“Steve Jobs had some strong words for Apple’s competitors as he launched the iPad 2 in San Francisco earlier this week. Apple’s chief executive said that the original iPad, released less than a year ago, had left the competition ‘flummoxed,'” Shane Richmond writes for The Telegraph. “‘They went back to the drawing boards,’ he said. ‘They tore up their designs because they weren’t competitive.'”
“What might sound like hubris to those who are unconvinced by the fervour that sounds any new Apple product is largely supported by the facts,” Richmond explains. “By the end of 2010, Apple had sold 15 million iPads. The company estimates its share of the market at 90 per cent or more.”
Richmond, “As many competitors are readying their first tablet computers, Apple has now announced its second. The iPad 2 is lighter and thinner than its predecessor, is powered by a faster processor and has front and back cameras for video conferencing. Crucially, though, it can take advantage of an existing ecosystem: a new version of Apple’s iOS operating system and around 65,000 iPad-specific apps. Who can take it on? ‘None of the ones that we’ve heard from so far,’ says Sarah Rotman Epps, of analysts Forrester.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]