“I’ll bet. In the six months since I first opened my now crow-filled mouth about the iPad’s market opportunity, Apple says developers have created some 11,000 new apps for the device,” Beyers writes. “And just this week, Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com fired the opening shots in the first of what could be many e-reader price wars, all while the iPad remains above the fray.
Beyers writes, “Apple won’t allow itself to be dragged into the mud with its two book-selling rivals, because it doesn’t have to… Today’s sales momentum could continue through tomorrow, the next day, and months from now. Right up until Dell and Hewlett-Packard introduce meaningful and appropriately priced alternatives — and they’d better hurry up. As developers and consumers flock to the iPad, the device’s momentum only builds.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Beyers’ naiveté regarding Dell and HP introducing “meaningful alternatives” is cute. It’s almost as if Tim didn’t notice a little thing called “iPod.” Where are Dell’s and HP’s “meaningful alternatives” to iPod? Hello? Tim?
Note to Tim Beyers: First you didn’t get the iPad at all. Now you prove that you still don’t grasp it fully because you obviously do not understand and think far too highly of Apple’s so-called competition: HP and Dell simply do not have the chops to compete with Apple. Not even close.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “iWill” for the heads up.]
“magical product”
Oh no he didn’t!!
On a side note and for the record has anyone else noticed the lack of posts on other blogs when it comes to All Things AAPL?
There is a repeat of sorts going on here like the up and coming iPod Killer Zune.
This time, however, is MUCH MUCH different. MUCH BIGGER!
The silence is deafening and that my friends is PRICELESS!!!!!! It also shows that the competition is soiling their collective draws!!!! AND I F’n LOVE IT!
No chance to gain any significant market share…. ? Hmmmm REEAAALLLY!?
MDN is right. Beyers admits to eating crow, but he still doesn’t get it. He thinks that Apple simply got to market first (and at the right time). He doesn’t get that there is no “catching up”. Even Google’s Android is not “Catching Up” to iPhone. It is doing things “differently”, and some like those differences. HP and Dell will be stuck servicing the sizable pool of people that will never by anything Apple because of the “curated” nature of iWorld (iPod, iPhone, iPad, iTunes & App Store).
Surely iPad has outsold Kindle all-time in just 80 days!
???…appropriately priced alternative???
Does that mean Beyers thinks the iPad is over-priced? When the Zune came out, wasn’t it the same price as the iPod?
Nope…he just doesn’t get it.
@Spark…
No, HP and Dell will be spent servicing Microsoft. They’re currently on their knees begging for a more tablet friendly version of Windows 7. HP will be a while assessing just what it is they’ve purchased in Palm, and Dell is just hopeless. Neither of these so-called competitors controls the entire stack enough to make creditable iPad challenger. Certainly not in the near term.
@zmarc
according to Digitimes Research, shipments of all ebook readers (excluding iPad) during Apr-May 2010 was 740k units
that’s shipments to vendors, not necessarily end-customers.
total of 1.43M units for first quarter of 2010.
http://www.techeye.net/hardware/kindle-shipments-trail-as-amazon-prepares-for-next-big-push
Amazon never says how many total Kindles have been sold – wouldn’t you think they’d be boasting by now?
@Buster
Don’t drag Zune into this.
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I am as much of a fanboy as you can get, but competition is good for us. iPhone when in came out had no app store, and was very limited in what it could do. Competition drove the development of what we have today. I can only hope that the second or third generation android based tablets will force apple to step up and make the next gen iPad even better. But it is the only game In town, the windows alternative are not in the same league.
The braying fools are receding somewhat—they have to; people are starting to stare at them like, hey, don’t you get it?—but they’re still stakeholders in the past.
The writer mentioned “meaningful and appropriately priced”. The other companies can get one or the other, but not often both. Even though some writers try to pretend they do, by comparing the Apple product to a non-existant, Franken-polyglot device.
I’ve had a 64GB iPad for about a week and a half now. It was gifted to me as a surprise bonus from one of my clients. There are some limitations to the iPad of course, plenty of areas here it feels rough around the edges.
I have more apps on my iPad than my iPhone and I’m aching for folders and some other iOS 4 improvements.
Overall I’m glad I didn’t pay $800 for this thing, it’s not quite worth that much. Having gotten it for free though I can see it replacing my laptop for many daily tasks, and traveling especially is a dream with 15 hours of battery life.
I think Apple has a huge hit on its hands and when iOS 4 and the iPad 2.0 come out I’m betting it will be much closer to The Perfect Device.
CES 2010 was all about the Tablet hum?!?! Slate, as they started calling them due to the Apple iSlate rumors.
