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toll on truthPosted by Seth Weintraub

March 3, 2011 9:20 AM

Apple twisted facts and used an erroneous quotation to try to convince crowds that all

other tablets had no shot at de-throning the iPad in 2011.

In what seems like a ritual at this point, I watched Apple's iPad 2 keynote in disbelief, noting the

factual errors that kept coming up minute after minute. See previous:

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So, let's get started: As part of the opening iPad bullet points, Apple included this gem:

"First dual core tablet to ship in volume." That's funny, I tested a Dell (DELL) Streak 7, which had

a dual core Nvidia Tegra 2 chip in January . They've been shipping ever since on T-Mobile.

In volume.

Of course, the Motorola (MMI) XOOM also has this same dual core processor and is certainly

shipping in volume as well. In fact, I 've been using an Android phone (the Atrix) with a dual core

chip for weeks and it wasn't the first to ship in volume. As for Apple (AAPL), they haven't

shipped one iPad 2 yet -- iPad 2's hit shelves on March 11.

Perhaps this has to do with Jobs' subjective view of 'Volume' which may start at whatever

numbers iPads are currently selling? And 'ship'? Well, I don't know.

That was just the beginning. He next pulled out a thoroughly debunked, mis-translated quote

from a Samsung VP:

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Some people only hear what they want to hear, but that quote should have ended with "quite

smooth." That translation was officially corrected a long time ago. Here's the recording.

Shame on Apple Keynote fact-checkers, if such a role even exists.

That leads us to:

">90% market share". OMG Math.

Both Apple and Samsung measure sales the same way -- into the channel. Apple has just as

many points of sale for the iPad as Samsung has for the Tab and likely many more. So Samsung

sold 2 million (in the last quarter) in 2010. Apple sold 14.8 million (in three quarters). That seems

like a pretty fair comparison.

Apple would have needed to sell 3.2 million more to reach 90% of 2010's tablet market share

against just Samsung alone (in triple the time). That's not including all of the Android-powered

Nooks out there, those cheap $100 Androids you can buy at Walgreens or Amazon and even

Windows-powered Tablet PCs (which are mentioned two bullet points above!). If you choose to

include the Kindle, Apple may not have even reached 50% of the market.

Perhaps Jobs meant market share of tablets that start with the letter "I."

And finally, pricing:

As for pricing, Jobs compared the most expensive Android tablet -- the XOOM --against the iPad.

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While specs don't matter to the typical consumer, components do largely affect the price of a

device. The XOOM's are simply better. It has (expandable) 32GB of storage built in and 3G built

in (upgradable through a painful mail-in process to 4G). So, on that alone, it compares with the

$729 iPad.

But then consider that the XOOM has a much better, bigger 720P+ screen compared to the

iPad's 1024x768 job (it has less Retina™). Then, add far superior cameras (w/flash), stereo

speakers (iPad 2 has one), 4G and a micro-USB/SD Card reader. Apple won't say how much

RAM the iPad has, but I'm willing to bet it is about half of the XOOM's 1GB.

You see, Apple loves to talk about specs when it is in its best interest (speeds and feeds). There

are plenty of specs on size and weight that were repeated over and over:"8.8mm thin", "1.3 lbs".

Tech Specs? Lots: "Retina display has 326PPI", "1GHz Dual Core Processor", "64GB of

storage", "Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating", "Back camera: Video recording, HD (720p)

up to 30 frames per second with audio; still camera with 5x digital zoom", etc. etc. But ask them

how much RAM the iPad has and they'll tell you it doesn't matter.

Perhaps Jobs could have also compared the iPad 2 to other Android tablets' prices? Samsung's

Galaxy Tab and Dell's Streak both now start at $499 and have better cameras, 3G radios and

GPS, which seem to compete well with Apple's $499 Wifi-only offering. Reality distorted.

I have a lot of respect for Steve Jobs and Apple's products. It's just a shame that all the truth-

bending destroys the keynotes.

Here's the whole video (play distortion bingo with a double shot of Kool-Aid?):

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While the author's point is well taken, the company that wins in this space won't do it on specs alone. Theamount of RAM in a tablet is secondary to user experience. If Google, tablet manufacturers, and Androiddevelopers can al l get together and real ly start getting something that competes with Apple on the user experience level, then they may be able to grab some of that mindshare that the iPad has. I think thatconsumers want an intuitive, elegent OS. The myriad of competing options ou t there on Android doesn't instillconfidence yet. The aborted fetus of the Galaxy Tab still sticks in the craw of anyone who bought it I wouldthink.

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Yeah, it seems like Apple and Jobs have hired George W Bush's former communications staff. Who needsfacts? We create our own reality. The tougher the competition gets, the more ridiculous the claims. I just don'tunderstand why people continue to lap up anything Jobs says.

Posted By jporter1000: March 6, 2011 9:57 PM

we get it. you hate apple, your research sucks, and you don't like Jobs. You remind me of those people back in

the early 90s who swore up and down that apple would be dead wi thin a year, or those who didn't want to fundthe internet because it wou ldn't become useful . ferchristssakes, get a life.

Posted By atienne, Minneapolis MN: Marc h 6, 2011 9:03 PM

I want everyone to watch the Garage Band demo in the apple Ipad2 video. $4.99 for an app with the power tochange the world through music. This is one of the 500,000 apps. Showing Google maps on a tablet (TheCompetitors) is a bit underwhelming .

Go watch the Garage band video, hand your 10 year old both tablets and watch the future of tablet usageunfold right in front of your eyes. I wonder which one they will leave the room with?

This is why Apple dominates... simple as that

Posted By Jeff Smith - New York City: March 6, 2011 8:55 PM

Need some cheese with that whine, Seth?

Posted By OldPorter, Austin, TX: March 6, 2011 8:08 PM

ipad and iphone are just toys, very expensive toys. when i go to work and open my macbook, i still transitionmy terminal to another window to work using microsoft office. in terms of work, PC still is far more important(except if you're in graphic design o r arts work). still, ipad, iphone or mac a re just really expensive toys. toysnonetheless.

Posted By Sani, Seattle, WA: March 6, 2011 7:26 PM

I had the ipad and i love it. Upgradeable i don't need to upgrade memory and screen, it will all be out dated inthe long run. Tech needs to be upgrade in small doses otherwise the Gov. will step in and stop. Limited asconsumers we are. We can't have powerful machine with limitless capabilites running around. Think man,think!

Posted By DJphily: March 6, 2011 7:23 PM

Apple is the greatest thing since sliced bread , why can't everyone just see that! I can't even leave the house inthe morning before I do a Google News Search for Steve Jobs. I love searching for anything on my MacBookPro using safari, the only web browser o ther than Mozilla I would even consider! I watch the conferences allthe time and I get soo excited about all the fantastic products that wouldn't be available if not for the brillianceof Jobs. Sometimes I think that I am working just so I can afford to buy more and more apple p roducts. I don'teven care about the price really, why should I? Why should I be a risk vs reward price conscience buyer? Mylife is soo much easier within the Apple community. If apple makes a p roduct, I buy it and love it, not to mentionprotect it like a child. I don 't have to think about if there a re better products out there for my money, thats tootroublesome when obviously there are not. Every time I see the Apple store I just have to walk in, even though I

already own every product in the store. My favorite thing to do is convert people to Apple user's by explainingall of the benefits they will gain by le tting other people do the thinking for them. Being an apple missionary isjust part of the fun of being so p rogressive. BTW, just did another search for Steve Jobs, my mac is set up toautoMACtically perform the search every 13 minutes or so, and a headli ne read, "Jobs' Jab Suggests AppleFears Android." This is just ridiculous, those with faith in Jobs know this well already. Our Jobs fears nothingand nobody!

Posted By Matthew, Honolulu, HI: March 6, 2011 7:18 PM

Dominating the tablet scene is like bei ng the world's tallest midget. I think I read that iPad is $750. I just wasbrowsing newegg and saw an Intel i5-760 w/Asus P55 combo for $380 and ATI 5870 for $199 after rebate.Budget maybe another $350-400 for RAM, HDD, and a PSU and you have yourself a moderately high endmachine for about couple hundred bucks more than some tablet that can't do anything bu t empty your wallet,waste power, and take up space. I've never seen a p iece of technology that needs such an aggressivemarketing campaign to try and tell me how it can be useful. The only thing innovative about tablets is businessmodel. The model is to get stupid peop le to buy inferior and obsolete technology. Dual core processors? 2005





Apple is THE dominating company in the smartphone/tablet/computer world (and kudos to them). It's just goodjournalism to be casting a critical eye on a big player like that.

And to say that every company makes the same kind of biased PR as Mr Jobs, is really hard to understand.Yes, company's will twist facts as part of their PR. But the term 'reality distortion filed' was inven ted to describeSteve Jobs for a reason. The man just do this kind of things on a whole different level than everyone else.If someone could give a example of otherwise, it will be more than welcome.

Personally I would never buy a Apple product. Sure, they make top notch designed product that is easy to use.But the closed ecosystem of Steve Jobs world is just not my cup of tea - and I think real ly unheal thy for thewhole industry if it sets the agenda too much.

But, I have to say that, I really respect Apple for pushing the i ndustry forwards. Their ability to mix newtechnologies with ease of use is something other company's should learn of a lot more.

But, in the end. Stick to the facts in your presentations.

Posted By Joahau, Copenhagen, Denmark: March 6, 2011 11:42 AM

@Seth

You are deliberately trying to deceive people to hide that you have messed up.

You know that to the vast majority of readers 90% of the market means 90% of end user sa les. Not 90% of landfill generation.

You know that Samsung described their build of two million as aggressive and actual sales to users as belowexpectation, so you know that they did not sell 2 million in the sense that most people understand.

You have made a complete twit of yourself in this sequence of articles. You a re at the bottom of a hole. Juststop digging!

Posted By Henry, Cambridge, UK: March 6, 2011 11:19 AM

I believe every company distorts. Period. But it seems to me our writer is being paid off to do this. He probablyworks for Motorola or Google. And I have no love for Apple, but this seems obvious to me.

Posted By Ernie, Miami, Florida: March 6, 2011 11:17 AM

@Ken HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember that movie! heres that fanboy scene!! tribute to ALL APPLE FANBOYS!!!

Posted By Steve of Cupertino: March 6, 2011 10:20 AM

@Ken HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted By Steve of Cupertino: March 6, 2011 10:16 AM



Aarticle is dead on? Lets think about it.First, who thehell actually cares about the Dell Streak 7? 800 x 480 resolution for a tablet? What a great jokeby Samsung.What a pathetic attempt by Samsung to cash in on the Galaxy Tab's success when it wasnt evensuccessful in the first place. And since you wan t to differentiate a lie or not, the FIRST tablet with dual core isthe Toshiba Folio 100. And since volume was subjective, as metioned, then it doesnt matter that Toshibapulled the Folio after days.Next, Math I see. For that, ask Gartner or any other research firm, of course not one that you birbed already, butsomething reputable and they will say, iPad's market shre is in EXCESS of 90%. Its a fact.Jobs dont meant atablet share sarting with the le tter I:) He refers to the ones he bu ilt compared to the pathetic attempts byAndroid.

So what if Jobs ued the XOOM? No one refer to tablets as tablets. Apple established a name for tablets.People woul d most likely ask,"what iPad do you want?" compared to "What tablet do you want? Motorola or LG?"Jobs hve the lead because of his mentality of USER INTERFACE, not a whole load of SPECS without anygood in terface. Less battery life, etc.Google will a lways play catchup. Look at what happened when iPhonewas released in 2007. Google bought one iPhone, deassemble it in its lab, and make another 2000 Androidphones. based on , of course, iPhone.

Posted By Michael Los Angeles Calfornia: March 6, 2011 10:01 AM

At least he doesn't have to spend much time deciding what to wear every morning. Does he ever wear anything besides a black shirt, blue jeans,and white tennies?

SW: He actually switched up to dark shoes. A major undertaking!

Posted By Christina, San Antonio, Texas: March 6, 2011 9:38 AM

I can't help but to wonder what is your qualification for writing articles like this? You are missing the whole po intof Apple product and you should rea lly go back and study how Apple ope rate. Apple doesn't comparehardware specs, it compares with it self, Steve Jobs always talk about the improvement over it's lastgeneration. Also, it's not about the hardware that counts, it's the ease of in tegration. Also, your bel oved Xoom is$600 after subsidize (with 2 years of contract) oh yea that is real cheap.....

But anyways, you and other peop le probably won 't agree with anything Apple say or do simply because youdislike Apple. But, at the end of the day when industry, hospital, and school are all using the iPad 2 and havegreat success you can come back and pu t a oops I was wrong a t the end of the article.

Posted By James, Orlando, Florida: March 6, 2011 8:22 AM

Why can't a technology "journalist" understand the simple fact of why Apple is so popu lar? This isn't about the

hardware and speed , it's not about 500,000 apps. It's about being first to market with a format for softwaredevelopers to sell their products. Google, MS and anyone else is too late to the game and gets irritatedbecause they aren't seeing the obvious. Ok, you make an "equal" device from a ha rdware perspective but theyaren't selling, why?Verizon fought for years to get the iPhone even though they had one the Android, why?Don't be predictable Seth...step ou tside the bounds of writing the "easy" article and do some real analysis.

PSRead articles from the site you publish to and educate yourself on what you speak o f:http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/03/04/samsung.tablet.inadequate/index.html

Posted By David, Philadelphia, PA: March 6, 2011 5:55 AM

yes, most of you got it right. me also blaming apple for making product with something that supposed to beavailable from the beginning like camera on first ipad. but remember this, there will be no zune if there is noipod; there will be no samsung ga laxy, nexus one, or any smartphone runni ng android if there is no iphone;

there will be no tablet if there is no ipad; there will be no so called market, software store, windows store or whatever they called if there is no app store. if you don't like what apple done till now, why don't you make anew products line, something that apple hasn't think about. something genuine, something that will take all themarket worldwide. why? because they just know how to copy

Posted By dai, jakarta, jk: March 6, 2011 5:40 AM

Ahahaa @ all crApple fanbois. Please don't humiliate yourselves, its just facts. Another fact - Yes, your Steve isan infamous liar!

Posted By Anonymous: March 6, 2011 5:39 AM

Actually the Apple fanboys' reactions remind me of that movie where the town Sheriff needles that teenager obsessed with professional wrestling.



Sheriff: Wrestling's fake.Fanboy: WRESTLING...IS....NOT....FAAAAAAAKKKKKEEEEEE (eyes popping and drooling )!Sheriff: (snickers while moving away)

Posted By Ken, Boston, MA: March 6, 2011 5:37 AM

Seth,

11th Commandment: Thou shall not blaspheme against the iGod!

Just kidding Seth. You've got iron balls roiling Apple fanboys and their iGod!

In all honesty, when Steve is gone maybe in 2 or 3 years and I think Jonathan Ive is going back to the UK,Apple will slowly slide down. Start thinking about your AAPL shares.

Posted By Ken, Boston, MA: March 6, 2011 5:34 AM

Poorly written article with little to no objectivity. Clearly just an anti-apple rant blog.

Posted By Nicholas: March 6, 2011 4:49 AM

Apple has a dark side...hmmm!Maybe they want to gain credibility!

Posted By marianpc: March 6, 2011 3:45 AM

Apple has always been thinking out of the box. Its only a matter of time till the androids come up with their "own" Smart Case.

Posted By Rushan, Srilanka, Central: March 6, 2011 2:50 AM

This article is DEAD ON. You Apple fanboys have SUCH a hard time when the truth is spoken.

Posted By Paul, Honolulu, Hawaii: March 6, 2011 1:42 AM

Love apple. If people love its products, apple will continue to win. Other losers brand doesn't seem to get it. Stilltalk about the tablet as an old processor clock speed race. That's just stupid I think.

Posted By St. Louis MO: March 6, 2011 1:36 AM

You wrote OMG in your article for Fortune Tech and someone is supposed to take you seriously?!?

What is "volume" to you? Does anyone that doesn't write for a technology publication even using or better yet,seen the Dell Streak? Okay so more than one purchased is volume and Steve is wrong.

