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Posted on 03/12/2012 5:30:39 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Imagine you run a large technology company not named Apple. Let’s say you’re Steve Ballmer, Michael Dell, Meg Whitman, Larry Page, or Intel’s Paul Otellini. How are you feeling today, a day after Apple CEO Tim Cook unveiled the new iPad? Are you discounting the device as just an incremental improvement, the same shiny tablet with a better screen and faster cellular access? Or is it possible you had trouble sleeping last night? Did you toss and turn, worrying that Apple’s new device represents a potential knockout punch, a move that will cement its place as the undisputed leader of the biggest, most disruptive new tech market since the advent of the Web browser? Maybe your last few hours have been even worse than that. Perhaps you’re now paralyzed with confusion, fearful that you might be completely boxed in by the iPad—that there seems no good way to beat it.
For your sake, my hypothetical CEO friend, I hope you’re frightened.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Apple can't make iPhone4Ss fast enough for the Chinese market... there have been riots outside of Apple stores and China Telecom outlets because they were sold out:
"The maker of iMac computers and iPad tablets underestimated the “staggering” demand for the iPhone 4S when it started sales in China in January, Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said. “We thought we were betting bold,” Cook said Jan. 24. “We didn’t bet high enough.”—Bloomberg News Mar 12, 2012 – 12:09 PM ET
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I’m in the tech world too and what I’m finding is that the younger audience loves it. The old farts don’t.
Head on over to Crackberry.com and the Playbook forum. They have some good alternatives. Also, I think someone will port an Android player over to PB.
Haven’t looked for it myself.
They are great toys, and decent imaging tools, but for data manipulation a touchscreen isn't that good (yet).
I think that's pretty accurate.
The "old farts" (that being anyone over 25, and anyone who wants to actually get work done) will find some other way to get their work done. It's not too hard to remove the stupid Merde ... uh... Merkin ... uh... Metro UI, and beat the Vista ... uh... Win7 ... uh Win8-desktop UI into reasonable shape to get work done. Many will do that. Others will migrate to Macs or Linux or stick with Win7 until hell freezes over.
The younger audience doesn't give a damn about getting work done. They're into teeny tiny tweets and SMSs, social networking and who is dating whom, and for them, the fact that their PC looks like a damn phone is just dandy.
What's truly sad is that Microsoft is forsaking their core constituency -- business users who MUST get work done -- for the sake of chasing after the "younger audience".
The young audience is fickle. They have no brand loyalty, and instead they have the attention span of a gnat.
While I agree with a lot of what you said, the fact is this young crowd is the future. And the way they get things done is different—so different many older people don’t understand it.
I’ve been to training on this bunch and I was pretty much thinking like you posted, but the reality is we need to figure it out and not just dismiss it. And that’s where I disagree with you—you appear to be dismissive of the younger bunch. I’m trying to figure it out. Not the dating piece, but the working aspects and the interactions that get things done. I’m sure the old farts of your day were saying PCs are stupid—I have a phone. How can you get anything done via email. You need to go stop by their office and go to lunch to get anything done.
I have an I-Pad, I-phone, and a MacBook, oh and a kindle(old one). I bought my husband a kindle fire, and he loves it, never opens his home lap top any more. I really like the kindle for reading better than my I-pad because it’s smaller and lighter and I don’t need the camera.
However, my son uses the Kindle for business. They have their contracts right on the kindle and use the cameras to photograph documents, they can print them out or save them. I’ve used the camera on my phone instead of a fax for sending documents. It’s a whole different mind set.
I have the kindle app on my phone too, so when I’m waiting in an airport or doctor’s office, I just pull out my phone and read.
Now if they could come up with virtual keyboards and pointing devices, powered by gloves....
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I seem to remenber AAPL has applied for display/cpu patents on flexable stuff like clothing ...
I was a die-hard Apple hater for years. Built my own PC’s. Literally had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Windows PC’s for business and home.
I bought an MP3 player, but complained that storage was minimal and interface was clunky. Wife bought me an iPod. That opened a chink in the armor.
As computers around the house failed, they were replaced by Macs. Dead MP3 players replaced by iPods. Dead phones replaced by iPhones. Dead laptop replaced by iPad.
Four years ago there was not an Apple product in sight in our home or business. Now we own a Mac Pro, two iMacs, a Macbook Pro, an iPod Touch, an iPad2, an iPod classic, an iPod shuffle, and Apple TV. I spend much less time “tinkering” with my computers and much more time using them.
My wife wanted a laptop for Christmas. I wanted to get her a Macbook Pro, but she was concerned that the learning curve was steep and the price too high. We bought a Lenovo laptop with Microsoft 7 for about $500, that with Office software and anti-virus came out closer to $900. This morning we wasted over an hour trying to install a program. We were not successful and have been Googling to see if it is a known issue. My wife, the last Windows holdout in the family says, “You were right, I should have gotten a Mac...”
They...just...work!
Yeah, young people will like it. From the looks of it, the very young. Windows 8 Metro has a kindergarten feel. Legos and Play-Do.
Word Perfect
SuperCalc
Lotus
Palmpilot
IBM desktop computers
Netscape
it just goes on and on.
LTE is supposed to be the first globally cross system access system I believe.
zune was a me too effort designed by marketers who know nothing about their market.
Microsoft is still sitting on cash.
Also the rest of the world is still on the MS bandwaggon.
Now if MS were to come out with agressive privacy features it would devastate google and apple.
Our family has migrated to Apple products (in addition to iPods, which we have used for many years) over the past 2 years or so. I was a solid PC person since my first Tandy PC in the late 80s or so. As my twins got ready for college we went to get laptops and were sold on MacBooks. I brought them home, set them up in less than 20 minutes, including home network access and printing. Seamless, easy and with no real need for any documentation. I later got a MacBook Pro myself. When the iPad came out, I got one for my wife and she remains extremely happy with it. She has kindle and I think nook apps on it, uses it almost exclusively for email (I can’t get LiveMail to print on the network from her Windows 7 PC for some reason) but can print from her iPad with no problem with a $10 Windows app (the Apple one is $20). My PC crashed last week, and I have attached the PC monitor to my MacBook Pro, along with external drives and bluetooth keyboard and trackpad and everyone works without a hitch. (And I saved the $1500 I almost spent on an iMac.) I have the iPad 2 which I take to meetings for notes, email, internet, etc. When my Blackberry died a while ago I switched to iPhone and have not looked back.
I didn’t WANT to move away from PC, but Apple’s stuff just works! (I do miss the tinkering, but not much.)
I think the fact windows 8 will work on multiple chipsets will be a real asset.
Imagine being able to install full versions, not stripped down ones, on a tablet.
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