Best advice for those wanting iPad

On 08/04/10 7:44 PM, ray wrote:
On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:09:40 -0700, RichA wrote:

Wait for HP to release its version. No USB port Apple? Are you THAT
paranoid about content control??

Half a netbook for over twice the price - what's the point?

There are several points:

1. $15 or $30/month data service, with unlimited service for half of
what Verizon and AT&T charge for 5GB on a laptop.

2. An apps store filled with low cost games and other content.

3. 10 hours of battery life, something no laptop or netbook can match.

4. An attempt to expand the market share of the iPhone OS.

Bottom line, despite the iPhone's success, it still is far behind the
two dominant mobile phone OSes in terms of market share, and Android is
growing at a much faster rate. Apple needs to quickly increase market
penetration of their mobile OS before Android can dominate. That's why
they're finally coming out with a Verizon version of the
iPhone--ignoring the largest U.S. carrier, that has the largest and
fasted 3G network, is no longer going to work because Android devices
will fill the void if Apple doesn't act quickly.

On 2010-04-09 15:28:48 -0700, SMS said:

On 08/04/10 7:44 PM, ray wrote:
On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:09:40 -0700, RichA wrote:

Wait for HP to release its version. No USB port Apple? Are you THAT
paranoid about content control??

Half a netbook for over twice the price - what's the point?

There are several points:

1. $15 or $30/month data service, with unlimited service for half of
what Verizon and AT&T charge for 5GB on a laptop.

2. An apps store filled with low cost games and other content.

3. 10 hours of battery life, something no laptop or netbook can match.

4. An attempt to expand the market share of the iPhone OS.

Bottom line, despite the iPhone's success, it still is far behind the
two dominant mobile phone OSes in terms of market share, and Android is
growing at a much faster rate. Apple needs to quickly increase market
penetration of their mobile OS before Android can dominate. That's why
they're finally coming out with a Verizon version of the
iPhone--ignoring the largest U.S. carrier, that has the largest and
fasted 3G network, is no longer going to work because Android devices
will fill the void if Apple doesn't act quickly.

Largest? Maybe. Fastest? Definitely not. In many areas, Verizon's 3G
creeps along at a rate barely better than AT&T's Edge network. It is
all right, I guess, for Verizon's marketing people to cherry pick a
couple markets and claim "fastest," but on any objective level it
simply is not true.

As for market share, one thing to keep in mind is how people actually
use their phones. For example, iPhone's browser share of use is 64% in
the US. That is, iPhone's browser gets used more than twice as much as
all other phone browsers combined. What does that tell you about
usability? Android's OS market share has come entirely at the expense
of RIM and Windows.

iPhone is hardly far behind the two dominant mobile phone OSes in terms
of market share. The February 2010 AdMob put iPhone's worldwide (and,
let's face it, the US is not the dominant market in Smartphones) market
share of Smartphones at 50%. You cannot be 50% and be behind anyone,
let alone two other OSes. Android was 24% and Symbian was 18% (down
from 43% in February 2009).

Android is gaining rapidly, but it remains to be seen whether it will
continue to gain so rapidly in the face of iPhone 4.0.

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Waddling Eagle
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