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same sorta guy who 3 years ago wuda sed that the iphone is too expensive and will flop, just liek taht ballz dude from MS.
If it's going to compete in the Business Market Microsoft already has 89% Market Share and most IT staffs won't allow Macs on the network.
If it's going to be a gaming machine as the iPhone has become it's been done.
Apple will never allow Flash on it because of the gaming conflict that it currently has with the Touch and iPhone.
If it's going to be a Kindle Killer then Amazon would only gain more profit because they already own the E-Book Market & Apple would be the vendor buying content.
Exactly where do you see this fitting?
I need to pull up a spreadsheet during a meeting and my "virtual keyboard" takes up half my screen every time I make adjustments to a budget. Not to mention that Excel which every business uses is worthless and slow on the Mac. Apple has 9% (at most) of the PC Market. Who is going to want and purchase all new software for a tablet? Not one business so it’s a flop in the business world.
A third OS that will have to allow multi tasking and touch. So you’ll go through 2 more years of headaches and resetting your tablets as you did with the iPhone.
iFlop is a perfect word for this non category.
oh and his face looks like my penis but whiter
I see why you would think that, though I can not stress enough that I do not and hopefully will not know what your penis looks like. I think yours must be orange or amber colored...
Neither of your comments actually say anything constructive or thought provoking. Like this one?
new iphone at WWDC, but I could see them holding off on the tablet for a while. 2010 seems like quite a while, but, apple likes to do it right the first time, and it's a strategy that pays off
except for mobile me, or the mba, or the apple tv (as they admitted) haha... i'm an apple fan (short of fan boy) but I think (hope) that Apple has learned from the past couple of wide scale launches that it IS important that they get it near perfect or just wait.
I hope it is as shiny as this guy's head.
i doubt anything can be that shiny lol
All I can say is that I will be one of the first to buy this product. I will use it at work every day as instead of carrying around a 3" thick binder of financials with me, I will have all of my #s with me in PDF or excel format.
Laptops take too long to boot up (although my Mac is infinitely faster than my PC at work) and they are too bulky for this application.
The Plastic Logic Reader is right in their attempt to target business users, as executives that travel hate carrying binders and laptops. Imagine an iPad and some great business-oriented software from the app store. Plastic Logic would be wiped out before they got started.
Keep this video. You can post it next to Steve Ballmer talking about what a disaster the iPhone will be when it is launched. Twin idiots.
What you describe as your needs to carry a digital planner with you is EXACTLY what you can get today with a $300 Netbook.
For future reference, if you're going into a meeting wouldn't it be easier to just put your notebook to sleep rather than shutting it down?
Yet some people like me cannot stand small keyboards. To see how bad this is, I've used an iPod touch about…twice? and I type much, much faster than on netbook keyboards.
You don't get it. I don't want a keyboard. I don't want a mouse or a little touchpad. I don't want to have to flip a netbook open when I get to a meeting. I don't want to have a little tiny computer with pathetic battery life that runs out because I left it in standby. I want a document reader. I want to be able to "flip" pages like I do on my iPod Touch. Plastic Logic was on the right track (and their big advantage is that the battery lasts days instead of hours because of eInk) but their UI sucks compared to what an iPad would offer. Any executive that travels would get it.
This guys sucks. He is trying way to hard to be funny and really just looks like an idiot. I take it he's a PC.
your lame dude
I think people like this intentionally say negative things about a product to drive down the stock price of a company so they can buy low and sell high once the product is a success.
You've got a good point here. This guy is intentionally discontenting the marketspace for this product. With comments like "There is no product category" he contends that the product will be a flop, however the same could have been said for the iPod (and iPhone).
I guess yellow journalism has found a new home....I am actually starting to feel sorry for Scott. He babbles useless, inaccurate, baseless, unfounded, unintellgible words. Apple seems to be the bane of his existence....Too bad Apple destroyed his venom spewn commentary prior to the most recent earnings release...Kind of sort of hurts when you are constantly wrong....
