Saturday, April 3, 2010

Waiting in Line for iPads...

Lines of people wrapping around the block at the SoHo Apple Store, waiting, presumably, to buy an iPad.

What will be interesting is to see how sales stack up, and I don't mean volume of sales, but whether people decide they want connectivity all the time, like a smartphone, or can live with Wi-Fi access, as iPod touch users now do.

The difference is that the Wi-Fi-only approach makes the iPad more a media consumption device, while full-time connections might make it something else.

What the "something else" might be, remains to be seen. Nobody seems to think it replaces a smartphone. Beyond that, people seem to be unsure about whether it represents an entirely new product category or "just" a new interface for a netbook or laptop.

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