Tablet vendors 'quake in fear' over iPad 2
No specs, please, we're Taiwanese
There are, alas, no direct comments from vendors to back up the claim, but computer manufacturers quiver in trepidation over what Apple may announce early next year.
The cause of all their collective spinal shivers and hair-whitening? The iPad 2.
According to Taiwanese newswire DigiTimes, the launch of the next iPad is "expected to seriously weaken" other vendors' media tablet propositions.
Samsung and Toshiba have, of course, already got their tablets out of the door, and are undoubtedly hoping buoyant Christmas sales from anti-fans and anyone who thinks the current iPad is too expensive.
But that leaves dozens of vendors who won't be releasing their tablets until 2011 - Rim, Motorola, Acer, Asus, LG to name but five - and are likely to go bang up against iPad 2.
Worse, if Apple plays true to form, having established a high end foothold with the first iPad, it will push the second-gen product downmarket, as it did with the iPhone 3G. The new model, then, will be lighter, cheaper and more functional.
It's likely to be a proposition only the most Apple-phobic of tablet buyers will be able to resist with ease. We shall see. ®
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COMMENTS
Sir Berners-Lee's right
The Internet is going in reverse. All these so-called apps are just a way to lock people in proprietary technologies. And the thought-slavery industry, aka Big Media, cannot believe its luck and are peddling these so-called apps because they benefit from fragmentation (walls, pay walls or otherwise). In short, the iPad is the instrument of satan.
Eh?
"Samsung and Toshiba have, of course, already got their tablets out of the door, and are undoubtedly hoping buoyant Christmas sales from anti-fans and anyone who thinks the current iPad is too expensive."
Remind me how much the Samsung offering costs?
Indeed
I'm excited by the prediction that the next one will be lighter, faster and cheaper. Where do these insights come from! :-)
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