Well, I’m really loving the iPad. It really has taking over my non-creative tasks at home, and really makes consuming all content very much fun. I really do recommend it.
I will be interested to see how apps do in the iPad store in general. While fun to use, they are a tad pricey. And I’ve bought far too many myself already. But I wonder what their future holds. I think the key reasons the iPhone apps are more revolutionary and perhaps compelling are (not counting creating a revenue model to incentivize developers):
- The iPhone, like all phones, has very constrained screen real estate, unlike the iPad
- They re-orient web apps to be touch friendly (something the iPad needs arguably less of due to its screen size)
- They utilize the phone’s hardware features very well (GPS, accelerometer, voice input, etc.)
While the iPhone benefits from all of these, the iPad benefits from some of #2, and definitely #3. Some compelling use cases have presented themselves to me (reading magazines is GREAT). The iPad has a great opportunity to make use of features that are non-standard on traditional computing platforms (GPS, touch, etc.), and I look forward to the innovation that will come. I don’t think we have yet seen its killer app. But, ultimately, will iPad app sales end up being more like desktop apps than iPhone apps?
What do you think?
I think far fewer people will by an iPad, because they’re much more of a luxury item. Most people need a phone, so it’s no so hard a sell to upgrade them to a more expensive phone with the payoff that it does cool stuff. There’s no such justification with the iPad, and it’s more than twice the price (compared to iPhone with contract).
Various people at my work think that the iPad (or future devices like it) will save the print publishing world, by allowing print publishers to replace current subscribers with paid content delivered electronically. I don’t see how it makes economic sense to pay for an iPad and then pay almost the same amount for a magazine or newspaper subscription as you do for the hard copy. Maybe if the electronic edition was a small fraction of the price, but the publishers haven’t gotten there yet.
Though I have to admit, at $189 the Kindle looks a lot more attractive now, especially now that they also have Kindle apps for so many platforms.
Oh, erm, specific to apps, because the install base is so much smaller, the app base will need to cater to people who would actually shell out for an iPad. I expect much less mass market goofiness, and much more niche and targeted apps.
Also, it seems like the vast majority of apps could be redone as HTML5 web sites, and be multi-platform, so once developers start doing that for free, or ad views, the app store is toast.
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