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I stumbled across this while searching for something unrelated and was extremely impressed with the analysis and conclusion. Pretty much all of this turned out
by ctoth 5y ago
I stumbled across this while searching for something unrelated and was extremely impressed with the analysis and conclusion. Pretty much all of this turned out to be accurate with hindsight.
It's interesting to conceive of the iPad when working up from an e-reader model rather than down from a Tablet PC like the classic HP Pavilion tx1000.
- bccdee 5y agoI dunno, I think iPads are much more a laptop-lite/smartphone-plus than they are an improved e-reader. The promise of e-readers was a comfortable ebook reading experience, and tablets deliver more of a web-browsing and social media experience, like a laptop sans keyboard. E-readers are still the best e-readers, and Kindle is still dominant there.
- politelemon 5y agoI don't think it turned out to be accurate. Ereaders haven't changed that much since then in terms of players and dominance. Apple's only move since then was to collude with publishers (for which they were given a light tap on the wrist) but which ended up damaging the pricing model and making ebook purchase worse for everyone in general. So they did attempt to solve it by first creating a different problem.