What ever happen to all of the Products at CES that were supposed to keep Apple from getting any type of lead at all. Apple was expected to be at the back of the pack. What happen? well simple really the iPad was a product that created a new category and all the new products announced at CES were just warmed over tablets or worse vaporware that was never truly mass produceable or cost effective to sell for the prices that vendors were claiming. The HP Slate that Ballmer held up on stage at CES was to run Windows 7 and HP killed it because it would have just been a waste of HP’s money to make it. So, HP got smart and bought Palm for the Palm OS so that they’d have a minor chance at braking free of the Microsoft Death vortex that as made Tablets a joke. Android is no better then Windows on a tablet or even a phone for that matter. Android is free for manufactures to use and sell device with it installed on them. So, that alone make it better for the device makers. They don’t care if they are spreading Google malware or not cause the OS is free.
“Today’s sales momentum could continue through tomorrow, the next day, and months from now. Right up until Dell and Hewlett-Packard introduce meaningful and appropriately priced alternatives”
Beyers left himself an out, as in if they don’t introduce a meaningful and appropriately priced alternative they are up shit creek without a paddle.
Those 11,000 and growing new apps for iPad after only 80 days of sales is one key reason why iPad will dominate.
Back in the old days, one key reason for continued Windows dominance was the availability of programs for Windows. Then, the Internet, web browsers, and web sites (web-based apps) greatly diminished this advantage.
Apple has been using this same advantage with iPhone, iPod touch, and now iPad. In iOS devices, “apps” are once again important, because a specially designed app works better when the screen is small and system resources (CPU speed, RAM, battery power, etc.) are limited. Once an iPad user has a nice collection of apps, they are less likely to abandon it and start over on another platform. Sound familiar…?
The longer the competition fails to provide a meaningful alternative to BOTH the iPad and App Store, the larger Apple’s advantage becomes. In mobile phones, Apple entered a well-established and crowded market and is steadily gaining share. In tablets, Apple is going to quickly have iPod-like dominance.
Tim lives in the real world and has more than one company to think about. If you had 950 other businesses on your radar it may take you a while to ‘get it’. Even though he admits he was wrong he’s still an idiot in MDN’s eyes.
In fact, everyone is an idiot apparently unless their names are Jobs, Ive, Forstall, Cook or Schiller, and every tech company but one is doomed to fail.
@ Pirate
I don’t believe for a minute that “competition” drove the App Store or most of the improvements to the iPhone since 2007. I have no doubt that everything you’ve seen to date was on a road map in Cupertino. In case you haven’t noticed, Apple doesn’t require other companies to motivate it towards innovation. Leaders don’t need “competition”. They are driven to constant improvement by their very nature.
@ Nobama:
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You’re spot-on with your last sentence
Imagine – a world where Apple didn’t exist and we had to rely on the sort of crap HP, Gateway and IBM would foist on us.
Corporate types just lack the ability to imagine. Occasionally I have to deal with these people.
It’s so much better if you’re talking to a Proprietor of a company, the Boss, the Doer, the Originator, rather than a Corporate drone.
The Windows people are all drones, who live on internal memos, reports, targets and the rubbish jargon of “The Enterprise”. (I always thought that was a star-ship. Why can’t they just call it “Business” ??? A good honest English word. The Enterprise makes me vomit every time I hear the expression.)
Replicating the iPad is an order of magnitude harder than replicating the classic iPod.
I can’t imagine anyone but Google/Android coming close.
Any company who has profit as it’s primary goal is going to be steamrolled by Apple. Steve Jobs is using Walt Disney’s (the man, not the company) playbook and he’s achieving the same results Walt did. Walt made money because he created films, places and experiences that he himself wanted and liked, and people loved them too. Steve and Co. are doing the same thing and getting the same results (and reputation) Walt did. The money is following them; they’re not following after money.
All these companies that are trying to come up with the “Apple-whatever” killer completely don’t get it and are doomed to being spectators to Apple’s world unless they wake up and realize what and how Apple does what they do. And they better do it real soon before Apple gets fed up with the last “sub-standard” piece of their vision and either buys or builds their own service network.
If Apple can make a service network that works like their software and hardware… game over man, game over!
@ doc e–
very well said.
The iPad and soon the iPod touch 4, are both massive flanking maneuvers by Apple on Android and anyone else who thinks they are going to play in Apple’s high-profit mobile sandbox.
If the iPod touch comes out with the same video/camera/Facetime setup as the iPhone, Apple will have as hard a time keeping them in stock (just like the iPhone and iPad ) and in the process they will easily double or even triple the universe of iOS users compared to only selling the iPhone.
No one else has this three pronged attack on the mobile market.
The fact that no one else has really come out with a credible $500 tablet speaks volumes.
2010 Holiday iPad BLOWOUT. A BP sized blowout!
It’s like an iPod in that there’s no contract/commitment.
I’m in the Philippines and my friend just bought an iPad at 60% than its price in the States.
He told me it was worth it as every time he took it out countless people would gawk at him.
Apple cannot make these fast enough.