MacDailyNews Take: If you want to buy a consumer-friendly tablet computer today, why the hell wouldn’t you want to purchase Apple’s iPad? What, did you hit your head or something?
Sutter continues, “The iPad currently has no real competitors, and the touch-screen computer is so far ahead of the market that it has some gadget makers running back to the drawing boards, according to technology industry analysts. ‘In essence, what Apple has done is created a wake-up call to the rest of the industry — that they need to look at what they’re offering,’ said David Daoud, research director for the firm IDC. ‘They raised the bar significantly.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Apple. The alarm clock of the clueless.
Sutter continues, “Tech analysts still expect as many as two dozen different tablet computers to go on sale before the end of the year. But they say it’s questionable whether any of the devices will be able to replicate the iPad experience, which includes not only hardware but also a phone-like operating system, a touch-screen interface and a robust app store.”
MacDailyNews Take: “A phone-like operating system.” Yet another paradigm defined for the world by Apple. (Yes, despite its now-outmoded name, Apple’s iPhone OS (OS X) is much more than a “phone-like” OS. It really does need a new name, Apple.)
Sutter continues, “Meanwhile, it appears that some of the most-talked-about iPad competitors may be getting retooled to better compete with Apple’s high-profile gadget. The HP Slate and the Microsoft Courier — two prototypes of iPad-like devices — were both expected to go on sale later this year.”
MacDailyNews Take: Exactly who expected that and do they have any cash? We ask because we’ve just taken ownership of a very nice bridge in Brooklyn and…
Sutter continues, “Apple’s success is ‘causing a lot of tablet entrants to rethink what they’re bringing to market and how it’s being used by consumers,’ said Van Baker, an analyst at Gartner Inc.”
MacDailyNews Take: What else is new? Steve Jobs defined the personal computer (three times so far, maybe four: Apple II, Mac, Mac OS X, and perhaps iPad) — the portable media player and online media store (iPod and iTunes), the so-called “smartphone” (iPhone), the Multi-Touch™ user interface (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad), and the tablet (iPad).
Sutter continues, “Baker’s company predicted that, of the 10.5 million tablet computers he expects to be sold this year, the majority will be from Apple. On Monday, Apple announced it had sold 1 million iPads in the 28 days since the gadget went on sale.”
MacDailyNews Take: Another analyst who’s forgotten to factor in Christmas and Apple’s imminent international iPad rollout.
Sutter continues, “Other tablet makers will have to get in the game soon to have any chance of competing with the Cupertino, California, company, which also makes the popular iPhone and iPod, said Ashok Kumar, senior technology analyst at the investment group Rodman & Renshaw. ‘You need to have a product on the shelf by fall to make the holiday deadline,’ he said. ‘If you miss that window of opportunity, you essentially give Apple an insurmountable lead.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Surely Eric T. Mole can have his boys, along with HTC or some other collection of too many cooks, shit something out by Christmas for the morbidly befuddled market, right? Barring patent infringement injunctions, of course.
Sutter continues, “Leslie Fiering, a researcher at Gartner, said as many as two dozen consumer-friendly tablet computers — also sometimes called slate computers — will debut by the end of the year. It’s unclear who the main competitors will be, she said, but it may take more than a year for other companies to create a product “ecosystem” that is as useful as Apple’s.”
MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, it’ll probably take more than a “year.” (Hoots of laughter ring throughout the cavernous hall of the palatial MacDailyNews HQ.)
Sutter continues, “Daoud, from IDC, said he doesn’t expect any iPad alternatives this year, in part because the iPad has been so successful. He expects Apple to come out with a new version of the iPad before another tech company takes its first swipe at the idea.”
MacDailyNews Take: Sing it, Roy!
Sutter continues, “It’s unclear exactly what the leading rivals to the iPad will look like, and who will make them, the analysts said. But one thing is clear: They will have some catching up to do.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “silverwarloc” for the heads up.]
I have a great idea: All the Apple bashers should get together with all the Sarah Palin supporters. Since they are both equally stupid and lacking in discrimination, they should get on famously!
This is great. Apple comes to market with the iPad, before even unveiling it, HP, Microsoft think they can quickly maneuver them selves in to a competitive position. Once the gadget gets finally revealed if forces everybody to go back to the photo copiers and attempt to design something that remotely resembles Apple’s offering.
It happened with the iPod
It happened with the iPhone
and it will happen with the iPad
We will see killer this and killer that, but they will only be able to imitate what Apple had two years ago.
Note: The “where the puck (is, was, will be)” analogies are really really really old and no longer clever.
Alansky, really? Why in the world would you take what was a civil discussion om computing and turn it to political bashing? You added no value to anything. Thanks for your uselessness.
Alansky
what does that have to do with the great discussion going on?
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Note: The “where the puck (is, was, will be)” analogies are really really really old and no longer clever.”
