{"id":13270,"date":"2009-09-28T02:25:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T00:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/?p=13270"},"modified":"2009-09-28T02:25:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T00:25:47","slug":"la-guerra-dei-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2009\/09\/28\/la-guerra-dei-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"La guerra dei Tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Techcrunch<\/a><\/p>\n

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We have entered an era of the thin and light computer and, rather than worrying about power we\u2019ve become obsessed with the concept of thinness. This is why Apple, in their wisdom, created the MacBook Air and the iPod Touch. This is the same reason we are all salivating over the thought of tablets thinner than an issue of BusinessWeek and this is why laptop manufacturers \u2013 and Michael Arrington \u2013 are rushing to make them.<\/p>\n

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The Apple Tablet (or iPad or Tapplet) is real. It will have a capacitive touch screen and manufacturing difficulties are slowing down the tablet\u2019s release to a crawl, thereby preventing us all from having one. It will be thin and, like the abhorrent HP DreamScreen, will focus on media. The extant tablet verticals \u2013 mostly in the medical industry \u2013 will still exist.<\/p>\n

Note this new focus. Rather than trying to create a business machine, manufacturers understand people want bigger screens on which to consume web and media content.<\/p>\n

So what can we expect in the next year? Well, first we have the CrunchPad. When all the bugs are worked out, it will be an amazing device \u2013 I\u2019ve seen it. And I\u2019m not just saying that because I\u2019ve been intimately involved in the design process, because I wasn\u2019t \u2013 that gives me a bit of perspective. Expect the CrunchPad to be a excellent device for blogging \u2013 that\u2019s what Mike made it for \u2013 and for web apps. Don\u2019t Expect much in the way of media. [I was wrong.]<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the iPad. This will eclipse the industry and for the rest of the year that\u2019s all you\u2019ll hear about. Trust me. Apple could require you to give this device three drops of blood every morning in order to satisfy the demonic hell-beast soul trapped inside it and we would, gladly. The release will be on par with the iPhone release and they\u2019ll sell a million of them.<\/p>\n

Then you have Microsoft\u2019s Courier. It\u2019s impressive, but it\u2019s Microsoft; don\u2019t expect that thing to take shape for two years and don\u2019t expect it to take off until the second generation. Like the Zune, Microsoft will make a product but they won\u2019t make it good until they have a little time to mull it over. I don\u2019t think the Courier will be a player in 2010.<\/p>\n

As for the rest of the devices, expect slow uptake by price conscious consumers and folks who don\u2019t think it\u2019s \u201ccool\u201d to own \u201cname brand\u201d technology and are real \u201chackers\u201d (read: teenagers and European students). Archos, a9_front_11for example, is doing a lot of good work in the tablet space but they\u2019re an also-ran. They are going the Tablet OS route, which is no good. Creative has some devices planned and it\u2019s also clear that ChromeOS could power a nice device \u2013 provided HTC makes it.<\/p>\n

As for connectivity most of these will have a 3G option \u2013 although I doubt the iPad will have 3G built-in. WiFi is an obvious second-best.<\/p>\n

As for size, tablets, at least with capacitive screens, are weighed down by a huge hunk of metal that shields the electronics from the screen. This hunk of metal \u2013 and the glass \u2013 prevents us from getting a bigger iPod Touch and is what is keeping the iPad from coming out sooner. Once the world\u2019s (i.e. China\u2019s) scientists solve this problem we\u2019ll get what we want. Until then it\u2019s resistive all the way.<\/p>\n

So prepare yourselves for the coming tablet wars and sock away a little cash because things are going to get interesting in 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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