It's not that I love or hate Apple , it's the fact that you are so incredibly angry and hateful of Apple in this articlethat I find sad and unprofessional. It takes me back to the days of journalists writing the Apple is dead,Microsoft is better argument over and over and over again.

We all know how that turned out. Look online to see which of the two is worth more.

Posted By Anthony Santa Monica, CA: March 6, 2011 12:22 AM

At the end of the day - every keynote is a launch and sales pi tch for customers and investors. So far as I cansee, Steve Jobs is an excellent sales person and is just doing his job to promote Apple, as any CEO would. If people are concerned with the facts, then it is up to them to do their homework before they decide to purchasea product.

Posted By Gerard de Rozario, Ajman, United Arab Emirates: March 5, 2011 11:53 PM

a buncg of jealous folks who can not keep up with the creative minds of Apple engineers.... the only thing left isto whine....



Posted By totalripoff, Milwaukee WI: March 5, 2011 9:12 PM

2 words m8, 30%Looneys!

Posted By Gnstr: March 5, 2011 8:52 PM

I do not think comparing tablets like ipad to phones, netbooks and cheap laptops is fair. Quoting Samsung fromtheir own document is not lying. I have a ipad and it is truly a post-PC and does not replace my iMac. What ithas done for healthcare and special education alone is breathtaking. Every genius has its enviers. And yes, Iam an Apple fan.

Posted By Nancy Aron, Berkeley CA: March 5, 2011 8:18 PM

Wow... i commend you for posting this... knowing all well how much this will kiss-off apple fan boys. That said...both google and apple are targeting different markets.... apple with Iphone/itouch like interface and polishedclean looking ipads for young students n non-techies and google targeting college students and corporatecrowd. It good for consumers... apple would have probably taken 1-2 more years before releasing dual-coreipads, if it wasn't for competition.

Posted By Engineer, Chicago, IL: March 5, 2011 8:15 PM

Wow. That's not cool Apple.

And I use a macbook...

Not impressed.

Posted By Danny, Belleville, ON: March 5, 2011 7:35 PM

Not to stur the pot or anything but someone hit it right the general poulation who buy these devices do NOTwatch the keynotes. Instead they buy these products because they are trending and people buy into marketing.They buy them like sillybandz. People will buy ipad 2, not because of the specs, speed or even iOS, but rather just cause someone told them you need to ge t it and it's the greatest. Pretty sure if they came out withsillybandz 2 people would jump on it because someone say's its the best. But look at these trends they are

most of the time not superior and just stupid. Now I'll be the first to admit i don't like apple, but i do like their ipodand iphone. I also haven't played with android os very much but I can tell you iOs is more visually pleasing tome. Apple produces great software they always have, however they always did lack in hardware. Letscompare them to cars. Chevy 1500 vs. fords f-150. Chevy is to apple as Ford is to all o thers. Engine ishardware the rest is software. Chevy has a 5.3 liter and ford has a 5.4 liter. The 5.3 beats th 5.4 not because o f the hardware bu t the rest of the truck(the software) works with the hardware better. Apple is good at makingtheir os work with thei r hardware (go figu re). But I don't think they have the best device. hardware makes thedevices capabilities, software utilizes it. Apple makes use of their hardware through their software others suchas Android ad Microsoft haven't accomplished this as well. But if you were to put on ios on a tablet with better hardware and tweak the os to work with the hardware that would make that tablet better than the ipad. Bothsides have good qualities. But lets face it apple leaves out hardware when they make products forcing you tohave to buy the next gen . for example the the ipod touch. when it first came out no apps. pretty boring. so thenthey updates ios witht the app store. cool, but why couldn't they do this before? What about the hiddenBluetooth? that the activated later on with a paid upgrade or adding the camera? they could have added oneearlier, sure it would have made the ipod little thicker but they didn't to save their reputations. Then they addthe camera say 720 p but forget to mention that the camera is a less than 1 megapixel camera producing prettybad pictures. Plus, i bet a flash will be added in the next version. apple leaves technology out to make itappear their device is getting better but in actually other companies hardware is superior with apples softwareseems to be a little be tter tuned to fit the hardware that they have. Apple is about manipulating the market.Their legacy would have never have started if it weren't for the original ipods. They got lucky and that is why

there are fanboys for apple. If microsoft came out with their own hardware i bet they could compete with appletoe to toe, not because of their os or their hardware but simply because they could tweak both to run likeapples. and not for nothing bit iOS is not great performance wise. it lags at random times and crashes andlocks up. Some of those are due to developers programming but a lot of them are due to not enough ram tosupport the activity. i would love to be able to criticize both the os 7 and android and their supporting hardwarebut like i said i have little experience with them i can only go by what i read and hardware facts support os 7and android. So me without decent hardware you cant have a decently running os, unless the os is"downgraded" to work with the lack of hardware. To me iOS is only built to the potential of the hardware. if apple had better hardware iOS could be even better and accomplish more.

Posted By unbiastruth, new york, NY: March 5, 2011 7:00 PM

I am absolutely stunned that Fortune would let such a poorly written immature rant to be published under their umbrella.

I don't have any problem with an objective article having a negative or cautionary view of anything Apple or anyone else manufactures. My problem is with the childish, or should I say babyish vindictive tone that the



writer uses throughout his column.

The Fortune brand has been diminished in my eyes.

Posted By John Moss , West Linn, OR: March 5, 2011 6:02 PM

@Henry 3 Dogg:

Spoken like a true Apple fanboy. You seriously think the technologically inclined dislike Apple because their

OS is too easy to use compared to Windows? I run *nix-based OSes around the house, and I still want nothingto do with the current line of Apple products. It has nothing to do with some fear of ease o f use. It's because:

1) Apple's products force you to operate in a "walled garden" environment where they choose what appsare/are not appropriate for you to run. That is, unless you decide to play the cat-and-mouse game of jailbreaking with them.

2) With Apple, you're paying a premium for the UI. I'll admit; Apple's interfaces are slick, generally reliable, nicelooking , and easy to use. But I don't care about UI's. I care about how quickly and efficiently the machine cancomplete its tasks. It's the same reason I use VLC media player for playing videos and music: the in terfacemight be awful, but it'll play anything you throw at it.

3) Apple's emphasis on marketing gets under my skin. I admit this isn't a solid technological reason to bashApple, but it makes you question where their priorities are as a company when they float their claims on a seaof equal parts fact, propaganda, and fanboyism.

Basically, it comes down to the fact that Apple generally places form over function and charges the consumer extra for their (gorgeous but hamstrung) devices. The fact that they have an army of near-mil itant followers whoturn blind eyes to the BS doesn't help either.

Posted By J, Omaha, NE: March 5, 2011 5:50 PM

God know Apple makes great product...always have. But they seem hell bent on repeating their past...takesomething great and micromanage it to death...literally. I think Steve Jobs needs to watch Finding Nemo.

Posted By AJ, Milwaukee, WI: March 5, 2011 5:41 PM

oh please, sell more gadgets than iPad then get back to us after.

And after selling, please tell us if they actually work.

Posted By Sharkee, Austin, TX: March 5, 2011 4:05 PM

Marketing: Every company chooses to add and leave off what the feel is not relevan t to their product, hence theterm marketing. After all, there is on ly so much room on the cereal box to post the ingredients - have you readone of those lately?

Android smandroid- Apple will still out sell all the other devices combined and you know why? Because theyjust work.

Regarding Samsung: Smooth - what does it mean?

Kindle: Are you kidding me. I would not compare a Kindle to my Garmin bicycle computer yet alone a tabletcomputer.

Posted By Frank, Brisbane Austrailia: March 5, 2011 3:57 PM

@Seth

You are not objective when you call someone a liar for quoting someone's own info distribution. That is puremischief!

Posted By Henry 3 Dogg, Cambridge, UK: March 5, 2011 3:50 PM

Seth. I listened a month ago, and I heard small. In Samsungs edi ted recording I hear smooth, in a context thatmakes smooth nonsense.

But if Samsung distributed a transcript that said small, and people quote it, then you have no basis to call themliars, or to imply that their research was inadequate.

You should be big enough to admit that you're wrong.




OMG...Seth, time to grow up. You sound like a 14 year-old.

It's called "marketing" - you push your features, and make the areas where others have strengths sound lessimportant. Guess what? Every company does it. You don 't tell the nuance to the truth that makes your productappears in a lesser light. Yes, you can write articles about the details and make for more detailed comparisonsthat brings out your arguments, but get off the high horse that make you appear to so juvenile. I hate readingdrivel frin fandroid and fanboys, but Seth is clearly a very young thinking fandroid.

Posted By Ted Cranmore: March 5, 2011 2:49 PM

Seth,Say what you want but I will make you a friendly wager of ANY amount that Apple will indeed sell more iPadsthan any other device in this niche this year. Let's say 1 million dollars? There isn't a sane person on this earththat would bet against Apple.

Posted By Robert G. SLC, UTAH: March 5, 2011 2:47 PM

Wake Up Wake Up...!!! ur dream is over...and Oh the processor is an A5 1.5GHz dual core instead of the 1GHzu mentioned in ur article....thanks to guys like u...Apple is taking over everything....even ur organ ization....bystorm..!!! I can't believe Fortune has people l ike u writing for them...!!

Posted By Halcyon, Miami,Fl.: March 5, 2011 2:09 PM

Apple Fanboys Grow Up. Fandroid supporters same to you. For all of you saying that Apple "Innovated" theydidn't, it is simple fact. Every technology that is present today came from before but has been improved , it isvery rare that something is actually "Innovated" anymore. Ask yourself this, if you are considering innovation,Whats Next? You tell me, realistically. Good Luck.

Posted By Anonymous: March 5, 2011 1:15 PM

The real question is not whether Seth hates Apple, but why.

It's not that unusual. The most common reason I've found amongst people who know anything aboutcomputers, is the fear that Apple renders all of the arcane knowledge that they've accumulated, worthless.

You see, if you've lived around windows for years, and you're the person who knows which registry settings totweak to make windows talk to Samba, how to interrupts in the b ios, and what the VGA memory window is. If you can read a BSofD and reboot in safe mode and resolve the conflicts, basically is you can paper over theholes in Windows, then you are a hero, with value.

And MacOS cancels that value.

It doesn't even leave a whole pile of new arcane witchcraft to learn, because basically anyone can sort the vastmajority of MacOS issues. So there's not even a way to regain that value.

This tends not to worry the competent, because they know that this just leaves them free to do more usefulthings.

But it terrifies the marginally competent who have either made their living, or just gained kudos, by knowingthat bit more than most others.


So, how can you explain Lee's latest quote explaining his tablet(s) are inadequate, as your organization justreported? Misquote my-ass.

Posted By Tom, San Jose CA: March 5, 2011 11:47 AM

I'll admit I'm one of the so-called Apple haters. But I have to take issue with what one of the many commentersbelow sa id. I don't remember who it was but they basically said that the fact is that once somebody tries anApple product they never go back.

That is quite untrue. I currently have a macbook pro because i t was given to me by the schoo l I'm attending. Iabsolutely ha te this thing but when I first got it I was excited to get it and try it out. Now, whenever I have achance I do all of my homework on a Windows based PC. And i t's not just me. I know a ton of peop le that arethe same way.

Now, yes, Apple is selling a lot of iPads but from my experience it's not because the iPad is so much better than the competition (it may be I don't know) but because Apple does have a lot of fans that think Apple an do



no wrong. Don 't get me wrong, Microsoft has the same kinds of fans.

I've read just as many bad reviews about the iPad as I have good reviews so in my opinion the "Market share"of Apple's products really i sn't all that great of a way to measure their products.


Looks like we need to try to see through the Weintraub Distortion Field. Yes, Jobs puts a pro-Apple spin onthings, but you seem to be willfully misunderstanding and/or misrepresenting his points here. For example, it'strue that the Xoom is comparable in features to the higher-end iPads, but the point is that there are a lot of iPadoptions below where the Xoom starts. And you compare hardware features that the Xoom has (as Jobspredicted pundits would) without recognizing the rather obvious fact that the iPad's huge advantage issoftware-based -- namely the ease and consistency of the iOS experience and the number (and quality) of apps available for it. You'll forgive me if I choose not to drink the Koolaid you're offering.

Posted By J im, Woodland CA: March 5, 2011 11:28 AM

Good luck trying to make this blog post stick. Walk around an airport and see which devices are being used bycorporate and non corporate travelers. The competitors have stepped up, but not to the level or volume theywould have hoped.More importantly, this rant sounds familiar after the second gen iphones were released. Competitors swarmedto copy the innovation and than claim it as their own. They are all still losing, except one. Android has seriouspotential if they can only innovate first.

Posted By Chris, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: March 5, 2011 11:07 AM

Before you write seemingly biased rhetorical rants like this, you should at least bother to change your bio so itappears you are objective.

Posted By Trevor , Boston, MA: March 5, 2011 11:00 AM

Thanks for the video... i'm sold. I'm buying one. Dang this Koolaid is tasty! LOL. I love all the den iers.

Posted By OS, Detroit, MI: March 5, 2011 11:00 AM

@Seth, Have you ever heard of Marketing strategies? Shame on Apple? Shame is for companies that doesn'tknow how to sell their products.

Posted By Yong: March 5, 2011 10:55 AM

Lets see how things shape up same time next year. Ipad will not be so dominate and there will be more than16 honeycomb specific apps. Heh choice is great you like apples I like a mean green computing machine.

Posted By bob roberts: March 5, 2011 10:43 AM

@Edit Weintraub

You're going to pretty embarassed about some of your article and editorial comments when you look back.

When you're at the bottom of a hole, stop digging.

Posted By Henry 3 Dogg, Cambridge, UK: March 5, 2011 9:49 AM

The funny thing is, iPad 2s will still sell better than any other tablet; this is all despite your butthurt blog post.

You begin to complain about Apple even before you throw your facts down. This gives you the image of anApple hater with predisposed hate towards Apple, which adds a major grain of salt to your argument.

Non-iPad tablets haven't been shipping in volume. Just because you've used a tablet, doesn't mean that it'sshipped in volume. You're a supposed tech reporter, it's your job to do this; Android tablets haven't picked upoutside of the technology niche so stop acting like your use of something makes it 'cool' and 'mainstream'.

Posted By Kye, Perth, Western Australia.: March 5, 2011 9:46 AM



From the wall street journal now

"Samsung executive Lee Young-hee said Galaxy Tab sales were "quite smooth," according to a recording of the company's conference call with analysts. This post relied on a transcript of the call, which quoted her erroneously as saying they were "quite small." Samsung said the transcript, done by a third party and initiallycited by a company spokesman, has since been corrected."

Note. A Samsung spokesman cited the original transcript. You owe mr jobs an apology since he based hiscomments on those cited by a Samsung spokesman.

But I don't suppose he'll get one . To a journalist truth seems to be a commodi ty bought and sold.


When it can play Warcraft, the world will end. When it can play Rift, everything will end.

Posted By Wilma Darling, Billings, MO: March 5, 2011 9:36 AM

But that exerpt was released by Samsung. Listen to the original recording in full context and smooth is veryunlikely. Anyway, if Samsung publish a transcript saying Small, then it's their own fault.

SW: Listen to the recording provided, read the original article or PED's analysis. All show she saidsmooth.


"That was just the beginning. He next pulled out a thoroughly debunked, mis-translated quote from aSamsung VP:"

This is untrue. It wasn't translated, it was just transcribed. And according to wa ll street journal , ir was Samsungthat published the transcript with the supposed error. So you are further dishonest to indicate that Apple did notadequately check, if they relied on a transcript published by Samsung.


This article seems like sensationalism at it's best. I believe i t is meant to attract clicks, not develop readershipthrough great content.

It is true that most of apples "i" products do not lead the market in terms of specs. But side by side , ask peoplewhich one they would prefer to use and the "i" product will win almost everytime.

I do agree that in this "post-pc era" it is about the user experience. All of these products have basically thesame baseline processors and graphics. The real difference is how the software is coupled with the hardware.This is why apple is winning.