Note: It wasn’t intended to be clever; it was intended to illustrate a point. Hockey is a fast moving game that in order to win requires agile players who can look ahead and be in position to take a shot at the goal when that moment arrives. You succeed by keeping focused on the direction the puck is going and moving yourself into position.
Winning in the extremely competitive marketplace Apple and their competitors are in is dynamically the same game as hockey. The analogy illustrates that dynamic. A lot of things are old; a lot of things aren’t clever including your comment. So what?
@Alansky: Your comment and the very fact you made such a childish comment seriously damaged your status; not Sarah Palin’s. And in the future PLEASE resist the temptation to drool politics and such uselessness onto this forum?
Apple’s Newton Tablet was the first PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) – an ingenious term coined by a soda salesman at Apple in 1992. Though the Newton was somewhat of a flop, the value of the Newton patents will become obvious. There had never been a commercially released PDA in this form factor with no buttons or keyboard where you interact directly with the display screen to manage your personal information, email, schedule, etc. Apple clearly owns this form factor – both the iPhone and the iPad, but in the iPad, without the cellphone in the mix, Apple clearly holds the trump card against all the tablet PDA copycats.
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A splendid time is guaranteed for all!
The sensation of something new, wonderful, and different produces an unusual little thrill through the nervous system, an experience of delight.
In contrast to a bland landscape of limited possibilities that deadens the soul, and cries out for imagination and leadership”
SO true. And the sensation of having something actually work the way it’s supposed to instead of turning out to be craptastic is also a thrill and delight.
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God could compete but He’s on sabbatical in Fiji.
I have the a “patent on innovation” and I’m going to sue your ass off, except Microsoft, no innovation there.
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Hey Moran, Is that youf Head Up Your Ass!
Does anyone know about availability of 3G iPad in NYC?
MacDailyNews, you rock. This is a wickedly succinct summary of Apple / Steve Job’s achievements in the digital arena:
“Steve Jobs defined the personal computer (three times so far, maybe four: Apple II, Mac, Mac OS X, and perhaps iPad) — the portable media player and online media store (iPod and iTunes), the so-called “smartphone” (iPhone), the Multi-Touch™ user interface (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad), and the tablet (iPad).”
What I find amazing is the amount of vitriol spewed by the anti-Apple crowd on these news sites. If a company comes out with a product I don’t want, I don’t buy it. I don’t go online an say how useless it is (based on my limited understanding of said product). I mean if Kawasaki came out with some new motorbike, I don’t hop online and say asinine things like, “well this only has 2 seats – what if I wanted to take two friends on a trip with me?” or “there’s no space for my luggage” or “if it rains I’d get wet” or “my Ford Pinto can get me from A-B, that’s all I need” or . . . well, you get the point.
So what this article is basically saying, and MDN is agreeing to, is that apple has a monopoly when it comes to tablet computing…
There are NOT going to be “two dozen” tablets going on sale during the rest of 2010. It’s possible that about one dozen were planned (hastily due to the imminent release of iPad), but two projects have been cancelled. Most of the rest will be cancelled, because the plan was to use Windows 7 on those tablets. Now that iPad is out there, any tablet computer that attempts to use Windows 7 will be embarrassing, so the makers will just cancel those projects at this point and try again.
Tablets based on Android and WebOS will take time to develop, because those are really mobile phone systems and need to be up-scaled. iPhone OS is Mac OS X downscaled, and Apple has been refining the version used in iPad for years, with an even better version due in the next few months.
> It’s unclear exactly what the leading rivals to the iPad will look like, and who will make them, the analysts said. But one thing is clear: They will have some catching up to do.
He certainly got that part right. I think Apple will have at least two years of undisputed dominance before anything close to a worthy rival arrives.
The iPad is here, now, without Flash.
The competition will kill the iPad “Real Soon Now”. They are just waiting for Flash.
Let me know how that turns out.
Everybody repeat the “MDN Magic Word”: right
The problem, IMO, is that the wannabes are just that…wannabees. Simply emulating the iPad with an extra port or Flash or an OS from a failed phone company won’t do the trick.
Apple has a successful tablet because they DIDN’T copy what was out there. The rethought the market and presented what they thought would sell to consumers. The wannabes figure they can simply copy the iPad concept and succeed. They won’t. They need to do the same thing Apple did: rethink the concept and provide something consumers want.
Good luck on that.
Apple. The alarm clock of the clueless.
BTW Apple have evolved up to this point… remember the old mammal v dinosuar……
Actually, everyone here has it all wrong. Mr. S. Jobs has not done much of anything, it’s all Algore. Bwahahahahahahahah.
STEVE JOBS 4 President !
How can they catch Apple? It’s already heading to where the puck is going to be (eg Siri).
MS,HP and everyone else have even got to where the puck was.