More From the Cast who Proclaimed iTunes Would Never Work
iPad widely disparaged by pundits as an oversized Touch.
http://aaplinvestors.net/stats/ipad/ipaddeathwatch/
The same crew who lambast every Apple innovation that simplifies users interfacing with digital tech. It is a bad thing, doomed to failure, when users can interface without humbling themselves.
iTunes would never work, the iPhone doomed to failure, the Touch a useless toy, the app store too self serving, now the iPad is not enough of this or that. How many billions of all that stuff will it take to convince them? Have they noticed the satisfaction ratings of these solutions versus old tech solutions?
The Paperless Office Then
The paperless office crew is stuck in a time warp. In twenty years they have failed to fulfill the original promise of office automation. They instead created legions of geeks and techies who exist solely to service the great and mighty facade that tech is difficult. And another legion who write about it. Bells and whistles proclaim the next step forward.
They fail to realize there are greater legions, users, who after two decades of waiting, now want something that works. We have had it with the hype. Tech nirvana is near, the next great thing coming soon. Maybe it has arrived, it is just buried in a mountain of features we don't use? Hire a complexity consultant to sort it out, or get simple tech.
The Paperless Office NOW
The oversized Touch is exactly the market Jobs and Apple target. 40 million or so tiny versions of this device and OS in circulation in the course of a few years. Kids with their Touches get it. They are already paperless. The trees thank them.
Us old timers with fat fingers and tired eyes may now enjoy the top feature of the Touch, simplicity. The tiny keypad and tiny screen are transformed into something anyone can use. Simple on the big screen is the Main Feature.
Apple, Yet Another Failed Product
Actually they now are proclaiming, finally, an Apple mistake.
Make no mistake. The iFlop will be the same dismal failure as iTunes. 10 billion served. Users flock to tech that combines simple with useful.
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Some manufacturers see possibilities for a table style device. Maybe a few of these will be the loaded version that suits the bells and whistles mentality..
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/ipad-could-see-50-tablet-rivals-this-year/
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/hands-on-with-the-terrible-stantum-slate-pc