The iPad, Your Newest Workplace Productivity Enhancer

Damocles said:
And most of those people will seek an improvement before they purchase an iPad. It won't be the game-changer you predict until they actually improve it from the retarded iPhone that it is now.
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wow hateraid drinker. In my mind with EXPERTS calling it a winner left and right and outselling the category leaders history before launch is very near game changer. I hope your skepticism is widely felt in a backlash come Monday cause the stock might hit $300 in a year or two. Have you used an iphone for surfing?
 
Topper, just because you own stock in a company doesn't mean you have to start evangelizing everything they do.

This thing isn't the greatest thing since the iPhone, because it IS an iPhone, without the phone, larger, unwieldy, and not enough of an improvement to sell like the phone did.

I like Apple, I own the stock, I don't plan on selling it. However that doesn't mean I have to stop thinking and praise them for everything they do, even when it doesn't make sense.
 
Damocles said:
Topper, just because you own stock in a company doesn't mean you have to start evangelizing everything they do.

This thing isn't the greatest thing since the iPhone, because it IS an iPhone, without the phone, larger, unwieldy, and not enough of an improvement to sell like the phone did.
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I'm an applefangranpaw no doubt, that's why I bout the stock. I don't pump my other great investments, oil, T, mrk, mo.

the jesus phone was a game inventor not changer, I have zero doubt's they will sell millions of ipad's even if it's only on iphone's coattails.
It's a current event, you need to vomit hateraid is comical. Peace
 
Topspin said:
I'm an applefangranpaw no doubt, that's why I bout the stock. I don't pump my other great investments, oil, T, mrk, mo.

the jesus phone was a game inventor not changer, I have zero doubt's they will sell millions of ipad's even if it's only on iphone's coattails.
It's a current event, you need to vomit hateraid is comical. Peace
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*sigh*

When they improve it enough to make it a "game-changer" I'll buy it, until then I'll expose what I think is a poor decision to early-release before they had something to crow about. It's going to be like ME, in that it was touted as the next great thing since sliced bread and won't live up to its hype. I don't like that, because I like Apple. This will bump sales for a short period, but won't draw in anybody but the technophiles because it isn't the predicted "game-changer" yet.
 
Damocles said:
*sigh*

When they improve it enough to make it a "game-changer" I'll buy it, until then I'll expose what I think is a poor decision to early-release before they had something to crow about. It's going to be like ME, in that it was touted as the next great thing since sliced bread and won't live up to its hype. I don't like that, because I like Apple. This will bump sales for a short period, but won't draw in anybody but the technophiles because it isn't the predicted "game-changer" yet.
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Have you used an Iphone for a couple hours of browsing?
 
Damocles said:
Yes. Have you used the Droid for any time?
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No, but the droid is 2years after the iphone party. All jokes aside I'm glad a rich guy apple shareholder like you has this much doubt. Because if I'm right I'll get that pullback and make a few thousand more on the stock.
I have zero to say bad about Droid or any other phone. I know I used a shitty palm and compaq pre iphone and to me a stock trader goofball on the go it was like going from a mopad to a harley.
 
I believe that the iPad early release is due to Apple's desire to sell the iPhone on more than one network. This allowed them to open it up to more than one network while still promising AT&T "exclusivity".

I think AT&T got the short end of this stick for the reasons that I posted.
 
Apple needs to change its own game. They are far too controlling of their customers. I will go with the Google or even MS devices over those Nazi bastards. The open approach is going to win.
 
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Damocles said:
I believe that the iPad early release is due to Apple's desire to sell the iPhone on more than one network. This allowed them to open it up to more than one network while still promising AT&T "exclusivity".

I think AT&T got the short end of this stick for the reasons that I posted.
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Prob so, but I bet AT&T never thought they'd get 2 billion a year revenue from the iphone. Many will stay and the explosion of the market means other phones to use on their beafed up system. I like the dividend and will hold AT&T for a while.
 
RStringfield said:
Apple needs to change it's own game. They are far too controlling of their customers. I will go with the Google or even MS devices over those Nazi bastards. The open approach is going to win.
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75% of iphone users are former apple customers. With itunes and app store, apple doesn't need and shouldn't go open. That's commodity, apple gets premium prices.
 
