The Hunt.
Apple iPad... Until a week back i never knew, Apple's gonna be announcing the next big thing to the world. Thanks to Youtube again for giving me hints on this one which made me freak out until i get to know what it is. I started my hunt to get a glimpse of the picture of the Apple's surprise, before it was going to be publicly announced and i did get it and was simply waiting tht it cud be real. And Apple's tight lipped strategy, made the enthusiasits imagination go wild and everyone started creating their own version of Apple's next product (Probably their idea might be Apple may listen and recruit them). If you are in Tamil Nadu, its like Rajni's next movie, tight lipped about the story, and the rumours go around creating a 1000 versions of the movie. But the truth is one rumour is always real.
The invite
Everyone where aware that Apple is making a tablet pc, and its called iSlate or iPad. Even Microsoft and HP are working together and unveiled what they call HP slate with windows 7 on it. 27 Jan 2010- Apple decided to announce it to the world with an simple invite that says "Come see our latest invention". Wow what an humble invite from the worlds most admired company.
The Apple iPad making
Apple call it the iPad. Apple has spent years in creating and perfecting the iPhone and its almost at the peak of its glory now. It has created one of the biggest communities ever in human history and who have made 140,000 Apps for just iphone. and iPod forced the music industry to work the iTunes way. Some say HTC pioneered the touch technology and nokia was the last to adopt it i dont deny it but who reaps the benefit of the technology. So Apple did guess touch screens is going to be the future or force it to be the future. In my opinion, Apple never eats any competition, they just create a new a space for them. Apple doesnt make a 100s of products every year. They made iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch. Coming back to iPhone, Apple wanted to tone it down and gave the iPod Touch to us which was iPhone - Phone - Camera to cater to the entertainment world. And no doubt it was a huge hit.
Now what..
Apple created a revolutionary new technology product, and obviously they had to leverage on it. So ipods priced at USD 300 , iphones priced at USD 500 - 700, Macs priced at USD 800 - 1000. If u did remove the iPhone from the portfolio there is a huge gap. If u ask 100 people an simple question what do u do most with an computer, 80% are likely to reply Browse, Watch movies, listen to music, play games. This is when people started encouraging netbooks(Asus started it and every1 including Sony, Dell, HP, Acer where in the league but not apple), which were nofrills laptop at the price of laptop and gives these facilities. But something was missing, its still an smaller version of laptop.
So what if Apple gave something at the price of an netbook, something more attractive and does all the basic things. iPad is born. Bigger than iphone unlocked 3 g enabled versopns. It has all the basic features tht one would expect and at a price spot on, its gonna be 100% success.it is going to create a new spce for itself.