To quote John Gruber in reference to the iPad 2, "It's a shame, almost, that we squandered the term "personalcomputer" 30 years ago."

Posted By Adrian, Willow Street, PA: March 5, 2011 8:51 AM

Dude, were you paid to take on Steve Jobs brazenly? It is obvious for a manufacturer to talk about thestrengths of her/his product. The article is simply too ethical to be even practical in the world of business.

Posted By S Gupta, Berkeley, California: March 5, 2011 8:18 AM

This article is obviously written by someone grasping at straws to attack Apple. The 90%+ market share isobviously calculated based on numbers in the hands of the end user. The ipad is still basically sold out in mostcountries while the Galaxy sits on shelves. I think we can all agree that a tablet with less than 1% of ipadsmarket share is not "shipping in volume"

Posted By Andrew, Macau Macau: March 5, 2011 7:22 AM

apple fanboys are soooo maddesign is not performance.Enjoy your baby-like OS in your shiny pacifier

Posted By Jackson, Denver, Colorado: March 5, 2011 6:34 AM



Yet the iPad 2 will still sell.

Posted By Angus: March 5, 2011 6:02 AM

@Jackson

If Apple builds products before they can be perfected and wait until they can release a product with "all thefeatures," then why didn't they include all of the "innovative" features of the iPad 2 into the original iPad?

Posted By Peter Gibbons, PDX OR: March 5, 2011 5:59 AM

I read this article, which is completely biased unidirectional. Also I did scan the comments, which are oppositedirection in general. That means, being a professional it is not good to have biased article published.

For me, I have not buy a tablet till now, but thinking to have one Ipad 1, and wait till the end of this year for Ipad3.This could be the most rational!!

Posted By Kishor, Oslo, Norway: March 5, 2011 5:10 AM

Get your therapist to up your meds.

Posted By Fred Hamranhansenhansen, San Francisco, CA: March 5, 2011 5:09 AM

It's a shame the way Apple has evolved into this"market monopoly" wannabe after they fought so hard tocompete with microsoft. Any how, the consumer still has the power and the last word: let's stop buying Apple'sproducts; three months ago I ditched my iphone and got (me, my wife and son) three Samsung Windows 7phones which are way faster than the iphone. Steve, what goes around comes around...

Posted By Nick, Menlo Park CA: March 5, 2011 4:04 AM

Galaxy tab was only being sold for one quarter, right? Why did you assume that they sold 2 million * 3quarters?

Posted By Steve, California: March 5, 2011 3:56 AM

This seems to be article by someone who just wants to bad mouth Apple. The company is most admired for fourth year in succession. You thing 100 million iPhone buyers and 15 million iPad buyers are not educated?These products offer beautiful user experience and are extremely reliable. People who use Apple productnever go back to competition . They don't give away their OS free to phone manufacturers and despite that theyhave very healthy market share. One should stop writing such articles. They are in real bad taste.

Posted By Japeen Shah, Muscat, Oman: March 5, 2011 3:52 AM

Yeah.. I agree. This guy/girl wrote an entire column comparing televisions to lamps. Obviously an Apple-hater at any cost. Kinda sorry that I even gave this pathetic article a chance by reading it. Won't get those threeminutes of my life back... oh well...

Posted By Owen Chastain, Vero Beach, FL: March 5, 2011 2:57 AM

10 years ago, I would have said that I am never going to be a mac sort of guy. Then Napster came along andmade all my music FREE. Then Apple offers a solution... Reasonable pricing for each song... So then the iPodcame out and I was totally blasted away with the Nano because I was in the Army and everyone had one, butwith my Nano, I could work out and not worry about weight sliding down my arm. The nano didn't have videosupport though. So all the sand gets deep into my pc and there's this mac with a solid unibody... that lookedlike something really sturdy... So I used it and it was phenomenal how easy it all was... Next thing I knew I hada mac... but it didn't stop there...

so I saw an iphone 3g on the shelves... this touch screen phone that was totally affordable... So I bought one.Now I'm looking at an Ipad 2! Holy geez!



Now today I have all these mac products that are so easy to use and I use them on a daily basis with options Imight add.

It's not about specs... it's about affordability, ease of use and how fast I can get the job done .

Posted By Carl fr om Honolulu, HI: March 5, 2011 2:35 AM

Alexandr,You're claiming that consumers aren't smart enough to tell high qua lity technology from junk? Would you notagree that even a caveman could do that? They need on ly get one in theirs hands and compare. What'sludicrous is the idea that because you know some cute numbers and specs that you know which productsomeone will enjoy and take advantage of most.With that said, Android has been producing tablets of its own for months now with little more than a ripple in the"tablet market." Please explain the lack of enthusiasm for their products and their incredibly low POS numbers.Also, would you care to explain the massive amount of upcoming tablets delayed or terminated altogether fromthe mere sight of the new iPad? And you who claims to know so much about the industry, please explain howan iPad with a lower amount of on-boa rd RAM and a supposed "slower" processor still crush its competitors interms of performance and efficiency...


It's just sad, because obviously this article was not written by someone well versed in the tech industry and thetrue ins and ou ts of every product but, in fact, someone onl y well versed in the g iven specs without any actualbenchmark testing, side by side comparison, or other such testing done to back up the claim in this article. Thenumbers (10000GB of RAM or 100000MP) mean nothing when the OS can't even keep up with it's own

processor. 3G on a $499 tablet doesn't mean squat when the service is spotty at best. Nor does a flimsy flash,when you coul d compare it to the light given off by a lit match... Apple doesn't build products before they can beperfected (for the current materials and means o f production). They wait until they can deliver a gorgeous,unibody, thin, lightweight, product with all of those features before doing so. They aren't in the business of giving consumers a pil e of junk before its time. (iPhone 4 is the first incident of its kind with Apple and, in myopinion, the incredible innovation that went into it's creation may have ultimately been a pain for iPhone 4owners but opened the door to more amazing, problem-free, products in the near future).

You knock Apple for bending reality? Look in the mirror.

There is no product like the iPad. There is no p roduct that can do EVERYTHING it can with thePERFORMANCE it has. Period.


To be perfectly honest, the whole "i" franchise is somewhat of a ludicrous technology carnival side show. Appledo no t create better products, they create mediocre products that as Alexander, David, Panama havementioned "does the job it was designed for" The funny thing is, what IS the job the iPad was intended for?Apple has captivated the masses because they're very clever magicians. They know that the masses don'tknow much about gadget specifications (which to be honest is somewhat of an embarrassment consideringthat we DO live in a technologically driven age) Most people who buy Apple have been brainwashed by thewhole franchise into beli eving that it's the best out there because if everyone is using it, it therefore must be thebest. The iPad specs. are a joke compared to other tablets out there on the market such as the new-kids-off-the-block "Motorola Xoom" and the "Samsung Galaxy Tab" I'm not going to discuss specs here because youcan readily find them all over the internet.For Apple it seems "good enough" is just "good enough" which makes no sense because technology is allabout evolution to more efficient forms not about conforming with what is. We make new things because weexpect them to be be tter than their predecessor.Apple's initial marketing tactics i.e. The sadly famous presentations by Jobs, has gotten to the point where it'sbecome somewhat of a bandwagon for "techie wannabe 's" "wowing" and "ooing" at Job's captivating salefigures and future projections. Apple always comes out with some "new" gimmick and the gullible's fall for iteach and every time. Personally I think the Apple franchise should be killed as quickly and as quie tly aspossible because it's becoming an embarrassment to technology and to those who care about what we buy.Remember, in the end Apple couldn't give two hoots about their market as long as they buy their mediocreproducts over and over.

Know what you're buying and see if it's better or you just might as well throw away your money down the toilet.

Posted By Alexandr, Louth, Ireland: March 5, 2011 12:49 AM

Lots of factual errors and 'twisted truths' about the competition from Jobs. Is Apple getting paranoid with thecompetition? Apple is starting to lose on specs and speeds, will Apple start losing on 'user experience'? IsApple starting to lose its mojo? This and questions of his health is not good for Apple long term. I'll be sellingmy AAPL shares. Nothing persona l.

Posted By Dale, Scottsdale, AZ: March 5, 2011 12:29 AM

"The truth is that Apple talks a lot about specs and speeds when i t can say Apple is the leade r. If Apple isalready behind, it says those numbers aren 't important." -Fortune (another Apple a rticle). I couldn't agree with

you more Fortune!



Posted By Dale, Scottsdale, AZ: March 5, 2011 12:15 AM

Seth, seTH, SETH!?

Don't be stupid. Listen to what he really said that is true:

For Tablets, it's not about Specs. It's about the User Experience. Yes, It's a long way off from what you're usedto, but let's do the math and display the slide that you effectively decided not to show:

iPad Apps >65000.Honeycomb Apps = 100.

Where are the Honeycomb developers? The Xoom developers? They have had a year to get things rolling.The Android Apps don't Sell on Andro id Phones. Their users prefer to get it free. And, as has been stated by afew people in the know, Honeycomb is like using Beta Software. Buggier than hell.

Next week Seth, we will see who is right. Google and its Android army of cheap knock offs won't repeat whatthey did in the phone space. There is no 2 for 1 special or get a new Honeycomb device when you sign up witha carrier. This competition will be based on pure User Experience.

Tell me you weren't impressed by the Garageband demo. Come on Seth, tell me you weren't impressed.

Posted By theiphonedoc: March 4, 2011 11:36 PM

one of the most useless article o f recent times...WTF statements of the article..Dell streak a tablet... ?Motorola XOOM ships after iPad2, so no chance o f comparision... no body even knows if they have the Tegra 2from nvidia yet.... God bless Honeycomb !!Samsung tab, about it... once you have hands on that device you will know its not worth calling tablet anddefinitely not a iPad competitor, people are buying it because they live near to China market and can't find aApple store.

iPad has no competition, people writing articles and making products can just try to chase it.

Posted By jay: March 4, 2011 11:14 PM

You just don't get it!Apple is not about bigger ram, bigger speed, bigger screen, etc.Its about a well made product that does the job it was designed for, balancing software and hardware.Takes a lot to do this, and is true, they have to have control over it to be ab le to improve it.

And the end if you like the freedom on the PC and it junk Windows crashing, just stay there and be happy.We choose Apple for the pleasure of having something that works for us.

Posted By Alexander, David, Panama: March 4, 2011 9:44 PM

In Volume, yes it is subjective, but let's talk by the end o f April and that subjective view wi ll be fact. I don't planof buy one, but I have heard of a huge number of people at my work who are planning to be in line next Fridayto turn that from subjective to factual!

Posted By SW , Tennessee: March 4, 2011 9:24 PM

OMG

512 mb is faster than 1 gb! That goes to show how optimize iOS is compare to copycat. The others have tocompensate with more RAM. So if a joe blow come out with 2 GB ram and 10 mega pixel camera tomorrowdoes it automatically make it 2x better than the rest? What matter is fast, light, long batter life, user friendl y andmany apps all at a reasonable price. That is what matters to us consumers the last time I checked.

Posted By Tee: March 4, 2011 9:23 PM

I like how he says the average consumer doesn't care about specs and then all he talks about is specs for therest of the article. No duh, Jobs is going to go on stage and try and sell his product. He's not gonna have akeynote that strokes off his competitor's product. If you're looking for "reality," Seth, go out on the street andcount on your right hand how many iPads you see, and on your left hand count how many android tabs yousee. I'll give you a hint, you're gonna need more right hands.

Posted By Parker Brown, Austin TX: March 4, 2011 9:00 PM



Seth, maybe the reality distortion is yours. Steve Jobs is 'rattled' by Androi d? Reall y?Seth, the man is has got death knocking on his door - and he i s still working regardless! I don't think Steve is'rattled' by such petty matters.

Posted By rexs olomon, Rockville MD: March 4, 2011 8:36 PM

I don't think so either, seeing as how it's Apple software. Why would it be on a Samsung?

Posted By Pat: March 4, 2011 8:28 PM

Your comment would make sense if the iPhone was just an operating system and not a device. UnfortunatelyAndroid is just an operating system, and can be used by many d ifferent manufacturers, including Acer, Dell,HTC, LG, and Motorola. If one of those manufacturers had sold more devices than Appl e, THEN it would'veoutsold the iPhone. You woul d be more correct if you said there a re more Android OS's than iOS, but peoplearen't just buying a mobile OS. Sorry, but you're comparing apples to oranges.


People respect a CEO for his company's innovative products and p rofitablility. At any presentation like thisyou're obviously going to have the company showing it's products in a positive light. Just look at how HP'swebOS was highlighted as "the best OS" over Android and iOS. Also, I'm not sure when you were a kid, but I'mpretty sure it wasn't called "lieing." At least when I was a kid it was called "lying." If you had written your postfrom a quality tablet such as an iPad, it would have auto-corrected for you.


While fine to poi nt out inconsistencies and fallacies, it's hard to take it seriously when the writer has an "I hateApple" bias.

Posted By Steve J , Seattle, WA: March 4, 2011 7:32 PM

"I am trying to figure out the resolution of the cameras, all i know is it takes HD video ."

Front: VGA (640x480)Back: 720p

Posted By Steve J , Seattle, WA: March 4, 2011 7:27 PM

i am a verizon retailer owner for 10yr and i cant sell verizon iphone. why? cuz apple is so great, they want toget all the profit out of apple's product. do you know why we must have data plan? it's all becuse of iphone.manufacture take profit out of carrier's sales. ya they make g reat products but they also ruin wireless industryand taking too much money


Don't even talk about Bill. People simply bough t windows because they needed it. Bill didn't slam others or played demigod to sell his. He was not a clown but a producer. People buy ipads because Jobs says theyneed it. Even if Apple sells some kind of dancing potato at $200 people WILL BUY and therefore whole market

will make similar things. After all this madness is gone they will notice it was not normal. Tablets are not somuch useful like dancing potatoes.Do you know once Jobs removed cursor keys from keyboard to compel people to use mouse. In that timepeople said "Wow he's a genious. Yes we don't need any cursor keys. You are absolutely righ t.INNOVATION!People who use cursor keys are primitive" Someone who's not out of mind will never say like that nowadays.We're doing same things even now. Never learn a lesson. If you say "I'll buy everything even if you make ajunky thing" to a company then it surely will, no doubt. Be critical if you want something better, if you don't wantcursorless keyboard.


So the author is admitting that Apple has great marketing and an ability to persuade. However, peopl e don'tbuy iPads or iPhones because of keynotes. Keynotes and product announcements such as this one arewatched primarily by geeks, not by the general buying pub lic. Similarly, the consumer at large will have noidea about any of these statements or misquotes by Steve Jobs. They will the judge the product on its ownmerits.



Methinks the author has an agenda.

Posted By Sonny, Phoenix AZ: March 4, 2011 6:23 PM

Wow, Seth is either really sincere or simply hunting for volume web hits on this story; maybe the truth (as itoften does) lies somewhere between the two.

Posted By John, Little Rock, Arkansas: March 4, 2011 6:20 PM

Mr Seth Weintraub has tried a lo t like apple competitors to show apple down...but the very fact that he wasnoting this proves he is quite afraid of apple ipad2...and the sentence "So Samsung sold 2 million (in the lastquarter) in 2010. Apple sold 14.8 million (in three quarters). That seems like a pretty fair comparison." is soodd...Samsung tablet I ve hardly seen on anybody's hand...might be only i n the showrooms....man u need to bea neutral person to be in ur profession....

Posted By Yas NYC NY: March 4, 2011 6:11 PM

This is the reaction of the opposition ... In a refreshingly honest statement, Samsung's mobile division VP LeeDon-Joo admitted that the iPad 2 made the 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab look "inadequate" .

Posted By Bill, Sarasota FL: Marc h 4, 2011 6:04 PM

Another apple fan boy.


