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Originally Posted by Bremen Cole
"Apple's marketing team sure does a great job of convincing the world they invented the phone and tablet PC"
You must be high or something,. I can honestly say I have never met even one person that believed Apple invented the phone. ..... And the iPad is not a tablet PC..... surely you realize that.....it is not even a "tablet computer" and not even a computer , at least in the traditional sense. Yes, there have been bulky, slow and ugly windows "tablets" for years.... but nothing like the iPad.....
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Crikey, hyperbole doesn't go down well here, does it?
The fact is that the average person on the street tends to think that the iPhone is the only/first phone with a touch screen and apps. Whenever I show somebody my phone I am asked 'is it like an iPhone', etc. I ask people why the got or want an iPhone and the usual response is that it runs a particular app they like or that they like the touch screen. The fact that almost any app on the iPhone has an equivalent (or the same) app on Android/Windows/Blackberry and that most phones these days have a capacitive touchscreen genuinely surprises people because it's the iPhone that gets all the press and recognition. I read an interesting article the other day about iPhone apps. The fact discussed was that companies are rushing to get iPhone apps created for their services despite the fact that in this country, the iPhone only makes up about 5% of the smartphones, and creating apps for Windows or Symbian would service far more customers. iPhone just has a bigger 'mindshare', which is far out of touch with its actual penetration.
You say there is nothing like the iPad on the market? That's
really proving my point. There are several tablet devices that were released and/or announced before the iPad. Many with capacitive touch screens, high resolution screens, etc. Those that run Android have a similar (though not quite as good) app ecosystem. Those that are full-fledged PCs run Windows and support a totally open, versatile, powerful platform. Some are larger than the iPad, some are smaller (such as the 6" internet tablets that have been available from several manufacturers for quite some time.
The Entourage Edge (not yet available as I understand, but announced before the iPad) has an e-ink screen as well as an LCD.
Apple's iPad is one of many, and it's no better than any of the dozens of alternatives out there (but the marketing and hype/snake oil salesmanship is far superior). In fact, the drawbacks of the iPad - closed system, no keyboard, middle-of-nowhere form factor (i.e. too big to be particularly portable, too low powered to be particularly useful compared to a netbook or laptop) cripple it.
The iPad is a device as powerful as a portable device with the portability of a cheap laptop or netbook. Worst of both worlds in my opinion (and that mostly is my opinion on most tablets, not just the iPad).