Re: Looking for Profile hard drive... dead or alive

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

AMart79196@gmail.com wrote:
> > sell it now as I have permission to start a MBP fund. (The iPad's
> > capabilities continue to amaze me.)
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> The iPad's incapabilities still amaze me and keeps me woundering why
> anyone would buy it!  It's the usual Steve Jobs way of making you buy
> version 2, 3, and 4 because it lacks certain features that all of the
> competitors versions already have at a more decent price.

There is always tension between the "controlled evolution" product
model and the "wild west" model.

The controlled model offers interface uniformity, predictability,
and, hopefully, higher average quality of user experience.  This
comes at the cost of dampened innovation and weakened capabilities.

The wild west model, in contrast, frees developers to do anything
they can think of, in almost any way they can imagine, resulting
in rapid innovation and availability of new features.  The down side
is, of course, that non-technical users may be confused and
disappointed by their encounters with the chaos of unbridled
creativity.

On the subject of price, I'm not sure I get your point.  Apple has
priced the iPad below most competitors price points, due in part to
their very high volume component procurement, their control over
processors that usually involve licensing fees, and, perhaps, there
desire to widen their market lead before the 2011 tablet tsunami.

-michael

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