Lenovo Says Apple Can't Dominate Tablet Market Forever

[Guest]

The previous commenters make me laugh.

It all boils down to whining about:

• "Apple makes overpriced crap" (Then why can't anybody else make it cheaper?*)

• "I can't figure out how/why people are stupid enough to be buying this stuff?" (Well aren't you smart then? Lonely, but smart.)

• "Wait 'till Windows x.y comes!" (Like Windows is going to come up with something that their ENTERPRISE customer base hasn't asked for.)

You guys don't seem to realize that Apple is playing in an entirely different arena, with an entirely different customer base.

Apple is a CONSUMER company not an ENTERPRISE company.

They don't give a fig about you, your opinions or your bitch-fest commentaries, just about what they can sell over the web and through their retail stores to your spouses, your kids and maybe even to you...

*) The answer to that question is that Apple isn't trying to use commodity hardware and off the shelf components packaged in standard equipment racks. The A4 and A5 chip sets are Apple's competitive advantage and they are quantitively different from x86 chip sets. They are also not available to anyone else that Apple.

 

[captaincharisma]

yea apple fanboys won't live forever no matter how much soy milk and greens they consume

 

[belardo]

If anything, HP proved the need for addressing the low-income market when it hacked the price of its TouchPad down to $99.99 and $149.99 over the weekend.

That much is very true. When Tablets of quality materials are able to be sold for $150~250 regularly, then it'll really be a mainstream product. Only the bottom end junk sells for that price range, which usually feels like crap, horrible low-res screen, bad touch sensor, short life span, small storage (4~8GB), short battery life.

Of course the 7" Color Nook comes in at $250, is a a quality product and is functional out of the box. But can be rooted to run full Android. But it doesn't have the feature set of normal modern tablets (2 cams, memory, bigger screen, higher performance CPU and memory). So we may get their in another 2 years.

Apple's iPad is not high priced... if that was true, Samsung, HP, Xoom and others would be selling their 16GB models for $300~350 as a regular price. Yet, even at Apple's $500 price - none of them are making the profit or sales of Apple.

 

[captaincharisma]

[citation][nom]nebun[/nom]if you compared crap with crap you will see that apple's crap is a better crap[/citation]

and its better how? is it because they got the sheep to keep buying there products no matter how small the improvements are over the previous one? or people who don't think twice before infecting there computers by installing itunes on it to use there products correctly?

also i will open this question out to the public:

would you get an iphone 4, a phone that is over a year old, for $150.00 or would you get an android phone like the nexus S that has been out for only 6 months for 50 bucks. if you choose th iphone at a price like that for how old it is then at this point you are are part of apples flock of sheep

 

[rosen380]

"No, a tablet is not a laptop. Dont even dream of doing everything you can do in a laptop or netbook in a device like an iPad. For one, it is extremely difficult to type in such a device. A tablet is suited for reading and surfing the web. Not for much more."

I've had an iPad for about a year and I'm typing on it much better now than I did a year ago. Not too different from how my texting skills have improved over the years. Not too different from getting accustomed to a touchpad after using a mouse for over a decade.

With use, you'll get better and better at typing on the virtual keyboards. I look at it where the relative near future would be decent and always improving typing on a tab device, plus a lightweight keyboard dock liek the Transformer, plus a wireless 'dock' connection to a kb/m + [multi]monitor setup, but where the tablet is the computer portion of all three.

Of course, the ~5% of people who need the extra horsepower for gaming and HD video editing and the like will always be looking at the current formats, since they will almost always need more power for those particular tasks than a tablet can provide.

 

[war2k9]

yea apple fanboys won't live forever no matter how much soy milk and greens they consume

I guest MS fanboys will live forever.

 

[schmich]

They will until companies like Lenovo don't make their products cheaper or totally different from the iPad in terms of usefulness. Right now a tablet is still a tablet. At least Asus is trying to do something with the keyboard.

 

[Guest]

Lenovo CEO don't understand Apple's secret sauce. The success of Apple is in it simple product line.

Lenovo Thinkpad notebooks have too much models. This lead to confusion at first view from customers. While Apple notebook model is simple, there now only have two models, air and pro.

Please read the following article to have a better understanding of Apple business model:
Apple's secret sauce: A simple product line
http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/22/apples-success-solution-a-simple-product-line/

 

[Benihana]

"With a $500 price you cannot go to the small cities, townships, low salary class, low income class."

That's what I thought when the first iPad came out, but lo and behold I see whole families on medicaid technically in poverty with multiple iPads.

 

[Elsapo]

[citation][nom]wuen[/nom]Lenovo CEO don't understand Apple's secret sauce. The success of Apple is in it simple product line.Lenovo Thinkpad notebooks have too much models. This lead to confusion at first view from customers. While Apple notebook model is simple, there now only have two models, air and pro.Please read the following article to have a better understanding of Apple business model:Apple's secret sauce: A simple product linehttp://techcrunch.com/2009/01/22/a [...] duct-line/[/citation]

Apples secret sauce is the us media. When they have a new product there's no need for them to advertise... US media makes sure it's a buzz word.

 

[leeashton]

I have never ever in my life had an apple product, yet i bet everyone here who says i dont own an apple product have done so in the past