http://hypeandgripe.com/featured/the-day-after-the-ipad-buzz/ A Blog where you'll always find straightforward Information, Previews and Reviews about Games, Movies, and Technology. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:00:44 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://hypeandgripe.com/featured/the-day-after-the-ipad-buzz/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Ray Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:07:53 +0000 http://hypeandgripe.com/?p=369#comment-23 Good article.  I generally agree with the gripes…not a big splash at all, but I wonder if it is because we are now conditioned to expect game-changing launches from Apple?  If there were no iPod Touch or iPhone, the drooling over this product would be incessant.  After all, we were initially enthralled more with the potential of the iPhone than what was originally delivered, especially with the advent of the App Store.And Apple, despite its flair for the dramatic and Steve Job’s showmanship, is a relatively conservative company.  It was only when the iPhone 3GS was launched, it’s third major hardware update, did we start to feel that the iPhone was finally meeting its potential…two years after the original hit the market. Maybe it is time for Apple to stop being so conservative, but the strategy has paid off – there will still be (I believe) a large number sold initially and establish a solid base.  Then based on competitive reaction and user needs, they will continue to enhance and expand.  I wonder:   What we will be saying in 2012 about the iPad?But I think it needs to overcome its biggest problem – Apple controlling everything that runs on the iPad.  Memory will increase, cameras and other goodies will be added, and the application base will expand. But in order to survive long term, it needs to be a real competitor to the netbooks or the soon-to-come serious tablet competitors, who (if they are smart) will keep those products open and unrestricted.But one problem they will have forever, unless the iPad is a total failure and they launch something else – the name.  To parrot what I read somewhere else, Apple must not have any women in the marketing group. Good article.  I generally agree with the gripes…not a big splash at all, but I wonder if it is because we are now conditioned to expect game-changing launches from Apple?  If there were no iPod Touch or iPhone, the drooling over this product would be incessant.  After all, we were initially enthralled more with the potential of the iPhone than what was originally delivered, especially with the advent of the App Store.And Apple, despite its flair for the dramatic and Steve Job’s showmanship, is a relatively conservative company.  It was only when the iPhone 3GS was launched, it’s third major hardware update, did we start to feel that the iPhone was finally meeting its potential…two years after the original hit the market. Maybe it is time for Apple to stop being so conservative, but the strategy has paid off – there will still be (I believe) a large number sold initially and establish a solid base.  Then based on competitive reaction and user needs, they will continue to enhance and expand.  I wonder:   What we will be saying in 2012 about the iPad?But I think it needs to overcome its biggest problem – Apple controlling everything that runs on the iPad.  Memory will increase, cameras and other goodies will be added, and the application base will expand. But in order to survive long term, it needs to be a real competitor to the netbooks or the soon-to-come serious tablet competitors, who (if they are smart) will keep those products open and unrestricted.But one problem they will have forever, unless the iPad is a total failure and they launch something else – the name.  To parrot what I read somewhere else, Apple must not have any women in the marketing group.

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