BDWI: The iPad was a Success?

Everyone knows that the iPad was a terrible device and only sold a few thousand products and people who had it reported technical problems. I was hyped about this product because it could bring us closer to living in a Star Trek like world! But now, maybe that dream would nolonger come true:(. But what if it was sucessfull and sold millions?
 
For the iPad to be successful, you'd have to butterfly a few things away IMO.

First, would be Steve Jobs's fight with Adobe Flash. IIRC, he thought that HTML5 would defeat Flash and predicted that within a year of iPad's launch (2010), it would the the new web standard. How wrong he was...what is it up to now? Last time I saw, Flash was being used by around 85% of the media sites? Big bomb there.

Second, you'd have to add a few more features to the device, since it was being marketed as a "post PC" product, such as:

  • SD Card
  • More memory
  • Better GPU
  • USB Port

I mean, come on, Samsung's Galaxy Tab has all that, and they're dominant in the tablet market now.

You'd also have to make sure Apple doesn't charge huge fees for the iPad. How could they think charging so much for what even a netbook could do, but cheaper, was a good idea?
 
First, would be Steve Jobs's fight with Adobe Flash.

OOC: With a POD after the introduction of the iPhone, you'd be hard pressed to see the tablet be a failure.

Last time I saw, Flash was being used by around 85% of the media sites? Big bomb there.

OOC: What happened with HTML development (the foundation of the visible Internet) that HTML5 didn't do exactly what it planned to by 2008 (that being close to the POD)?

Am I asking the wrong questions?

You'd also have to make sure Apple doesn't charge huge fees for the iPad. How could they think charging so much for what even a netbook could do, but cheaper, was a good idea?

OOC: Ah, price. Interesting.

IC: Since netbooks died so soon afterward, what if the iPad had undercut them? Apple wouldn't have sold at a loss, but I read that they could have easily sold the base iPad for even $599, and that's $400 less than its initial price. Would that have made a difference, do you think?
 
OOC: what are the circumstances that brought it to failure? And when's the POD?

OOC: I'm just going to say that it was too expensive, unresponsive touchscreen, and short battery life. I'm fairly new to BDWIs so I'm unsure how this will work.

POD will be Wireds review of the iPad
Or sometimes during production
 
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IC: Since netbooks died so soon afterward, what if the iPad had undercut them? Apple wouldn't have sold at a loss, but I read that they could have easily sold the base iPad for even $599, and that's $400 less than its initial price. Would that have made a difference, do you think?

Possibly, but this is Apple we're talking about. Look at what they charge for their current computer line. Even their "lite" MacBooks start out at $1100. Oh, and they way they went with the iPhone 4's charging cord, the new "Typhoon" cable with it's "super chip" charging system. You can't even get a replacement cable for less than $50!
 
I want to say Apple would've taken greater concern in the health and safety of the workers in the Chinese firms that likely would've been contracted to manufacture a hypothetically successful Apple tablet than Samsung did IOTL, but I honestly don't know. Apple always ran a pretty high profile PR campaign, even more so than Samsung, so what's not to say that Apple under Jobs would've adopted firmer responses to the dismal workplace safety standards had their product taken off ITTL?
 
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