More on the iPad
February 2nd 2010 07:56
Well the furore over the iPad has died down a bit, and now everyone who wants one will be anxiously waiting for the release date of the actual product. No doubt dreaming at night about what they'll be able to do with it.
In the meantime, I noticed on the Harvard Business site that there were a couple of good articles on the subject. One of them, by Jeffrey Rayport, is entitled, The iPad Showdown: Apple versus Comcast.
In it Rayport discusses how Apple, while perhaps not producing yet the ideal product, has pulled the rugs from under the feet of the cable tv companies. iPad is capable of so much more when it comes to delivering movies, videos and the like.
The other article, by Scott Anthony, is called Does the Apple iPad make strategic sense? . Anthony thinks that the iPad is all too much for what's needed. As an e-reader it has just too many features. Those who just want to download books will probably be content to stay with the Kindle, or the like.
And that's another problem - the e-book arena is already pretty crowded. Did the world really need another version? Finally, Anthony isn't sure that Apple has quite hit the market this time. He writes: One of the great things about the iPod is that it was all new growth
for the company. The iPhone might have cannibalized the iPod a bit, but for the most part it was all new growth for the company. Apple surely hopes the iPad slots in nicely between its phones and its computer lines, but if it doesn't, Apple might have a difficult balancing act on its hands.
So, up to this point, the iPad is varying between being the 'great big yawn' to 'having at least eight things that suck about it'
In the meantime, I noticed on the Harvard Business site that there were a couple of good articles on the subject. One of them, by Jeffrey Rayport, is entitled, The iPad Showdown: Apple versus Comcast.
In it Rayport discusses how Apple, while perhaps not producing yet the ideal product, has pulled the rugs from under the feet of the cable tv companies. iPad is capable of so much more when it comes to delivering movies, videos and the like.
The other article, by Scott Anthony, is called Does the Apple iPad make strategic sense? . Anthony thinks that the iPad is all too much for what's needed. As an e-reader it has just too many features. Those who just want to download books will probably be content to stay with the Kindle, or the like.
And that's another problem - the e-book arena is already pretty crowded. Did the world really need another version? Finally, Anthony isn't sure that Apple has quite hit the market this time. He writes: One of the great things about the iPod is that it was all new growth
So, up to this point, the iPad is varying between being the 'great big yawn' to 'having at least eight things that suck about it'
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