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- brodster
It’s an old pattern by now. Phase 1: Apple introduces some new gadget. The bloggers and the industry tell us why it’ll fail. Phase 2: It goes on sale. The public goes nuts for it. Phase 3: Every company and its brother gets to work on a copycat.
It happened with the iMac and the iPhone. Now the iPad is entering Phase 3. Apple sold 15 million iPads in nine months, so you can bet that 2011 will be the Year of the iPad Clone.
- Peter0
Cool story
- prophetone0
long live the newton
- ETM0
Long live the g4 cube. Long live the Pippin. Long live Mac portable. Long live Apple iii. Long Live Apple Lisa.
- list of forgotten failGeorgesII
- Lisa didn't fail! It became the Mac, dudemonospaced
- Dude, Lisa itself was a colossal commercial failure, regardless of what it evolved to.ETM
- inteliboy0
Long live nintendo.
- mg330
- doesnotexist0
you've observed a fact of humanity. bravo.
- antagonista0
you're just figuring this out?
- plash0
tablet devices have been around for a while,
i think what apple did was market and produce a great experience.giving them credit for inventing the tablet, or phone or computer is a little much for me.. as with your example above regarding the iMac and iPhone.. you DO know they didn't invent it..?
- i never replied to your email plash...how rude!Hombre_Lobo
- i dont even remember it.. =Pplash
- Hombre_Lobo0
^well said plash. a wise post in a pointless thread.
Apple aren't innovative in their products. People made tablets before them, people made touch screen phones before them, people made mp3 players before them.
But they are good at making idiot proof products (maybe that means their software and interfaces are innovative). And they are just unquestionably one of the best at marketing.
INNOVENT - Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock.
- Making the hardware is one thing. Yeah. But what Apple did was turn the tech into something useable. They definitely invented stuffmonospaced
- definitely "invented" a good touch interface and OS.monospaced