A couple of things in that article stood out as particularly flawed:
"Meanwhile, Apple is getting ready to announce an entirely new iteration of its iPhone in three weeks — the tablet — that will likely make every other player in the market look like a laggard — again."
The tablet is aimed at a different niche than the "mobile phone/mp3 player" space. Very few are going to buy a tablet and ditch their phone.
"Why didn’t Google subsidize the Nexus One so it was half the price of an iPhone, instead of the same price?"
You could also argue that the tablet market is already interesting despite Apple -- e.g. Lenovo's Skylight, ChromeOS, other Android tablets (e.g. Archos') and even Nokia's venerable N800 series.
And that's ignoring fully Windows/Linux capable systems like Samsung's Q1's, and Viliv's range.
True. Although if Apple produces as much of a leap forward with its tablet as it did with the iPhone it'll probably make most of the existing market look archaic.
It is probably more likely that they don't see apple and the iphone as a direct threat and are instead trying to corner the market on the other three major phone networks in the US.
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A couple of things in that article stood out as particularly flawed:
"Meanwhile, Apple is getting ready to announce an entirely new iteration of its iPhone in three weeks — the tablet — that will likely make every other player in the market look like a laggard — again."
The tablet is aimed at a different niche than the "mobile phone/mp3 player" space. Very few are going to buy a tablet and ditch their phone.
"Why didn’t Google subsidize the Nexus One so it was half the price of an iPhone, instead of the same price?"
Perhaps because they like making money?
You could also argue that the tablet market is already interesting despite Apple -- e.g. Lenovo's Skylight, ChromeOS, other Android tablets (e.g. Archos') and even Nokia's venerable N800 series.
And that's ignoring fully Windows/Linux capable systems like Samsung's Q1's, and Viliv's range.
True. Although if Apple produces as much of a leap forward with its tablet as it did with the iPhone it'll probably make most of the existing market look archaic.
Perhaps because they like making money?
It is probably more likely that they don't see apple and the iphone as a direct threat and are instead trying to corner the market on the other three major phone networks in the US.