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Originally Posted by pking36330
kamm, you think it's naive that an Apple tablet might be a "game changer" and I think you are naive to think that potential isn't very credible.
You ranted about the "idiotic software" that Apple forces you to use (iTunes), but I think you need to look at the facts about how many people are voting with their wallet that iTunes is acceptable (or even preferred).
A recent annual teen survey posted on CNET reveals 92% market pentration for Apple iPods and a near 100% response that teens forecast their next device would be an iPod. And I'm old enough to remeber that Apple came to the portable music business pretty late and when they first introduced the iPod is was just a pretty toy. Now iPod is the crushing dominant force in portable music. And it didn't get to be the 800 lb gorilla by being cheap, it did by offering "idiotic software" that made it incredibly simple to use through forced standardization. |
1. Zune never been a serious contender, it's just the usual "we can do it too" MS response and subsequent money grabbing.
2. That nasty little Russian site and its renewed versions - AoMP3, alltunes, mp3sparks etc - don't report numbers but it was widely agreed to have
sold more music than all iMTS operation together. Funny thing, huh?
And all this happened despite the US (using fully illegal market control through VISA and MC) banned even payment proxies, blocked payments every possible way - it speaks volumes about the market realities in iMTS operates and claims its 'success', don't you think?
Facts are tricky animals - you think you got the picture then suddenly some new info arrives and changes the entire picture...
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You may not want to emotionally admit that an Apple tablet can be a "game changer", but you have to intellectually admit that Apple's model includes factors (customer service, sleek design, limited options, etc.) that play well with the populace if not with tech-savvy folks like you. Maybe Apple shouldn't be able to shake things up in the eReader world, but I believe it naive to think they won't.
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It has nothing to do with emotions. You guys need to learn how get better information - stop scooping up only those prepackaged info off US/corporate sites feed you when they depend advertisement placed by the very companies they report about like CNET...
Seriously, start reading around the globe - when see any notes from an "analysts" (= paid mouthpieces who try to influence the markets to their or their paymasters advantage) I usually go and check the background of every possible connections.
Here's an example: this Apple tablet implies some OLED news - I think it is obviously to pump both Apple and OLED stocks, nothing to see here, as others correctly pointed out already it's common prior to WWDCs etc.
Now if you check
other news sources you will see that it's been
reported that Wintek has been selected as one of the mfrs for the upcoming Apple tablet (they already supply LCDs for existing products) so a quick glance at their site will tell you that their
curernt touch panel's specs are pretty average, nothing to see here as far as OLED rumors goes... how about a new product announcement, just prior to Apple's rollout? Well, it'd be highly unusual to say the least -
here's an interview with Dialog's head clearly saying their latest PMOLED development won't be ready before 2010 -, I don't think an independent vendor would ever do such things when he is beating in a highly competitive Asian semi market especially after pouring in R&D millions and watching its own stocks but even so modifying existing mfr'ing lines would make it to the news anyway (building a new plant takes over a year.)
Finetech Japan just ended and while they showed a lot of advanced OLED stuff economically it's not feasible to make netbook with OLED screen (think of $1000+ price tag) - OLED laptops perhaps, though obviously priced up in the high-end (thin of 15" one for $2k+) segment.
All this is speculative analysis, of course but based on all this info I dare to say it's highly unlikely that Apple can bring a competitively-priced OLED-based tablet to the market (and ebook reader is almost impossible.) OLED MBP? Sure, why not.