“The iPad and other tablets may become a major disruptor in mobile computing. If manufacturers get things right, the world of mobile computing may change rapidly,” Bajarin writes. “Sure we have had commercially available tablets for more than 20 years now, and all have failed to catch on in a major way. Still, we have never seen a tablet quite like the iPad before. Apple’s device has an elegant ecosystem of hardware and software and an easy-to-use multi-touch interface.”
Bajarin writes, “If Apple and the competition strike the proper balance of ease of use, simple multi-touch interfacing, and an ecosystem of apps and services, these devices just might succeed in killing off the netbook space.”
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@Mark Texas
I am sure that a forward thinking place like Texas will have lots of netbooks.
I say Apple sells at least 5 million iPads by May 15, 2011.
What is your estimate? Let’s see whose number is more accurate.
I’m thinking this year 2.5 million due to the nuetered state. Depending on what Apps (which point to mostly games) and If ebook demand is strong (Limited market and Apple driving prices up could stunt it) iPad might get as high as 4 million sales but that is a reach.
May 2011 we will likely see the announcement of iPad 2 which will trigger another demand (Upgrades, people waiting for added functionality) so 5 million is doable.
There is no “netbook space.” A “netbook” is just a cheap, small, under-powered laptop computer. So iPad goes after laptop users who want an ultra-portable computing device mostly for surfing the web, viewing/writing short correspondence, playing games, and watching video media. It also goes after gamers who want a portable gaming device that does more than gaming. And it’s an iPod touch with a bigger screen and an eBook reader with a color screen.
The iPad touches so many of these consumer “spaces,” how could it NOT be successful? Almost all the iPad sales estimates are low. The degree of “lowness” is TBD.
You guys are all morons!!
the netbooks are going to kill the ipads,you’ll see and remember me!!
No way will it kill the netbook. They are way too cheap, and people are far too uneducated. Low cost plus low IQ trumps every time.
for all you pansies it is kill or be killed–I overheard a lawyer wants say to his friend “we only eat what we kill” the business world is about winning–look at what goldman sachs did to AIG. They sold AIG AAA rated repackaged subprime loans, AIG insured over 120billion and it blew up six months later. That’s why goldman sachs made a profit ahead of everybody else, AIG had to pay the insurance. GS purposely handed them a grenade, knowing full well it would blow up in their face.
I guess if you want you can join obama and his cronies and hold hands and sing kumbya–until some zealot shows up and pulls the pin attached to his shirt