Wednesday, January 27, 2010

iPad

Because of the hygiene-product name that 299,999,997 Americans latched onto withing 40 seconds of the product announcement/release, and due to the lack of innovative features other than "look, an iPod/iPhone with a bigger screen!" I predict, now, the iPad will join the ranks of Edsel, New Coke, and Irwin Mainway Brand Toys and Novelties as an iconic example of epic product failure.
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3 comments:

Borepatch said...

Can you think of an Apple product where there's been this much of a "Meh" letdown factor, so soon after the launch?

This is astonishing marketing and design fail, and damages the brand. Maybe they're taking the Microsoft route: version 1.0 sucks, version 2.0 is "meh", version 3.0 is usable.

Can't be good to be compared to Microsoft's approach ...

January 28, 2010 at 7:20 AM
JP said...

Epic failure indeed, unless it was intended to gain hits for bloggers, then its a pretty decent success.

My tiny amount of hits doubled because of my Apply maxIpad post.

January 28, 2010 at 6:14 PM
Rob said...

I hope you've seen this one, since it probably set off those 299,999,997 Americans:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L68aKVAzwQ4

;-}

January 29, 2010 at 1:47 PM

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