“A swathe of companies are approaching tablets as either large-format smartphones or keyboard-less notebooks but none has so far mounted a serious challenge to the iPad,” Nuttall and Kwong report. “Apple could sell about 15m units this year of a product it unveiled in January and only introduced in April, according to analyst estimates. By comparison, the iPhone sold less than 6m units in its first full year.”
Nuttall and Kwong report, “The iPad’s only significant challenger in 2010 looks like being the Samsung Galaxy Tab, a seven-inch tablet that will go on sale in November.”
MacDailyNews Take: Pfft. Puleeze.
Nuttall and Kwong report, “Doug Reid at Stifel Nikolaus, the investment bank, expects the iPad to have an 82 per cent market share of the 19.2m tablets he forecasts will ship this year. Mr Reid said its dominance would be due to the end of shipment delays, a ‘window of de-facto market exclusivity’ and the likelihood that rivals will try unsuccessfully to integrate their hardware with operating systems such as Android that are unproven relative to Apple’s iOS. Apple is also likely to upgrade the iPad in January: a seven-inch alternative to its 9.7-inch screen is rumoured, while front and back cameras for video conferencing is expected.”
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Yeah, yeah.
It’s ALL about the OS and the apps. ALL the vaporware tablets announced so far think that a buggy Flash player and USB port are enough to trump Apple’s vast and deep iOS ecosystem.
When one explains that the Dock Connector is indeed a USB port on massive doses of steroids, they STILL don’t get it.
Everyone I know who scoffs at the iPad is ready to buy after I show them a few apps and let them play with mine for 15 minutes.
The entire PC industry (as well as phone makers like Samsung, LG, Nokia, etc.) got totally blindsided by the iPad. I mean, this is really unprecedented and will remain so for a good long while. The competitors are still in a daze and can’t respond while Apple just bites big chunks out of them. It’s really an amazing thing to observe. They’re getting buried alive. LOL
Apple is pulling out all the stops with the iPad. It’s balls to the wall, pedal to the metal and take no prisoners. It’s really cool and sweet to see Microsoft get a big dosage of its own medicine, so to speak – know and feel what it’s like to get pounded from all sides by Apple (and by Google as well to a degree). Couldn’t have happened to a nicer company and its CEO. Haha.
Samsung? Give me a break. Samsung is the ultimate “Let’s do everything and anything that everyone else has done and see what sells” company in the world. Samsung is another huge lumbering dinosaur that Apple will tear to bits in the years ahead. Seriously, Samsung should just stick to its core business of making chips and screens. Those are only things they know how to do right.
The entire PC industry (as well as phone makers like Samsung, LG, Nokia, etc.) got totally blindsided by the iPad. I mean, this is really unprecedented and will remain so for a good long while. The competitors are still in a daze and can’t respond while Apple just bites big chunks out of them. It’s really an amazing thing to observe. They’re getting buried alive. LOL
Apple is pulling out all the stops with the iPad. It’s balls to the wall, pedal to the metal and take no prisoners. It’s really cool and sweet to see Microsoft get a big dosage of its own medicine, so to speak – know and feel what it’s like to get pounded from all sides by Apple (and by Google as well to a degree). Couldn’t have happened to a nicer company and its CEO. Haha.
Samsung? Give me a break. Samsung is the ultimate “Let’s do everything and anything that everyone else has done and see what sells” company in the world. Samsung is another huge lumbering dinosaur that Apple will tear to bits in the years ahead. Seriously, Samsung should just stick to its core business of making chips and screens. Those are only things they know how to do right.
Now that the iPad has Tex Touch, GoodReader, and Drop Box, I’m set for presenting anywhere. And apps like FlightTrack and Y! Sketch make sure I get wherever happily.
By the way, I plugged my USB headset into the dock port via the camera connector kit and it worked flawlessly for phoning out (after dismissing a dialog that said it didn’t recognize the headset
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Now that the iPad has Tex Touch, GoodReader, and Drop Box, I’m set for presenting anywhere. And apps like FlightTrack and Y! Sketch make sure I get wherever happily.
