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I think the Apple fayboyism may be coloring some of these statements. The idea of a touch-screen tablet is hardly new, and many people, myself included, have b
by Gormo 17y ago
I think the Apple fayboyism may be coloring some of these statements. The idea of a touch-screen tablet is hardly new, and many people, myself included, have been waiting for someone to develop a device like the iPad for years. Look at all of the hype that surrounded the CrunchPad announcement, even when we rightly assumed it was vaporware.
Apple isn't really an innovation company. They're great at executing on ideas that no one else has yet turned into a viable product, which puts them on the cutting edge. But they've never came up with something entirely new and created demand for it where none previously existed.
And I can find plenty of points at which the iPad falls short of my tablet wish-list, but that didn't stop me from getting one.
- sapphirecat 17y ago> many people, myself included, have been waiting for someone to develop a device like the iPad for years. Of all these people, every one of them decided to passively wait, instead of taking on the task themselves? As far as Apple innovating, IMHO, they are the current masters of producing analog interfaces for digital systems. They have to charge a premium for it, because it's harder. But plenty of people are apparently willing to pay that premium for that interface, instead of the cheapest microcontroller and a minimal number of momentary switches, so Apple wins. I don't know if choosing their own strategy instead of following the race to the bottom is innovative or not, but it certainly leads to products that stand out.