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"an HTC representative let slip" Do PR people really let things 'slip'? To let something slip is usually indicative of an accidental giveaway. If a PR person t
by nagrom 16y ago
"an HTC representative let slip"
Do PR people really let things 'slip'? To let something slip is usually indicative of an accidental giveaway. If a PR person tells a tablet-oriented site that HTC are working on a tablet too, surely this is a regular announcement without any useful or interesting details?
At the very least, HTC could have bought a blogger to circulate rumours or pointed a trade magazine to 'expose' an order from a supplier's factory. It's this attention to detail that put Apple ahead of the crowd!
I've been holding off and holding off, waiting for a decent iPad competitor to come along and it seems that there could be a few in 6 months or so - Notion Ink's Adam looks very nice and I am sure that HTC's tablet will be pretty too. However, Apple have shipped, the thing works and it has a reasonable software ecosystem. I can actually go to a shop and buy one.
Since I actually want a tablet-like device, I can't really think of any reason not to buy an iPad right now. Why has it taken so long for competitors to provide an alternative?
- nuclear_eclipse 16y agoI don't think manufacturers were quite prepared for just how high of a bar Apple was going to set with the iPad. I personally refuse to buy Apple iOS products on my own principles, but the hardware always looks amazing without sacrificing quality. Combined with the fact that nobody was even certain that the iPad would even exist when it was announced, I think manufacturers weren't really taking the tablet market seriously until they realized just how much of a hit the iPad was. I'll bet most companies weren't even investing more than a gee-whiz in tablet technology until then, either, just due to the complexities of development.