InfoWeek weighs in

[sleigh]

A thoughtful article in InfoWeek about how they see the iPad as being truly revolutionary, and how it might alter the publishing industry.

Interesting to see the wide range of reactions across the web toward the device. There are a lot of nay-sayers, but then there was a lot of negative reaction when Jobs and Apple first introduced the iPod, too. For instance, here's a MacRumors forum from 2001 as the iPod was being launched, where the majority of the comments are "this is a stupid and useless device, and this is going to be a total dud for Apple."

What are your thoughts?

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

In any market system, profits tend to flow to the most constrained member of the supply chain. For example: airports make most of the profits from the restaurants, because airport space is the most constrained part of that system. By enforcing control over what software can run on a given platform, the platform owners artificially constrain their part of the supply chain.

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