So I happen to have a friend who I greatly respect and her father works at Apple. If you saw my last blog, my father was looking at Android tablets (and we're still undecided, heading towards the TF though). She is only informed of what Apple manufactures because that's her nature, can't blame her, she's not a techy & isn't active in the tech world. Having her dad work at Apple, she's really only familiar with their products. That's fine, nothing wrong with that; I don't expect her to know everything about them. So our journalism teacher wants to buy the journalism class some of the 200,000 HP Touchpads that are going to be manufactured as a latch batch. She then, knowing I'm very active with technology, asks me what a Touchpad was. I said it's a device that falls under the category of a tablet. She asks what a tablet was. I tell her the category an iPad would fall under. Her next response is then, "So Touchpads are iPad mimics?". Oh no.
I tell her no, they didn't copy the iPad but the iPad did start a trend to provoke the mass manufacturing of touch-capacitive tablets. She wasn't convinced; she believed the iPad was the first tablet of its kind (touch-capacitive, mobile OS, app-related). She understood the tablets before the iPad were not generally appealing to the public but she falsely believed that all tablets like the iPad were copying it. In respect to her father's work, we change subjects and the day goes on.
Now that I think about it, I'm trying to come up with an argument that would make sense without being insulting, so if you're going to help, constructed criticism is required.
Basically, I'm thinking that its like how CRT monitors and TV's were replaced by flat panel screens. Or when any use of inefficient or unintuitive technology was replaced by better technology. The fact of the matter is, TV manufacturers didn't all start using flat-panel screens all at the same time. Someone had to have done it first, before everyone else. You could call that company innovative; I would call them smart, however it's nothing new as the company didn't invent flat-panel screens. They just made very nice use of them. Then other companies realized the greatness of flat-panel and provided competition to the original company who used them first.
Same with the Apple iPad back in 2010; they began the trend of touch-capacitive screens and a mobile OS. They provided other companies with a product that the other companies wanted to compete with, however what my friend doesn't understand is that Apple does not own the general technology behind what defines a modern day tablet. The transition from an older type of device to a better type of device is always started by one company and this time, in terms of tablets, Apple happened to be that pioneering company. And like history tells us, other companies came on board and provided competition. But that competition is no way is patent infringing or mimicking in anyway, it's business.
You can't deny the photo below because it's fact but just because Apple was a pioneering company, does not mean they own the industry. I also believe Apple was not required to be where we are today with modern day mobile technology; we would have gotten there eventually. Some other company would have done it and not made such a big deal out of it.
I tell her no, they didn't copy the iPad but the iPad did start a trend to provoke the mass manufacturing of touch-capacitive tablets. She wasn't convinced; she believed the iPad was the first tablet of its kind (touch-capacitive, mobile OS, app-related). She understood the tablets before the iPad were not generally appealing to the public but she falsely believed that all tablets like the iPad were copying it. In respect to her father's work, we change subjects and the day goes on.
Now that I think about it, I'm trying to come up with an argument that would make sense without being insulting, so if you're going to help, constructed criticism is required.
Basically, I'm thinking that its like how CRT monitors and TV's were replaced by flat panel screens. Or when any use of inefficient or unintuitive technology was replaced by better technology. The fact of the matter is, TV manufacturers didn't all start using flat-panel screens all at the same time. Someone had to have done it first, before everyone else. You could call that company innovative; I would call them smart, however it's nothing new as the company didn't invent flat-panel screens. They just made very nice use of them. Then other companies realized the greatness of flat-panel and provided competition to the original company who used them first.
Same with the Apple iPad back in 2010; they began the trend of touch-capacitive screens and a mobile OS. They provided other companies with a product that the other companies wanted to compete with, however what my friend doesn't understand is that Apple does not own the general technology behind what defines a modern day tablet. The transition from an older type of device to a better type of device is always started by one company and this time, in terms of tablets, Apple happened to be that pioneering company. And like history tells us, other companies came on board and provided competition. But that competition is no way is patent infringing or mimicking in anyway, it's business.
You can't deny the photo below because it's fact but just because Apple was a pioneering company, does not mean they own the industry. I also believe Apple was not required to be where we are today with modern day mobile technology; we would have gotten there eventually. Some other company would have done it and not made such a big deal out of it.
