Here is my idea of a runaway hit for the iPad. 1) Make it multitask apps - you'll see why in a minute 2) Negotiate with College Textbook publishers for ebooks of all textbooks - $50 a pop - way cheaper than the printed ones, but COGS is low 3) Have a decent note taking app 4) Have a small, decent word processor 5) sell to college students instead of a laptop
I have two girls in college. Books are outrageous in price. The battery life of the iPad and ebooks would work perfectly for them. Beyond lots of web surfing/social networking, just lightweight word processing is needed. The appeal of the iPad would be embraced by that group. The price is a no brainer because I wouldn't have to buy them a laptop and the cost of college texts would more than pay for the device the first year. -- Best regards, Bruce Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 1:09:35 PM, you wrote: MR> John Sessoms wrote: >>From: Godfrey DiGiorgi >>> damm funny >>> >>> http://scottbourne.com/post/368750997/q-a-with-scott-bourne-about-the-ipad >> >>I guess you had to be there. >> >>I will NOT being an ipad. Has nothing to do with my disdain for Apple >>the corporation. Although I have that in plenty. >> >>It's simply because the ipad doesn't do anything for me I can't already >>do with my existing laptop, and the ipad can't do a lot of things I can >>do with my laptop ... like connect a USB card reader. MR> In all seriousness, I think the iPad has a lot of potential for MR> photographers, as Scott Bourn points out in his posts about it. The MR> second generation of the device will probably have a USB connection MR> and likely an SD slot as well, if only because there will be MR> competitors with these features by then (Scott's downplaying of this MR> shortcoming strikes me not as Apple fanboyism but just the MR> rationalization of anyone delighted with a new toy). The inability to MR> show raw files will probably be overcome through software very soon. MR> What Apple's done *right* is what Google always does right: Start with MR> very *few* features and add stuff gradually as experience and MR> real-life use demonstrate how it's used and what its strong and weak MR> points are. Too many companies start with by throwing everything into MR> a new product to see what sticks <cough>Sony<cough>. MR> This looks like a classic case of "wait until the early adopters pay MR> the high prices of the first-generation product and let them fund the MR> R&D for the better and cheaper second-gen device". :) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
