iPad, the Dream Machine

Following predictions have been made about iPad.

1. Tablets will turn out to be the 21st-century equivalent of the printed page.
2. It will replace the laptop.
3. It will eat into Netbooks sales.
4. It is a threat to dedicated e-reader like Amazon's "Kindle".
5. It will become a popular gaming machine.

I am a long time fan of Apple. My first interaction with a computer was with Apple IIE back in 1985. It was a love at first sight. I dreamed of having an Apple machine in my office ever since. Finally, I was able to get hold of an Apple 'Mac G3' and then 'Mac G4' in late 2000. I am enjoying occasionally Mac G4, which has Mac OSX 10.4 operating system and hunting for a used Mac G5 but still without any success. 

I also like to make some predictions for iPad. Here is my list.

1. It will replace dedicated e-readers.
2. It will kill netbooks.
3. It will be used as a replacement of laptop on shop floors and would be used for statistical and notetaking purposes.
4. It will not replace the laptop but laptops would be sort of convertible tablets.
5. It will not replace the mobile phone like iPhone for that matter.
6. It will not be a success as gaming machine.

Apple unveils the iPad: Steve Jobs and the tablet of hope | The Economist

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Apple & Innovation

"APPLE is regularly voted the most innovative company in the world, but its inventiveness takes a particular form. Rather than developing entirely new product categories, it excels at taking existing, half-baked ideas and showing the rest of the world how to do them properly. Under its mercurial and visionary boss, Steve Jobs, it has already done this three times. In 1984 Apple launched the Macintosh. It was not the first graphical, mouse-driven computer, but it employed these concepts in a useful product. Then, in 2001, came the iPod. It was not the first digital-music player, but it was simple and elegant, and carried digital music into the mainstream. In 2007 Apple went on to launch the iPhone. It was not the first smart-phone, but Apple succeeded where other handset-makers had failed, making mobile internet access and software downloads a mass-market phenomenon."


The above excerpt from an article describes the route Apple has taken to innovate products. It does innovation through "taking existing, half-baked ideas and showing the rest of the world how to do them properly." 


So, innovation does not mean one has to produce an entirely new or unique product.


Another aspect of this innovation is the leadership - "Under its mercurial and visionary boss, Steve Jobs." One of the critical and essential trait of a leader is "he has to be a visionary". This has been rightly described by Allama Muhammad Iqbal, the great philosopher & poet of East in his famous verse


"“NIGAH BULAND, SUKHAN DILNAWAZ, JAH PURSOZ

YAHEE HAI RAKHT E SAFR MEER E KARWAN K LIYAE”

(Supreme vision, Sublime language, sensitive soul

These virtues are pre-requisite for leading the caravan)

Tablet computing: The book of Jobs | The Economist

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Apple - iPad - Tablet PC

My dream is about to come true but there shall be a long wait until I get hold of my dream. I always yearn to read book on an ebook reader while lying on my bed in a resting mood but still not able to do so. I have to sit in front of my LCD to read a book. But I hope that with the proliferation of Tablet PC, I shall be able to read my favorite books the way I like to read. Let's wait for that time, hopefully not too far from now.

Apple - iPad - Features - The best device for web, email & photos.

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