MacDailyNews Take: See, Apple TV, having sold over 7 million units is a “dud,” but that doesn’t preclude Jhonsa from spotlighting Amazon’s Kindle like a star in entire articles about a device that will sell, according to figures quoted by Jhonsa himself: 1.7 million total units in 2009 and 2010 combined. Just to be crystal clear: According to Eric Jhonsa, 7 million units sold means Apple TV is a “dud,” but Kindle, which can’t crack 2 million over two years (despite being routinely touted by many in the media biz as a hit product), isn’t.
Amazon’s Kindle is a sham that’s continually propped up by ignorant, lazy, paid, and/or sympathetic people in the media.
Jhonsa continues, “As far as I’m concerned, Apple ensured the device’s success the day that it decided to have the iPad’s operating system be the iPhone OS rather than a modified version of its Mac OS.”
MacDailyNews Take: Technically, iPhone OS is a modified version of Mac OS X, but we think we see where Jhonsa’s going here as he gets back on track.
Jhonsa continues, “Likewise, Google ensured itself an uphill battle against Apple the day it decided to support its developing Chrome OS for the tablet market in addition to Android.”
MacDailyNews Take: Okay, now Eric’s got his feet under him.
Jhonsa continues, “The brilliance of using the iPhone OS to run the iPad was twofold. First, it makes using an iPad feel nothing like using a personal computer. Microsoft has taken the opposite tack over the years with its Tablet PC software, which does little more than tinker with its bloated, buggy Windows operating system so that it can work with a touchscreen; and the results (or lack thereof) are plain for everyone to see. Giving the iPad an interface that was built from the ground up with human fingers in mind, rather than a keyboard and mouse, means that Apple will avoid the same pitfall.”
“Secondly, choosing the iPhone OS made sure that millions of iPhone and iPod Touch owners who have built large app collections would have a strong incentive to buy an iPad. Right off the bat, these people will have a sizeable collection of software that they can port over (albeit without perfect formatting) to the device using iTunes,” Jhonsa writes. “And as millions of additional consumers buy an iPhone or iPod Touch for the first time in the coming years, this base of potential buyers will grow.”
Jhonsa writes, “Google seems to be taking a spaghetti-on-the-wall approach to the tablet market: Throw some operating systems out there, and see what sticks. Chances are that this strategy in the market’s first years — a lead that it might never relinquish.”
Full article – recommended except for the final six words of his first sentence – here.
MacDailyNews Take: After a weak, illogical start, Jhonsa finishes strong and on target!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “JES42” for the heads up.]