“As the Apple iPad succeeds beyond expectations, it leaves in its wake an enormous body count of dead and dying products,” Mike Elgan reports for Cult of Mac. “While consumers love it, several major industries have grown to hate it. And for very good reason.”
“It wasn’t supposed to be like this. The iPad was supposed to usher in a new era of tablet computing, creating a thriving new market that looked a lot like the world of smart phones,” Elgan reports. “After gaining an early lead, the iPad was supposed to settle in as a big seller, dominating the high end of the market. Android tablets were supposed to grab most of the unit sales, offering a variety of successful sizes, options and price points. And tablets running proprietary platforms like HP’s WebOS and RIM’s BlackBerry Tablet OS were supposed to bring healthy new sources of revenue to those companies.”
Elgan reports, “But that’s not what happened. What happened is that Apple has asserted an unshakable lead, and no other company other than Amazon has taken significant share.”
MacDailyNews Take: Define “significant” and then provide proof of your last statement, otherwise it is nothing more that regurgutated Amazon PR pablum.
Elgan continues, “What’s worse, the vast distance between expectations for non-iPad touch tablets and the ugly reality is causing havoc and possibly even wrecking companies and even transforming entire industries.”
MacDailyNews Take: Steve Jobs’ specialty. What he set in motion will take many years to play out.
“The first major casualty was the HP TouchPad, which shipped July 1. Although HP had enormously high hopes for the tablet, its reception in the market was so bad that seven weeks later HP announced the termination of all WebOS hardware products,” Elgan reports. “The bloodbath was just beginning. Next up: RIM.”
In the full article, Elgan covers:
• Why Vertical Tablet Makers Hate the iPad
• Why The Toy Industry Hates the iPad
• Why the PC Industry Hates the iPad
• Why Amazon Will Soon Hate the iPad: “The Amazon Kindle Fire is the only non-iPad touch tablet currently succeeding in the market. The main reason is price… It has also become clear in recent weeks that the Kindle Fire is a piece of crap.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Mmm, bloodbath. 😉
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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