Barely a few weeks into the new year and Apple has to do without it’s visionary CEO, Steve Jobs. He’s on medical leave to focus on his health [source]. Many are wondering how Apple will do without it’s head honcho, especially with the anticipation of this year’s iPhone 5 just around the corner. I guess many aren’t very optimistic that Apple will do as good. Ever since Steve announced that he’ll be away, the price of Apple stocks dropped by 5% on the morning that it opened [source].
While Steve is away, the company COO, Tim Cook is left in charge. Upon stepping up to the plate, he made very clear of Apple’s stand on tablets, especially voicing his thoughts on tablets from competitors such as Windows and Android”
If you look at what’s out there today, there’s not much. There’s the ones that use Windows, they’re generally big and heavy and expensive. They have weak battery life, they require a keyboard or a stylus as an input device, customers are frankly just not interested in them. Then you have Android tablets, and the varieties that are out shipping today, their operating system wasn’t designed for tablets. Google has said this, this isn’t just Apple saying this. That means you have the size of a tablet that just isn’t reasonable for what we call a ‘real tablet experience.’ That’s just a scaled-up smartphone, which is a bizarre product category. If you do a side-by-side with an iPad, you’ll pick an iPad.
We firmly believe that our integrated approach is better than the fragmented approach. You can see this in a number of ways — from the number of fragmented app stores with a variety of ways to pay, people will pull their hair out. Who’s on the latest OS — Android always lags … In net we think our integrated approach is better, rather than making the end user a systems integrator. I don’t know a lot of people who want to be systems integrators. And I think the same thing about iPad. It’s the same set of issues, at the end of the day. [source]
When the iPad was first released, many used to think that it is just an iPod Touch on steroids. But just see where the iPad ranks today. Supposedly we are going to see more innovation on the Android tablet front with the release of Honeycomb tablet. Microsoft on the other hand just continues to iterate their current desktop Windows OS to make it more ‘touch’ friendly, but even we are not sure where Microsoft are headed.
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