Apple is making a lot of business enemies. Their fanatical users like swordmaker are making lots of enemies in the user community.
Hype only last so long. Sooner or later it begins to tarnish. The iPad is the beginning of that. They put out a barely functional overpriced product that is essentially a big smart phone minus the communication.
Numerous other vendors will soon enter the market with functional tablet PCs. All of which will have to compete with lower end laptops.
I know many iPhone users who cuss AT&T every single day. Their entry into other cell providers might help but why buy old technology when something like the droid is out there.
I’m still wondered about the whole pc thing. I think it is a great industry. But, I talk to my young kids and they are like...blah.... They’ve always had them.
Seriously now, how many people care about their toaster, or dishwasher? We are not too far away, if not there already, were they are just commodities.
Another Apple(ish) cultural connection. They remind me of the people that drive the Volvo 240’s for thirty years telling me how Sweden is better. In short, there’s something about the stereotypical Apple fetish owners. It’s like their circuit boards were washed in the tears of blond, blue eyed Nordic babies collected when they were laughing with joy.
Apple's been operating this way for, what, 12 years now? The iPod, iPhone, move to Intel, and now iPad, all things the pundits thought would ruin Apple. They said it was stupid when Apple dropped the floppy drive, when Apple replaced all the legacy connectors with USB, when Apple stopped selling CRT monitors while LCDs were still expensive, now we see the rest of the industry following.
They put out a barely functional overpriced product that is essentially a big smart phone minus the communication.
Did you ever think that one of the reasons tablets have always failed in the consumer market is because they always tried to be full desktop systems in tablet form? It just doesn't work. The iPad will succeed precisely because it is a big smart phone (with the communication, if you want it).