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Nah. I am comparing the iPad to the iPod and iPhone, not to non-Apple originals. I am comparing Apple to itself that this is not a game changer. And it is not. As someone else mentioned, tablets have been around for while. The first table I can remember was over half dozen years ago. Tablets pre-date the iPod even. Also, it is not logical to suggest just because someone said something about something in the past that was not true that the same thing can not be said about another thing and be true. Comparing to the iPod... Apple wrote the rules of the game. Here, Apple is playing catch up to the Kindle and revising old tech (the tablet) that didn't take off. This is not the game changing innovation of the iPod and you will not hear tablets in general be generified into the term "pads". Two different beasts.
Flash will die, but Adobe will do fine. Whether or not a technology will survive on its own doesn't matter to antitrust, though, it's the business practices that surround it. Vertical integration is pretty heavily frowned upon, and that's Apple's M.O.
I predict the current CEO of HP (Mark Hurd) will be ousted in an internal scuttlebut as Palm as a unit, along with 3com, posts losses for the next year or so, but eventually leads to dramatic growth at HP as they fully take advantage of the synergies the now-lambasted CEO had envisioned.
Back in my AT&T days I reported to Carli Fiorina's husband Frank...
He took us out on his yacht for a cruise around NYC... I took a dump in the head...
Whenever she's on the news.. I think about that...
Certainly not within the next few years, but if HP develops some super slick enterprise integration stuff, from phone to mobile PCs to desktops to servers, I could see companies already running HP hardware switching over relatively quickly. Then once HP gets its foot in the door, they have the resources to blow it wide open. They're also really only one of two companies that really crosses over between corporate and consumer (Dell's the other,) so they've probably got some edge in the lower ranks of the corporate world where people want something between a Crackberry and an iPhone.
Wow...I've have had the same experience with their printers. After 3, I gave up.