I read the article, then read the comments; then looked back at the history of some Apple products and yessome of them were terrible but a good majority of them HAVE been industry changers. The iPad came out thenall of a sudden; BAM there are 20 competitors tablet devices to compete with the iPad. The same thinghappend with the iPhone and it's intuitive interface. The only thing people could come up with is "Where is thekeyboard" but then let look at the market now. How many touch screen devices are on the market that mimicthe iPhone are there? Same thing with the iPod. The fact is Apple has the courage to go first in introducingthese new technologies in mass then when they do an awesome job of selling it by any means possibleeveryone gets mad. The same thing happend to Bill over at Microsoft.

Posted By SCWSNelly Great Lakes, IL: March 4, 2011 4:39 PM

Very nicely pointed out article. Jobs all talk about how you feel , how you touch, how glamorous you can bewith the product but little on what's inside it.

iPad 2 = iPad 1 + two camera and HDMI. hardware upgrade expected from a new product.

I am trying to figure out the resolution of the cameras, all i know is it takes HD video.

Posted By Rudy, Redwood City, CA: March 4, 2011 4:07 PM

Define "better" on the screen. Higher resolution doesn't make something automatically better. The tech behindit does. The Xoom lacks IPS or LED backlighting, major enhancements to the iPad's display that give it its

gorgeous quality.

Posted By Gabe S.: March 4, 2011 4:05 PM

You know, there's one place where iPads and its competitors are about 50/50: the blogosphere. Scratch that,make it 70% Android.

I have no doubt that, with the business model of Microsoft+Google, there will be more Android tablets soldeventually. The hardware makers will rise up and disappear, just like the computer manufacturers of the past.The price will keep going down, margins will be razor-thin, but the "one party makes software, everybodymakes hardware" model is a great, if monopolistic, business model. Google will make lots of dough givingAndroid away.

Meanwhile, Apple will move on to more market innovation, producing both hardware and OS -- sort of likebody and soul, see? And they'll make money with less market share. Maybe most of the money in the sector.

I'd LOVE to see some real competition in the device market, but right now, with the Google-copycat model, it's



unlikely; until some new "control freak" genius focuses on the whole user experience.

Posted By Jim H, Glendale, CA: March 4, 2011 4:02 PM

I think that it will eventually catch up with Apple. A lot of peop le already view Jobs as an "expletive"!!! I own anduse both Microsoft and Apple products, simply because I create both Iphone and Windows based apps. I thinkother manufacturers employ similar tactics, but the difference is that Apple has set the bar so high for itself using phrases like "magical, beautiful, calling their staff Geniuses, etc..." that they should be criticized for when

they fall short of that mark even a little bit! And let's not forget that their competitors are also b illion dollar companies that are o ffering legitimate alternatives to app le products.

Eventually people will learn that they have choices. If Apple refuses to take a more consumer friendlyapproach to PR, they will end up with just the original core of apple Kool-Aid sipping groupies they had in the80's and 90's.

Posted By Shai, Sacramento California: March 4, 2011 3:42 PM

iHumans make me smile

Posted By micah houston, tx: March 4, 2011 3:37 PM

Android tablets will *never* be as good as iPad:

Android is a Google creation. Designed to increase ad spending. Tablets will always be secondary as an advehicle.

Posted By Brian S Hall, Ann ARbor, Michigan: March 4, 2011 3:34 PM

To be fair in your comparison. Now you have to calculate the smaller size of the samsung screen. Single notdual processor of the other devices to match the same price of 499. I would rather have lower quality cameraas I do not have p lans in making it a primary camera device to take photos. Thats pretty silly looking! So I lostrepsect for you! Too bad you had some really good points but then did same thing with your comparison at theend too!

Posted By Josh, Sacr ament CA: March 4, 2011 3:13 PM

Wait a minute. Let me just go to a website called 9to5mac.com to check something. I'll be back.Yep, I was right. There's a blogge r there with the same name as yours. Funny coincidence.

Posted By J osé Pinto, Vila Real, Portugal: March 4, 2011 3:01 PM

Apple lies about pretty much EVERYTHING it does, and stupid consumer lap this crap up . Buy a real honestcomputer, buy Windows. Bill Gates just donated $10 BILLION dolla rs for vaccine research to bene fit the entireworld. Apple employs Chinese children to produce its electronics. Down with APPLE!

Posted By Intelligence, USA: March 4, 2011 2:57 PM

iPad. iPad? What the heck is an iPad?

Posted By John Smith, Rockville, MD: March 4, 2011 2:49 PM

The 90% sold comment, Jobs was comparing "Tablet PC" sales to ipad sales. Neither the nook, ipad, xoom,etc are "Tablet PCs". Jobs was referring to tablet PCs as devices running normal full b lown PC opera tingsystems that users interact with via a touch/stylus sensitive monitor. And yes, the ipad has blown tablet pcsales away, so on that note the author of this article is not a good fact checker. I do agree that apple wasdisingenuous by not listing the specs of the cameras, but truthfully, I don't know why there a re back facingcameras on any of these devices. They are too bulky to operate as still camera or a video camera. The formfactor of phones/ipods/etc are far better suited for taking pictures and video. Front facing cameras are grea t tohave for video conferencing though. But to sacrifice the least amount of battery life, ram, bandwidth, etc thefront facing camera doesn't need to be fancy. The back facing camera, is grea t to have, but you'll likely on ly useit twice ever if at all, otherwise you'd run the risk of looking like a giant idiot lugging around a huge ipad sizedthing to use as a camera. Lastly, for whatever reason, Jobs/Apple don't think you should to do true multitasking,so in the ipad , there's no real need for extra RAM. If you're trying to use an application or running multipleapplications that take up more than 512MB of ram, you should probably think about using a laptop or PCinstead... maybe even a tablet PC :-0 But if you're just checking your email, playing games, surfing the web or



reading an ebook on the couch at night (which is a huge portion of the target market), then maybe you don'tneed all the power of a laptop, PC or a tablet pc :-p

Posted By gotham: March 4, 2011 2:49 PM

img so many butthurt ifans

Posted By New York: March 4, 2011 2:46 PM

Thank you SO much for ONCE not being an extreme Apple fanboy who follows Steve Jobs like he's theMessiah. Personally I'm a google person, but I don't mind when bad things come out about google, becauseno company is perfect. I've just noticed that in the general reporting (ESPECIALLY on CNN Tech) Googlealways gets slammed even when they're doing good things (Google is increasing their market share, but arethey becoming too powerful?) but Apple gets several articles of praise and no information every time theyrelease any gadget. So thank you, author, for finally reporting in a fair and balanced way.


I'm just gonna comment on the "apple copied from Xerox" argument -- apple actually was given explicit accessto xerox research; collaboration is not copying. Reverse engineering someone else's product is copying.

these are simple definitions.

Posted By Hirsuit, Bloomington Indiana: March 4, 2011 2:22 PM

Apple Ignoring lucrative India market

http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/soumyadipchoudhury/2805/62258/dear-steve-jobs-why-have-you-forsaken-india.html

Posted By Santosh, Elmwood Park, NJ : March 4, 2011 2:04 PM

Kudos to you for not kissing up to Apple like some other journalist at WSJ! There is so much FUD in what Appledoes.


You dweebs, are the ones twisting the facts... !

Posted By RB- Bakersfield, CA: March 4, 2011 1:58 PM

Well, I see two different groups of people here. Hot-headed fanboys, and calm, cool, normal people.

I'll try not to overheat

Yes, the facts and figures presented at the iPad 2 's debut were somewhat twisted, but it's not the first timewe've seen such manipulation in the tech industry. Nonetheless, this causes me to lose respect for Jobs.

Now, about some of those so-called facts. Seth claims that the iPad's sales volume hardly competes with other

tablets. Seth, you dont just compare iPad to every other Android tabled in terms of sales volume. You don'tcompare a specific product to a widely-used OS. And I'll bet that in individual comparisons, few tablets evencame close to the iPad. Like R said, you don't see people running around with random Android tablets asmuch as iPads. When you're selling technology to the general public (not just us nerds) you have to lookbeyond the tech specs. You have to make something that people want . Or, if you're dang lucky enough,something that people actually need.

Oh, and just to point something out, Microsoft DID copy off Apple with Windows, but Apple actually copied off Xerox (yes, xerox) with the GUI. Xerox invented the GUI, but the creators couldn't convince the big-wig executives that GUI OSs were the future (epic fail). So I wouldn't go around all the time wi th that copycat/creator quote if you're trying to promote Apple. You're just stabbing yourself in the back.

Posted By Dan from O akland, Michigan: March 4, 2011 1:56 PM

I enjoyed this article, thank you. I do not take sides, but choose devices based on performance and usability. Irecommend devices to my customers (Tech consultant) based on application for their use. I've recommendedapple for a few, but majo rity of the time, it does not fit most applications I have run across.



What we do learn from Jobs speech, and from the replies to your article is that Jobs knows how to market to hisfollowers. To those who exist outside of a brand specific cult, we will take each marketing gig with a grain of salt and look at true usefulness and performance.

Even reading through the comments below, we find many of those who are pro-jobs show a misunderstandingof even the hardware specs listed. Some do no t know the purpose of ram, others seem to forget that Palm andBlackberry even existed pre-iphone.

I am glad these misconceptions exist. These are things that keep me in business as corporations look toupgrade and do not trust their employees to make these decisions.

Posted By brian, akron, ohio: March 4, 2011 1:43 PM

Just a note from the website you di rectly quoted:

"Samsung said the transcript, done by a third party and initially cited by a company spokesman, has sincebeen corrected."

Samsung THEMSELVES screwed up by ci ting the comments, thereby justifying it's authenticity. As such,although a misquotation, it is likely an honest mistake and not the conspiracy that it is implied to be.

Posted By Francis, Ottawa, Ontario: March 4, 2011 1:24 PM

If it weren't for Apple, tablets wouldn't exist...or copied by all the other companies. How original?

Posted By Johnny: March 4, 2011 1:15 PM

THANK YOU for writing the truth. It seems that most "tech journalist" (I'm using the term journalist very looselyhere) can no longer see anything other than what Jobs' says as being the gospel because they are so worriedthey won't get a review product or they are bought and paid for by Apple. It's become rather pathetic.

I lost what little respect I had for Jobs after those lame attempts at misleading the public. . . not to mention the"tech journalists" falling over themselves to praise him. The RDF/Occult is at all all time high!

Posted By CJ, Englewood, CO: March 4, 2011 1:00 PM

Seth Weintraug' reality distortion takes its toll on truth

In Volume.

Of course, the Apple iPad 2 and Motorola Xoom has the same dual core processor, but the Motorola said theywould be shipping a total of 20 million smartphones and tablets combined in 2011. In fact Seth, thats 1.6million a month (both devices) or 800,000 per device shipping a month. Asymco's Horace Dediu points out thatnot only are Apple's volumes higher as Nielsen's chart indicates, but so are their margins and profits. Applehave already bought up 60% of the components, so of course Apple will ship more iPad 2's with dual coreprocessors than Xoom!

That leads us to:

Seth could you please remove the anplug out of your ***! If anybody can remember Samsung misquoted 2million sold instead of 2 million shipped, I can! Apple sold 14.8 million in 2010, it's funny when Gartner, NPD, &IDC said the iPad held a 90% market in 2010, but Seth the Great says not. What Seth is ihating a virus thatcause some people to be in denial. Boy those Motorola Atrix and Motorola Xoom numbers aren't looking sogood, but wait HTC, Samsung, and the other 20+ vendors are coming to the rescue from one Apple product!

Posted By Ran Da Man, Austin, Texas: March 4, 2011 12:59 PM

I am not biased either way, I looked at the product and compared the features and the Moto Xoom was a waybetter product/features for the price in my opinion . I have apple products too but the ipad 2 just couldn't standup to the xoom. I don't need 60,000 apps though either, the xoom has exactly what I was looking for in a tablet.Flash support, usb connection, SD card slot, 5 mp rear camera, front camera, 1080p video support, hdmi out,4g compatible and more.

Posted By Jane, Cincinnati, OH: March 4, 2011 12:50 PM

Additional proof of Apples Reality distortion field:

http://boombustblog.com/reggie-middleton/2011/03/04/steve-jobs-calls-end-of-the-pc-we-call-the-end-fat-margin-tablet-including-the-pretty-ipad-with-proof/

What people say when corporate marketing agents aren't there to intefere: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxBhfGugTsM



The iPad is bested by the Barnes and Noble Nook for 2/3rds the price http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyTtt3YjK24


Innovators don't blame copycats. Why? Cause they don't have to. Why? Cause they have patent and it pro tectstheir rights.He is not only a lier but also copycat himself. He's pouting like "I COPIED FASTER THAN YOU". Arrogant old

man knows nothing but blaming others. He's God for someone but to me, just vulgar greedy old man.


What I think is absolutely fantastic is how Seth Weintraub likes to play on both sides of the fence. When writingfor his Google blog he just loves all things Android but his views change when it's time to write for 9to5mac.com

Posted By Matt Dallas, TX: March 4, 2011 12:35 PM

Seth - Great work on this. You forgot to mention how "unseemly" it is for a CEO of a major corpora tion to,routinely, bad mouth the competition. Facts be damned. Although I am a BlackBerry user, I saw an Atrix in mylocal ATT store and was impressed. Does anyone have a good review of this phone for "business use" iesyncing with Outlook et a l. Please advise...

Posted By C Spin Glenview IL: March 4, 2011 12:15 PM

If you define Volume as one day of Apple sales, then Yes, Dell is shipping in Volume over the LIFE of it'sproduct. If you call Volume say 1 Million a mon th, then Dell , Xoom and HP are NOT in volume.

On other fronts, have you tried the brick called the Galaxy. It is comically poorly designed . Size, balance,battery, and especially SW usability. Almost a joke...if you hadn't spent $400 on it. No wonder they shipped 2Minto distribution and won't say how many made it to customers. The streak is worse, way worse. I have nottouched a Xoom yet, but it looks to be the Best of the non-apple tables.

Mr Jobs did make a strong case for total user experience, not specs...and spen t Most of the presentation onthat part of the pitch.

One final note, I could have sworn that this was Apple's keynote. Apple's Marketing event! Apple's PR andMarketing do what they do best...With their #1 pitch guy lead ing the show. I did not reali ze it was an unbi ased

3rd party review and comparison. So i nteresting, informative, Fist class roll out. Lets see Xoom's intro agai n?Not even B-Movie grade.

Posted By Mark, San Jos e, CA: March 4, 2011 12:14 PM

Great piece. Thanks for snapping us out of our iPad 2 haze. I still think Apple has done some amazing things,but I also don't believe in following blindly or be lieving everything you hear, on either side.

Posted By Benjamin Bidlack Los Angeles, CA: March 4, 2011 12:01 PM

Yes, absolutely to give real credit to the creators, not the copycats. I did not have all the info to put that in myprevious post. That is the reason, i just mentioned about the touch screen and smart phone technoligoes wereavailable before the Apple's iphone innovation. I did not say that was invented or innovated by the specificcompanies. But my point is to refute the Apple followers to say that Apple di dn't invent anything new and theyare really trying the truth distortion in their biggest media event and the media instead of doing any factchecking, they just go "ga-ga" over it except for very few and that is definitely hurting the smaller compan ieswhich i know for a fact are investing some serious money to come up with something completely new...

Posted By Idea4life, Chicago, IL: March 4, 2011 11:52 AM

iPad2 is a wi nner. The author of this article is complaining about product promotion. Seriously? It's ok for thecompetition to slam apple (Moto called the iPad just a big iphone) but not the other way around.

There has never been a succesful tablet other than the ipad. Scream about Samsung all you want, theylaunched failures.

The Motorola Doom, sorry, Xoom, is just a bunch of 'me-too!' specs and an inferior user experience. I'm sure itwould have been a g roundbreaking device in 2009 (except as compared to any ipod touch or iphone).

Posted By Jeff_awesome New York City: March 4, 2011 11:52 AM



"Wow, CEO of a company that sells things plays up his company's products and puts down the competition.SAY IT AIN'T SO!"

Which other CEO organizes a theatrical product launch to distribute low-blows and spread outrageous andshameless BS on stage?

And isn't this guy not your ordinary CEO, but a hero and idol of the USA?

