The Apple of our eye?
Seems like a lot of people are asking, “Why would I buy the iPad?” I was asking myself the same question, until I attended TED. Chris Anderson from Wired Magazine showed a beta version of the magazine on the iPad and suddenly, it all made sense; Wired’s great content x10 due to the additional content/media that iPad technology facilities. Leads me to wonder, if this were around a year ago is it possible ID Magazine could’ve been saved?
Regarding Apple’s innovation prowess, their next move on the iPhone is what to watch—that’s what going to prove whether or not they’ve still got ‘it’. The market is finally heating up thanks to the debuts of Android and Windows 7. Interestingly Apple is yet to be leapfrogged, but the playing field has been leveled, and that’s when the game gets interesting. Will Apple wow us? I think they need to.
3.10.10 / 11:14 am
I asked myself the same question, however now when I mention the idea of owning an iPad I get the stare from every designer I know looking at me like I’m nuts!
As for ID, I wonder if ID Mag could’ve been saved. They had been spiralling downward since 2001. It was a long standing financial crisis that had plagued them for almost a decade. Not being able to adapt to internet readership.
We all know that magazines are about to go digital and we will have to pay for that information. The question is when? Apple is stating that April 2010 this will happen, however our expectations of this product may not aligned with what will be available.
Apple will always be a trendsetter as long as they have Steve Jobs and Jony Ive. Where will Apple go depends on the feedback people give in regards to the first generation of the iPad. What remains to be seen is a product that meets the expectations of the consumer. The iPad has fell short of this in my respect but has answered an immediate concern in terms of the basic consumer needs of the “e-reader” and global internet access. As long as open source stays the way it is “free information” for companies will always be an uphill battle.
Free information is good for everyone but bad for the economy. The global scale of this compounding problem could be something worth looking at in regards to the protection of information.