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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Different person, different needs. the problem with any all-in-one machine is they end up being a jack-of-all-trades, master of none. If what they do best, and every machine does something best, is your top priority, then it'll be a success for you.
The question is are there enough people with your needs to make a mass market. Personally I don't think so for the Ipad, but that doesn't make me right. Only the future will tell...
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Definitely to the first, everyone has their own needs.
To the jack of all trade bits, I don't need something like that to excel at all things. I'd mainly use it for reading and marking up A4 pdfs, Word docs, taking notes, reading magazines etc.--so I want it to excel at that.
The other stuff it just needs to do good enough that I can use it for those features when I travel, or want to surf the net on my couch without using the laptop etc. I'm not going to ditch my MP3 player, laptop, DS etc. Adding those features is just the icing on the cake in what would mainly be a big screen, color e-reading and markup tool for me.
Aside from that, I've never cared about having the best anything. My priorities have always been price and then performance. I never by the best camera, best laptop, best mp3 player, best TV etc. I buy something in the middle of the pack that has decent performance and a price tag I can live with. Others are more focused on getting the best device they can afford for everything. To each their own their.
Two the third, I have no idea the size of the market. And as I've said before, I couldn't care less if the tablet I find that fits my needs sells 500,000 units, 1 million units or 100 million units. I care about finding something that fits my needs, and that enough people buy them that they stay around even if it's not a mainstream success.
I think personally there Market is pretty sizable. Many of my fellow professor's are clamoring for a device like this for reading and marking up research, student papers etc. It would be great for students who can read text books in normal page sizes, highlight with a stylus etc. Outside academia it's useful for any business that wants to go paperless etc.
Time will tell on that part though.