In any case, it is not about the people exposing the lies, those who knew SJ was a honorless douchebag. Thereal story, and this is the sad part, is the blind fanboys defending him.

Posted By Outside, Distortion, Field: March 4, 2011 11:44 AM

Are you trying to tell me that Steve Jobs is a showman? Yup, there is a dose of hyperbo le, but the facts are thatthe guys has helped his firm become the second most valuable in the world and awoken the fact thatinnovation rather than finance and connections is what drives value.

Great article, and I expect that most who read it do understand Steve's contributions and take the NationalEnquirer analysis as an amusing side note on business history.

Posted By Tom Mariner, Bayport, New York: March 4, 2011 11:35 AM

Too many Apple fanatics chose to keep their eyes closed and see the storm coming. Steve can sell themgarbage and tell them it is the best thing to have hit them and these folks who have buried their heads in theground wont even know the difference.Competition is going to catch up and Apple market cap is going to come crashing - it will happen just a matter of time.

Posted By HP, Bridgewater, NJ: March 4, 2011 11:35 AM

Quoted from an intellectually commenter below: "Give real credi t to the creators, not the copycats"

You're right - we should.

Tablets -> Pencept (1985) then Microsoft (2002)

Touch Screens -> Dr Sam Hurst (1974)

Touch Screen Phone -> IBM's Simon (1992)

Creating pompous, obnoxious, elitist followers that are ignorant to how mediocre and overpriced their productsare -> BMW (1980s)

Posted By John K, Marietta, GA: March 4, 2011 11:28 AM

Kudos Seth for being one of the few mainstream writers intelligent enough to take on the cult of Mac.

Posted By Joe, Silver Spring, MD: March 4, 2011 11:27 AM

IT is really not about what Apple did to create such consumerism in gadget world. Even there, Apple never hadinvented anything. For all the money they make, they should have put some significant money in R&D andinvented something new. Remember, there was cell phone invention was done by Motorola. The smartphone

was there evebn before Apple came up with the first iphone. The touch screen technology was there evenbefore iphone in Moto Ming (in 2005 i believe) series of phones in China. But what apple had made isdefinitely improved those technologies and captivated the audience for itself and i definitely appreciate thateffort. They are doing something right to get to this level. But what i really am upset and annoyed with is thatApple is spewing all kinds of lies to kill the other companies (which had really contributed in the inventionswhich made apple rich) and make them rich. In that what we really miss is, without those companies (which arebeing killed), these products will not be in the market for Apple to make it better. I am not saying it will never bethere, but Apple with all the money they have had never put any serious effort to really INVENT anything newand that is a big problem. This truth distortion is really going to hurt all of us in future. Remember, if all thesecompanies with a lot of money, power and media might is only intended to truth distortion to promote their business profit, think about what that will do for the smaller ones which only survive on pure new invention.They just will not have any chance which will kill the future invention...Just for every one to think about...

Posted By Idea4life, Chicago, IL: March 4, 2011 11:19 AM

Wah!



Posted By Austin, Texas: March 4, 2011 11:14 AM

) i'll go for apple with my eyes closed. Stop saying android is so good. A samsung galaxy S can't even open awebpage without glitching while my iPhone 4 is surfing the hell out of those webpages. And btw 100,000 appsis better than the android app market


What I'm loving is that we're even having this conversation. I'm no fanboy (had to return my atrocious iPhone 4as unusable), but do appreciate what Apple is extracting from the world's engineering communities. What weshould all agree on is that without Apple, we wouldn't have smartphones of such quality now, we wouldn't havetablets of impending quality, and we might not have slick laptops of such quality. Dell and Lenovo only cameout with higher grade materials in response to Apple pushing the envelope of materials engineering.

3 years ago, I wasn't even considering a device like a tablet, now I consider which one.

5 years ago, I was on my 6th Verizon Motorola Q, wishing I didn't have plastic keys (yes I could have goneBlackberry but the Q gave me internet)

etc.

"Can't we all just get along?"

Posted By David Weiser, Orlando, FL: March 4, 2011 10:18 AM

You have to change your point of view. Apple never claims over the edge technology, but earns huge moneyon ipod, iphone and ipad. So it is not the technology. Neither RAM nor CPU power. it is easy and fun to use anapple. Think about that.I checked android on galaxy s and galaxy tab. It is far far behind from apple (ipod and ipad). OK it is fast andshiny. but it senses my touch about half sec later, irresponsive and applications are just dull.. Maybe after honeycomb may it make a sense to talk about android vs ios.

Posted By Turkey: Marc h 4, 2011 9:52 AM

Neither you nor Steve Jobs mentioned the over fifty Android apps that were pulled that day from Googles 'safe'Android Market Place because they contained 'The Mother of all Malware'!

Nor was there any mention that infected devices needed to be returned to the cellluar carrier to be replaced for saftey reasons.Simply deleting the apps wouldn't work as these apps downloaded addition malware that rooted the Androiddevice.

Android is a two edged sword which means some may be injured just enjoying all the 'free Android software'which has not been curated by Google as long as it displays advertising.

If Steve had really wanted to he could have destroyed Android by highlighting that news. Fortunately for Google that fantastic malware news got buried under the press coverage for iPad 2.

Posted By Timothy Long, Marietta GA: March 4, 2011 9:44 AM

You must know that competers made that garbage copies because of the mental virus which was spread byJobs and says that "You need this tablet and this will change your life". Yeah that virus is the worst distortionwhich ruins the market and makes his haters and fanboys. Well, he made people need garbage(whether ipador not) and copycats benefit from that. The losers are only the people buying any garbages not makers of garbages. If you think rationally, you will notice that you don't need tablets at all. They are all garbages

regardless maker. So if SJ shuts up peple will no longer want garbage and market will be stablized andcompanies will manufacture what people really need.

You will allways be enslaved when you think someone other than you can tell you what you need.


I remember when Steve Jobs launched Iphone 4.. he said before I phone 4 there was no video phone... can heget any lower than that ? Well now he did it again. He dosn't need to tell all that lies, he's selling 'apple' productfor God sake. The product sells it self without the need of him telling lies and distorted facts.

Posted By Aditya, Jakarta - Indonesia: March 4, 2011 9:02 AM

"Give real credit to the creators, not the copycats."



I here this a lot with from Apple fanboys. If not for copycats we would still be using the first cell phone, the firstTV, the first radio. Rock and roll would be dead since Elvis has died, radio would be left with one channel, andwe would still be driving the Model T's. Copying other people ideas is what drives innovation and furthers usas a society. Yea, Apple made a cool product with the iPhone, yea the iPad is pretty cool. But their hasn't beenanything groundbreakingly new in this tech for years. The ones that are taking this idea and running with it areApple's competition because fanboys would buy something called iCrap if they made it, the competition arerequired to come up with new ideas, and better specs.

Do I give credit for Apple for developing a cool idea 5 years ago? Of course, I do. But there are a bunch of newproducts that's better now, I don't buy products because they came up with the idea, I buy products becausethey have taken that idea and expanded it.

Posted By Parrish, Raleigh, NC: March 4, 2011 8:59 AM

Seth - You know there is volume and there is VOLUME! Your little month old Android... Mmmmmmm notvolume. Dude! I know it's tough but FIFTEEN MILLION in ONE year! Buyaah!There is other good stuff out there too but you gotta admit Apple is the Phelps/Woods/Bolt of the lot. That's whoI am gonna go w ith... But if you need therapy, I have some suggestions

Posted By Noel, Plantation, Florida: March 4, 2011 8:54 AM

Wow... guess we know who's side you swing for.. Enjoy your Android Map Virus while I thank Apple for keeping the safety of my devices under control.

Posted By London, KY: March 4, 2011 8:52 AM

So what the fanboys are trying to say i s, it's ok for Steve to lie, exaggerate, or misrepresent because everybodydoes it. Gotcha.

Posted By Jason Shultz, Cottonwood, Arizona: March 4, 2011 8:48 AM

Whoever wrote this article is a stupid ass.

Posted By Simon: March 4, 2011 8:42 AM

Wow, an article that actually po ints out how Jobs Inc. distorts facts to sell their products.

Thanks for the breath of fresh air.

Posted By Mark, Louisv ille, KY: March 4, 2011 8:42 AM

"But i love innovative ideas and i hate copycats. Steve is right !!!! Real cheaters other companies."

What has Apple ever innovated? NOTHING! They didn't invent the MP3 player, the smartphone, the tabletcomputer, the GUI, or anything ... ever.

They're good at polishing 2 year old technology and marketing it to lemmings at high markups. I'll give themthat- They're very profitable. Innovative? Not on your life.

The iFad is just that- a fad. Like the iPhone, it too will sink to a 10% market share within a couple of years.

Posted By Brian Pietro, Manchester, CT: March 4, 2011 8:33 AM

You cannot say that Kindle is a table pc, YOU are distorting the reality.

Posted By Diego: March 4, 2011 8:29 AM

I have yet to meet anyone with a Dell Streak. I know one person with T-Mobile. I've seen a Samsung Tablet inBest Buy once. On the other hand, if I only had a nickel for every iPad I have seen people use.

Posted By R, Las Vegas: March 4, 2011 8:23 AM





As for the Tablet wars, which are obviously just starting up, alot of it is going to come down to price, which"ecosystem" a consumer prefers, and finally utility. Currently, tablets are main ly a consumption device. Surethere are niche cases where they are being used in some "business" situations, but what all the commodityhardware vendors want (atleast for now) are the hearts and minds of the very large consumer market. Appleobviously has an advantage here...not just because of the large number of apps which Android will catch upwith (atleast with the ones people care about)...but because of iTunes. How long this advantage will last isanyone's guess, but it's there.

People really need to stop hating on Apple for no good reason. If it weren't for them, there would be no TabletWars for either fanboys to flame over. Makes me miss the iPod vs Zune flame wars.

Posted By Sam Ahn, Reno, NV: March 4, 2011 6:40 AM

I would like to add two things:

1. The first real android tablet is xoom. Android 3.0 is the ONLY version of Android that Google isrecommending for tablets. All the previous tablets (including the Samsung Galaxy) were sold with an OS thatwas not developed for tablets. Google was saying all along that Android 2.x was not ready for tablets. Thatshows you the confusion and the mess that the Android community is in.

2. It is unfortunate that the Android community is always competing on the feature to feature level and it is notcompeting on the grand philosophy and on providing the user with something different and something unique.It is very obvious that Android has adapted (copied) the UI experience from iOS. Microsoft on the other handhave come out with their own design and philosophy that gives a different alternative to the users(congratulations to them about that). It seems that Google is incapable of that, is copying iOS and is trying tocompete by adding more features (and complexity). Take a look at the embarrassing moments of Andy Rubinin AllThingsDigital as his showing honeycomb and he is told about the similarity of the UI with Apples's --http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koIzhLaRJJo -- Go to minu te 4. At minute 6.30 i t becomes very funny.

Posted By Yianni, Thessaloniki, Greece: March 4, 2011 6:00 AM

Do you enjoy giving apple yet more coverage?

Posted By TSC in B of A: March 4, 2011 5:52 AM

I say Android is not even a platform. How can it be winning iPhone except by number of people using.I say a SE mini running Android. That adds one user to Android count. But this one user do not use Android asa smartphone even though it is marketed as a smartphone. The screen is too small for any real smart usage.So yeah, ANdroid won on number of people using, but iPhone wins on profit and the things that count.

Posted By Stan,CA: March 4, 2011 5:52 AM

"Apple has just as many points of sale for the iPad as Samsung has for the Tab and likely many more."

Where you get this information? WRONG. Samsung Tab is sold in 100+ countries on 200+ carriers and I wouldexpect that points of sale total at least 500. Apple was only in 26 countries in Sept increasing to 46 in Dec. Inthe US, iPad is sold through 2 carriers while Samsung Tab is double or more that, plus sold at more 3rd partyresellers in US. iPads were only sold @ Apple and BBY up until October.

You should check you facts

Posted By Turley Muller, Memphis: March 4, 2011 5:42 AM

So, when Steve talks good about HIS product its 'Reality Distortion', and when YOU compare the iPad withlikes of NOOK and Kindle, it's not? What a joke. Get a life man. You can't even compare iPad w ith Galaxy Tab

for its larger display. Motorola Xoom is a competitor and you really tried to market it well here, with your unsuccessful reality distortion.

Posted By Rashid: March 4, 2011 4:52 AM

Its not just about DualCore Processor. What Apple did is they make us of the DualCore Technology whileothers are just copying a prouct and for the sake of thier compettition they adding up some more powerfullprocessor but not adding extra innovative features like Apple. When brings DUalCore it mean they broughtmore innovative ideas. Yes ofcourse tommoro other companies will copy the SmartCover Technology. Apple isright Others are just CopyCats!!!! I am not a Blind fan of Apple or some company. But i love innovative ideasand i ha te copycats. Steve is right !!!! Real cheaters other compan ies.

Posted By Sensitive Designs: March 4, 2011 4:50 AM



"So Samsung sold 2 million (in the last quarter) in 2010."Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!You'll be telling me next that there is a god too.

Posted By David, Gaffney, South Carolina: March 4, 2011 4:30 AM

Are the article criticizing Apple's (lack of) technological supe riority or marketing? Most consumers don't thinklike engineers. Apple succeeds in marketing. What Steve may have done is puffery, but it's not fraud. Any

salesman does that. Perhaps the a rticle should be commenting on Microsoft's lack of good puffery.

Posted By Steve, Hong Kong: March 4, 2011 3:57 AM

Copycats are loser...Ipad2 is a winner once again...you pay$$ for innovation and quality product. Applecreated this new category which changes the life o f the people...that's huge !


My goodness - calling all fanbois, you need to defend Lord Steve right here, right now...

Posted By Nesjo, Madison, WA: March 4, 2011 3:37 AM

Android Fanboi!

Posted By jayson, toronto, canada: March 4, 2011 3:25 AM

They actually pay you to write this dribble, HAHA

Posted By Stephen, Midland Park, NJ: Marc h 4, 2011 3:20 AM

The most insightful iPad article I've read to da te.

Posted By Tim Acheson: March 4, 2011 3:08 AM

So those of you who say it's just a promotional presentation and stretching the truth is expected: Do youbrowse the Internet looking for opportunities to spread that message anywhere you find someone challeng inga company's assertions?

Somehow I suspect this is Apple-specific excuse making which rather undermines it's credibility.

Posted By J eff Ratcliff, San Diego, California: March 4, 2011 2:35 AM

I'm with Jobs here for the most part. Ok, a couple tablets shipped with dual cores before the iPad 2, but he'sright. They haven't shipped i n volume. They've probably sold fewer of those than Apple's hobby, the Apple TV.

I've seen third pa rty sources quote a 92% market share a few times. The article below says 93% last quarter.

http://www.abiresearch.com/press/3621-4.5+Million+Media+Tablets+Shipped+in+3Q-2010Near 90%http://www.internetretailer.com/commentary/2011/03/01/apple-aims-gobble-market-share-ipad-2

Even if the Xoom has 3G builtin it still doesn't make it less expensive than all three o f Apple's wifi models. Noteveryone needs 3G. Expandable storage in SD cards comes wi th it's own set of problems. I don't think it makesit better. Apple's memory is certainly faster and it's not that much more to upgrade to 64GB than buy a 32GB SDcard.

Regardless of the minor increase i n resolution I'd rate the iPad screen better just for IPS. Have you used anIPS screen? For a tablet you have laying on a table, in your lap or holding at other odd angles it's an extremelyimportant feature. The screen ratio on the iPad also makes more sense then Xoom's 16:9 for anything besidesmovies. I don't know what Motorola thought they were making? A $799 video playback device?

I'll still maintain that people aren't going to hold up a la rge tablet to take still photos. The camera in the iPadshould be sufficient.

Honestly, I don't think the RAM does matter as much for this type of device. It basically loads one program at atime and most, I'd almost say most all of them won't use 512MB. I can a lways swap back to the last app I wasusing without reloading it on the iPhone 4. iOS does a better job unloading unused memory than Android has



done in the past.

