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From: John Slade on 6 Mar 2010 20:37
JC Dill wrote:
> John Slade wrote:
>> The iPad uses watered down everything and I don't know how well it
>> will do given the netbook market and how the typical netbook is far
>> more powerful and versatile than the iPad.
>
> Not everyone wants (or needs) the most powerful and versatile item. For
> many people, ease of use is far more important,

I think ease of use means you can go on the Internet and
use every web site without any problem. As it is, the iPad does
not support Adobe Flash and a lot of web sites use flash
extensively. So right there a more powerful netbook has the
advantage of running full versions of Windows 7 or XP and not
the mobile versions. I think the iPad is going to compete
against the iPod Touch and iPhone as well as netbooks. It may
find a niche in the e-book reader market.

John
From: SMS on 6 Mar 2010 20:41
John Slade wrote:
> JC Dill wrote:
>> John Slade wrote:
>>> The iPad uses watered down everything and I don't know how well it
>>> will do given the netbook market and how the typical netbook is far
>>> more powerful and versatile than the iPad.
>>
>> Not everyone wants (or needs) the most powerful and versatile item.
>> For many people, ease of use is far more important,
>
> I think ease of use means you can go on the Internet and use
> every web site without any problem. As it is, the iPad does not support
> Adobe Flash and a lot of web sites use flash extensively.

Well maybe Apple is the only company that can make a stand against the
extensive use of Flash.
From: John Slade on 6 Mar 2010 20:46
SMS wrote:
> John Slade wrote:
>> John Navas wrote:
>>> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/06/microsoft_courier_details_report/>
>>>
>>>
>>> Could be an iPad killer -- Microsoft may have finally got one right.
>>>
>>
>> The iPad is Apple's entry into the Netbook market IMO. I think
>> the iPad killer will be better more powerful netbooks that are powered
>> by laptop CPUs and graphics. The iPad uses watered down everything and
>> I don't know how well it will do given the netbook market and how the
>> typical netbook is far more powerful and versatile than the iPad.
>
> I bet the iPad is going to be a _huge_ seller. It's not a netbook
> competitor (that's the MacBook Air), it's a whole new segment.
>

If you saw the keynote speech where Jobs introduced it,
you can easily see it's targeted at the netbook market. Even
before that Jobs was telling reporters he was working on a
netbook-type device.

> iPad is going to be huge in the kids market. iPhone users probably won't
> buy it because they don't want to pay another $30 a month in addition to
> the $70+/month they are already paying. At least there's a lot of apps
> that are more than just games, unlike the Nintendo DS/DSi.

I don't see the iPad being big in the "kids' market"
because of it's price and capabilities. More popular games are
on cheaper devices more suited to gaming. I can see the iPad
being more successful in the e-book reader market if the price
comes down.

>
> If someone figures out how to get a USB port onto it it could have a lot
> of vertical market applications as well.

It comes with a USB port via the adapter that comes with it.

John
From: SMS on 6 Mar 2010 21:06
John Slade wrote:

> I don't see the iPad being big in the "kids' market" because of
> it's price and capabilities. More popular games are on cheaper devices
> more suited to gaming. I can see the iPad being more successful in the
> e-book reader market if the price comes down.

I'm sure you're going to be proven wrong. Parents spend $1000-1500 on
DVD systems for their kids to watch movies in the car. $500 to keep the
kids busy in the car, and then having the iPad to use at the destination
via WiFi (instead of carrying a laptop) is going to make it the
must-have kid's toy of 2010.

>
> It comes with a USB port via the adapter that comes with it.

No it doesn't. It's not a USB host port. You can't plug in various
peripherals that the vertical market needs, like bar code scanners,
cameras, blood glucose meters, scales, blood-pressure cuffs, etc.. Apple
is not interested in those vertical markets because they don't involve
selling apps, music, videos, and books to the buyers.
From: JC Dill on 7 Mar 2010 01:59
Jeff Liebermann wrote:

> It's very rare when a new product niche is actually used in the manner
> the manufacturer intended.

A photographer friend thinks the iPad will be used as a portable
portfolio display device for photographers. We won't need to make
portfolio books anymore, just load photos into a slideshow application
on the iPad and click play. It will be easy (perhaps too easy) to carry
multiple portfolios, each with a different type of image (e.g.
landscapes, weddings, sports).

jc
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