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posted by n1 on Friday April 25 2014, @07:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the vintage-ipad-cool dept.

Christina Bonnington reports that the public is not gobbling up iPads like they used to. Analysts had projected iPad sales would reach 19.7 million but Apple's financial results for the second quarter of its fiscal 2014 show they sold 16.35 million iPads, a drop of roughly 16.4 percent since last year. "For many, the iPad they have is good enough unlike a phone, with significant new features like Touch ID, or a better camera, the iPad's improvements over the past few years have been more subtle," writes Bonnington. "The latest iterations feature a better Retina display, a slimmer design, and faster processing. Improvements, yes, but enough to justify a near thousand dollar purchase? Others seem to be finding that their smartphone can do the job that their tablet used to do just as well, especially on those larger screened phablets."

According to Andrew Cunningham the takeaway from Apple's sales drop in iPads is that Apple's past growth has been driven mostly by entering entirely new product categories, like it did when it introduced the iPod in 2001, the iPhone in 2007, and the iPad in 2010 and that Apple needs an entirely new category to fuel future growth. "The most persistent rumors [of a new product category] involve TV (whether a new Apple TV set-top box or an entire television set) and wearable computing devices (the perennially imminent "iWatch"), but calls for larger and cheaper iPhones also continue."

 
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  • (Score: 2) by hamsterdan on Monday April 28 2014, @04:06PM

    by hamsterdan (2829) on Monday April 28 2014, @04:06PM (#37252)

    Agreed, but my point is that it's easier for a bad programmer to write *mostly working* code using IDEs than compiling assembler on a 6809 (like we did in avionics classes back in late '80s). Maybe it's related to the fact it was avionics, but we had no choice than to structure the code and sanitize inputs (that and make the code light due to memory restrictions on the dev boards).

    Using tools (IDEs, calculators, etc) is good and helps productivity, I agree.

    I can add, multiply, divide and do fractions without a calculator (might not be as fast). Most young people can't even figure out how much tax to add to a price even if it's a nice round number like 15%.

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