“It’s hard to believe that a year ago, the tech media was fixated on the future direction of the tablet, with many pooh-poohing the design of the Apple iPad as too simple and likely to fail for not having all the ports and connections that typified PC design. Every wannabe tablet maker that wasn’t Apple showed off designs replete wih USB ports, HDMI ports, memory expansion card slots, and more,” Galen Gruman reports for InfoWorld.
Now, a year or so later, iPad’s “design approach is the one that most of its competitors are using,” Gruman reports. “Users don’t want tablets to be flat PCs. Consumers have accepted Apple’s notion — or maybe Apple simply discovered this latent belief and tapped into it — that a tablet is a PC supplement, not a replacement. It’s the ‘third device’ — a notion that ignited much debate within the punditocracy (as a valid question) when the iPad was first announced.”
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Gruman writes, “The mobile industry — especially the tablet makers — are playing in a game whose rules Apple has set by virtue of the iPad’s victory as the definition of what a tablet is.”
Much more in the full article – recommended – here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “qka” for the heads up.]