The Tab and Streak are bo th over sized phones with al most no apps written for their larger screen. I can'tbelieve you a re even trying to compare to them to the iPad. I wouldn't buy any of them for the camera and myphone makes a better pocket map than they do.

I'd like to see the i Pad get some competition too, but trying to argue that the tablets released to date competewith the iPad is crazy.

Posted By Charles, Tokyo: March 4, 2011 2:23 AM

Sorry...for the incorrect last name. Meant to type Weintraub instead a colleague's.

Posted By Jim: March 4, 2011 2:22 AM

Ed Weinstein, are you implying that the Xoom and o ther competitors to the iPad match that of the iPad in their resale velocity? Because if you are, even Samsung would d isagree.

Posted By Jim: March 4, 2011 2:18 AM

Yeah, there is quite an lack of fact-checking going on these days. Why just recently I was reading an article bysome "tech expert" for a major media outlet who apparently was clueless to the fact that most major

corporations backup to tape. Can you believe someone could be that ignorant to the field they write aboutevery day? Pretty sad stuff.

Posted By Techtrader10: Marc h 4, 2011 2:08 AM

Dear all Apple and Jobs haters,

Whatever language you use to make your point the one this sure that by the end of year 2011, iPad will retainits market share. Go figure.

Thanks,I love Apple.

Posted By Providence, RI: March 4, 2011 1:52 AM

"Perhaps Jobs could have also compared the iPad 2 to other Android tablets' prices? Samsung's Galaxy Taband Dell's Streak both now start at $499 and have better cameras, 3G radios and GPS, which seem to competewell with Apple's $499 Wifi-only offering. Reality distorted."

This is just marketing. You are do ing the exact same thing in the o ther direction. Here, you convenientlymention positive stats about these but leave ou t huge poin ts like screen size. These two tablets should bemuch much cheaper than the ipad, because they only have 7 inch screens. Yet, they are the same price. Itwould be stupid for Steve Jobs to entertain these devices as peer devices. The Xoom is the direct competition,so he addressed it.

Posted By Josh, Plainsbor, NJ: Marc h 4, 2011 1:31 AM

Finally, a journalist that has the guts to expose all the BS that Appletown and its mayor are spread ing.

Oh by the way, the iPad 2 "has" HDMI out, but you need to buy an 40$ accessory. LOL Typical Apple scam but

the iSheep will bite happily.

Posted By Outside, Reality, Distortion Field.: March 4, 2011 1:09 AM

You really need to shut the fuck up and get laid!

Posted By FredZilch, San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua: March 4, 2011 1:04 AM

These comments are full of lulz

Posted By Jerry, Chicago, IL: March 4, 2011 12:52 AM



Steve Jobs has made a dent in the universe! iPad 2 will sell over 40,000,000 units this year. Fragmentation willseverely hurt android devices. Gina of This Week In Google is buying an iPad 2 and porting her software toiOS. developers earn more money from the apple app store. It's not a hobby, it's just business!

Don't forget Seth Godin "all marketers are liars!"

Posted By Tally Vickory, tampa,Fl: March 4, 2011 12:48 AM

None of this discussion really matters.

Apple has superior hardware in every way that matters, and a ridiculous number of developers on board. Youneed software to take advantage of hardware, and iOS has it in a way that Android doesn't even after twoyears.

The iPad is go ing to crush Del l, Motorola, Samsung, everyone, and that's pretty much that.

Posted By Jake, Pheonix, AZ: March 4, 2011 12:16 AM

Aw, look at who's mad.

Your Fandroid nerd tears are oh so yummy.

Posted By Louis, Ville KY: March 4, 2011 12:11 AM

It is interesting the amount of hate people have towards apple fans.

Posted By Dale, Sydney, Australia: March 3, 2011 11:48 PM

Haters gunna hate!

Posted By k0s: March 3, 2011 11:23 PM

Read this:

Oppenheimer's Yair Reiner: The just unveiled iPad 2 offers the kind of incremental improvements consumershave come to expect from a second-generation Apple device. While it doesn't include any new breakthroughfeatures or functionalities, the sum total of its refinements and upgradesthinner, lighter, faster, moreconnectedsignificantly enhance the device's overall appeal. The closest historical parallel would be theiPhone G2.5 to 3G transition, whose slew of relatively minor upgrades allowed sales to more than triple in theproduct's second year. This is a sad day for the crowd of competitors still struggling to home in on the firstiPad's price and performance. We continue to see Apple grabbing 75-85% of the tablet market in 2011.

Posted By Mike, Sarasota FL: March 3, 2011 11:16 PM

What a load of BS! You sound like all the other anti-Apple trolls. Try remembering there would be nothing butBlackberries and Windows Tablets but for Apple. Everything out there you are going on about simply exists byvirtue of trying to copy Apple. Not one single innovation from anyone other than Apple!

Posted By Mike, Sarasota FL: March 3, 2011 11:07 PM

One other comment. Lets ponder on something here, had there been no Apple we may be toting around ~4LBrotating screen Windows 7 pen tablets with 2 hour battery life and a bajillion apps but oh wait hmm theconsumers didn't buy into that vision. The other alternative? Chrome OS notebooks/tablets, gee where arethese? Instead everyone is taking notes and making a copy of Apple's move. Take a mobile OS CocoaTouchand move it to a larger device and build upon the larger device's benefits. Google had to do the same to followsuit and so has Palm's webOS. I do wish them both well since a competitive ecosystem spurs innovation.

Posted By Michael, Ridgefield Park, NJ: Marc h 3, 2011 10:48 PM

Seth, Why don't you put your money where your mouth is and invest in MMI? You seem so intent that specs areeverything. My money is on AAPL. Besides exxon most of my other holdings aren't nearly as deserving.

Posted By Michael, Ridgefield Park, NJ: Marc h 3, 2011 10:34 PM





Jobs needs to go back to India and take more LSD or just leave Apple. He pisses me off everytime he speaks.

Posted By Investor: March 3, 2011 8:38 PM

I must be mistaken, but isn't a journalism about pursuing the truth with an unbiased approach? Seth wrote apiece about comparing facts. How does that show he hates Apple o r any other Inc. for that matter?Why does there have to be a "line in the sand" between iOS and Android/XOOM/Streak users? I have a

MacBook Pro computer and a Nokia cellphone, Would that make me, what Cher would like to call, (or for youHarry Potter fans) a "Half Breed"? As an avid 9 to5er, I know that not everything Apple releases is the cat's ass(hockey puck mouse). But you have to be very closed minded to think that your one operating system isflawless, while everyone else's is complete junk.

Posted By Tony, Minneapolis MN: March 3, 2011 8:31 PM

OMG. You're putting Nook and Kindle in the same market category as iPad? Talk about distortion.

Posted By Fetta Cheese, Austin, Texas: March 3, 2011 7:58 PM

Regarding the "shipped in volume": You should mention as well that the Xoom (and others) isn't evenavailable in most countries. In Germany, the Xoom will arrive by end of april exclusively (for 3 months) by T-

Mobile. The iPad is the only pad that seems to be available in a lot of countries by end of the month.

I won't argue with you about the overall style, tone and reality distortion you're showing in your article - othershave already said enough about that form of link bait.

Posted By Markus Stolpmann, Germany: March 3, 2011 7:52 PM

The numbers are not 2011 numbers, they are from April-December 2010. So, Apple owning over 90% of thetablet market definitely was in 2010 when they were almost alone.

Posted By Chris Char lton, Whittier, CA: March 3, 2011 7:51 PM

I love all the hate he's getting, lots of angry people here saying iPad is better without any refuting of Seth's

facts.

He came what he meant to do and it worked all too well.

Have a nice day, folks.

Posted By Roland, San Francisco, CA: March 3, 2011 7:38 PM

Congrats iPad for finally getting a USB port without having to hit the iAccessories department first!!


Why are the defenders so reluctant to discuss the dishonesty? That would seem to be the relevant issue. Youknow, the lying.

Posted By Argus Belltrobe, Miami, Florida: March 3, 2011 7:32 PM

hahaha, i do love reading the comments from butt-hurt apple fans.

don't worry guys, everyone knows that as soon as mr. jobs FINALLY drops dead, this who le stupid cul t of personality bullshit will come to a screeching halt, and all you apple zombies will fade into the woodwork.problem solved.

Posted By stevejob's cancer... brooklyn, new york: March 3, 2011 7:27 PM

Yo Seth. You're an angry man. Sip some Tigerblood and chill out.



Posted By San Francisc o, CA: March 3, 2011 7:27 PM

This article points out some factual errors, and then goes on to wrap it in vitriolic Apple-bashing. It would benice to have written this without all the exaggerated derision .

Posted By Pete, Christchurch, NZ: March 3, 2011 7:23 PM

Guess what Apple fanboys? There is more to the world than the USA. I live in Hong Kong. Android tablet hereare easily as popular as Apple iPads.

I have a Macbook Pro and an iPhone , but given the way Apple treats consumers (like ****) and appdevelopers, I'm voting with my money, next time I upgrade, for the world I want to see.If you're fine with Apple's questionable ethics and censorship then cool, enjoy that walled garden your buyingfor yourself... personally, I prefer freedom.

Posted By Joel, Hong Kong: March 3, 2011 7:14 PM

Does Xoom have IPS screen?they said iPad has, but not xoom, is that true?

http://www.laptopmag.com/review/tablets/motorola-xoom-verizon-wireless.aspx?page=1


"Samsung's Galaxy Tab and De ll's Streak both now start at $499 and have be tter cameras, 3G radios andGPS, which seem to compete well with App le's $499 Wifi-only offering. Reality distorted."

See, you cherry pick too. Size matters, remember?

Posted By Kevin, Boston: March 3, 2011 7:09 PM

Face it, Seth, your electronic Android Etch-a-Sketch is no match for an iPad. Get over it already.

Posted By Scott, Toledo, O: March 3, 2011 6:34 PM

Plain and simple folks, tablets are computers, computers need apps to be useful. The iPad has manythousands of polished, well developed, useful apps. Android is lucky to have a few dozen. I own both and amreally disappointed in the Android app market.

Posted By Eric, Denver CO: March 3, 2011 6:20 PM

@Seth Weintraub"Ahh Seth, you have really stirred up the fanboys today. As with all fervent believers, criticizing their leader/deity will only return anger and venom

(Edit Weintraub): I'll admit, I enjoy watching the craziness.Posted By Frank A NYC: March 3, 2011 10:44 AM "FOR THIS COMMENT ALONE, YOU SHOULD BE FIRED. YOU NEED MENTAL COUNSELING. THAT ISDELIBERATE CRUELTY AKIN TO BEING A SADIST.

Posted By Observer, Boston, Ma.: March 3, 2011 6:11 PM

He must be kidding! Who cares about Android. I have used both and no one will ever use Android in Masses,its crap.

Imagine your 65 year old mother using Xoom.... Lol

Posted By V, Temecula CA: March 3, 2011 6:02 PM

@SethDo you know any marketing o r any sales tactics? Every manufacturer will present their product the best or theonly first one.....



This is the wost article recently. No wonder it had over 130 comments. Nice job.

Posted By Samuel Tsai: March 3, 2011 5:44 PM

Love the article. Excellent points. Though, too bad you've shaken the Apple zombie beehive. Now you, willhave to feel the wrath of omg-im-on-steve-jobs-crotch art school grads.

Oh well. On a sidenote I think Tablets are unnecessary. So, I'm not interested in this ipad. Though, if I were toget one I'd definitely go for the XOOM as it's technical capabilites are better and it has flash.

Posted By MekaIsDaName: March 3, 2011 5:39 PM

I love how all the Mac Fanboys will blindly regurgitate the Same Misinformation

Posted By Dan, Paramus, NJ: March 3, 2011 5:26 PM

the kindle is not a tablet

Posted By Stan, MN: March 3, 2011 5:24 PM

iPad has a the mindshare of the common man. My dad, my friend's grandmother and my aunties all have or want iPads. If you mention alternatives like the Xoom you will get blank stares and ask you "What kind of iPadis that?"

Posted By Ryan, Metro Manila, Philippines: March 3, 2011 5:15 PM

Android fanboys are just as bad as Apple fanboys. This is a heavily biased article, with some good points.Would have meant more if you weren't so gushing about your xoom.

Posted By Jo,NY: March 3, 2011 5:08 PM

Awwh, google boy is all butt hurt because Android tablets are not selling. I'll buy you a box of tissues and pads,post your address on your articles.

Posted By Larry, NY, NY: March 3, 2011 5:05 PM

He is steve jobs.big daddy..! Apple is the best.and nothing beats it..Android is *** when compared withawesome iOS ... so take a chill buddy!I think may be you are rattled

Posted By raj, bos: March 3, 2011 5:05 PM

All you Apple fanboys, this guy is owning you. He speaks the truth. Lots of smoke and mirrors in thisannouncement. All that aside, this is a pretty dissapointing upgrade. Pure money grab from Apple. If you havean ipad and are seriously thinking about upgrading to an ipad2 you need to have your head examined. Or just

like to waste money.

Posted By Brian, Pierre SD: March 3, 2011 4:55 PM

Nerd rage, blogosphere click gravity hyperbole and fanboy ranting aside, the final measure is commercialsuccess. Particularly in this emerging commodity space which so much mirrors the evolution of smart phonesin that the real growth is among normal people (in other words, not technology zealots who live on forums andrant and rave)

Is Jobs a pitchman? Clearly. Are these product announcements theater? Absolutely. Does that matter? Not atall.

End of the day, normal people don 't listen to keynotes, nor do they read any of this stuff. Sorry to the geeks, butthere just isn't that level of influence in play here.

Apple is sh ifting a lot of these uni ts. Far more than any other competitor. Whether you want to spli t hairs over the definition o f "volume", is up to you, but anyone suggesting that the Galaxy Tab or Xoom are run away



successes at iPad scale is being ridiculous.

And all of these people with iPads bought them because they saw a TV commercial, saw one on a plane or train, or wandered into Apple's *heavily subscribed* retail stores that have become near events in themselves(always amazing to me how packed these stores are)

Like it or hate it to the core of your blessed geek soul, Apple has managed to excite *normal people* abouttechnology *and* gotten them to spend PILES.

As a result, Steve's keynote could actually be a LOT more over the top. It's the competition that actually haseverything to prove.

Sure "Android" is shifting a lot of phones, but they are available on every carrier at every price point in everycategory.

"Android" has become the "or other" counterpoint to the iPhone. That the *entire industry* has managed to*finally* surpass *one device* that has been on *one carrier* from a monolithic manufacturer despite *all* theefforts of both Google *and* Microsoft is actually kind of mind boggling, and not in a good way.

I'd like to see Android tablets do as well as the phones if for nothing else than to see some diversity, but so far this battle is very much looking to be up hill.

Posted By mlambert890: March 3, 2011 4:50 PM

"noting the factual errors that kept coming up minute after minute " ... you only po inted to four points in 70+minutes... hardly minute by minute.

True, the Samsung quote as mistake by Steve Job's handlers and/or researchers. I will give you this one.

The other points are marketing angles or spin... practiced by all.

You are as guilty of spin and hyperbole in your presentation as SJ.

Posted By eric, chattanooga, tn: March 3, 2011 4:40 PM

apple seems to be the worst at distorting the trut knowing that their faithful fan boys will take it as gospelpreached from the mountain top. You know who else was just as persuasive a speaker… Hitler, and we allknow what happened there.

Posted By Clamchop San jose ca: March 3, 2011 4:37 PM

It says smooth. You'd have to be a retard to think otherwise. Samsung has done nothing wrong here, but Steve

is using a debunked quote. Samsung would sue if they didn't make so much cash off Apple.


More crock. Just like the old G4/G5 Apples being faster than counterparts with has Intel inside. It's notshocking.... it's not new. Par for the course.

Posted By Glen, Addison, TX: March 3, 2011 4:32 PM

Critical commentary is great but taking a stand would be VALUABLE.

So at the end of the day today, if you were to buy one, which would it be???

