I read one article the other day that made a lot of sense. The author said that devices need to become simpler, not more complicated. They need to do less things and do them very well, not many things but not very well or in need of a lot of knowledge.whyterabbyt wrote:The iPhone is a phone. The iPod and iPad arent. They're 'mobile devices'. And Apple have already put them in the some sort of frame of mind of being something that gets OS updates and application installations and suchlike, just like their computer. The culture is that its a device you do maintain, unlike the 'non-smart' mobile phone model. Hell, it even mandates a certain amount of 'maintenance' on your 'real' computer in that you may need to even keep iTunes up to date...xh3rv wrote:And to reiterate a point I really want to emphasize, I think people have long accepted hardware conflicts on PCs, but I just don't see people being that tolerant of hardware conflicts on phones. It's a phone, it should make calls and not require a whole lot of maintenance.
The iPad is not a device to replace a PC. It's a device for people who want to do a certain task without having to go through a struggle to make it work properly. And if you think the other devices work properly already and people have no problems with them, you are very wrong. Go to any tech support line and see for yourself. You may all be tech-minded and good at getting this machines going, but most people aren't. And the last thing they want is to fight a platform or hardware.
People are trying to judge the iPad as a personal computer as we know it, but there is no one-to-one comparison possible. It's a new sort of device and people are clearly having problems grasping it.