Topspin said:
75% of iphone users are former apple customers. With itunes and app store, apple doesn't need and shouldn't go open. That's commodity, apple gets premium prices.
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Do you think that is ALL a good stat? I would think it would prove better for them to show some appeal to new customers. To me Apple is for the image conscious-wannabe-technophile and I don't see any sign that that will change.

Their products seem to be well made, but their attempt to control just reduces their usefulness. Apple can continue to do well on the cutting edge but they are going to lose out once the product market matures because of their attempts to control.
 
The Ipad is going to sell just because it has an Apple sticker on it. It's not going to be a breakaway star like the Ipod or Iphone though.
 
RStringfield said:
Do you think that is ALL a good stat? I would think it would prove better for them to show some appeal to new customers. To me Apple is for the image conscious-wannabe-technophile and I don't see any sign that that will change.

Their products seem to be well made, but their attempt to control just reduces their usefulness. Apple can continue to do well on the cutting edge but they are going to lose out once the product market matures because of their attempts to control.
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In some senses, the limited and simple design of the IPod made sense.

If I'm going to use something as my main computer, though, I want it to be fully functional. The IPad just seems like an expensive kiddy computer.
 
open would make it a commodity, they get premium prices. That's not going to change.
ipad is not designed to replace a destktop or a notebook used for work, it will create a new inbetween category and will sell in the millions. IMO
 
We don't need four different levels of computing power. A laptop and a smartphone should be enough for everyone. If you're a gamer, a desktop makes sense as well. I can't think of any real application for a product between a smartphone and a laptop. They should have aimed for a lighter, more intuitive laptop, not something in between smartphone and laptop.
 
you all may be right, but the odds are in favor of jobs. He's sold more pre release than kindle has the whole time it's been out. I think it will penetrate the workforce way more than Iphone. Time will tell
 
Topspin said:
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Apple (AAPL) has largely pitched the iPad as an ideal way to consume media in all its many forms. Books, games, movies, magazines—step right up, folks, we've got it all for you in one magical device!

For the iPad to be truly revolutionary—Steve Jobs' word—it'll have to do a lot more than be a better e-book reader. The real promise of the device is that it has a chance to redefine what we think of as personal computing. And that has implications not just for Apple's own Macintosh business but for Microsoft's (MSFT), Google's (GOOG), and just about everyone else's.

For business users and others looking for a new productivity tool, the pound-and-a-half iPad offers a marriage of the always-connected ultra-portability of a wireless phone with the power and flexibility of a laptop or even a desktop PC. "I think this is the new Mac, I really do," says Marc Benioff, chairman and chief executive officer of salesforce.com (CRM). "People aren't going to want Macs anymore. I think people won't want laptops anymore once they see what's really possible on great tablets."

It's safe to say no one at Apple, least of all Jobs, is eager to see the demise of its $999-and-up line of Mac laptops and desktops. (Apple declined to comment for this story.) But there are plenty of potential business customers who seem as ready to shift platforms as Benioff. More than half the people surveyed recently by Zogby International said they would use a tablet device such as the iPad for working outside the office, according to software maker Sybase (SY), which commissioned the poll. "Clearly, the iPad has a role to play in the business market," says Charlie Wolf, a Needham & Co. analyst who has a buy rating on Apple. "The demand appears to be far more diverse than I originally expected."

At $499 for the base model with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, the iPad is in the same price ballpark as netbooks, the underpowered miniature laptops that run Microsoft Windows. True, the iPad has much less local storage—from 16 to 64 gigabytes of solid-state memory depending on the model, vs. the 160-gigabyte hard drive found on your typical netbook. What the iPad lacks in storage it tries to make up for with connectivity, which, for mobile business users, suggests the need for 3G service. That adds $130 to the cost of the unit, plus $15 or $30 a month for the data plans being offered by AT&T (T).
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Translation: Hey everyone, I just bought some more stock in Apple, please buy more of their shit so I do better, mmmkay thanks.
 
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