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I'm not convinced that the iPad was all that revolutionary, I think that 2009/10 was the year when the hardware needed to build a successful tablet became cheap
by semi-extrinsic 12y ago
I'm not convinced that the iPad was all that revolutionary, I think that 2009/10 was the year when the hardware needed to build a successful tablet became cheap enough to build a profitable one. The equally successful Galaxy Tab launched just half a year later, and Samsung obviously didn't start working on it after the iPad launch. It really was an "obvious" thing given the wild success of smartphones (not that the engineering/software/UX work was in any way trivial).
- Derbasti 12y agoyou might want to google "equally successful" (http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/04/11/exclusive-apple-vs-samsung-docs-reveal-galaxy-tab-was-a-flop-and-samsung-knew-it http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/04/11/exclusive-apple-vs...).
- tim333 12y agoMichael Arrington was going on about making a similar product, the Crunchpad for a couple of years before. Still it was Apple that actually built a decent product. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JooJoo#Crunchpad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JooJoo#Crunchpad