Comments on: If money were no object – would I buy an iPad? http://www.scribbleit.co.uk/blog/2010/01/28/if-money-were-no-object-would-i-buy-an-ipad/ Web Development with WordPress and Thesis Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:57:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: simon plowright http://www.scribbleit.co.uk/blog/2010/01/28/if-money-were-no-object-would-i-buy-an-ipad/comment-page-1/#comment-554 simon plowright Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:01:37 +0000 http://www.scribbleit.co.uk/blog/?p=469#comment-554 fabulous review thanks for the knowledge made me re think .......... fabulous review thanks for the knowledge made me re think ……….

]]> By: JP http://www.scribbleit.co.uk/blog/2010/01/28/if-money-were-no-object-would-i-buy-an-ipad/comment-page-1/#comment-520 JP Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:25:13 +0000 http://www.scribbleit.co.uk/blog/?p=469#comment-520 Apple has always been successful by carving out a niche market and using proprietary hardware and software to lock in its users and make them pay. Yet their kit is not that reliable and whilst they have just posted some great results they are still a small player. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/25/apple_q1_2010/) It is funny to think that Apple nearly went bust and survived because of a bail out from Microsoft in August 1997. Apple’s current niche is the technically illiterate who has more money than sense. Only Apple could get away with a laptop without a removable battery or the brazen guile to tell users you are locked in and if you try to break free we will invalidate your warranty (bend over and take it like a man). Imagine if Microsoft tried that! People may be happy to pay a few quid for a clever app, but it is the developer who has been clever not Apple. It won’t be long before other vendors catch up with their platforms and those developers copy their apps to those platforms. Many aspects of the Iphone and Ipod touch OS are really impractical; they only recently got copy and paste and data entry is hell, making the device only suitable for the texting masses. On the PC side, their success worried Microsoft so much that they rushed out Vista before it was ready and damaged their own reputation. The challenge facing Apple is to grow their market and as long as they insist on being proprietary and forcing delivery via iTunes along with their “cut” I will not be joining in. As for the iPad it is going to have to do a lot more than it does at the moment and at a far more reasonable price. Their inflated prices for wireless versions smacks of profiteering in the same way they deliberately disabled Bluetooth and VoIP on the Iphone/IpodTouch. You could buy two decent laptops for the price of the iPad and three or four netbooks. So this iPad is going to have to do some magic to win and it is operating at a much higher price point. Sadly I can think of a way that Apple could have moved this product into the mainstream, but it is not ready, it can’t handle the reality of being a huge player, the kit is simply not reliable enough. One day when it merges with Sony (a company with very similar principles of exploiting customers – rootkits etc), then it may be ready. Steve Jobs is rumoured to not be very well so he better start talking soon because the competition are going to get their act together and he will need much bigger resources behind Apple if they are to reach their potential. Apple has always been successful by carving out a niche market and using proprietary hardware and software to lock in its users and make them pay. Yet their kit is not that reliable and whilst they have just posted some great results they are still a small player. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/25/apple_q1_2010/)

It is funny to think that Apple nearly went bust and survived because of a bail out from Microsoft in August 1997.

Apple’s current niche is the technically illiterate who has more money than sense. Only Apple could get away with a laptop without a removable battery or the brazen guile to tell users you are locked in and if you try to break free we will invalidate your warranty (bend over and take it like a man). Imagine if Microsoft tried that!

People may be happy to pay a few quid for a clever app, but it is the developer who has been clever not Apple. It won’t be long before other vendors catch up with their platforms and those developers copy their apps to those platforms.

Many aspects of the Iphone and Ipod touch OS are really impractical; they only recently got copy and paste and data entry is hell, making the device only suitable for the texting masses.

On the PC side, their success worried Microsoft so much that they rushed out Vista before it was ready and damaged their own reputation. The challenge facing Apple is to grow their market and as long as they insist on being proprietary and forcing delivery via iTunes along with their “cut” I will not be joining in.

As for the iPad it is going to have to do a lot more than it does at the moment and at a far more reasonable price. Their inflated prices for wireless versions smacks of profiteering in the same way they deliberately disabled Bluetooth and VoIP on the Iphone/IpodTouch.

You could buy two decent laptops for the price of the iPad and three or four netbooks. So this iPad is going to have to do some magic to win and it is operating at a much higher price point.

Sadly I can think of a way that Apple could have moved this product into the mainstream, but it is not ready, it can’t handle the reality of being a huge player, the kit is simply not reliable enough.

One day when it merges with Sony (a company with very similar principles of exploiting customers – rootkits etc), then it may be ready. Steve Jobs is rumoured to not be very well so he better start talking soon because the competition are going to get their act together and he will need much bigger resources behind Apple if they are to reach their potential.

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