I do see a point in what his saying. I don't see how a tablet could succeed, especially in these financially hard times.
Moritz is one of many microsoft mouth pieces who is paid to spew FUD regarding Apple.
Can someone please flame that freak of an analyst please??
iFLOP? Blasted moron!!
An Apple Tablet based on the iPhone OS will make a lot of people a lot of money.
1. It can be subsidized by ATT or whoever provides 3G for it.
2. Tons of people will buy it because it's all the buzz right now and it will be amazing. Apple people buy things even in tough times.
3. I'd buy it because my iphone is too small for typing emails, etc.
4. The app store will now sell tablet apps - apple makes 30% on those.
5. Developers will swarm on it because they already know how to write apps for it. Especially devs who made a lot on the iphone.
Apple can't afford NOT to do it.
http://www.tomorrowland.com/2009/05/14/wwdc-t-minus-4-weeks/
I'm not sure who this man is but I do disagree - strongly.
I disagree that whatever Apple introduces will be a flop. That's because Apple makes awesome products that people love. Don't believe me? Look at their history, and their sales? Who doesn't know or own an iPod? (besides Gates and Ballmer)
I've read a lot on the various mac sites about the tablet, but I honestly can't say whether Apple will or won't make it. I think a device that is purely a tablet won't be practical because it gets tiring to use.
But what I do believe is that whatever Apple do introduce to take-on the netbooks, it will be excellent and far superior to any netbook as we know it.
Eventually it will transform the entire segment and others will start copying it. Just like with the iPhone.
At the end of the day, who cares what others think?
Those who love Apple will continue to love Apple and support them.
and I'm one of those people....
It's funny - the same people how said the iPod would be a flop, that the iMac would be a flop, that the iPhone would be a flop are at it again. When will they learn.
Apple are shelving nothing til 2010 - they've announced no product, it's all speculation. Like 'delays' in Snow Leopard - how can you delay when you haven't announced a date.
If they launch a product it will be because it is destined to be a massive success - they don't need to launch a product for the sake of it.
sales are declining because of a recession, not because Apple doesn't have the right product. I agree a tablet might not be the best device right now, they need to announce the software first at WWDC so developers can have some software ready. So maybe we see a SDK for the tablet and the actual tablet in January.
I'm not sure why this guy thinks it will be a flop, Apple hasn't really done anything that has been a flop recently, even the Apple TV which doesn't sell all that well still isn't a flop. An Apple tablet could change a lot for all sorts of industries, doctors bring in a small apple tablet instead of a laptop for medical records, read MRI scans, other types of scans, xrays, all sorts of industries could use a true tablet (not some MS product with a swivel screen).
Why should I lug a 320gb laptop with my whole library of photos, music and videos, when I can just use a tablet for my everyday needs?
Just because there isn't a product category for this type of device dosent mean it wont be a hit. I think something like this could be huge
Scott is probably one of the biggest hacks, who does very little research - if any and runs his mouth on Apple because it gives him webhits. But by far and away, making John Dvorak look like a genius, Scott has no clue what he's talking about.
Scott reads a few rumors, and states them as if he truly knows as fact what is going on at Apple, Apple's thinking, etc...
He is absolutely clueless.
If you watch Scott, just watch it for pure entertainment.
What does it take to be an analyst these days? How do these people find a job? It boggles the mind.
I would buy an Apple NetBook but not a Tablet.
Clearly, if Apple releases a tablet product, it will be well thought out from the business perspective. There will be some very bright brains researching the market and industry - people with a lot more insight and knowledge than a stand-alone "analyst".
If it IS a flop, a la the Apple TV, it will be a low-cost investment... just like the original iPod. In other words, it will be an experiment that, in the worst case, won't lose any serious money and will garner knowledge and expertise.
Apple is serious about looking into the marketplace. They don't really need to bother with ranting detractors, as Apple has enough success to give them confidence to take prudent risks.