Am not an Apple Fan. I've always and still enjoy working on Ubuntu (linux) at home, however at work it has to be only win-doze! Most of the time, probably since a decade ago, I sat on the fence and watched Apple, but never had the guts to jump over. Then I bought this iPod for my daughter, and myself a cheaper version from the competition. I hated my choice for myself, every time I could borrow the iPod. So it did not take me forever to decide to buy an iPad. My daughter who came back from college was blown over, and immediately demanded one, so now theres two of them in the household. A fortnight ago her Acer Laptop crashed (mighty) and I bought her a Mac Book Pro (13 inch). Now I hate myself for not moving over to Mac a decade ago.
The absolute truth is that, Apple somehow managed to read and understand the pulse of it's users and were able to deliver to more than expectation. In this forum one will find hundreds of posts about people who did not even know Apple until they got their hands on their first device (ipad2). I can relate to that ecstacy. You cannot get (not me at least) that kind of WOW factor, no matter which laptop I buy.
last week i tried three other tablets for my wife, as we thought it might be a good idea that we have all the individual experience at home. We wanted to get our fingers on a galaxy tab, and left it to my wife to actually feel it and make her decision. She just walked out leaving it for yet another day (which probably will not come). She's not biased at all, she just feels that the iPad is not only eye candy, but also true girth.
No matter what kindle comes out with, probably with a design to attack the iPad2, the launch dates will definitely clash with another generation from the iPad family. That alone will steal Kindle's thunder. Not only that, attacking the iPad2 itself with a product to dislodge it from the present position will indeed be a tall order. Something of an almost impossible, just because of the headstart Apple has. And having said that you never know if
Amazon can pull out a rabbit from the hat.
In today's world brand loyalty cannot be discounted. One cannot be brand loyal to "Lexus" if they cannot afford it, they are probably loyal to "Corolla" and wish they had a Lexus. In my humble opinion the affordability factor is the main criteria for brand loyalty, else it is only a pie in the sky.
From where I am sitting on the fence, I still have sufficient reasons to beleive that engineers at Apple has more innovation than their competitors, and its an very tall order for Kindle to make Humpty Dumpty have a great fall.
Cheers
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