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The Coming Onslaught of iPad Competitors
harrymcc writes "The iPad is selling as well as it is in part because no large manufacturer has had a direct rival out yet. But boy, is that going to change in the next few months. Over at Technologizer, I rounded up known information on 32 current and future tablet computing devices, from potentially worthy iPad competitors to wannabees to interesting specialty devices. By early 2011 these things are going to be everywhere, and it'll be fascinating to see how they fare." Related: the tablet-type device I've been watching most eagerly, Notion Ink's Adam, seems to finally have a realistic manufacturing prediction and price range (by November; up to $498 for the version with 3G and Pixel Qi screen).
Why isn't the iPad designed for creating things, exactly? Who started this myth?
People who don't own iPads.
Then why aren't we all using Kin phones & Courier tablets? Why did those flame out spectacularly? Microsoft certainly has the money and power to market aggressively, and they've certainly shown that they're not shy about abusing power when they have it. Google certainly could have pushed the Nexus One much harder - for fuck's sake, they OWN online advertising, they are an ADVERTISING company - who has more power in that space than Google?
And if all these companies know it, please explain why Apple is the only one that seems to do it effectively? Because I'm sorry, but MSFT and GOOG both have deep enough pockets that they could easily match Apple's marketing. Why aren't we all using Nexus Ones and Zunes? Or is it just you, the random anonymous guy on Slashdot, and Apple who realizes this, and every other company competing with Apple is braindead?
Your fervent desire to hate Apple because "all they do is market" doesn't make that premise true.