Comments on: The iPad is Bad for the Consumer http://blog.herlein.com/2010/01/the-ipad-is-bad-for-the-consumer/ - the musings of Greg Herlein Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:06:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Peter Cranstone http://blog.herlein.com/2010/01/the-ipad-is-bad-for-the-consumer/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Peter Cranstone Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:32:40 +0000 http://blog.herlein.com/?p=187#comment-68 You're spot on. It's a rush job, by Steve Jobs no less. It's ridiculous to scale up an iTouch - it's a completely different design. So we have a lousy OS, No multitasking, No Flash, No outputs, No Digital Ink for note taking, No Camera, and if I buy it so I can "consume the web anywhere" with tax it's virtually a grand. Plus all the extras. They didn't work for years on this - it doesn't take a genius to put a big screen on an iTouch. There's nothing magical about it, and there's still no real customer problem being solved. Apple blew this time - selling a couple million units is a niche product. They need to sell over 100m and then you're magical. There's nothing of value here until the integrate all the pieces and deliver more functionality. You’re spot on. It’s a rush job, by Steve Jobs no less. It’s ridiculous to scale up an iTouch – it’s a completely different design. So we have a lousy OS, No multitasking, No Flash, No outputs, No Digital Ink for note taking, No Camera, and if I buy it so I can “consume the web anywhere” with tax it’s virtually a grand. Plus all the extras.

They didn’t work for years on this – it doesn’t take a genius to put a big screen on an iTouch. There’s nothing magical about it, and there’s still no real customer problem being solved. Apple blew this time – selling a couple million units is a niche product. They need to sell over 100m and then you’re magical. There’s nothing of value here until the integrate all the pieces and deliver more functionality.

]]> By: gherlein http://blog.herlein.com/2010/01/the-ipad-is-bad-for-the-consumer/comment-page-1/#comment-67 gherlein Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:04:46 +0000 http://blog.herlein.com/?p=187#comment-67 Some other folks who agree with me: http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Apple-iPad-analysis/ Some other folks who agree with me:

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Apple-iPad-analysis/

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