why we need a real iPad killer and quick

IT Management earthweb ^ | May 12, 2010 | Mike Elgin

[2aberro]

What's an iPad??????????

Do women use them?

[Little Pig]

[Swordmaker]

Why Mike Elgin, anti-Apple zealot exraordinare, thinks we need a real iPad killer right now! PING,

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[meanie monster]

lol

[PreciousLiberty]

“What’s an iPad??????????

Do women use them?”

How’s it going Mr. Gump?

[PreciousLiberty]

LOL, I guess you missed the 2010 27" iMac:

[PapaBear3625]

Your sequence, although humorous, actually does point out the direction Apple is likely to go in. The next step will be to put in iPad-like capabilities into Apple's iMac desktop machine.

And yes, there WOULD be people who would pay for wall-mounted 50+ inch iPads.

[PapaBear3625]

It looks like Apple already has multi-touch for the iMac. See Youtube MagicMouse demo

[ThunderSleeps]

Remind me again just what is an iPad good for? Seems to me to be a product looking for a market, looking for a reason to exist. Some of the specs/features (or lack thereof) I've read for it make it seem extremely limited. Seems like an overgrown iPod touch. My son calls his iPod touch "an iPad-nano" only half-jokingly.

Why kill or compete with a product that seems to be going nowhere, capable of not much? Don't make an iPad clone, make something useful.

[big'ol_freeper]

Nobody does total product integration like Apple...period.

[piytar]

Close. Not wall mounted.

Think iDesk...

[PreciousLiberty]

Yes, the MagicMouse looks pretty cool, I may have to try it when I get my next Mac. So far, my 24” iMac is working nicely enough. =:-D

[2aberro]

What’s an iPad?????????? Do women use them?” How’s it going Mr. Gump?

Many Freepers do not even watch TV,,, we reject all the high tech crap... I figured this was something akin to Maxi Pads.........

PS, I have a 25 yr old Sony TV with rabbit ears, and I get about 3 channels on a good day.

PSS, I also have over a 1/2 mil in the bank.

[PreciousLiberty]

“Remind me again just what is an iPad good for?”

Sure - making Apple a LOT of money.

For the consumer, providing a handheld platform for information consumption - books, movies, and games.

There’s never been anything like it before, no doubt there will be imitators but they will likely fall where the imitators of the iPod and iPhone have landed - short.

[PreciousLiberty]

“PSS, I also have over a 1/2 mil in the bank.”

Good deal, don’t invest it you don’t understand current markets.

[2aberro]

Good deal, don’t invest it you don’t understand current markets.

you are very right... I don't. I found the lowest interest bearing account I could find to keep the tax down. Screw Obama.

[chris_bdba]

Oh I want one of each!

[JoeFromSidney]

Why do we need an iPad killer? If the thing works, more power to Apple. If it doesn't work, it will kill itself.

[Richard Kimball]

Why kill or compete with a product that seems to be going nowhere, capable of not much? Don't make an iPad clone, make something useful.

Primarily because it's an extremely profitable product that's selling as fast as Apple can manufacture it. HP, Google, and Sony already have their copiers cranked up.

MS may end up being the odd man out here. They've had little luck in scaling their products into a small light footprint. HP killed the Slate, but will probably bring it back with the Palm OS. This could be interesting. If Palm had leveraged their Pilot into a phone they could have had the iPhone quite a few years before the iPhone. HP has the ability to make it work.

I do not believe these tablets will be a fad. The head of Nintendo recently told his company engineers that the competition is not Sony. He believes they've won the battle with the Playstation. He believes the next battle for the gaming platform will be with Apple.