Apple's iPad Could Kill The Mac

Would this be considered patricide or just the natural order of things.....progression without feeling for your ancestor? Well I for one hope not. I still have friends with Macs and I haven't used up all of my jokes yet.

Netbooks and nettops have been popular in the Windows world, and it looks like Apple will try to seize some of those buyers with iPhone OS-running mini-PCs. (The iPad is just the first.) If that market explodes and Apple takes its focus away from the Mac, the Mac platform very well might wither in favor of this new, smooth, controlled experience.

Hardly. No keyboard or mouse. Yeah you can add a keyboard but this is primarily a touch device. Also only 64 GB of storage max. Just not enough for a lot of folks these days. Also Its only a 1024×768 screen, not exactly something I'd won't tee work on for a lot of tasks.

Sure these devices COULD replace a laptop or netbook in some cases but not in all and it's so locked down there's a lot of things you just need or want a more open platform.

hardly.

It would make sense, It costs as much to get a powerful netbook as a powerful Imac... So if the iPad can kill netbooks they can kill iMacs

Originally Posted by christianw

hardly.

I don't think so either.

That headline is just click spam. And I clicked. Now I feel dirty. Article makes absolutely no sense.

hmm, how have tablets done in the last 10 years? I'm going to go with history and say they're not going to take over anything.

So would this statement be fair? "People are willing to give up faster more capable devices to pay more for a slower less capable device and be happy about it?"

That sounds more like a mental illness.

Originally Posted by Advil

So would this statement be fair? "People are willing to give up faster more capable devices to pay more for a slower less capable device and be happy about it?"

That sounds more like a mental illness.

..isn't that what happens when one goes from a PC to a Mac?

well if the ipad is not changed regularly the build up could cause an infection and the MAC could technically die if it does not seek medical attention.

Originally Posted by [UPS] Sorce

..isn't that what happens when one goes from a PC to a Mac?

I don't think the average Mac user is THAT uniformed.

Originally Posted by Riftsaw

I don't think the average Mac user is THAT uniformed.

Really? Work in the IT field and then talk to a few Mac users. Yes some are brilliant but that doesn't seem to be the majority. Someone bought a Wacom tablet the other day and then came back and bought a $350.00 leather laptop bag so that he could fit his tablet in it. He then asked why we didn't sell bags specifically made for the Wacom tablet.

I then wondered why he didn't simply put his laptop in a bag that had a second compartment for the Wacom tablet but what do I know.

You can't kill a laptop computer with a device with no built-in keyboard. Most people can type much faster than they can gesture their way across a device.

Originally Posted by Evil

Really? Work in the IT field and then talk to a few Mac users. Yes some are brilliant but that doesn't seem to be the majority. Someone bought a Wacom tablet the other day and then came back and bought a $350.00 leather laptop bag so that he could fit his tablet in it. He then asked why we didn't sell bags specifically made for the Wacom tablet.

I then wondered why he didn't simply put his laptop in a bag that had a second compartment for the Wacom tablet but what do I know.

Oh I'm a tech its just that I can't believe anyone would be THAT blinded. But hey, stranger things have happened.

Originally Posted by [UPS] Sorce

..isn't that what happens when one goes from a PC to a Mac?

....Rimshot...

You hit that nail on the head.

Originally Posted by Zellio2010

It would make sense, It costs as much to get a powerful netbook as a powerful Imac... So if the iPad can kill netbooks they can kill iMacs

Why does Apple (and Apple fans) keep pretending that the iPad is somehow competing w/netbooks and nettops when it costs twice as much as any of those devices? It actually costs as much as any low-end CULV ultraportable laptop, and it's not as capable as a netbook either way... Might be more comfortable to use under certain specific situations, but not overall. How it poses any threat to the Mac market (which is already a niche market anyway), is beyond me...

I mean even if grandma or grandpa is willing to pony up $500-600 for a gimped tablet, and then however much it costs to get the data plan ('cuz who's gonna pay an ISP for a full fledged connection just to use it with this), what happens when they wanna print something, send photos from their camera, or just watch Johnny's video link to Youtube... It just doesn't work as a primary device even for the simplest of usage scenarios.

Nice coffee table device for anyone willing to overpay for it, that's about it... It poses a threat to nothing right now since there isn't anything it competes w/directly. Real tablets are more expensive, the only thing it might supplant is the netbook as 2dary system for someone that perhaps is just gonna use it primarily on the couch... If they can get beyond the sticker shock.

A year from now Apple will add a camera, slash $100-150 off the lowest model, and we'll get the whole song and dance all over again...

Apple is not a mobile device company. They have the iPhone which is all well and good. And the iPad is more of an internet device. But that is as far as it is going to go. They aren't ging to stop making iMac's and PowerMac's. Apple's computing hardware is well dug in to the creative industry. Musicians, photographers, filmmakers all use apple computers and apple's own software Final Cut is a staple in video and media production. I myself use Apple's Aperture as a photographer. Just because they found a segment that makes them money doesn't mean they are going to throw away the profit potential they have from their other products.

Originally Posted by swoop56

Apple is not a mobile device company.

I think that would come as quite a surprise to Apple since the majority of their revenue comes from mobile devices (including laptops) and content for those devices.

Tim Cook: Apple is a Mobile-Device company

The problem with this is, that well, one can't really do all the same tasks on an iPad, or portable computer. Limitations like a lack of actual computing power, really don't make this feasible yet.

While I doubt it, I do hope it comes true.

Originally Posted by [UPS] Sorce

..isn't that what happens when one goes from a PC to a Mac?

Pretty much.