“More than 40% of smartphones owners who use Research in Motion BlackBerry, Microsoft Windows Phone and Google Android platforms prefer Apple’s iPad to tablets from their current smartphone operating system makers, according to a recent survey,” Trefis reports for Forbes.
“Owners of RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones showed the least loyalty to their current platform,” Trefis reports. “Around 53% of BlackBerry users said they would buy an iPad, compared to just 8.5% that indicated preference for RIM’s own PlayBook tablet.”
Trefis reports, “We believe the iPad 3 will be a high performance iPad with some attractive features such as voice recognition service Siri, presently an important feature of iPhone 4S. The new iPad might also have high resolution screen as suggested by a few reports… With the launch of iPad 3 in the next 3-4 months, should make sure that there is no slow down in the iPad sales.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “GetMeOnTop” for the heads up.]
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I thought that everyone claimed that Siri was a useless gimmick feature which nobody used. Hey, I hear Google’s coming out with Majel which isn’t a gimmick. I love the way rivals downplay what Apple has and then introduce some copycat feature a short time after.
So what will happen if someone from within a TV program says, “Siri change the channel.”?
Obvious… Since the audio is coming through the Apple TV, Siri can “cancel out” any sounds made by the Apple TV. So anything that is potentially a command, coming through the Apple TV, will be carefully and deliberately ignored. 🙂
Furthermore, Siri should be able to cancel out ANY sound made by the Apple TV, so that actual spoken command are more clearly heard (and not drowned out by the TV audio).
“People don’t want to talk to their phone, they want to talk to the person at the other end”. That was Larry a month or so ago.
Can you imagine SJ being this clueless?
Here we go again with rumors and raising expectations. When will they learn?….
Never, because the covert goal it is to delay iPad sales.
But the problem here (for the iPad detractors) is that there is no point in delaying, because Apple’s iPad competitors are not producing meaningful competition.
So if these rumors somehow manage to delay a customer’s iPad purchase by a few months, so what…? That delayed iPad sale is eventually made, because no alternative worth waiting for emerges. Meanwhile, Apple sells every iPad it produces at full retail price, so it’s not really hurting Apple.
You’re right, the goal is to cut sales and the result will be to delay the purchase. But, it does affect sales since people like myself would pass their iPad 2 to another family member and also get the iPad 3.
Sales are affected but only in a secondary way as your family member with your original iPad 2 would undoubtably continue to make software/music/video/game purchases.
BUT… when one uses the same account for all iOS devices, one only pays for one app download…
It affects immediate sales. That would hurt Apple if, during the “delay caused by rumor,” a competitor managed to release something more desirable. Then, it’s not just a delayed sale for Apple, it’s a lost sale. But, the iPad competition is NOT going to release anything worth the wait, so Apple will eventually make that iPad sale.
Meanwhile, people who don’t want to wait are buying every iPad Apple produces anyways, so any tactic to delay iPad purchases with rumors of a new iPad “real soon” are doubly meaningless and useless.
Ive got the money for an ipad right now and im waiting.
Not because of a rumor but because i want to get the latest gear and when i bought my macbook pros Apple released an update barely a month later.
Not that im unhappy with my purchaae mind you, best damn computer ive ever owned HANDS DOWN.
I am waiting for the iPad 3 and IPhone 5 or whatever it will be called. The iPad and iPhone I have are working quite well. I’m willing to wait to see what magic Apple develops for the new products. My current iPad and iPhone will go to my sister who (whom?) I convinced to buy an iMac and is now an Apple customer. Passing things down will only generate more sales. You don’t know you want it until you have it in your hands and see it in action.
I’m putting up a survey asking people about the number of useless surveys they participate in…
like what the next operating system will be named…
SABERTOOTH is my vote.
Apple needs ONLY one thing… to KILL ANDROID.
– stop Google from providing it freely to samsung and others
– this then stops Google from havig its services interweave with Android
– all other manufactures then need to develop a OS use a licensed OS
THIS is the fair and better SOLUTION.