Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
Just because there are lots of alternatives to the iPad at the point of sale, that doesn’t mean they are effective competition, it just means that box manufacturers have new boxes to sell. The question is whether the pubic will buy these new shiny toys instead of an iPad.
Jon Rubinstein would like everyone to compare the muted reviews of the WebOS powered HP Touchpad to the muted reviews of Mac OSX – rather than the muted reviews of the WebOS powered Palm Pre. After all wasn’t the Pre going to have a bundle of firmware updates for the bugs they already knew about, more software from mythical developers in their store, and become the darling of the users thank to the multi-tasking?
"The industry will ship between 500 million to 600 million PCs next year. What did [the industry] sell in pads, 14 million?" says Phil McKinney, president and CTO of HP’s personal systems group. "Everyone’s trying to make it seem the conclusion has been decided. We’re still in the top of the first inning… I’m not much of a baseball person, but I always say that the first person up at bat can never hit a grand slam." Actually it’s the top of the second innings, and Apple has already went through the nine man batting order, scored eight runs, and