By the way, I plugged my USB headset into the dock port via the camera connector kit and it worked flawlessly for phoning out (after dismissing a dialog that said it didn’t recognize the headset
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“Apple’s quarterly results on Monday are expected to confirm 2010 as the year of the iPad but the tablet category to which the gadget belongs is in its infancy“
The tablet category is about 10 YEARS OLD. But now that Apple has made the first desirable tablet, suddenly the category is “in its infancy”.
Must downplay Apple’s success. Must sweep the rest of the industry’s failures under the carpet. Must make people forget that Bill Gates and Microsoft have been unsuccessfully trying to popularize Tablet PCs for the last decade. Must revise history!
I can hardly wait for Macs to get a little more popular so we can start being told how the personal computer category is “in its infancy”, too.
Right, Chris ‘n Robin?
“Apple’s quarterly results on Monday are expected to confirm 2010 as the year of the iPad but the tablet category to which the gadget belongs is in its infancy“
The tablet category is about 10 YEARS OLD. But now that Apple has made the first desirable tablet, suddenly the category is “in its infancy”.
Must downplay Apple’s success. Must sweep the rest of the industry’s failures under the carpet. Must make people forget that Bill Gates and Microsoft have been unsuccessfully trying to popularize Tablet PCs for the last decade. Must revise history!
I can hardly wait for Macs to get a little more popular so we can start being told how the personal computer category is “in its infancy”, too.
Right, Chris ‘n Robin?
“Apple’s quarterly results on Monday are expected to confirm 2010 as the year of the iPad but the tablet category to which the gadget belongs is in its infancy“
The tablet category is about 10 YEARS OLD. But now that Apple has made the first desirable tablet, suddenly the category is “in its infancy”.
Must downplay Apple’s success. Must sweep the rest of the industry’s failures under the carpet. Must make people forget that Bill Gates and Microsoft have been unsuccessfully trying to popularize Tablet PCs for the last decade. Must revise history!
I can hardly wait for Macs to get a little more popular so we can start being told how the personal computer category is “in its infancy”, too.
Right, Chris ‘n Robin?
“Apple’s quarterly results on Monday are expected to confirm 2010 as the year of the iPad but the tablet category to which the gadget belongs is in its infancy“
The tablet category is about 10 YEARS OLD. But now that Apple has made the first desirable tablet, suddenly the category is “in its infancy”.
Must downplay Apple’s success. Must sweep the rest of the industry’s failures under the carpet. Must make people forget that Bill Gates and Microsoft have been unsuccessfully trying to popularize Tablet PCs for the last decade. Must revise history!
I can hardly wait for Macs to get a little more popular so we can start being told how the personal computer category is “in its infancy”, too.
Right, Chris ‘n Robin?
“Apple’s quarterly results on Monday are expected to confirm 2010 as the year of the iPad but the tablet category to which the gadget belongs is in its infancy“
The tablet category is about 10 YEARS OLD. But now that Apple has made the first desirable tablet, suddenly the category is “in its infancy”.
Must downplay Apple’s success. Must sweep the rest of the industry’s failures under the carpet. Must make people forget that Bill Gates and Microsoft have been unsuccessfully trying to popularize Tablet PCs for the last decade. Must revise history!
I can hardly wait for Macs to get a little more popular so we can start being told how the personal computer category is “in its infancy”, too.
Right, Chris ‘n Robin?
“Apple’s quarterly results on Monday are expected to confirm 2010 as the year of the iPad but the tablet category to which the gadget belongs is in its infancy“
The tablet category is about 10 YEARS OLD. But now that Apple has made the first desirable tablet, suddenly the category is “in its infancy”.
Must downplay Apple’s success. Must sweep the rest of the industry’s failures under the carpet. Must make people forget that Bill Gates and Microsoft have been unsuccessfully trying to popularize Tablet PCs for the last decade. Must revise history!
I can hardly wait for Macs to get a little more popular so we can start being told how the personal computer category is “in its infancy”, too.
Right, Chris ‘n Robin?
