because people want to be cool. Most people I know use about 20% of smartphone capability. I drive standard and the benefits outweigh the automatics drawbacks.( for another thread)
ya it would be good in the kitchen to look up recipes etc. or in the game room etc. u gotta think..it's 500 dollars..for an average person thats a lot of money. for a phone people have convinced themselves that they need it..but for an additional device like this?
Exactly. It's a great multipurpose device for those that have the luxury. But it's just not a core device. It's not going to replace your phone, or your laptop, or your e-reader (for those that read a lot). So it's really primarily going to appeal to people want another device on top of the ones they already have.
'meh' on the tablet for me. I'm sure it's a nice device (improved iTunes and the bookstore are interesting) but there's nothing that pulls me toward it being particularly useful for me. Maybe after a couple of iterations have passed. If I make the move for an ereader, I'd still look toward a Kindle (provided they drop the price now). I'm much more interested in the next version of the iPhone, whenever they put out some info on that.
How do yall think this will affect Apple's stock price. It's currently selling at 207 dollars per share, and I'm willing to bet over the next 3 months it will go up to about 220 dollars a share easily. I personally think the tablet will not be very popular because its just a big ass itouch, but apple has a very loyal following so thats why i think it will sell good raising apples ticker price.
I think it will hurt their stock price once their sales don't materialize. They'll sell a lot initially, but probably not as much as expected, and their long-term sales will be pitiful.
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You can't keep up with NBA scores and watch a video on Hulu at the same time. Oh wait no flash. Well, you can't listen to Pandora and video conference at the same time. Oh wait, no video camera! Maybe you're right, multi-tasking isn't that important!
Even if people don't buy this product, they will still buy the iphone. So how will this hurt their stock. Its not like another company is taking revenue away from them. This is all marginal revenue. It will not hurt them if it doesn't sell as well as the iphone or ipod. You guys are saying that it will not replace your laptop or iphone. That is a good thing for apple. The last thing they want to do is cannibalize their cash cows. This is not Dell coming out with a 500 dollar laptop that prevents people for from buying their 2000 dollar laptop. This is a new market. A new niche which is all gravy to apple.
The stock price reflects a certain expectation of sales levels - it's already priced in (or will be soon). If they don't meet those sales levels, the stock would drop as a result.
Well they priced it correctly. The $499 has larger memory than the Kindle DX at the same screen size. Only slightly larger and heavier. The bad thing is it will have serious glare as all Apple products have super glossy, non-business screens so reading outside or with a lamp will be a problem. I think the good news is the Kindle DX will drop in price. The real test for me will be how does the 10 hours battery life claimed really work. Most laptops are over rated and the Kindle DX has it destroyed in this area. I think if you just do a ton of reading and don't need color the Kindle DX is still the way to go. I love this tablet form factor though. If the 10 hour battery life is using the lowest of low background light and no wireless, I think 6 hours is realistic for real world usage.
Confidence in a company drops if their new products aren't selling. If Windows 7 sucked, would Microsoft stock drop? Yes, it would. Sure, people are still buying their operating systems (XP and Vista), but because their ingenuity is lacking, confidence in the company goes down. Stocks drop on confidence, not hard sales figures (though poor sales hurt confidence, too). If the cost going into producing this tablet are larger than the revenue it generates, then they'd be in the red for it, too. Who knows? Yeah, the iPhone sold, but the MacBook Air didn't do too well. Products are hit/miss. Anecdotal evidence of one product's success does not mean anything for a new product's success. The iPad has nothing revolutionary. Nothing jaw-dropping. Nothing that makes you scream "holy crap, that's awesome, I must have one!" It has nothing your iPhone can't do (arguably). Nothing your laptop can't do. Nothing your desktop computer can't ti. As discussed earlier, there's not much of a reason for people to buy it other than the "coolness" factor. That's why I can't see it selling. That's why I think stockholders will lose confidence in Apple's ability to innovate. They're hit their targets for innovation frequently ever since the iPod, but remember that they really missed on everything prior to that for 10-15 years (maybe the iMac was a hit, I guess). I think Apple's peaked and they're now in a rut from which they're showing no interest in escaping.
if apple wants to make more money..just open up the iphone to the other carriers instead of being in love with att. how much surfing can one do without flash? adobe already has flash ready but apple refuses to implement it. go figure.
Also worth noting - and oddly, something that Amazon doesn't promote - is that if you turn the WiFi off (and really, you only need it when downloading new books), the Kindle will go for a really, really long time without charge. I've gone a month before, reading at least 1-2 hours a night.
So you're saying that people who have iPhones, BlackBerry, Android just use 20% of its capability? Meaning they don't surf the web? Listen to music? Watch videos?
that's exactly what I'm saying. For every jailbreaker phone user there are 20 that think google is the internet users. I know this because my brother tells me his T-mobile horror stories. He does customer service.
