Remember what they said?
June 24, 2010 by jschneier
Jan. 27. ABI Research analyst Jeff Orr says that the iPad is “no sure thing.” In a familiar anti-Apple trope, the iPad’s problem is its missing Adobe Flash and so-called “gaps.”
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“Several functions — front-facing and still/video cameras, external storage interfaces, support for Flash in the browser — are absent,” he wrote in a research note. “The iPad prices and gaps in functionality are likely to leave the door open for other media tablet vendors.” |
ABI predicts that 4 million tablets such as the iPad and the lesser-known Archos 5 will ship this year.
What this prediction said was that the iPad would be a dog and that its competition would fill out most of the sales. Reality check: The several tablets touted by Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer in a January keynote have all been pulled from the market.
Feb. 4. Shopping site Retrevo ran a couple of “studies” to determine interest in the iPad. It said that the hoopla over the iPad had failed to convince potential buyers.
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Retrevo’s study asked consumers whether or not they had heard about the tablet before the tablet was introduced and again after the announcement. The word definitely got out as the number of respondents saying they had heard about the tablet rose from 48 percent shortly before the announcement to over 80 percent after the media frenzy on January 27th. … Unfortunately for Apple, the number of respondents saying they had heard about the tablet but were not interested in buying one, doubled from 25 percent before the announcement to over 50 percentfollowing the announcement. |
This company says that it uses “artificial intelligence to analyze and visually summarize more than 50 million real-time data points from across the web to give shoppers the most comprehensive, unbiased, up-to-date product information they need to make smart, confident decisions about what to buy, when to buy, and where to buy.”
Note to Retrevo technology engineers: Perhaps it’s time to rework the algorithms, no?
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Jan. 27. ABI Research analyst Jeff Orr says that the iPad is no sure thing. In a familiar anti-Apple trope, the iPads problem is its missing Adobe Flash and so-called gaps.
What this prediction said was that the iPad would be a dog and that its competition would fill out most of the sales. Reality check: The several tablets touted by Microsofts Steve Ballmer in a January keynote have all been pulled from the market.
Feb. 4. Shopping site Retrevo ran a couple of studies to determine interest in the iPad. It said that the hoopla over the iPad had failed to convince potential buyers.
Unfortunately for Apple, the number of respondents saying they had heard about the tablet but were not interested in buying one, doubled from 25 percent before the announcement to over 50 percentfollowing the announcement.
Note to Retrevo technology engineers: Perhaps its time to rework the algorithms, no?
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