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Google should be delighted. I've yet to find a "normal" who is aware that anyone else sells "iPads". And Amazon doesn't count, they sell "Kindles". No amount o
by jpxxx 14y ago
Google should be delighted. I've yet to find a "normal" who is aware that anyone else sells "iPads". And Amazon doesn't count, they sell "Kindles".
No amount of competitive marketing seems to have brought the two product families into competition beyond "well I heard the iPad has books too but my friend loves her Kindle".
- untog 14y agoI'm yet to find a "normal" that watches Apple Keynotes, though.
- jpxxx 14y agoGood point. :)
- bennyg 14y agoYou aren't on my Twitter timeline then.
- bruceboughton 14y agoNo but the iPad Mini was above-the-fold breaking news on the BBC news website before the keynote was even over.
- jiggy2011 14y agoNobody else could sell a product called iPad without getting sued.
- jpxxx 14y agoYeah, but customers don't know that. "iPad" is the Kleenex of tablets. The only reason the Galaxy Note gets a pass is because it's still mentally categorized as a big telephone.
- Adirael 14y agoIs it? I've never head any other than some very old people which doesn't know what a tablet or a computer is calling a random tablet an 'iPad'.
- sigzero 14y agoWhy would Google be delighted? Because they have the "low end" wrapped up and make little profit margin?
- jpxxx 14y agoBecause Apple's mentioning their product in the same breath as iPad. It strongly argues that Apple is financially/strategically concerned enough with that form factor to risk mentioning the existence of competition. I'm not sure why, given the sales of the "mini" form factor. I kind of suspect they're more concerned with positioning themselves against jumbo phones, which -are- selling in volume and have already invited a major design change in the iPhone line.
- enraged_camel 14y ago>>Because Apple's mentioning their product in the same breath as iPad. It strongly argues that Apple is financially/strategically concerned enough with that form factor to risk mentioning the existence of competition. I don't know if this is necessarily the right conclusion.
- jpxxx 14y agoI'm pretty good at being wrong. :) What do you think?
- ja27 14y agoI constantly talk to "normals" that don't understand whether the iPad can run programs like their computer at home. I've seen a lot of iPhones with 5 or less downloaded apps: Facebook and a couple top casual games.