Posted By Stu, Raleigh, NC: March 3, 2011 4:28 PM

You wrote, "In volume."

Nope, Dell 's Streak has not even been mentioned by any of the firm's measuring the table t market, NPD, IDC,etc. They only mention the iPad and the SGT.

The "quite smooth" correction got far less media notice than the "quite small". It was NOT "thoroughlydebunked", as the rest of the quotes from Ms. Lee implied slow sales. Smooth or small, sales are not glowing.

You wrote, " So Samsung sold 2 million (in the last quarter) in 2010. Apple sold 14.8 million (in three quarters).That seems like a pretty fair comparison."

Utter TRIPE. You know, as well as anyone else, that there is a one-time bump when you fill the channel the firsttime. This distorts sales figures. If you are trying to calculate "market share", you try to back out the distortion of filling the channel.

As for pricing, you are creating a STRAWMAN. Steve did NOT compare models, he just pointed ou t that Apple



had 5 models that sell for less than the Xoom. Who's making up lies?

As for screen, it's not "much better, bigger". In fact, in terms of square inches, I've been told, that since the iPadis closer to a square than the Xoom, the iPad is "bigger". Either way, neither is "much", so who again is lying?

Sadly, your prejudice distorts your view.

As far as I can tell, of your points there was no t one lie. Only your si lly distortions.

Posted By KenC, Gardiner, ME and Shanghai, China: March 3, 2011 4:28 PM

Apple's competitors in the Tablet space are garbage. They have come to the game one-year late with productthat does not even approach a first generation IPad. Sure the hardware specs are impressive but thesedevices are driven by software and honeycomb - they should call stuckinhoney because it's so darned slow -just gets owned by TouchOS.

Posted By Andy, Destin FL: March 3, 2011 4:27 PM

Give the man a break...He is still Steve Jobs.The man on the Moon...the ONE who gave us so MUCH.Hail to the Chief...Mein Fuhrer, I can walk ...

Posted By Fred Hawkey LA CA: March 3, 2011 4:24 PM

To all idiots (Apple fanboys, in case you missed that), article is about distorting facts. Author has done a decentjob of defending the title.

It is a fact that Apple has always distorted facts. End of day it is us (consumers) who are taken as idiots whowould believe anything that SJ says. To me that is kind of insulting, I am sure fan boys don't see it that way.Steve is not going to share his profits with you so stop being a rat and stop following the pide piper. Startthinking for a second and be a true consumer and maybe then finally you will see the light.

Posted By Really, LA, CA: March 3, 2011 4:24 PM

Well, it was a presentation , i.e. a long commercial, trying to put the new iPad2 in a great light. Ok, Mr. Jobs gotsome facts distorted, but he was advertising his product in the end.I can thoroughly look at the specs and make comparisons and so on. It's good that other people can read thisand understand it's not 100% like in the keynote. However, the keynote was pretty catchy as always.

Posted By Liviu, NY, NY: March 3, 2011 4:22 PM

Bye, bye, Jim/Chicago. Enjoy your sexy brown Zune.

Posted By Doug, Mtn. View, CA: March 3, 2011 4:13 PM

Weintraub brings up a number of good points, but he shouldn't really expect hard facts from a marketingpresentation.

Any and all companies are willing to bend the truth when it suits their purposes.

The 'outraged' commenters on here should be ashamed of themselves. They're acting like ignorant trolls inresponse to a pretty well balanced piece.

Posted By Chris C, Austin, TX: March 3, 2011 4:09 PM

the cover - "it's made of polyurethane, which is what space sui ts are made from"

and mud flaps. and most things on electronics today.

Posted By Andrew, Seattle WA: March 3, 2011 4:07 PM

Seth Weintraub is paid by Google. 24/7 angry bird go to sleep.





Posted By Philip: March 3, 2011 3:43 PM

Boy you need to take a midol, chill it s just a tablet . It creates job opportunities, ideas, and even the copy catsget a job....

Yo sir are a serious "Angry bird"

Posted By Love_moss_not: March 3, 2011 3:35 PM

It even says GOOGLE 24/7 under his name. What a bias dipshi t..

Like anyone actually bought a Streak 7.

Where do you find these writers?

Posted By Jacob Bahls, Missouri: March 3, 2011 3:33 PM

seth,

i love my apple products, but i also believe in being fair. thanks for calling out the bs. always enjoy your blog.

Posted By tim, phoenix, az: March 3, 2011 3:22 PM

steve jobs' reality distorton feild has been notorious even within apple since the early macintosh days.

Posted By mytharak: March 3, 2011 3:18 PM

Ha ha ha. This article is so foolish and funny.

Steve Jobs deliberately misquoted Samsung's VP to SLAP Samsung in the face. You missed the entire point of using the old quote.

Samsung DID NOT SELL 2 mill ion tablets to consumers. They REFUSED to divulge their actual sales. The 2million "sold" is actually what they shipped to dealers not what was actually sold to consumers.

Apple only quote ACTUAL SALES TO CONSUMERS. Thus, when Steve Jobs says Apple has > 90% marketshare for tablets, this is ACTUALLY THE TRUTH!

Only if Samsung can come clean on real sales numbers to consumers rather than dance around the truth bysaying sales were "smooth" will be have the actual facts. But Steve Jobs is correct unless Samsung comesclean with better real numbers.

Hardly anyone buys the Del l Streak 7 nor the Xoom. To Apple, "volume" means MILLIONS, not hundreds.SURE, you can say the ZUNE also ships in "volume" - but then hardly anyone has a Zune. Apple is right - theiPad2 will be the only tablet to ship in volume - as in MILLIONS of tablets, not hundreds.

Posted By James Katt, Monterey, CA: March 3, 2011 3:15 PM

I have never heard more Apple envy in my life.

Dude, get a life!

Oh. Nooks and Kindles are eBooks, not tablets. Your OMG Math & product comparison skills a re OMGamazing

Posted By Eric: March 3, 2011 3:13 PM

@MikeS:

He pointed out factual inaccuracies (aka: lies) in the keynote. That is indisputable.He also said he respected Apple, Jobs, and their product, but hated the distortion of reality in the keynote. Heisn't even trashing the iPad(1 or 2) directly. His complaint (per the article, anyway) was with the falsification of data in Jobs' keynote speech.

Why are you taking that so personally and getting all defensive? You didn't make the iPad, nor where you apart in any of its success whatsoever.

Posted By Andy, Columbus OH: March 3, 2011 3:11 PM



@MikeS: There are p lenty of Android apps. Anything I've ever wanted I've been able to find an app for. SJ isjust scared Android is going to wipe the floor with them (which it did i n the smartphone market in 2010), so hasto fudge numbers and lie about specs, hoping that ignorant fanbois like you will buy his BS

Posted By Bill, Toronto, ON: March 3, 2011 3:02 PM

Apple fanbois will believe anything SJ says

Posted By Anon, Anon, CA: March 3, 2011 2:59 PM

lol so many stupid fanboys in the comments. sorry SJ, your fears are real, Android is going to destroy you.

Posted By CS, Toronto, Ontario: March 3, 2011 2:57 PM

Re Apple's price advantage:

The other $499 tablets you mention are baby-sized with 7 inch screens. Not really comparable to the iPad.

Posted By JCC, Houston, TX: Marc h 3, 2011 2:54 PM

Seth - really? Not sure what you are trying to communicate in your a rticle other than your complete inability tosee the big p icture. Apple is kicking butt and everyone is sad that they have bough t some piece of maybe evensuperior hardware technology but (boo hoo) there is no apps for it. Suck it up princess - there is more to aproduct these days than slamming a set of top of the line parts together - any monkey is far away p laces can dothat. What is MUCH harder is to ba lance the hardware, ease of SW development and COST to arrive at aproduct that is overall better bang for your buck.

Useless article - you might want to swing by wherever you went to school and grab your money back!

Out!

Posted By MikeS, Toronto, Canada: March 3, 2011 2:34 PM

Seth:

Yesterday I was watching a video of you GUSHING over the iPad 2. When you saw the multiple streams in thePhotoBooth app you said it was, "Amazing."

You'll just write anything, won;t you?

Jason

SW: Wasn't a video of me unless you are watching my house

Posted By Jason Delray Beach, FL: March 3, 2011 2:26 PM

Hi Seth,

Interesting article; some points I thought were good, and some that might take more convincing for me to agree

with. Thought provoking which makes a win regardless of whether it's pro- or anti-.

But Dude, the comments! Way to go for fighting in the trenches!! I guess some paychecks are ha rder earnedthan others.

BTW, the best laugh was being called not objective because you've written both pro-Apple and anti-Applearticles.

SW: That's the mentality here Thanks for commenting!

Posted By B. Clark, Marion, OH: March 3, 2011 2:12 PM

The $499 p rice that you quote for the Samsung Galaxy Tab is only with a two year contract. Where are your fact checkers?

SW:http://www.androidtablets.net/forum/samsung-galaxy-tab/9056-samsung-galaxy-tab-ebay-deals-499-99-a.html



Posted By James, Memphis TN: March 3, 2011 1:46 PM

Lame arguments in this article, each of which made apple look good again (darn it).

Criticizing Apple for spinning its keynote? Most of the criticisms mounted here resort to even more egregiousspin. I'll give two examples-- the first slide clearly says "first dual core tablet..."-- but in your criticism you refer tothe numbers of your smart phone-- not a table t-- in order to make your argument seem more substantial. That'sa no-no. Another example, you criticize the 90% tablet market share claim by using sales figures for the Nook

and Kindle-- both of which are ereaders, not tablets, which you know, but which you also know might fool areader who didn't know the difference. Another big no-no.

I was excited to read your po ints, but this is a collection of laughab ly false contrasts that makes the PC marketlook pitiful if this is what they're armed with.

Posted By maximus, new york, ny : March 3, 2011 1:39 PM

Really, the rabid Apple bashing just isn't useful in the least. Read Scobleizer's take on the iPad2 for a muchmore realistic and consumer-oriented approach to this topic. Basically, if the machine has no apps, what theheck does it matter if a few specs are a wee bit more impressive (not even significantly more, mind you) than amachine with thousands of apps available? The reality distortion is in this article--not iPad corp-speak at therelease yesterday. I promise you that.

Posted By Annie, Asheville NC: March 3, 2011 1:39 PM

Absolutely mind numbingly boring pointless (except of link bait) article. No wonder journalism is going to thedogs

Posted By John, Washington DC: March 3, 2011 1:37 PM

Aren't the Dell and Samsung devices 7" screens? So they would be much cheaper and perhaps not count as atablet iin the sense of an iPad o r XOOM.

I think comparing apples and oranges qualifies as distorting reality. The same criticism applies to bringing upNooks, which are crippled Android devices, and tablet PCs.

As for XOOM shipping in volume, Weintraub should check facts instead of specu lating. XOOM may be acomparable tablet that is shipping in volume, but we wouldn't know that from Weintraub's distorted reality.

Posted By Guy Bannis, San Francisco, CA: March 3, 2011 1:36 PM

umad

Posted By Anon, Hanoi, Vietnam: March 3, 2011 1:24 PM

You're a typical Android Fanboy, who talks about everything else that doesn't really matters to both people andWall Street. People love the iPad and they will love the iPad 2 for the same reasons; which are price, simplicity,Apps and quality. I guess, I missed all the articles from you on how these Android tablets are having a hardtime staying on the shelves and Best Buys being crowded from people who can't wait to see and play withthem.

Wall Street loves Apple and the same admiration isn't there for Google. Apple products are selling, regardless

what the case is, they're selling. Apple has monetized the App Store, only the way Google could dream of for Android. They just paid out 2 billion to developers and I bet you, Android hasn't crossed 100 million.Regardless, how many Android phones sell, people don't buy apps for it like they do with iOS. We developersare left trying to monetize with ads; which Gen Y never touches on. Impressions may be high but what aboutconversion; which is what really matters. Majority of the time, you are dealing with the dumb smartphone user,who just got the phone because the sales rep told them it's cool, you can do these cool things and it's cheap. Inmany cases, this is their first computer and just li ke the web back on the day with ads, they cli ck but don't buy or sign-up. The quality of apps on Android to iOS isn't even a discussion. Android needs to create better tools for developers and until so, you will see everyone developing for iOS first and them second.

Seth, you really need to wake up and get off Apple's back. They're great at marketing and building up the hype,why blame them for something every company should be good at, instead of piss poor. They take value in their products and have expectations to create and set the bar high, while everyone else plays catch up. Everytablet coming out is copying the form factor of the iPad, WTF? Be different, try something di fferent but no. Everycompany lies or exaggerates about numbers, you know that. I just bought a Xoom and it does not have 100apps for Honeycomb, more like 50.

The most important thing is not market share but profit share and Apple is currently dominating that on allverticals of tablet, smartphone and mobile operating system. You clearly need to go back to school and learnthe importance of being in business. It's about money and brand and not about keeping geeks and fanboys



happy.

Posted By Jason, Ann Arbor, MI: March 3, 2011 1:17 PM

Seth,I'm some where in the middle on your article. I do think that Apple adn their minni ons has over-blown the iPad2 launch. I'm in the middle on somethings they stated as opin ion that you argue aren't true (ie ship numbers).I disagree when it comes to hardware specs. Ultimately as a consumer, I care about how a device performs not

its specs. Comparing iOS devices to android devices on specs alone isn't acurate because the two OS'soperate differently (can you imagine a pc shipping with 256k of ram? My iPad with 256k performs some tasksbetter than my PC with 2 GB of ram.) and the app lications for the platform are built to the specs of the device. Ialso don't really see someone taking 8 x 10 qual ity pictures with any tablet just "snapshots." With that in mindand above a certain point, megapixels don't matter.

What I really want to see at side by side comparisions of a XOOM and an iPad 2 pe rforming identical tasksconsistent with their purpose(webpage load ing, lite document editing, presentations, video conferencing,photos [4 x 6] and photo ed iting). At that point, someone can decide which is better.

Posted By John, Cincinnati, OH: March 3, 2011 1:12 PM

I guess you can write an a rticle like this as long as you don't also refer to yourself as a journalist. Having an ITbackground you should also understand that user happiness is not measured by the sum of the hardwareparts. Take some time and actually talk to a few typical users who don't work in the industry.

Thank You

Posted By Roger, Toronto, Ontario: March 3, 2011 1:05 PM

Seth -

Nicely done. I'm an Apple fan, and I think the iPad 2 is going to sell like crazy. I'm not a fan of pointless bashing(and I've not hesitated to criticize you when you have done it a couple of times in this column). But this isn'tpointless bashing. It's actually relevant to Google 24/7, and somebody needs to call out Apple every now andthen for their distortion. You make a number of good poin ts regarding the first two slides. I think SJ is trying tocreate a self-fulfilling prophesy by continually calling the competition DOA. Apple thinks they have a chance tocreate an iPod-like dominance in this space, to the point where others just quit trying.

All that being said, the Xoom simply doesn't compare favorably with iPad2 on price. You can argue tech specs,but if a consumer wants to buy a poli shed, full size tablet for as little money as possible, they will NEVERchoose the Xoom. While the most comparable iPad is on ly a bit cheaper than the Xoom, a price consciousconsumer won't choose this particular iPad; they will spend $499. Apple 's ASP is only slightly above $600 for their entire iPad linup, confirming that many buyers favor the cheapest option possible. The Xoom, for its

wonderful feature set, is only available in a single configuration, and it is probably priced exactly like the $729iPad, with the extra $70 going to the slightly improved screen, vastly better optics, and card reader. The Xoomis fairly priced, but it is 60% more expensive than the base model iPad. And for $499, buyers get exactly thesame experience as they would for the beefier models. Many will never ge t to even 16GB of media storageand will never crave a cellular radio. One need not spend $800 to sit on the couch and read the news.

So far, the only way for Android to match Apple on p rice has been by cutting the devices in half. I'm sure thiswill change as components standardize, but right now Apple has managed to create the best product for thelowest price. They are in a sweet spot, and as a result the public are willing to completely ignore Apple 's BSmarketing figures. At the end of the day, the message is true enough that nobody bu t you seems to care.

