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The problem I have with your statements below " However I, and billions of other people, haven't opted to buy it. The market waits for something that fits our

The problem I have with your statements below " However I, and billions of other people, haven't opted to buy it. The market waits for something that fits our needs better." are that this could have been said of any object 9 months after its appearance. This could have been said about movies, TV, radio, cell phones, etc. I think it's clear that there is a market for iPad like devices. My statement about shape versus experience is that there are a slew of tablet devices that clearly have been rushed into production. I think companies are doing this because they want to say, "We're in the tablet market too." Samsung made a tablet for the sake of making a tablet. I don't think they put much thought into the device. They were more focused on having a device than on having a device with a good user experience. Apple spent a lot of development time before they released the iPad. This shows in their product. There is nothing wrong with a 7" tablet. There is something wrong with a 7" tablet using an OS not designed for such a device. Android isn't tablet ready and people should not expect Android tablets to be as good as the iPad. BTW I don't own an iPad. I never buy first generation hardware.

ergo98 16y ago
I think it's clear that there is a market for iPad like devices. Of course there is, as the market has clearly shown. I suspect that there will be a market for 5", 7", 10", 12", and so on tablets. Consumer choice is good. Yet your post seemed to posit that because the iPad has succeeded where the Tab hasn't, every decision Apple made with the iPad (in particular form factor) has been validated. That is specious reasoning.
- yequalsx 16y ago
  My original post mentioned that Apple spent a lot of time thinking about the user experience of the iPad before they actually produced it. Samsung hasn't put nearly as much thought into the user experience. The point being that it's natural that the Galaxy Tab has a higher rate of return than the iPad. It should be the case that iPad is the market leader in this category. They created the category and made a very nice device. The other tablets are not nearly as polished as the iPad and this is obvious once you use them. Concluding from what I've written that I think that "every decision Apple made with the iPad (in particular form factor) has been validated" is a miscarachterization.
  - ergo98 16y ago
    Apple didn't create the category. Archos did, even though they saw none of Apple's great success. Nor did Apple create the touchscreen mobile smartphone category, but again their success has seen a lot of historical revisionism. I guess it is, as they say, the victor gets to write the history books. However your original statement didn't have a lot of substance beside calling Apple's competitor's a "joke", and I took from it what I could glean.

ergo98 16y ago

I think it's clear that there is a market for iPad like devices. Of course there is, as the market has clearly shown. I suspect that there will be a market for 5", 7", 10", 12", and so on tablets. Consumer choice is good. Yet your post seemed to posit that because the iPad has succeeded where the Tab hasn't, every decision Apple made with the iPad (in particular form factor) has been validated. That is specious reasoning.

yequalsx 16y ago
My original post mentioned that Apple spent a lot of time thinking about the user experience of the iPad before they actually produced it. Samsung hasn't put nearly as much thought into the user experience. The point being that it's natural that the Galaxy Tab has a higher rate of return than the iPad. It should be the case that iPad is the market leader in this category. They created the category and made a very nice device. The other tablets are not nearly as polished as the iPad and this is obvious once you use them. Concluding from what I've written that I think that "every decision Apple made with the iPad (in particular form factor) has been validated" is a miscarachterization.
- ergo98 16y ago
  Apple didn't create the category. Archos did, even though they saw none of Apple's great success. Nor did Apple create the touchscreen mobile smartphone category, but again their success has seen a lot of historical revisionism. I guess it is, as they say, the victor gets to write the history books. However your original statement didn't have a lot of substance beside calling Apple's competitor's a "joke", and I took from it what I could glean.