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Posted on 01/28/2010 11:12:57 AM PST by aic4ever
Ok everybody. Calm down. It's been a whole day since the apple keynote in which the much denied apple 'tablet' was revealed to thousands of turtleneck-clad art students and other people who had nothing to do in the middle of a Wednesday. For those of you not in the know, check here for a quick run-down of what the thing does and here for a quick list of what it doesn't. So now that we're all briefed on what this is all about, lets get down to the inevitable 'mac vs pc' debate. Everyone who works on design and anything to do with art please go to that side of the room. And everyone who does 'actual' work (programming, troubleshooting, anything non-artsy) please go to that side.
Everyone else who doesn't really care, stay where you are so we can talk. Ok good. Now listen, this thing is just a thing. It's a big iPhone or a little computer. Die-hard Mac fans or their opposite number will not be persuaded to think different [hah!] just because of some article on a blog. However I do have a few things to say on the subject of innovation, imitation, and the law of diminishing returns.
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It’s amazing. They claim Apple denied it. Not so. Apple never said one way or the other. Until yesterday when they announced it.
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His “the way this whole thing works” applies generally, might as well have been pulled from a college business class I took.
Yes, the first is usually more expensive and not as good and later copies. But the business that took the gamble and invested the R&D hopes to grab that initial high profit before the competition catches up. They also hope to get mindshare and product loyalty as the first.
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Meanwhile a little over 3 years later almost 43 million have been sold. And it is the single most popular piece of technology driven hardware ever produced.
Guy I know said he was going to get one because, “It’s such a pain carrying my Macbook Pro around. When I want to use it, I have to get it out of the bag, wait for it to boot up and then wait for it to find wifi. The iPad will be so much beter.”
Some people will make up the most insane reasons to get their hands on a new piece of tech. I wanted to ask what it would take to take that “crappy” MBP off his hand but figured he wasn’t THAT insane lol
LOL!
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