“The Apple iPad continues its assault on the mighty PC industry and the market’s voracious appetite for the product indicates that PC makers have yet to feel the full impact of this paradigm-shattering product,” Bob Evans writes for Forbes.
“When it comes to the iPad and its impact on enterprise customers and on the PC industry itself, we are not really yet even at the end of the beginning—we are at most in the middle of the beginning,” Evans writes. “That is, we are only just starting to be able to gauge the massive and wide-ranging impact that the iPad is having and will continue to have on enterprise computing and on the venerable PC industry itself: the best (or worst, depending on where you sit) is yet to come.”
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Evans writes, “For the PC industry, the iPad represents something very like the meteor that blasted into the Earth 65 million years ago and made life on the planet unsustainable for dinosaurs. While life went on in countless other variations, for dinosaurs and other animals unable to adapt to the new realities of life on a very different Earth, the clock had simply run out.”
Much, much more in the full article – verrrrry highly recommended – here.
MacDailyNews Take: Shut up, just shut up. You had us at “paradigm-shattering.”
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dow Chambless” for the heads up.]
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Ooh. Paradigms. Takes me back to my university years ! Let’s shatter a few and see the dinosaurs disappear.
Paradigms and a nickel.
Paradigm shift. There. I said it. Now I think I’ll go purge. I feel so dirty.
Never attempt a paradigm shift without using your mental clutch.
Just, wow…. A pleasure to watch this unfold.
Yes JoeMac, a SHEER pleasure to see Redmond doing the uneasy squirming for a change, as the worm turns. Years of craptastic technology coning out of that hellhole of bureaucratic and stagnant pond of scum and villainy is now reaping its rich reward. I love Seattle though and don’t like the fact that the economic toll the area would take without having Microsoft would be pretty devastating. Even though the world at large would be a better place…
Thank you for not using the phrase “too big to fail.” Microsoft will prove them wrong.
Indeed … The IPAD ushered the post PC era !!!!
The only “PC” iPad actually helps (through it’s “halo”) is Mac.
iPad 3 with retina display will be the end of the beginning -date December 26, 2012. Forward from that date will be followers diffusion in massive numbers to big to imagine.
Apple didn’t lose the PC war, they just moved the goalposts. The iOS/iPad strategy is the greatest end run around an entrenched enemy in history.
Apple didn’t move the goalposts, it changed the entire playing field.
“And now for something completely different . . . “
Note to MicroSoft – Never bring a soccer team to a Quidditch match.
At my command….unleash hell!
It has no keyboard or stylus, how is this possible? It can not be good for business or even email. It can never work well for a user without these two key parts that you have to lug around. Bill Gates defined this perfect tablet and it is not possible for the user to able to use it if Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer says so.
Microsoft, LOL, seen the flash, iPhone, that was to be their Vista for the Battle of Waterloo, the iPad was the chill rolling in on the troops, and the next Apple paradigm shifing product will see their beaten masses hump back to Redmond. Burrrrrrr.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Apple cover for the iPad suddenly morph into a flat film based keyboard and trackpad.
It would be a “poor man’s” keyboard, but it would allow you to work a bit better and move the cursor easier for those types of uses.
Bill Gates’ vision of the perfect tablet far exceeded the iPad’s capabilities and in theory the iPad shouldn’t be selling in such high numbers or become the consumers’ go-to device. Is it possible that Bill Gates vision was blurred or are consumers just biding their time for the unleashing of the Windows 8 tablet?
I’m really hoping that’s sarcasm you’re posting. Even there it’s a little close to the words of a true windows 8 believer. Just sayin’…
I began with an iPod Touch 1.5 years ago, now I have the iPhone, 2 iPads, AppleTV and made the company I work for buy the very first Mac computer (a MBP) in a Windows only office… And sure its not the last one!
There is evidence in the fossil record that dinosaurs were on the decline before the comet hit due to factors such as inordinate volcanic activity in India due to the rupturing of the earth’s crust as the Indian plate slammed into the Asiatic plate and created a subduction zone where rocks slid under the mantle only to reappear again as upwelling folds on the earth that created the Himalayan range where Mount Everest is situated.
Another factor that contributed to the dinosaur’s decline was the evolutionary path of parasites and insect borne diseases that the dinosaurs had not sufficiently evolved to meet. These were skin burrowing parasites that caused lesions and was a vector for debilitating diseases that they had no natural defenses against.
So the analogy here would be the iPad impacting the PC dinosaurs like the meteor did 65 million years ago on the Chicxulub Crater which created the conditions for extinction but that like the dinosaurs, Windows is crippled by viruses that are dealing it a body blow to security and crippling its natural defenses of DLL hell.
Release the Kraken.
Oh, it’s already out.
“made life on the planet unsustainable for dinosaurs”
Couldn’t have put it more literally…
Microsoft claims that iPads haven’t affected Windows PC sales at all and the PC industry slump is only due to a temporary downturn in the spending habits of consumers. Also most consumers are holding off buying computers until Windows 8 is ready.
The iPad is a device that replaces the computer for those who only bought a computer because they wanted to connect to the Internet. For those millions of people, it is perfect. It is also, what the name suggests, simply a pad. It has some great little apps and can do a lot of little cool things, but to do real work you need a real computer. You need the Mac.
A computer is more than a device to watch movies, listen to music or surf the web. It is about time that we start understanding that and write apps the reflect that premise. Lets not dumb down the computer for the benefit of the masses who see it only as an entertainment device.
Yea, Right! I am going to toss out my iMac and run PS5.5 on my iPad. I will also do my voluminous word processing on the iPad. While I am at it, also my Excel spreadsheets. l
The ipad is a great tool and the first, and best, of its line. But, I doubt if the PC will be going away anytime soon.
It’s not so much that you would want to toss out your Mac. It is about the fact that in a very short time OSX and iOS will converge and the iPad come in a variety of sizes ranging from it’s current size to iMac size.
Think of the new Pacbook Airs and the rumored super thin Macbook Pros all without the keyboard part. I personally would prefer to do graphics and most other things on a device with the iPad form factor.
For a while, but not for long, they will coexist with traditional Macs, but the evolution will take it to the iPad form facter.
Isn’t the iPad the post mouse personal computer? Once we had punch cards, then we had keyboard commands, then we had mouse commands with drop down menus. Steve Jobs and Apple have been through this twice before. They did the Apples 1 and II. Imitators came along. They pioneered the mouse and imitators came along. The copiests almost put Apple out of business.
What is different this time is that Apple has a strategy to deal with the others.
1. Innovate so fast that those who can only copy are always a 1-3 years behind.
2. Patent the ideas and the code and enforce the patents.
2. Make products from the point of view of the user (be on the user’s side). Microsoft so does not get this in offering one operating system and two or three intentionally dumbed down versions.
As long as this strategy works, and it seems to be working well, the competition, which is run by bean counters and marketers out of business schools, are losig big and Apples is wining big.
Put the engineers in charge and at each company put one great visionary engineer to keep them working together.
Fire all yes men. Fire Steve Balmer and the yes men he surrounds himself with. No vision, no plan, no new creation – no job.
May Ballmer have many more years at MS, or as long as it takes
The iPad isn’t a tablet computer, it’s a web/connected/smart appliance.
We have entered the post fact era.