> The iPad didn’t really generate interest in tablets, it generated interest in iPads.
True, yet it is amazing how many companies are willing to exploit the gullibility of some people to buy a shiny new device not because of its superior functionality, but simply because it looks just like that i-Whatever everybody is talking about, and because of their belief they are getting a "deal" by not getting the original.
Basically, whenever there is a tremendously successful product, there is going to be a swarm of imitator products -- only barely successful, but successful enough to make their makers a pocketful of change. What amazes me though is the unashamed attitude of these makers when they set about directly imitating somebody else.
True, yet it is amazing how many companies are willing to exploit the gullibility of some people to buy a shiny new device not because of its superior functionality, but simply because it looks just like that i-Whatever everybody is talking about, and because of their belief they are getting a "deal" by not getting the original.
Basically, whenever there is a tremendously successful product, there is going to be a swarm of imitator products -- only barely successful, but successful enough to make their makers a pocketful of change. What amazes me though is the unashamed attitude of these makers when they set about directly imitating somebody else.