Comments on: iPad tablet – Chemistry or Alchemy? What is at the core of Apple? http://www.irisblogs.co.uk/blog/martinleuw/ipad-chemistry-or-alchemy-what-is-at-the-core-of-apple/. The Sector Specialist Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:52:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Rupert Ralston http://www.irisblogs.co.uk/blog/martinleuw/ipad-chemistry-or-alchemy-what-is-at-the-core-of-apple/./comment-page-1#comment-19 Rupert Ralston Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:18:51 +0000 http://www.irisblogs.co.uk/blog/?p=75#comment-19 "The problem is, in hardware you can't build a computer that's twice as good as anyone else's anymore. Too many people know how to do it. You're lucky if you can do one that's one and a third times better or one and a half times better. And then it's only six months before everybody else catches up. But you can do it in software." That is from Steve in 1994, the same is even truer for Apple today, what has set the iPhone and will set the iPad apart is the app store and the third party developed software. The hardware is new, and has some great marketing but a tablet is not revolutionary and we will see similar tablets launched in the first half of 2010. Software and third party developed applications now more then ever will be paramount to hardware’s success. <a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/146038/2010/01/ipad_future_shock.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.macworld.com/article/146038/2010/01/ipad_future_shock.html</a> “The problem is, in hardware you can’t build a computer that’s twice as good as anyone else’s anymore. Too many people know how to do it. You’re lucky if you can do one that’s one and a third times better or one and a half times better. And then it’s only six months before everybody else catches up. But you can do it in software.”

That is from Steve in 1994, the same is even truer for Apple today, what has set the iPhone and will set the iPad apart is the app store and the third party developed software. The hardware is new, and has some great marketing but a tablet is not revolutionary and we will see similar tablets launched in the first half of 2010.

Software and third party developed applications now more then ever will be paramount to hardware’s success.

http://www.macworld.com/article/146038/2010/01/ipad_future_shock.html

]]> By: Paul Heritage-Redpath http://www.irisblogs.co.uk/blog/martinleuw/ipad-chemistry-or-alchemy-what-is-at-the-core-of-apple/./comment-page-1#comment-15 Paul Heritage-Redpath Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:20:42 +0000 http://www.irisblogs.co.uk/blog/?p=75#comment-15 New York Times on Steve Jobs: "In choosing key members of his team, he looks for the multiplier factor of excellence. Truly outstanding designers, engineers and managers, he says, are not just 10 percent, 20 percent or 30 percent better than merely very good ones, but 10 times better. Their contributions, he adds, are the raw material of “aha” products, which make users rethink their notions of, say, a music player or cellphone." New York Times on Steve Jobs: “In choosing key members of his team, he looks for the multiplier factor of excellence. Truly outstanding designers, engineers and managers, he says, are not just 10 percent, 20 percent or 30 percent better than merely very good ones, but 10 times better. Their contributions, he adds, are the raw material of “aha” products, which make users rethink their notions of, say, a music player or cellphone.”

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