Comments on: Flashback: How Was the iPod Received in 2001? (Not Well.) http://www.geekosystem.com/ipod-2001-ipad-bad-reviews/ Let Yr Geek Flag Fly Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=2012.06 By: optotyper http://www.geekosystem.com/ipod-2001-ipad-bad-reviews/#comment-59 optotyper Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:51:53 +0000 http://www.geekosystem.com/?p=1858#comment-59 I think the initial iPod comments were spot on: over-priced and underfeatured. At the time of it's launch, Creative Labs and other companies had already laid heavy groundwork in digital audio players with their Nomad lines. Plus, the iPod never really took off until the advent of the iTunes Store in 2003 with the addition of Windows support giving it 2 years to flounder around with 2 catch-up iterations. With the iPad, the playing field for slate-based devices is still relatively nubile with a lot of prototypes and concepts floating around, but still no solution on the categorical straddling of superphone/watered-down laptop. I think the iPad as we know it now will be niche, but it won't be until version 2 (if GOOD competition prods them) or 3 (if the JooJoo flops and the HP Slate fail) will the iPad evolve into something that deserves the hype. I think the initial iPod comments were spot on: over-priced and underfeatured. At the time of it’s launch, Creative Labs and other companies had already laid heavy groundwork in digital audio players with their Nomad lines. Plus, the iPod never really took off until the advent of the iTunes Store in 2003 with the addition of Windows support giving it 2 years to flounder around with 2 catch-up iterations.

With the iPad, the playing field for slate-based devices is still relatively nubile with a lot of prototypes and concepts floating around, but still no solution on the categorical straddling of superphone/watered-down laptop. I think the iPad as we know it now will be niche, but it won’t be until version 2 (if GOOD competition prods them) or 3 (if the JooJoo flops and the HP Slate fail) will the iPad evolve into something that deserves the hype.

]]> By: Glenn Davis http://www.geekosystem.com/ipod-2001-ipad-bad-reviews/#comment-34 Glenn Davis Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:04:38 +0000 http://www.geekosystem.com/?p=1858#comment-34 Makes me think about my own lukewarm iPad reaction. I especially love the "present economic climate" line, which almost seems like a parody of, well, the present economic climate (of 2010). Makes me think about my own lukewarm iPad reaction. I especially love the “present economic climate” line, which almost seems like a parody of, well, the present economic climate (of 2010).

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