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Matt Gemmell: How to compete with the iPad
http://mattgemmell.com/2010/02/05/ho...pete-with-ipad
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02-17-2010, 12:35 PM | #2 |
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Someone does a similar device in terms of form factor, battery life, screen quality, price etc. and adds stylus support and robust document markup options and I"ll buy it day one!
I agree 100% with the author that tablets are NOT pcs and companies should be wary of making them like PCs. True Tablet PCs have failed for years. I just don't think there's much of a market for tablet PCs running windows, OSX and having all the features etc.--most everyone has a laptop, desktop, netbook (or 2 or 3 of those). Tablets need to fill a different niche so people don't just say "I can do all that on my PC/laptop" and not buy them. It's a pretty small niche of people who need a laptop with a touch/stylus screen--as the poor sales of tablet laptops have shown. I feel there's a much larger market for tablets like the iPad that are used more as document readers, document mark up tools, video and other media viewing/listening and not full on computing. |
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I was listening to a posdcast yesterday on the iPad. They said that the name iSlate was acquired by aPple. Then it dawned on me, could it be that they have a tablet computer in the works besides the iPad "media surfer"?
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02-17-2010, 01:10 PM | #4 |
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More likely they just bought up the name so they had it if they wanted to use it for this device, then decided on iPad. And to stop competitors from putting out a similarly named device.
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Wow! I'm impressed! Are you a close personal friend of Steve Jobs to get one before it's released??
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02-18-2010, 07:11 AM | #8 |
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There will be stylus support, and all your waiting on is an App which may already exist, I just dont know your specific requirements.
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Ability to handle PDFs up to A4 size with abililty to write notes in the margins etc.--so the ipads screen is too small for my needs. I need full ability to mark up PDFs, word documents and books. Who knows if we'll get apps for all of that on the iPad. I need the stylus to be very precise as I write pretty small and have terrible penmanship--I've not had much luck writing on PDAs etc. in the past legibly. So a wacom screen with it's high precision may be a must for me. I'm very skeptical from demos that any capacitive stylus/screen would fit my writing style/needs. But in any case, there's no chance I'll buy an iPad as after more thought the screen size kills it for me. I'll wait for a device with an A4 sized screen designed to be a document markup tool from the ground up. |
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Not sure what Demos you have seen? Im not even sure there IS a large screen capacative device yet is there? Your definatly best to wait and see, maybe pop into an apple store once demos are out? I dont know but imo you could be waiting forever for an A4 sized device with Wacom input and designed for document markup from the start... The iPad seems to me the closest you would get in the next 6 to 12 months at least, plus if software is there then your not far off everything else you want.. |
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But at the same time, I'm in no huge rush as printouts have worked fine my whole academic career, and I'm not paying for the paper or ink so I can be patient and try out some different tablets that come out and be sure I find one I like. I'm expecting 2011 to be more likely when I'll jump in, since we'll get a bunch of first gen tablets this year, and next year the 2nd gen models with the kinks worked out will start rolling out. In any case, I'm excited to see what comes out over the next year or so! |
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