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Since when the number of sales has anything to do with being transformative? Since nobody sold even 1/10 that much in that market segment (tablets) before. Al

by batista 15y ago

Since when the number of sales has anything to do with being transformative? Since nobody sold even 1/10 that much in that market segment (tablets) before. Also since 1 in N households in the US (where N < 10) now owns one. Also since it become a multi-billion dollar industry, in a couple of years, out of nothing. Also since most major print news/magazine outlets hailed the device as their potential savior, and jumped in offering content for it, with even the big mogul, Murdoch, creating a special publication for it. Also since the educational book marked was just turned upside down, with publishing houses and schools jumping into iBooks distribution. Also since iPad/iPhone pretty much owns mobile web usage in volume, with Android devices a distant second. Also since for many professional industries, an iPad is getting indispensable, with extremely large numbers among doctors, lawyers and financials goes, to low end like warehouses tracking things, POS systems, etc. Actually, "small business iPad use quadrupled to 34% in 2011". Also since the enterprise jumped in and started using iPads and iOS in-house apps. "a survey of 1,200 IT professionals conducted by mobility management solutions vendor BoxTone indicates that iPad adoption is on the rise. Read on to find out why iPad is becoming an enterprise favorite." (and this article is from 2010). Also since "touch" entered the UX/UI vocabulary for good after iOS.

ekianjo 15y ago
Alright, even if everything you said what true, how would you know it's not a market bubble that could be disappearing for good 5-10 years down the road ? My point was that it's too fast to call something like this transformative. That's a difference between fashion and actual change. Fashion fades and disappears while it may seem like the most popular thing ever at one point. A transformation happens when you move from point A to a point B and the market stays at point B for a long time. I agree you can say "transformative" for smartphones, because they did change the market and there is no way it's coming back. As for tablets, the fact that only the iPad is a tablet market (and nothing else in tablet form is successful) tells me we should be careful about calling this a revolution, and wait to see how things will turn in a few years, after the 5th-7th iteration of the same concept.

by batista 15y ago

ekianjo 15y ago

Alright, even if everything you said what true, how would you know it's not a market bubble that could be disappearing for good 5-10 years down the road ? My point was that it's too fast to call something like this transformative. That's a difference between fashion and actual change. Fashion fades and disappears while it may seem like the most popular thing ever at one point. A transformation happens when you move from point A to a point B and the market stays at point B for a long time. I agree you can say "transformative" for smartphones, because they did change the market and there is no way it's coming back. As for tablets, the fact that only the iPad is a tablet market (and nothing else in tablet form is successful) tells me we should be careful about calling this a revolution, and wait to see how things will turn in a few years, after the 5th-7th iteration of the same concept.