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This is why I hope Steve Jobs continues to drive Apple for years to come. He presses forward relentlessly, driving the user experience forward, even when the co
by mcav 16y ago
This is why I hope Steve Jobs continues to drive Apple for years to come. He presses forward relentlessly, driving the user experience forward, even when the competition can't come close. No one else has been able to match the original iPad's size, cost, and specs; the iPad 2 makes the other tablets seem so bulky, so utilitarian, even though they haven't shipped yet.
Any other company would milk the original iPad for all it's worth. They'd get a device with the iPad's dimensions and call it good enough. They wouldn't push forward unless their competitors caught up. I can't imagine Motorola, Microsoft, Samsung, Google, or anyone else having the muscle to put a device like the iPad 2 out so soon.
Forget pro-Apple or anti-Apple. More companies need to strive harder to be better, whether or not they see someone hot on their tail.
- redial 16y agoAnd this is exactly what worries me. When Steve Jobs steps down, his replacement is gonna have a hard time assuming he is not Steve Jobs. I just hope he (or she) doesn't try to prove anything by making bold decisions on his own. On a related note, have you ever found weird that Apple doesn't have any women in a VP position? At least that is the impression it gives me. For such a liberal company, it seems to be mostly run by men (nothing wrong with that btw).
- gyardley 16y agoJust off the top of my head, there's Katie Cotton and Allison Johnson - someone who knows Apple better can correct me, but I'm pretty sure both are VPs.
- kalleboo 16y agoHow is the iPad 2 not just milking the original iPad? It has no revolutionary changes, it's just faster, thinner, and has the cameras the iPad was rumored to have from the beginning. I think most companies have the muscle to put out a slight revision on a first product after a year.
- brianpan 16y agoI agree there are no huge surprises, but I think you are underestimating the difficulty of redesigning the form factor in under a year. Even just changing processors, radio chips, adding gyro, camera in the exact same mechanical form factor is a non-trivial change. This is a completely different housing that needs to be integrated and tested. To the user, it's the "same size" device- a flat device with a glass screen, but make no mistake, this is a re-engineered device less than a year from the previous. (Yes, parallel development, etc. but still.) Not revolutionary, but far from "milking the original".