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It was reported to be the most important thing ever done by Steve Jobs & Apple so when the iPad was officially revealed it was like a Fat Elvis took the stage.
I was equally dismissive of the Nexus One being branded a Google phone along with being called a Super Phone, but that was more of a coming out event rather than a legend taking the stage to one up himself.
The iPhone, like Elvis, was indeed revolutionary in breaking down barriers and setting new standards which has to be admitted by all, regardless if you like either’s “music”.
As an Android advocate I respect the iPhone for what it started but believe that Android is passing it by like Elvis performing in the age of Disco.
PC World wrote earlier in the week that the iPhone itself is a Fat Elvis while Android is The Beatles.
Interestingly Elvis did snear to President Nixon that The Beatles represented a negative pop culture trend, perhaps due to their OPENNESS.
The rise of Open Sourced Android along with HTML5 & Flash threaten to undermine Apple’s peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwiches provided by the iPhone and App Store so it had to take the stage again to change the battlefield, or dinner table, to something else.
A Fat Elvis then proceeded to take the stage with high expectations & banking on previous successes while providing an underwhelming performance that was a shadow of its past.
The iPad, like Elvis ,continued to sing the same old songs like it does with AT&T & no Flash support.
Interesting that the development kit for the iPad is called iPhone SDK 3.2 but won’t actually work on its namesake, the iPhone itself.
Elvis fans like Apple fan boys will continue to overpay for anything associated with that brand and claiming others are simply impersonators all the while never believing it actually died on a toilet.
Of course this post wouldn’t be complete without the MadTV skit on the iPad about half a decade ago in 2006
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yeah beatles….
Elvis, has left the building folks.
I was trying to find better commercials, but here is IBM OS/2 Warp (1995) beating the Apple iPad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h_7-6bYwGg
Chad,
Wow OS2 – blast from the past.
So 15 years later Apple still can't figure out multitasking in an energy & processing efficient way for mobile devices?
As an advocate and a fan of the iPhone, I am not sure what to make of the iPad as it stands right now. But one only needs to look into the past and see how the iPod was being dismissed, and still managed to dominate the market.
What I would like to see with the iPad is that it truly becomes a replacement for all textbooks that students must carry around at universities, elementary, middle, and high schools. Furthermore, I believe something that Apple has not revealed (or perhaps wishful thinking) is that iPad can become (with iBooks) a truly remarkable tool for unknown authors to self publish their books (like podcasts on iTunes). I would however not dismiss the iPad out the gate without seeing what will come soon, much like I will not dismiss the Android phones in the US that lack multi-touch out the gate (I know you can add it yourself). iPad is not made for geeks, it is made for the masses. If Android wants to compete well (which they are doing in marketing, but not in ease of use UI and apps), they need to tailor it to the masses instead of the tech bloggers, or geeks alike.
Yashar,
I agree the iPad may take off but it is certainly not revolutionary like the iPhone was and at best its evolutionary.
Apple does dumb things down for the masses and overcharges to compensate for its controls, but Android is evolving and proliferating from its "geek" core just as Microsoft had done in gaining a dominant share of the OS market.
Don't worry the "iPad comes with a vaginal firewalll"…. pwahahah
I'm amused with people's assumption that Apple cannot "figure out" how to do multitasking on the iPhone? It seems pretty obvious (to me at least) that there must have been a HW/stack limitation having to do with Graphics or something so you cannot have multiple apps open.
Nothing else really makes sense.
They need to EOL the original HWs from updates to the software and then they can introduce it with corrected HW/SW stack.
They started EOL'ing the first generation iPhone as of the iPhone 3.0 OS (not all features are available on an updated iPhone). Perhaps the next major OS release will continue that and will eventually be able to add multitasking once the iPhone 3G (or 3GS) is the base supported hardware config.
Christopher,
My sense is that in dumbing the iPhone/iPad for the masses they purposely left out multitasking to remove confusion from users why it seems to slow down or overflows – One would think they could figure out garbage collecting that Android does fairly well.