Comments on: 18 iPads in one day: Australia’s April iPad pilgrimage

By: yowsers

yowsers — Fri, 07 May 2010 19:19:37 +0000

It’s a lovely political point you’ve made, but largely irrelevant. It’s an old argument by now, and in my experience those who make are biased against Apple regardless. If Apple was to fully open the iPhone OS or the App Store tomorrow, they’d find something else imminently objectionable. At some point you want them to cut the BS and simply admit they’re biased and that’s that.

Anyway, as to the irrelevancy of your observation: the App Store is north of 200,000 apps by now. Some developers complain to high heaven about the approval process and Apple’s veto power over their apps and so on. True enough. But at 200,000+ apps and expanding, there’s a lot of developers and hobbyists out there who seem to have little issue with it. They successfully coded and launched an app or three. The complainers are actually quite few in comparison, and quite loud, too.

I also think it’s more accurate to look at the iPod / iPhone / iPad like you would a Sony / MSFT / Nintendo device — it’s a console device, not an industrial tool like a general-purpose PC. Many who object to the iPhone OS devices can’t seem to get their minds around that point.

By: Renai LeMay

Renai LeMay — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:30:29 +0000

Hmm but the average joe isn’t going to learn how to run Citrix — whereas they can quite happily install an app on a Windows PC simply by downloading it. I just don’t agree with the lockdown — I like open platforms and standards.

By: Peter Holland

Peter Holland — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:29:10 +0000

“we wouldn’t accept it on a pc???” but we did, for many years. Apple control what you can run on an ipad. so you run citrix, and there is nothing apple can do to stop you… IBM did pretty well with lockdown of their pcs when they were the only pc. Microsoft did pretty well when there was windows or mac, no linux or unix interference. it is progressive. it will change, but it is new technology that needs its place in the sun before we can change its uses.

By: Renai LeMay

Renai LeMay — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:19:22 +0000

The thing that still concerns me tho is the vendor lock-in that will come back if the iPad succeeds in any major way … look at the way Apple has censored what apps can and can’t run on the iPhone. We wouldn’t accept that on a PC — why should we accept it on a phone — or an iPad?

By: Peter Holland

Peter Holland — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:31:17 +0000

The ipad will be very popular. the push by vendors into the ipad apps space will see to that. how many years since Autodesk had a product for the Mac? and now Sketchbook Pro is being ported for the ipad. It is the beginning of the revolution, hold on for dear life, the apple tablet has blown the PC vendors out of the water, by doing some things that they didn’t – It is innovative, technologically diverse, and most importantly, quoting from “Men in Black” “you know the difference between you and me? I make this look good” – it is sleek, sexy and still makes your heart race when you hold one…. and i have. briefly. had. to. let. it. go.

I will have one, one day. but the macbook pro, the iphone and all these things I am doing now are fine for the moment. for now. at least a week.

By: Renai LeMay

Renai LeMay — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:45:45 +0000

Truly I think Anthony got off lightly :) As for the iPads, I don’t expect them to be as popular as the iPhone, but I do expect them to be more popular than the Apple TV or the Mac Mini.

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By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:27:39 +0000

$500 Customs duty on 18 units of ipad? Not bad.

Would love to see how the mass market takes up the ipad after the initial early adopter rush.