“Apple’s quarterly results on Monday are expected to confirm 2010 as the year of the iPad but the tablet category to which the gadget belongs is in its infancy“
The tablet category is about 10 YEARS OLD. But now that Apple has made the first desirable tablet, suddenly the category is “in its infancy”.
Must downplay Apple’s success. Must sweep the rest of the industry’s failures under the carpet. Must make people forget that Bill Gates and Microsoft have been unsuccessfully trying to popularize Tablet PCs for the last decade. Must revise history!
I can hardly wait for Macs to get a little more popular so we can start being told how the personal computer category is “in its infancy”, too.
Right, Chris ‘n Robin?
“Apple’s quarterly results on Monday are expected to confirm 2010 as the year of the iPad but the tablet category to which the gadget belongs is in its infancy“
The tablet category is about 10 YEARS OLD. But now that Apple has made the first desirable tablet, suddenly the category is “in its infancy”.
Must downplay Apple’s success. Must sweep the rest of the industry’s failures under the carpet. Must make people forget that Bill Gates and Microsoft have been unsuccessfully trying to popularize Tablet PCs for the last decade. Must revise history!
I can hardly wait for Macs to get a little more popular so we can start being told how the personal computer category is “in its infancy”, too.
Right, Chris ‘n Robin?
@@Chris Nuttall & Robin Kwong
You forget the M$ used to pay all these so called writers to keep their name in the limelight. Maybe M$ can’t afford to do so anymore and Apple refuses to pay.
@@Chris Nuttall & Robin Kwong
You forget the M$ used to pay all these so called writers to keep their name in the limelight. Maybe M$ can’t afford to do so anymore and Apple refuses to pay.
Funny how fast the media has moved from “oversized iPod touch with no appeal” to “fastest adopted consumer product in history”.
Is the public’s collective memory so short that they can’t remember how hilariously wrong the predictions were, when those predictions were only made a little over six months ago??
——RM
Funny how fast the media has moved from “oversized iPod touch with no appeal” to “fastest adopted consumer product in history”.
Is the public’s collective memory so short that they can’t remember how hilariously wrong the predictions were, when those predictions were only made a little over six months ago??
——RM
As Mr. Reee so adroitly pointed out, iPad sells itself.
Game over.
Next, TV.
As Mr. Reee so adroitly pointed out, iPad sells itself.
Game over.
Next, TV.
> Apple’s quarterly results on Monday are expected to confirm 2010 as the year of the iPad but the tablet category to which the gadget belongs is in its infancy
Then that’s a ten-year-old “infant.” Tablet computers have been around for a long time. But they were devices that almost no one wanted until Apple showed everyone else how to design one that would be popular.
Unfortunately for the competition, Apple has been secretly working on iPad since before iPhone was released, over three years ago. They are not going to come up with a viable iPad competitor in six months or even one year.
> Apple’s quarterly results on Monday are expected to confirm 2010 as the year of the iPad but the tablet category to which the gadget belongs is in its infancy
Then that’s a ten-year-old “infant.” Tablet computers have been around for a long time. But they were devices that almost no one wanted until Apple showed everyone else how to design one that would be popular.
Unfortunately for the competition, Apple has been secretly working on iPad since before iPhone was released, over three years ago. They are not going to come up with a viable iPad competitor in six months or even one year.
Michael Dell will be pleased to hear his Dell 5 inch Streak MID Android tablet thingy didn’t even get “honorable mention” in what MDN reported of Chris and Robin’s report to the Financial Times.
Has that thing gone on sale with AT&T here in the U.S.? Anyone have news on it’s “suck-cess” yet?
Will it be on the Island of Misfit Tech Gadgets? Will Verizon use it for another tv commercial? Inquiring minds want to know?
Michael Dell will be pleased to hear his Dell 5 inch Streak MID Android tablet thingy didn’t even get “honorable mention” in what MDN reported of Chris and Robin’s report to the Financial Times.
Has that thing gone on sale with AT&T here in the U.S.? Anyone have news on it’s “suck-cess” yet?
Will it be on the Island of Misfit Tech Gadgets? Will Verizon use it for another tv commercial? Inquiring minds want to know?
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