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Let's see. Who has "Check Mate"d who?? CheckMate is the end of a chess game where one side unambigously wins over the other.
If anything the game is just beginning.
Oh yeah and what is "Google's Next move?" Does the author ever make that clear? Or did he just throw it into the title for effect?
It is weird to see "75,000,000 people already know how to use it" as a selling point for a device that is also sold as extremely intuitive to use.
It is weird to see "75,000,000 people already know how to use it" as a selling point for a device that is also sold as extremely intuitive to use.
Similarly, while iPad lays clear Apple's ambition to pursue the e-book market aggressively (they demonstrated a nice iBooks player and added an iBook Store to complement the iTunes and App Store marketplaces), they demonstrated virtually nothing that harnesses the touch, tilt, rich media and programmatic elements that they can bring to the re-invention of print media. I'm looking forward to downloading and running th…
It is weird to see "75,000,000 people already know how to use it" as a selling point for a device that is also sold as extremely intuitive to use.
> (and I still very much believe that Apple TV is due for a near-term reboot to plug into the same ecosystem). How would that work? All of the other devices are based on a touch interface. Is Apple going to break into the television market with a multi-touch TV? Not to mention that all of the Apps are based on the touch interface, so you would have a hard time using them out of the box on an iPhoneOS-based Apple TV.
A good article, but I think it misses one important point: the eventual commoditization of devices like this. Apple's entire touch screen platform does look compelling for non-techs, but there will be a raft of very inexpensive similar devices hitting the market, and I still think that lower cost will win the most market share (eventually).
In the same way the iPod range has been crushed by generic MP3 players?
On the other hand, businesses generally buy PCs because they're far cheaper, but the market for MP3 players in a business context is basically non-existent, whereas it's potentially huge for the tablet market, so that's another mark against Apple.
It'll be interesting to see how it all turns out.
> (and I still very much believe that Apple TV is due for a near-term reboot to plug into the same ecosystem). How would that work? All of the other devices are based on a touch interface. Is Apple going to break into the television market with a multi-touch TV? Not to mention that all of the Apps are based on the touch interface, so you would have a hard time using them out of the box on an iPhoneOS-based Apple TV.