“Not all of Huang’s peers share his unbridled enthusiasm for tablets in general, and for Apple’s version in particular,” Copeland reports. “If the iPad, which will retail for as little as $499, is a success, it could indeed change the computing industry, but not necessarily to the liking of some of its biggest players.”
Copeland reports, “Among those anxiously awaiting the March launch of Apple’s tablet: hardware makers such as HP and Dell, which have been betting that consumers would embrace netbooks, those scaled-down laptop computers; e-reader makers such as Amazon and Sony, whose devices compete with the iPad and Apple’s new iBooks, the publishing equivalent of iTunes; and Microsoft and Google, whose operating systems compete with the iPhone OS that powers the iPad. Even Apple ally Intel has reason to worry: The iPad features a microprocessor, the A4, that Apple designed and is having manufactured to its specifications.”
Much more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “JES42” and “iWill” for the heads up.]
The wait is seriously killing me. The time between the initial release and the 3G release is going to be excruciating.
@The Mac that roared
You appear to think that pulp for paper comes from hardwoods.
It doesn’t. Pulpwood types specifically grown for paper production can be harvested within 5 years or less in good conditions.
@ It Won’t, @ mike g, @R2
……and of course what does it tell us about people who put down something they’ve never seen in person, never used for even 1 second, and are too witless to understand the future in the making? If you lie about something you have zero knowledge of, you have no good reason to back you up. You only have dishonesty and zero integrity. Your attitude speaks volumes and it tells us your life is fscked and you’re not a happy bunny. And you’re a lying turd to boot. Put that on your cv and see who’ll hire you.
If you guys ever had an intelligent thought in your rains, it would die of loneliness. Yeah. That’s you to a T.
I’m a Contractor, I would love to pull up specs quickly on a decent size screen. The Building Code books on ipad would be cheaper and at hand.
Why does Apple have to be the risk taker of “new” technology and everyone else hides in Apple’s shadow?
Not talking about comparing the iPad to the PC tablet. The PC Table is just a laptop computer cut in half. Probably is why Microsoft’s attempt never took off. The iPad is not a computer, as defined today, but has the basics suitable to do what 99% of the people out there want to do… As far as advanced software applications, it was not designed, built or marketed that way.
Yet how many posts of stories and reports are out there where HP, Dell, and 48 others will be releasing “their iPad” later this year. Why not now? Why not before Apple? They have their mockups, put them into production now. It seems as if the same old crowd is waiting to see if there is a marketplace, and when Apple creates the marketplace, as they surely will, is cause for them to enter into the realm of iPads. If the iPad fails to gain sales, momentum and market share, would we see the HP “Slate” or Dell “Mini 5”?
The marketplace will be iPad and everyone else. Apple may have a market share advantage and then lose that by shear number of other entries but it will be seen as an iPad created genre because no one else dared to be first (again not talking about or comparing to tablet PC). Just like you hear Podcasts and iPod by those in the Press when generically describing everything MP3ish, you never hear of Zunecasts (MS) or Pocket DJ (Dell), etc.
So here is to Apple’s iPad… RISK TAKERS!
That is why the iPad changes everything!
well said… Rot’n
I think it will be a huge hit…
“Why not now? Why not before Apple? They have their mockups, put them into production now.”
The world is waiting for the iPad. If there were any misbegotten ‘I’m a PC, but it’s okay, get fingerprints on me!’ devices out there in the market, they will be ignored, except by tools of µ$oft.
Nvidia has one super massive advantage over apple that apple cannot touch.
That is unparalleled graphics horsepower. If nvidia were a Lamburgini, apple is like a ford pinto as far as graphics power goes. The problem is that apple does not have a graphics segment of their Research and development. And there are only two companies that really do graphics and those are ATI and Nvidia. And since ATI has declined to enter the market, that leaves nvidia. And boy, apple is going to be at a massive loss. The reason why is that the iphones and ipods are small enough only to need a cpu, and they buy graphics cards to put in their larger computers from mainly Nvidia. But for the tablet computers, you need a graphics chip, and ATI doesnt really supply chips in that size small enough for a tablet. And that leaves nvidia’s tegra 2, and I doubt that apple out of their own arrogance will use it.
The fact is the ipad is going to flop, the reason why is it’s graphics card is going to be awful. I remember some people saying the next generation ipad is going to be 3D, guess again. In order to actively make a program 3D other than some cliche red blue glasses is to have a very powerful graphics chip.
And the only company in this market to have it is Nvidia. The problem with Apple is they have regularly underestimated just how desperately they need nvidia. They tried to replace nvidia graphics cards with ATI ones on a desktop model, and there have been reports of glitchy screens and colored pictures ever since.
Another nice thing is apple is using a single core processor that is awful. Nvidia is using the A9 dual core processor, the very first dual core for that size. Nvidia also has eight independant graphics processors.
And nvidia has already said that some of their first generation tablets wont just be 1080p, HD, and Blu ray, but they will have active high definition 3D abilities.
Apple won’t have that ever unless they strike some sort of a deal, many companies bigger than Apple have made probes into the graphics market and gotten their butt’s handed to them. Intel tried it once with their atom graphics chip, and nvidia beat it with their ion which had 10 times the performance.
It would be like Apple trying to catch up in a 3 mile race when the other two contestants have already hit the two and a half mile mark.
What was the name of the most recent Nvidia made computer? Does Nnvidia have a well developed software to run it on.
Do they have an echo system like itune and 160,000 apps?
What are you smoking dude?
Copeland said among the iPad’s competition was: “… e-reader makers such as Amazon and Sony, whose devices compete with the iPad and Apple’s new iBooks…”. And I said “Huh?”
I guess introducing a product that does the same as an existing product – and a whole lot more – “sort of” qualifies as “competition”, sort of. One way. The iPad is competing for their market but they are not competing for its.
jacob, what you say is true enough. What’s your point? Are you saying the iPad will be a second-rate – or, even, THIRD-rate – platform for graphics-heavy games? Well … DUH ! ! ! Yeah. That’s the truth. Again, what’s your point? A better nVidia card does only graphics and costs as much as an iPad. Are you saying that card fails because it lacks a screen? What’s. Your. Point?
@Macrelated:
echo system?