[opendtv] Re: iPad quarterly sales grow year-over-year for the first time since 2013, best non-holiday quarter in two years
- From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 06:40:56 -0400
On Aug 2, 2017, at 11:54 PM, Manfredi, Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
I thought tablets were just a craze that is over;
No, you never thought that. I had to explain it to you. Slate tablets are
dead. People finally woke up.
Sorry Bert, but you were wrong...twice!
First for thinking I was serious in the statement above - we all know your
opinion about tablets...
Second, you are wrong. Tablets are very much part of our new mobile computing
infrastructure. They were just a "victim" of their initial success, and a
relatively mature product design when real tablet computers were introduced in
2010. Earlier attempts to develop tablets were restricted to a handful of
customized devices for the enterprise. The iPad and the Android clones created
a massive consumer market.
The new iPad is more like the Microsoft Surface, including the attachable
keyboard accessory and pencil to draw on the screen. What Craig doesn't get
is that the Mac will soon be replaced by just such hybrid devices.
Wrong again. It has ALWAYS been possible to add a physical keyboard to an iPAD.
All that the "pro" version does is add a connector to allow a direct connection
to a keyboard and power so it does not need a battery. And the pencil was
designed primarily for artists, note taking and document markup.
Apple is not going to make the same mistake as Microsoft and try to layer a
touch interface onto a windowing GUI for the Mac. They have a different
philosophy - they have built an ecosystem in which phones, tablets, laptops,
and desktops all work seamlessly together.
Surface is going nowhere. Not sure, but I think the new 10.7" iPad Pro may have
outsold every Surface tablet and book ever shipped in just over a month of
availability...
Regards
Craig
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