iPad is an iFail – Remember the iPhone before it was released?
There was an interesting Apple iPad survey yesterday by one of the main Dutch news broadcaster (RTL4) asking:
Can you hardly wait to get the ‘revolutionary’ iPad?
21% said yes, while 78% said no, they can wait and RTL4 was also wondering in their broadcast what was so special about this new Apple tablet device; as was CNN, Wired Magazine and many Twitter Tweeters. One could argue that this survey is a positive for the iPad is still in pre-launch mode, yet then again, many will see this as a sign that the iPad is an iFail waiting to happen. (Apple stock ticker AAPL shows it down 4%+ last night)
Now this sounds familiar. Remember before the Apple iPhone came out (for instance, “Why the Apple phone will fail, and fail badly” from pre iPhone launch 2006)? Same sort of surveys and opinions it seems. As a matter of a fact, there was a time there just before the launch of the iPhone that many saw it being a complete and utter failure! To be honest, I was one of them. Wow was I wrong! (Just do this Google search, “iPhone will fail“, which I searched on dates from 2005 till end 2006 and it is kind of amazing!),
Well, we all know the history so far on the iPhone- a huge success. And although I am a loyal Mac user at work and home for computing and music, I do not own an iPhone and am not going to be the first to jump on the iPad, iWait; iThink, but that is just the conservative side of me.
Do not write off this media reader just yet. iPad and the Printing Industry? Yes, the erosion of print to digital continues, but is that bondo or sheet metal I see coming to the rescue… As a matter of a fact, there are many opportunities for printers and the iPad, but that is for a later post… Have a great weekend!
January 29th, 2010
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