Comments on: iPad as usable, non-programmer-oriented computing

By: susan

susan — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:16:18 +0000

Thats me either. a non programmer class but need powerful toys.

By: Gavin Costello

Gavin Costello — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:22:52 +0000

Well said Barry. I’ve read some right tosh from Geeks on twitter and elsewhere over the last few days on the subject. By their comments, you know they want it, but they want it on their terms. Unfortunately, their terms are not something which can be sold to the ‘masses’

By: Barry

Barry — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:22:26 +0000

> only the first two
> maybe, but remember that the iphone’s success was reaching a market that was 1) not mac fans and 2) not necessarily smartphone fans
> well, maybe. But they don’t have a computer, and they’re interested in this newfangled ‘email’ thing.
> http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2008/01/using-delicious-on-your-iphone.html

By: Joanne Jacobs

Joanne Jacobs — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:45:17 +0000

You may be right, but I’d argue that *Apple* think you *are* the target market. They are dividing their product range by:
-Communication devices (iPhone)
- Productivity devices (Macbook + desktop)
- Peripherals (highest growth area including everything from docks to usb conversion devices)
- Content devices (iPod, iPad).

You have all the above *except* the iPad. What Jobs wants is for Apple fans to accumulate more and more devices (and to update frequently).

My bet is your parents won’t use that iPad you buy for them. They’ll rather buy a paper and watch a tv. You, however, will find your iPod Touch is not as good as the idle iPad sitting at your parents’ place for reading the latest copy of some tech mag. You will suddenly find the iPad in your possession.

And THEN you’ll hate the lack of multitasking a pain as you read your blogs and can’t even tag posts to Delicious.

Cheers,
jj