“Sales of the Apple iPad are booming. The recipe for the tablet’s success could contain some important lessons for laptop makers,” TechRepublic’s Jason Hiner writes over on ZDNet.
Hiner writes, “Laptop makers should also look at the factors behind the iPad’s popularity and consider how some of those characteristics could be incorporated into notebooks.”
Six iPad features that notebooks should copy:
1. Battery life
2. Instant-on
3. Centralised software
4. Simple user interface
5. Content consumption
6. Size matters
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Only one notebook maker has all six points covered already (or in the case of #3, soon will): Apple, of course.