Charlie Rose on The iPad, With David Carr, Michael Arrington and Walter Mossberg
via youtube.com
Interesting take on the iPad from the uber pundits.
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Interesting take on the iPad from the uber pundits.
...when I was a Windows user and excited about the promise of Vista. Always (almost) the optimist, I had high hopes. The cold reality of my first copy of Vista was a major factor in me finally giving a mac a try.
*via iPhone
The ever elusive and brilliant Fever Ray and her acceptance speech at Sweden's P3 Guld award show
The people don’t want “tablet computers” with Ubuntu and OpenID (worst name ever for a product attempting broad acceptance). They could honestly give a shit whether it’s a closed or open system. And, let’s be really honest, they probably care as much about DRM as they do about baseball players juicing; by which I mean not very much at all. They want things to work most of the time, and be easy to fix when they don’t. And if the process by which it happens is “magic” they are totally cool with that.
I've said this nearly exact thing 5 times (at least twice in anger) since the launch of the iPad to very deer friends and colleagues.
Nine out of 10 premium PCs purchased from US retail brick-and-mortar stores or online sites (including major chains and Apple Store) during fourth quarter was a Mac. The data isn't good for Microsoft's Windows PC partners. Microsoft and OEMs touted more feature-rich Windows 7 PCs for the holidays. Additionally, ahead of Windows 7's launch, Microsoft spent six months marketing premium Windows PCs during its "Laptop Hunters" campaign. These marketing efforts apparently failed. Apple doesn't just own the premium market, its sales are increasing there.
Here is a little something from the ol' data warehouse. Last.fm's list of most REMOVED tracks from its user's scrobbles. These are clearly songs that people love, but are embarrassed to have their friends see.
http://playground.last.fm/unwanted#
The biggest threat to the TamPad (thank you Stephen Colbert) could be a similar device running ChromeOS at half the price. But the problem for Google there is that today 1) there is no ChromeOS and 2) there is no Google tablet.
Apple is adept at re-inventing a category and then staying one (or more) steps ahead of the "mee too" followers. As an example Google's Nexus one is probably the best Android phone you can get, but few seem to think its a real threat to the iphone. Maybe the Nexus Two, but by then there will already be a 4th gen iPhone. Notice I didn't mention the HP Slate.
As for Amazon, they might wind up delighted with this thing. Apple’s in the business of selling devices first, content second. I think Amazon is in the content business first, the device business second. A world where Kindle hardware sales pale in comparison to the iPad but where there’s a very popular Kindle app for iPad that competes against iBooks is not a bad situation for Amazon. Apple is only selling e-books for use on their own devices; Amazon is willing to sell e-books anywhere they can.
If Amazon ups their already pretty good iPhone app for iPad (annotation, dictionary, etc) I'll be a very happy customer with a Kindle and an iPad.
Remember way back to January 2007, when the iPhone was announced? Oh Internets, you wailed and gnashed your teeth endlessly. No 3G network? No MMS? No apps on the iPhone? No replaceable battery? Oh, your complaints were endless. You were sure that the iPhone was doomed because it didn’t meet all your requirements.
I waited in line in 2007.
I am a software designer turned suit, occasional low-rent photographer, and as a friend once said a "sarcastic mother @#$@r". I can sleep soundly through any team sporting event but I'm passionate and politely opinionated about music, technology, and many other less valuable topics.
