Comments on: Apple’s Tim Cook shows the incredible growth rate of the iPad http://www.slashgear.com/apples-tim-cook-shows-the-incredible-growth-rate-of-the-ipad-14213494/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: CyberGusa http://www.slashgear.com/apples-tim-cook-shows-the-incredible-growth-rate-of-the-ipad-14213494/#comment-183902 CyberGusa Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:19:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=213494#comment-183902 In a way they made it popular, but the iPad isn’t a Tablet PC in the traditional sense. 

Basically, it’s like comparing a digital organizer like an old Sharp ZR5000 Zaurus with a UMPC like the Viliv N5, both may fit similar form factor but one is a far more basic device than the other.

A true Tablet PC can do pretty much anything a regular PC can, sans a keyboard, as it is a regular PC and just changes the primary UI to touch and/or digital pen.  While the iPad is basically a extra large iPhone, being based on the same hardware and OS. 

Doesn’t change that the iPad is easy and fun to use but you won’t ever be doing everything that you possibly can on say a MacBook Air, even if it was also configured as a tablet instead of a laptop.

So Apple just managed to make a popular tablet based device, which did in its way redefine the tablet game, but in the traditional sense it remains to be seen if anyone can make a popular full Tablet PC. Though the upcoming Windows 8 tablets may be the first to really make it.

]]> By: gorgeousninja http://www.slashgear.com/apples-tim-cook-shows-the-incredible-growth-rate-of-the-ipad-14213494/#comment-183901 gorgeousninja Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:14:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=213494#comment-183901 wow!!  I love the way some people can take the reality that we all know, and still try and twist it to suit their own personal vision because of how bitter they are..

In other news…

 The Egyptians invented star travel, Da Vinci created the iPod, the Ancient Greek Hoplites drove the worlds first tank, Android designed the iPhone, and Xerox built OSX etc etc

….Yawn!!!

]]> By: n900mixalot http://www.slashgear.com/apples-tim-cook-shows-the-incredible-growth-rate-of-the-ipad-14213494/#comment-183841 n900mixalot Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:58:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=213494#comment-183841 Yeah they made it popular.

]]> By: n900mixalot http://www.slashgear.com/apples-tim-cook-shows-the-incredible-growth-rate-of-the-ipad-14213494/#comment-183842 n900mixalot Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:58:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=213494#comment-183842 Yeah they made it popular.

]]> By: n900mixalot http://www.slashgear.com/apples-tim-cook-shows-the-incredible-growth-rate-of-the-ipad-14213494/#comment-183843 n900mixalot Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:58:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=213494#comment-183843 Yeah they made it popular.

]]> By: n900mixalot http://www.slashgear.com/apples-tim-cook-shows-the-incredible-growth-rate-of-the-ipad-14213494/#comment-183844 n900mixalot Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:58:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=213494#comment-183844 Yeah they made it popular.

]]> By: L http://www.slashgear.com/apples-tim-cook-shows-the-incredible-growth-rate-of-the-ipad-14213494/#comment-183825 L Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:44:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=213494#comment-183825 They not only made it popular, they redefined the tablet game. So yea it basically was the first o

]]> By: Ian Galbraith http://www.slashgear.com/apples-tim-cook-shows-the-incredible-growth-rate-of-the-ipad-14213494/#comment-183822 Ian Galbraith Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:43:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=213494#comment-183822 The ipad was not the first of its kind, tablets existed before the ipad. I looked at an Asus tablet at least 2 years before the ipad came out and thought that was the future. The ipad simply popularised it.

]]> By: Ian Galbraith http://www.slashgear.com/apples-tim-cook-shows-the-incredible-growth-rate-of-the-ipad-14213494/#comment-183823 Ian Galbraith Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:43:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=213494#comment-183823 The ipad was not the first of its kind, tablets existed before the ipad. I looked at an Asus tablet at least 2 years before the ipad came out and thought that was the future. The ipad simply popularised it.

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