Interesting screen shot from mashable: http://mashable.com/2011/03/02/tablet-comparison-infographic/
now... Apple historically gets hurt in the price battle, but this time they seem to lead pretty nicely. They also tend to get long term damage by being too proprietary and as open, cheaper systems flood the market, they get driven out.
The thing that keeps me from just standing in line for 8 hours to buy an iPad 2 is this http://www.macworld.com/article/151397/2010/05/word_ipad.html.
Yeah... I like to do word processing on my device and I like to have it be compatible. Am I a relic of the past? Am I an irrelevant dinosaur? Maybe so...
However, none of those other devices can do that easily either. So now, I'm left with this thought:
will the war for the next generation device be access driven. What I mean is, will things like Google Apps start to dominate because they are platform agnostic and live in the cloud? Once that happens, I don't really care which OS I use. If that starts to happen, all the other software developers will just offer "cloudified" versions of all their stuff - and to their advantage. Finally, they can fight off piracy without crushing user access. They can bill you as a service provider (i.e. ongoing fees). They can control versions, patches, fixes. Wow! They can offer instant rewards, track behavior, advertise.
In short... all the wonderful things online, service companies have been doing for years.
Is the end of software-in-a-box-on-my-local-machine coming to an end?
Will this coincide with the inevitable rise of pad computing?
Either way, I think long term the guys who make closed proprietary systems will lose, but it's not really hard to change your mind if you own the market. Maybe apple will win this battle after all, with or without Steve Jobs.
Interesting, Hermann. There's no real corollary, but I wonder if ongoing fees for say, Google apps, would really be acceptable, considering the way subscription games are transforming into f2p games. I wonder if instead, we'll get the basic app essentially free, then MTX the individualized features we want to support E.g. a flat fee or no fee for the "apps platform" then MTX style purchases to add "database" or "reporting" or something.
We live in an interesting time, right now. We stand smack dab in the interstice between the old world of boxed goods and whatever new world this wave of ubiquitous connectivity will give us, but I'm not at all convinced we can describe the shape of things to come, yet. (Yet, I try every day. Permit a bored pseudo-intellectual his indulgences! ;) )
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