Comments on: iPad Says Hello, Netbook Says Good-bye

By: Nicholas Thenhaus

Nicholas Thenhaus — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:24:06 +0000

Calendar shows Apple Ipad is almost out. I don’t see it taking off well myself, but looking at the pre order numbers I certainly could be wrong. I am not going to through in the towel yet. Lets give everyone some time to actually work with the device and see how they like it. I can say that if anyone purchased it for a laptop replacement they will be disappointed.
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By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:01:32 +0000

I don’t disagree that the iPad will be significant int the market. It weight is close to that of the orignal ASUS EEE PC. And has a lot of features. But one key difference is dependency. My EEE is a PC in its own right. I can run different OS’ and can use different 3G USB connections. I can do just about anything my laptop or PC can do.
The iPad is really just a big brother of the iTouch. Sure it will have built in 3G, so one would assume you put in a SIM and away you go, but where is the USB support? What if you want to plug in your iPod to your iPad, will it be able to? And what would it do? Can you connect it to an external screen (on its own) to deliver a presentation?
Is it cool. Yup. Can it do a lot of things? Sure. Can it completely replace the netbook? No. iPads will be there for those that want the same basic functionality of the iTouch, and aren’t looking for that laptop replacement. I think they both have a place, and the iPad will take market share away sure, but a total replacment, I don’t see it.

By: iPad hacks

iPad hacks — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:21:00 +0000

Great post. I’m not worried about android catching up to iphone, they are just too far behind. Thanks! Ryan

By: Evan Kaplan

Evan Kaplan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:15:24 +0000

In reply to: Sandeep T Ramareddy via Facebook (comment below reply):

Sandeep, I agree it won’t happen overnight. The iPad still needs some development (aside from actually shipping the product), and iPhone applications need to be rewritten to take advantage of the larger screen. With the popularity of the iPhone among business users, I think there will be a place for the iPad in the enterprise – most likely the space that the Netbook currently occupies.

Facebook comment on blog:
Agreed, but it would still take time for iPad to pick up the market share as compared to iPhone. iPhone and iPod touch revolutionized the entire phone and music experience. Both these products are amazing to use, thanks to all the thousands of apps that we can download from App store.

Initial re-action for the new iPad is not impressive as compared to the reaction i had when iPhone was launched. The graphics of the apps are only scaled up to the huge screen that iPad has and its not the true resolution. It would take time for developers to come out of apps that truly utilize the size of iPad. iPad is nothing more than a bigger iPhone.

Agreed that we are moving towards Enterprise cloud-based applications but still its not the end of Fat clients. Many application that come through App store are data centric. I am looking at the higher end model (64 GB with wi-fi and 3G) and at 40k INR it way too expensive. I can get the best laptop for that prize.

I would like to revisit the iPad after an year or so when the prizes are down, we have apps meant just for iPad and hopefully we have a next version of iPad (like the 3GS) from apple that does something more than music, videos and surfing the web.