Can't These Other Computer Manufacturers Step Up?

[SgtJoo]

iPod is different, mp3 player. I use my phone for that with a huge miniSD card.

iPhone is different too, it's an actual phone (supposedly).

Tablet is super niche.

[Delhommey]

From the launch weekend. Half a million units sold in one weekend. From this survey: 70% new users. 49% PC users.

The iPad is not a "niche" product.

[Chimera]

From the launch weekend. Half a million units sold in one weekend. From this survey: 70% new users. 49% PC users.

The iPad is not a "niche" product.

I disagree. 30% are replacing a product they bought less than a year ago.

[Zod]

I disagree. 30% are replacing a product they bought less than a year ago.

Who do you think is getting the old one? I know in my household we need a second one. Replacing? Nope. Adding.

[Zod]

Something not mentioned here is battery life. I can use the iPad all day without needing to charge it. It conforms to my day and where/what I need to do instead of tethering me to an electrical outlet.

[Taom82]

I could pick up at least two android tablets for the price of an ipad. It all breaks down to what you are going to use the tablet you buy to do. There are cheaper tablets that don't have all of the multimedia features, and tablets like the zoom that have more features than the ipad.

[Darth Biscuit]

The Apple/PC debate will rage on forever... I'm in the middle. All these products have their place. If I was a teacher/nurse/lab worker, etc., someone who walked around all day for work, a tablet would be great and much easier than a laptop... I sit at a desk 90% of the day, so a laptop/desktop functions best for me... So it's less about the manufacturer and more about the equipment.

If Apple made a product that was cost effective and made my job easier, I would buy it, even though I've always been a PC guy... but so far, for what I do, PCs are far more cost effective.

[Scrumtrilescent]

Our lab tablets are being well used, as dust collectors in a storage room somewhere. It was a good idea but just never took off as a lab-based tool the way most of us thought.

[Seamonk]

Apple has some pretty displays. If anything, it's where they excel at. I would SO get an Apple display over my current monitor. If you say.. compare the iPhone display screen to any of the competitors, it's gonna have WAY more pixels and be a much higher quality build. Screens are where other companies try to save money on.

Apple is legit. They have renewed their rep and have been successful. For the record, I only own a 3rd gen iPod. No other apple products.

[Darth Biscuit]

I thought this article was relevant to this discussion if not a hair late...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20043455-1.html?tag=topStories2

[Captroop]

As soon as they make an iPad that works with a Stylus pen, I will buy one. I need a tablet that I can draw on because I really need to move from pencil and ink to digital media, but I don't want the bulk or the price of tablet laptop or a PC tablet with a monitor built in.

[TerriblePizza]

Apple has some pretty displays. If anything, it's where they excel at. I would SO get an Apple display over my current monitor. If you say.. compare the iPhone display screen to any of the competitors, it's gonna have WAY more pixels and be a much higher quality build. Screens are where other companies try to save money on.

Apple is legit. They have renewed their rep and have been successful. For the record, I only own a 3rd gen iPod. No other apple products.

Yeah. 3000 bucks for a monitor.

[blackcatgrowl]

Touch Tablet computers have been around for awhile. Apple just put their little lame ass spin on them and all the sudden every teacher and art designer bought up the stock of them.

The iPad is a tech fad. Nothing more. They'll be trumped by something else in a few years.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

I'm going to wait until tablets have 500+ gb and are more affordable.

64 gb lol