Motorola today debuted a teaser video for its Android tablet unveiling at CES event on January 5th:
MacDailyNews Take: Putting the critically-panned Galaxy Tab after the iPad as if it is some sort of evolutionary step is foolish. Yes, chronologically, the Galaxy Tab came after the iPad (it had to, of course; without iPad, there would be no fake iPads from Samsung et al.), but the Galaxy Tab is obviously an inferior, derivative device. We’d have a lot more respect for these me-too wannabe companies if they just came out and gave Apple credit for repeatedly changing everything and providing the models for the rest of the world to follow (personal computer, PDA, portable media player, smartphone, tablet). Of course, Mimicola doesn’t only disrespect Apple, they also don’t respect their potential customers’ intelligence; they think they’re stupid enough to believe that an iPad is “like a giant iPhone” and nothing more than “a giant iPhone” (despite it having no phone at all). The fact is that there are two transformative devices that Mimicola tries to copy nowadays: iPhone and, soon it seems, iPad. Giving credit where credit is due would be the right thing to do, but these amateurs know, subconsciously at least, that they’re trying to knock off Apple innovations, so they are incapable of doing the right thing. They have no shame. It’s sad.
Cool commercial. Looks like they may have used this article we did as a basis for it.
http://liquidpubs.com/blog/2010/11/02/tablet-computers-a-brief-history/
Huh? It doesn’t even show anything!
So what’s their tablet… not Android based like the galaxy thing?
I don’t get it.
The ancient tablet stuff is funny, but they should have stopped when they reached iPad.
ive got to admit this is a pretty cool video irregardless of how crappy that moto tab will be compared to the ipad
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How much do you want to bet they’ll release a droid based tab as well? As stale as droid is, it’s the only thing close enough to iOS to fool customers (though iOS is far better)
It looks like a towel.
Any tablet that runs a OS that is already on a smart phone will be a larger version. The iPad is a larger iPhone but that is what makes it so successful. The Galaxy Tab was a big android phone, yet being sluggish it flopped. The motorola tablet will be nothing but a big Droid X.
“The iPad is a larger iPhone but that is what makes it so successful”
Not this again, It is Not a Larger iPhone, It is Not a larger iPod.
Time and time again it has been proven that people that have said this are jus fools.
its a sign that they feel threatened
I didn’t mean that that the iPad is just a giant iPhone. I use mine every day, what i meant by the iPad is a giant iPhone is that it uses the same, easy SpringBoard UI. Once you start using it and it’s apps you can find that it’s way different than the iPhone
This video is so not cool. At all. It looks like the tutorial you do on your first day of Maya class. The camera movements are unrefined, there is no creative depth-of-field or particle effects, and textures are too smooth and shiny. It looks state-of-the-art for about 1997, which I guess is appropriate.
It looks like the old Nasonex commercials:
The most interesting thing about the spot is the music. Other than that it’s nothing but a budget job knocked out by one person in a couple of hours. Nothing to see here.
“It looks like a towel.”
Its actually a silk hanky
After a discussion among several visual arts students and professors, we’ve come to a unanimous conclusion:
This is a terrible piece of work. It’s way too long to make any immediate impression; it should have been direct, climactic and shorter. It’s message is muddied with too many items (four would have been pushing it). They’re spread around a hallway or corridor (inside of building in a continuous line). And the animation is lame.
Only an unoriginal company (which Motorola has become since the heady days of the Razor) would affix its name to this.
@ liquidpubs
Only they left out the Dynabook.
FAIL.
Whoever say iPad is just either a giant iPod Touch or iPhone clearly has lost touch with reality somewhat, native iPad apps offer whole new level of user experiences.
Instead of poking fun at Apple, Motolora should concentrate on their effort on showcasing its tablet’s killer features (if there is any) to users.
@CrissyOne
Don’t know what school you went to.
I personally cant wait. The ad was interesting. Will it replace my iPad? No. Bit im still gonna buy one. Definately has something to do with B or Bee. New OS perhaps, or the name of the tablet.
I wouldve said, Android OS… Enough Said.
Just a larger iPhone? Yea, and your point is?
@ChrissyOne
Thought the same thing too – might have been cool if that came out, maybe 5-7 years ago but really? That’s your big teaser trailer? And that corny bee? Come on.
All I can say, is that if you’re going to call the iPad a giant iPhone, your product better not look like a giant iPhone then. I don’t see how Moto is going to pull off the software and dev tools to make anything remotely better. They don’t do OS’s so if they’re baggin on the Galaxy, they’re probably going to do some Windows 7 tablet – or use the “tablet approved” version of Android.
The only thing Moto can do is SoC, so maybe their big deal will be some new crazy processor that will actually give a somewhat decent Android/Win7 experience, but again will just look like the iPad.. I mean, giant iPhone.
I agree with C1. The 3D work is pretty amateur. I would also say there are a few too many examples before they get to the 20th century… all right, we get it.
It will probably be all buzz and no substance . . . just like the commercial!
“Mission Accomplished” isn’t a great example of successful marketing or of a product rollout.
Vaporware is still vaporware, regardless of the levels of spin.
Long commercial, I hope they spend a fortune airing it.
Thank you for the explanation,
I apologize for the abrupt chastisement , As you are aware so many have said that the iPad is only a big iPhone or iPod Touch, but clearly when you use the device it is much much more, and is far more then the iPhone or the the iPod touch, but as we are aware some always will look at to aesthetics without using a device, to stand by some ridiculous product they have pledged there allegiance to.
I do agree as in the ease of use and the Familiarity of the IOS.
if you have been a Apple user, & even for the non Apple user the user experience is fluid and very easy to adjust to.
As we move forward, Happy Holidays.
Peace.
The bee made a fart noise…
Are we waiting for the Motorola Fart? Or is it taking a bee shit on it?
It’s not fair! With it covered like that, I don’t know how to properly diss it? What can it possibly have that the second generation iPad 2 doesn’t (since THAT will be Motorola’s competition)? I can’t wait for CES and the Apple keynote.
Oh! I forgot! Flash (lol).