release dates in the past. I haven’t tried the nexus, but have tried the samsung 10.1 for a week and it’s not really a close fight, because the badness of the android interface is magnified in the tablet form factor… running clunky even on a high powered processor.
- Mike
  
  Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 3:36 pm · Reply
  
  “pre-order” sales for Microsoft’s Surface RT sold out yesterday.
  
  As P.T. Barnum wisely observed, “There’s a sucker born every minute.”
  
  I propose that Apple work overtime ensuring that Microsoft and Google don’t claw back market share by undercutting price. The sales numbers of Surface vaporware should be a wake-up call. As we all know, the Walmartization of America has brainwashed two generations of consumers to obsess over initial purchase price rather than lifetime value. Apple must counteract this insidious short-term outlook and aggressively market the value that its higher-quality products offer.
janekg

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 2:25 pm · Reply

‘Ignorance’, has been, is and will continue to be ‘Bliss’ for the herd that Samsung and others feed. So be it!
leodavinci1

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 3:22 pm · Reply

The analogy is poorly thought out.

1) Apple (Blondie) isn’t looking for profit (treasure)… they’ve already found it while the other guys are still digging in the dirt.

2) MS (Angel Eyes) is like a gunslinger who shoots their partner in the back as soon as it suits their purpose.

Finally, FWIW, MS didn’t win the PC war. All MS won were some battles. The war really isn’t over yet.
Derek Currie

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 7:41 pm · Reply

Tablets are the second coming of the personal computer. Apple knows it. Microsoft knew it long ago…

HA! Microsoft knew shit. That’s why their touch devices languished in OBSCURITY for 10 years.

ONLY Apple knew it. Only Apple did it right. Then the dimwit parasite companies followed along for the ride, including Microsoft.
Derek Currie

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 7:48 pm · Reply

The company or companies that win the tablet wars win the future of computing. The fight is only just begun

I call SHANANIGANS!

There continues to be NO FIGHT IN SIGHT. Apple KILLED the day the iPad was released. The bomb crater flattened all would-be competitors and no one has recovered.

Q: Where is an actual/factual competitor with the Apple iPad?

A: There is none. None are on the horizon.

That fact shouts VOLUMES about the rotted state of business in the world.

Amazon and Google have to SUBSIDIZE the sales of their wannabe OtherPads. HAHAHAHAHA!