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Why can't the blogoechochamber just fucking relax? It's been less than a year since the iPad launched, tablets haven't made it to most people's radars yet and t

Why can't the blogoechochamber just fucking relax? It's been less than a year since the iPad launched, tablets haven't made it to most people's radars yet and the market will play out over the next 5-10 years. In the grand scheme of things, who actually cares whether the Xoom ships on Feb 17 or gets "delayed" to Feb 22, or that RIM announced March availability for the PlayBook and will instead ship it in April?

neworbit 16y ago
Oh gawd yes. There seems to be some conception that Apple has nailed it with the iPad and competition is impossible. Gang, the devices we're going to be able to get in three years will make today's iPad look as useful as a brushed-metal frisbee. There's a lot of innovation left to come.
- rimantas 16y ago
  iPhone was announced four years ago. In that time a lot of innovation had to come. Well, we got iPad, from Apple…
  - neworbit 16y ago
    LOL I like it. But in all seriousness the Android phones we have today are way better than our choices from back in that era, even the ones running dated 2.1 OS... curse you AT&T! Blackberry REALLY changed mobile phones. Then a lot of catchup. Apple did it again. Then a lot of catchup. I don't expect the story stops here...
    - mryall 16y ago
      The phones are better, yes, since the iPhone. But I think in more of an incremental way rather than an revolutionary, innovative way.
      - dasil003 16y ago
        I never had a Blackberry, but really? The things I do with my Nexus One are amazing. The Google Maps/GPS, podcasts with Doggcatcher, and the general Gmail / Contacts / Facebook / Twitter integration is amazing. I imagine Blackberry as being good for texting and email, but not really a drop in the bucket in terms of the larger lifestyle stuff.
vacri 16y ago
Simple: consumers live in the moment. They have no idea how much work goes into creating a product, nor do they see more than a couple of months into the future.
- martythemaniak 16y ago
  Yes, so if a consumer wants a tablet now they'll get an iPad. If they want one for the holidays, they'll have 4 different OSs and 10s (if not 100s by then) of individual tablets to choose from. Unlike some tech bloggers, consumers don't get aneurysms because RIM delayed shipments by 3 weeks.
- danilocampos 16y ago
  Sadly for every company that isn't Apple, Wall Street works in the exact same way.
nl 16y ago
Because it fucking matters. Look at the education market: Right now schools are signing up to give iPads to their students, and text book companies are beginning to ship their text books as iPad apps. Not as HTML5 apps, or both Android & iOS apps, but exclusively on iPads. The same thing is happening in any industry you can name, and the nature of these things means once a platform gets a lead it's pretty hard to catch. Personally, I don't want the iPad to be the Windows of the next decade, with every other platform relegated to quasi-supported status like the Mac was in the 1990s. The only way to stop that happening is for other manufactures to ship credible products in numbers large enough that software companies cannot ignore them.
aphexairlines 16y ago
Because we grew up with HP, Compaq, Gateway, Dell, Alienware, IBM, and a hundred others "just shipping" a truckload of PC models all the time without 2-year marketing cycles. Seemed like every week you would get a new PC magazine showing a bunch of new builds with better specs and lower prices than the previous week that you could order immediately. This brave new world of embedded devices sucks.

neworbit 16y ago

Oh gawd yes. There seems to be some conception that Apple has nailed it with the iPad and competition is impossible. Gang, the devices we're going to be able to get in three years will make today's iPad look as useful as a brushed-metal frisbee. There's a lot of innovation left to come.

rimantas 16y ago
iPhone was announced four years ago. In that time a lot of innovation had to come. Well, we got iPad, from Apple…
- neworbit 16y ago
  LOL I like it. But in all seriousness the Android phones we have today are way better than our choices from back in that era, even the ones running dated 2.1 OS... curse you AT&T! Blackberry REALLY changed mobile phones. Then a lot of catchup. Apple did it again. Then a lot of catchup. I don't expect the story stops here...
  - mryall 16y ago
    The phones are better, yes, since the iPhone. But I think in more of an incremental way rather than an revolutionary, innovative way.
    - dasil003 16y ago
      I never had a Blackberry, but really? The things I do with my Nexus One are amazing. The Google Maps/GPS, podcasts with Doggcatcher, and the general Gmail / Contacts / Facebook / Twitter integration is amazing. I imagine Blackberry as being good for texting and email, but not really a drop in the bucket in terms of the larger lifestyle stuff.

vacri 16y ago

Simple: consumers live in the moment. They have no idea how much work goes into creating a product, nor do they see more than a couple of months into the future.

martythemaniak 16y ago
Yes, so if a consumer wants a tablet now they'll get an iPad. If they want one for the holidays, they'll have 4 different OSs and 10s (if not 100s by then) of individual tablets to choose from. Unlike some tech bloggers, consumers don't get aneurysms because RIM delayed shipments by 3 weeks.
danilocampos 16y ago
Sadly for every company that isn't Apple, Wall Street works in the exact same way.

nl 16y ago

Because it fucking matters. Look at the education market: Right now schools are signing up to give iPads to their students, and text book companies are beginning to ship their text books as iPad apps. Not as HTML5 apps, or both Android & iOS apps, but exclusively on iPads. The same thing is happening in any industry you can name, and the nature of these things means once a platform gets a lead it's pretty hard to catch. Personally, I don't want the iPad to be the Windows of the next decade, with every other platform relegated to quasi-supported status like the Mac was in the 1990s. The only way to stop that happening is for other manufactures to ship credible products in numbers large enough that software companies cannot ignore them.

aphexairlines 16y ago

Because we grew up with HP, Compaq, Gateway, Dell, Alienware, IBM, and a hundred others "just shipping" a truckload of PC models all the time without 2-year marketing cycles. Seemed like every week you would get a new PC magazine showing a bunch of new builds with better specs and lower prices than the previous week that you could order immediately. This brave new world of embedded devices sucks.