Who Will Be the Winner?
Apple might be a major force to be reckoned with, but I feel that these three devices have the potential to be playing on the same field (in a sense), and may end up battling for the hearts of potential buyers. They all have unique strengths to offer, and also being their own set of weaknesses to the table. Who will come out on top?
Product Database Comparison: iPad Joojoo – Adam
I’d put my money down in a bet saying that the iPad will sell the most units of these three. The money that Apple has to toss at marketing means that there will be plenty of people out there who call every slate device an iPad (just like many people call any PMP an iPod), but the Adam or the Joojoo could still be winners, even without outselling the iPad. Apple is going to win in the user experience area, but they are relying heavily on the software side to drive the productivity and usefulness of the iPad. The Joojoo and the Adam both have oft-requested features that the iPad quite clearly lacks. These features, and the flexibility that their operating systems offer over the iPad’s OS, have the potential to pull a large contingent of (tech-savvy) would-be iPad owners to one of these alternatives.
We need to put this all into perspective though. I still feel that the large-slate form factor has a major flaw that is going to hinder many of the devices that are currently on their way to market, and these three are not exceptions.
Still, let’s hear what the readers think. Which device do you see as the winner in this three-way battle and why? Which device would you buy if you could have one of these three right now? Sound off in the comments.
JooJoo and Adam are both dead in the water.
I’m surprised, though, there was no mention — even as being on the horizon! — of the Archos 7 HT or the ICD Ultra. Archos has had a retail presence for years, has shipped products, and have really pushed with the A5IT. There’s a company that should be taken seriously. All of these others? Not. And since hearing the hp Slate will be hobbled with an Atom CPU, all the enthusiasm people had to that has vanished. People know what netbook “power” is like — they don’t want it again except without a keyboard, hp.
I didn’t mention the Archos 7 as it is quite a bit smaller than these other devices, and I wouldn’t put them in the same class. I also didn’t see it as one of the top three that will have the greatest impact. The IDC Vega is huge-gantic, and again I don’t see it as a top contender.
@mike: why bother with real products when there’s all that vaporware to blabber about ^^
The Ipad strictly cause its here for sure on April 3rd,and its got the apps and content straight out the box.
Ive been wanting an big iphone for reading comics since the 2g iphone so this is a dream come true for me anything else ipad does besides this is just a bonus to me. Just praying that it gets jailbroken so i can fully use it my way.It will come down to content for the majority of non tech savvy users and apple will have everyone beat on this score so will emerge victorious and rest assured im no apple fan boy i hate itunes and their exorbitant pricing
I don’t think there is any question about it. Apple will be the clear winner out of these three, the most that the other two can hope for is having some small loyal following and hopefully enough of a community to develop some interesting applications – but they can’t compete against Apple.
From what I understand, none of these slates does ink (I understand that there are workarounds, but nothing I’ve seen makes this an inking experience). No ink…no go. That means you have to type your notes. I don’t know about you, but I write faster than I type. From now on it would be great if reviewers of this kind of hardware would mention the lack of inking in the review.
Unless Google decides to make its Android Market accessible to non-smartphone devices, it will be very difficult for an Android tablet – or even a fleet of them – to mount a serious challenge to the iPad. They’ll be unable to deliver anything resembling a seamless user experience, and that will kill them in the non-geek marketplace.
I totally agree with Mike as always. I am looking forward to the Archos 7ht and the IDC Ultra. 7 inch screens are the perfect size for me.
My TC1100 is awesome but a bit bulky.