“The iPad will completely REPLACE the laptop computer and even most desktop computers. Many people will own several iPads, that’s why I’m forecasting such a high number of iPads to be sold.”
So you’ve drunk the Apple Koolade. I don’t see how. I bought the Ipad on the 1st day. It’s my first I-anything Apple product. There’s no way it replaces a computer. I had hoped it would replace my personal laptop but honestly in many ways it just sucks. Don’t get me wrong it does some things right but the negatives are huge. I won’t be keeping it long term once the new Android or Windows tablets come out. Then mine will be on eBay so please keep the hype up so that when I go to sell mine I get a good price.
By the way the top 5 big negatives:
1 - No Flash support - sorry but a large chunk of the web uses Flash so deal with it.
2 - Lousy streaming media support on the web. I am a political junky and most of the sites I go to (Glenn Beck, Rush, Fox News, any radio stations steam) either use flash, Windows Media, or Real Media. None of these work so this whole Ipad is a liberal plot to take away my conservative access.
3 - You still need a computer to make it work & Itunes is one of the quirkiest tools I’ve ever seen.
4 - no multitasking. So you can’s have twitter running in the background monitoring th #TCOT feeds, you can’t have I Heart radio running in the background to listen to your favorite conservative host, and more and more. It really sucks to only have one thing open at a time. (note supposedly they’re gonna fiz this)
5 Lousy note taking. I’ve now tried every app, free and paid on the d*mn thing to take notes, which is one of the primary things I used my tablet pc for. All the apps suck and not being able to use a stylus to take notes is even worse. I really wanted to take this to meetings and capture my notes.
The iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad are increasing the uptake of HTML5. Not quick enough, but quicker than would have otherwise happened, Flash will be replaced.
They aren’t supposedly fixing multitasking, they are fixing it. The update for the iPad will be available in the fall.
Let's go back a few years and restate that comment. The new Macs, no floppy, SCSI or ADB. Sorry, but a large chunk of the products out there use these, so deal with it.
Apple decided not to deal with it, but instead ditch outdated de-facto standards and move foward. The world is a better place for it, even for PCs since Apple going USB caused an explosion in the USB peripheral market. Remember how back then most USB peripherals could be bought in iMac colors even though iMacs were a tiny percentage of the market? And they still sell PCs with legacy connectors that almost nobody uses anymore.
There is something better and not proprietary out there, and it's called HTML 5 with H.264 video. Apple has decided to go with that.
So the iPad you are looking at today (with all its limitations) will have no resemblance to the iPad of a few years from now.
This product line will advance at Warp speed. That is the reason for my predictions of a BILLION units sold. And I'm being conservative.