Posted By J oe, Winfield IL: March 3, 2011 12:58 PM

"iPad 2 immediately obsoletes a flood o f media tablets that are finally beginning to appear a year after theiPad's introduction," writes Wolf. "Competitive tablets can emulate the hardware features of the iPad. But nonecan or p robably never will match its software. Nor can they match its price."

http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2011/03/03/apple-analysts-see-ipad-2-a-compelling-case/?mod=yahoobarrons

Yay: c'mon AAPL $500+, you bought my house, now I would like a rilly nice boa t.

Posted By Frank, Washington DC: March 3, 2011 12:45 PM

Seth Weintraub,

You should tell quickly to fortune Editor not to admire the apple.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mostadmired/2011/snapshots/670.html

Rohit

Posted By Rohit, NY: March 3, 2011 12:23 PM



Love the comments, all I know is when I'm out I see people with apple products. Many with iPads instead off laptops in cafe's. And if they have a laptop it's a macbook or tiny air. Never seen anyone with a product by Dellor samsung. There are some with plastic looking pcs usually with an apple sicker on them, so funny. I have aniPad and now use it for everything including music, will be getting the 2 as soon as can. I'd love to seeGarageBand run on a samsung-- don't think so.

Posted By Jimmy Rae, San Fran, CA: March 3, 2011 12:20 PM

@ J-Dog Compton

Apple 15 million iPad sold and counting. +1 AppleSeth Weintraub Google fanboy here. Apple fanboy for his day job -1 Weintraub.

Article, petty nitpicking for hits.

SW:Got day and evening jobs backwards

Posted By Mike Bee, Miami, Florida: March 3, 2011 12:18 PM

Lovely article.

And don't spoil your mood. Apple lovers don't like facts and numbers.

In fact, from the keynote, the only thing I gathered is that Apple and SJ are rattled by the Android onslaugh t. Notthat I am biggest fan of Android (have neither Android or Apple device), but they have taken the world by stormwhich has just begun.

Apple's worry is that Android will do a Windows on them. And history is going to repeat all over again. Wether fanbois like it or not.

Posted By Gary , New York, NY: March 3, 2011 12:17 PM

its simply just show how much reporter love apple products and use it.....

Seth Weintraub, if you do not like apple product, just do not use it. Why to always complain and being negativeand jealous of success of Apple.

Just enjoy, use other product but stop this complaining game. Customers are not fool they know what is goodand what is bad for them. If they will like apple product they will buy it other wise they will not.....

Posted By london, UK: March 3, 2011 12:16 PM

Seth, take it easy. You might have a heart attack over this . . . Buy yourself a Xoom and have bath . . . Don'tworry about us dumb folks who'll buy only iPads. Think of it this way: if Apple hadn't come-up with the iPad,Xoom and Tab designers would be unemployed . . .

Posted By Joe: March 3, 2011 12:07 PM

Seth Weintraub, you have onl y negative to say....grow up and come in the real world ......where performacedrive everything. And today as customer I can say Apple has the numbers in main street and wall streets.

Fortune quality in selective reporters is going down year by year.

Posted By Paris, France: March 3, 2011 12:03 PM

You make the same mistake he does. For example, you state that the Xoom has twice the RAM of the iPad,which is true, but in the iPad that RAM is on-die, which is both faster and more expensive than having externalDRAM. Does that make the iPad or Xoom better? I have no idea . I haven't profiled apps on e ither device. Itdoes mean it's not an apples to apples comparison.

What's the take-away? We all sell what we like, and put down what we don't. We all feel the need to rationalizeour positions, even when they're wrong.

Congratulations Steve and Seth, you're both human.

Posted By Edgar Friendly, Los Angeles, CA: March 3, 2011 12:03 PM



Too many Apple fanboys in these comments.

Great article.

Status:1: TOLD2: FU*KING TOLD

Definitely #2.

+1 Weintraub -1 Apple.

The title of the article should be:Apple Fanboys: Straight Up Gettin' Told

Posted By J-Dog Compton, Ca: March 3, 2011 11:54 AM

Weintraub: No, it is 2% (regarding merchandise returns) https://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20110203/samsung-galaxy-tab-returns-arent-16-percent-theyre-2-percent/

Did you read the last sentense? The article can't determine what types of returns: Consumer returns to retailersOR retailer returns to Samsung. It also said Samsung offers neither data nor explanation to support its claim of only 2%. I'll stay go with 16% if you don't mind.

More bad news for other "iPad killers". Xoom is struggling *gasp* Who would have thunk!http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2011/03/02/motorola-detwiler-sees-xoom-struggling/

Alas, little did they know, they can mimick the iPad in size, but they can't copy Apple's vision.

Posted By Appletini, ny: March 3, 2011 11:46 AM

Apple is slipping. A lame windshield cover aka snuggie for tablets aka Japanese bathlid for tablets was a keyhighlight LOL

Posted By reelfernandes: March 3, 2011 11:35 AM

It seems that you know nothing about what it is to have a good echo-system. I suggest you to buy some Appleproducts to learn it!

Food for thought - think about how many facts you have "twisted" to support your article. For example

1) Xoom has better and bigger screen. Man, since Xoom has a bigger screen than iPad's, it needs to have adisplay with higher resolution even to provide the display quality of iPad's. Talk to Xoom owners. All of them Iknow (only a few in numbers) complained that the screen is bigger for everything other than watching video.What a crap it is to spend the money on?

2) "People are really fighting to get their hands on a Samsung" Even Samsung won't say that. Did they higher you? Or are you looking for a job there?

3)"Perhaps Jobs could have also compared the iPad 2 to other Android tablets' prices?" - No one consider them as tablets

4)"and have better cameras" - apple didnt announce the specs for iPad's camera. Without knowing the specs,you are making this statement... It shows that your article is totally baseless and pointless and you just want towhine about nothing!

Posted By Sam Mithun, Hartford, CT: March 3, 2011 11:28 AM

Yikes, these Apple fans it sound like a bunch of Tea Party rejects.

They are in complete denial that Android has beaten iPhone and will probably do the same to iPad. Mr. Jobs isobviously very worried about it.

Posted By LA, CA: March 3, 2011 11:24 AM

Always amazed at how many people are obsessed with Apple... An average technology company with greatmarketing - I'll spend my money on the better devices.

Posted By Jim, Chicago, IL: March 3, 2011 11:21 AM

I bought an ipad, returned it a week later, what a limited product, it was so useless.



Posted By Frank San Francisco CA: March 3, 2011 11:21 AM

Wow, where did all the apple Fanboi's come from, or should I say APPLE Employees. Your employer will notstop the ipad from being outsold in the same manner as the iphone.

Posted By Jonah, New York NY: March 3, 2011 11:19 AM

People are really fighting to get their hands on a Samsung! Like hell the are. Well, maybe in some alternativedimension, bu t not this one. For what I can see, the iPad has 100% of the market, minus a few near-sightedshoplifters who grabbed an expensive-cheapo-tablet in their haste to leave the store.Or Techies who need something bad to repair.

Posted By Alex McKenna, London, England: March 3, 2011 11:12 AM

So Jobs uses only the facts that provide an advantage to his product? All companies do this. The onlydifference here is that some people don't bother to question anything from apple or Jobs. A lot of apple peopleare exactly like the superbowl add.

Posted By Neb, Plano, TX: March 3, 2011 11:11 AM

I didn't think this article was too far off base and made some leg itimate arguments, but the author's sarcasticcomments inserted into the comments themselves make him appear hostile, which caused me to question thearticle itself.

Posted By Patrick, Reston VA: March 3, 2011 11:08 AM

Forget Job's distorted presentations (at least he didnt call the ipad2 magical 20 times)

The real shock is apple's done nothing to improve the archaic OS. So the new ipad is still a grid of apps. Noreal multitasking; no live apps on the home screen. The notification system that looks like it was developed inthe 1980's. Handcuffed to Itunes for the simplest file transfers? ridiculous.

So IPAD 2: A faster, thinner version of a badly designed OS.

The Specs have caught up to the Motorola Zoom (minus the usb, sdcard, and standard hdmi port) Certainly didnot leapfrog the zoom. Im sure there will be several android tablets that leapfrof the ipad before ipad3 comes

out. Apple is falling further behind. The model is simply broken. One manaufacturer can not complete with therest of the planet.

Posted By Mary D, Philadelphia PA: March 3, 2011 11:07 AM

@Seth WeintraubDid Motley Fool fire you because you were really are a fool?All that you need to do is print the real truth, not a pro Apple article that needs to be offset by an anti-Applearticle to satisfy Apple haters and increase your repertoire of readers by printing "lies", oops distortion of facts?

Posted By Observ er, Boston, Ma.: March 3, 2011 11:00 AM

This is the most pointless article

Posted By Dan, Boise Idaho: March 3, 2011 10:51 AM

So many apple fanboys!

Posted By felix, oakland, ca: March 3, 2011 10:50 AM

In seems like you a re the one that is trying to distort the facts or misinterpreting them; either that or haveproblem reading the English language. The slide clearly stated "First dual core tablet TO SHIP in volume". Thekey words are "TO SHIP". During his speech, he also pointed out that he believes this is going to be the firsttablet "TO SHIP" in volume and not have already "SHIPPED" in volume.

As you have stated, the word "Volume" could be subjective and can be debatable; but I was not aware that



Dell's Streak 7 was selling that well at all. I definitely do not know of any remotely interesting in buying one or even plan to buy one. As of XOOM, it just came out, there are no sign of any store with lines o f people waitingto purchase one. The news I have heard so far has been that the unit is not flying off the shelves and at theentry level price of $799, it is highly doubtful they ever will. As for Atrix also, I do not know any one having oneor plann ing to ge t one. Of course, if later one, if either Atrix and/or XOOM turned out to be successful and trulyselling in high volume or that iPad 2 turns out to be a flop without anybody wanting to purchase it, that couldultimately prove Steve Jobs to be wrong; but once again, at XOOM entry price and the ridiculously complexplug-ins and add-ons for both, I would not want to place my be t on them. We will see.

As for your price of XOOM, it does not matter if $799 rea lly should be comparable to the $729 version of theiPad 2, the fact is Motorola simply does not have a lower entry level price for the XOOM will make a bigdifference in the consumer's ultimate purchasing decision not to mention the fact that $799 is still HIGHER than

$729. The opinion that XOOM is simply better is clearly also just your personal opi nion that seems few peoplewill share. It just different people put d ifferent values for the features they preferred. You clea rly liked the tabletto be more in the HDTV style of the stretched aspect ratio over the more conventional book's aspect ratio andthe built-in USB/SD Card reader. Others prefer long battery life, conventional book aspect and their new SmartCover. As for amount of RAM, you are clearly showing a heavy bias by stating that it must have ha lf of XOOM's1GB without knowing the number for the iPad 2 . You could be right, but you could also just as wrong. The factis simply you DON'T know. Of course, for most consumer, that actual number does not even matter as long as itcan run the apps they want smoothly. That is probably that reason why that number was not mentioned;because Apple does not believe that number really matters as long as they believe they have providedenough ram to run all o f the consumer's app nicely. Clearly Apple's main target is not simply for the tech heads,but for the genera l not very tech savvy consumers that just want to use the tablet.

After reading your article, it definitely seems like you are the one that is putting on a much bigger real itydistortion field than Apple.

Posted By makelvin, Troy, NY: March 3, 2011 10:49 AM

For all those saying the nook doesnt count dont get it. The Nook Color for $250 has better specs than theIpad...

Mine is running Honey Comb as we speak.

Posted By Chicago: March 3, 2011 10:48 AM

Oh wow.

1. You say that another pad is shippi ng in volume as a dua l-core. Let's put aside the fact that you yourself thought it kind of sucked. In a market where one player is selli ng more than a million units per month... sellingless than 100,000 un its is not volume! Xoom's figures are no t as bleak but probabl y still under a qua rter millionunits. The phone i s irrelevant he was talking tablets... so at that point you a re being as interpretative with factsas he was be ing and YOU are supposedly a journalist. He's a marketers... who wears that badge worse?

2.Probably a mistake. It happens. You journalists make mistakes with quotes and facts ALL the time and there

is not one mag out there without an OOPS sections somewhere nea r the byline. STILL smooth is a verystrange word to be describing a sell-out so it is probab ly Samsung marketing BS instead of Apple marketingBS.

3. A Kindle is not a tablet. A solitaire game sold at Brookstone is no t a tablet. A Nook is not a tablet. If you wereto do some fact checking yourself, which IS your job , you would know that the Wall Street Journal reported thatSamsung fudged it's sales figures. I am sure THAT does not shock you as much as the quote blunder. OnJanuary 28th Samsung admitted that the 1-2 million figure was of units shipped to retailers and that actualunits in customer's hands were "QUITE SMALL" THAT is a quo te. Forget Math learn how to research. I wouldhave fired you by now.

4. You say the Xoom is better because it has more of this or more o f that. You say people don't care aboutcomponents but seem to think the price should be about the components. Do you have any idea how much ittakes to develop and maintain an ope rating system? Google is doing a ll that work for them and spreading theexpense among pretty good devices but also millions of crappy ones. And why do you want flash on a pad?Do you know how ridiculous it is to hold a pad up to take pictures when you probably have a phone in your pocket? I would have not spent the development money on a rear camera for the iPad and see no use for itbeyond facetime. And I guess in your world minu tuarization is free. The iPad is lighter than the Xoom by over 120 grams and abotu 40% thinne r while still maintaining what is VERY important, much better battery life.

You have no t respect for anything. If you had respect you would have bothered to check your numbers. Youlive off this mediocrity. Having people come to your posts so that you can tell your editor you had a lot of hits onyour article. It is a very sad way to lead a career.

Posted By Marcos Duran, New York NY: March 3, 2011 10:47 AM

Thanks for the true opservation. I can see Apple fanboy are about turning into Egypt here. I agreed 1000% thatSteve Jobs is hidden their weaknesses that is business but I dislike the way he 's lips service (of untruth) like apolitician now-a-day. I used to like him before he took the flaw-antenna design of iphone to slap around o ther good design.

Posted By Bit2Bit, Skokie Il: March 3, 2011 10:47 AM



Ahh Seth, you have really stirred up the fanboys today. As with all fervent believers, criticizing their leader/deitywill only return anger and venom

(Edit Weintraub): I'll admit, I enjoy watching the craziness.

Posted By Frank A NYC: March 3, 2011 10:44 AM

Actually, not only does this "journalist" require remediation, his boss should also attend the same session or sessions. At the very least, the article should be retracted.

Posted By Tell The Truth, Las Vegas, Nevada: March 3, 2011 10:44 AM

while I agree with you on most points and we already know Apple marketing tactics (all hype and over statingfacst), but to the truth Apple IPad really dominate and yes they have the biggest share (90%), but why is thatand answer is simple WiFi only version I bet that XOOM wifi only version will sell like hot cake. But Apple not toblame it is the other companies that I can not really understand why they do not release an WiFi like Apple didfrom the start.

Posted By meme, Iowa city, Iowa: March 3, 2011 10:44 AM

So he stretched the truth a little bit. Big f-ing whoop. He still put out a product that regardless o f "specs" kicksthe sh!t out of anything currently on the market. It looks better, feels better, runs better, and is just overal l abetter device. Stop being an apple hater and just jump on board

Posted By Dan, Austin, TX: March 3, 2011 10:42 AM

Let me lay this out for you.

1) The iPad will be the first tablet to ship dual core processors in significant volume. They are predicted to sell15 million of these in the first 3 months after release. There is no other device that will be able to come close.

2) If Samsung would have sold two million instead of shipping them to carriers and retail outlets. They wouldhave said so. Their PR cover up does not even insinuate that they sold two million. This article is distortingreality.

3) Nook is an e-reader not a multi-purpose tablet. Just because a device runs android doesn't mean itcompetes with the iPad. Using the same logic, an iPod touch or an Apple TV would compete simply because it

runs iOS. Thats ridiculous.

4) As far as comparing other plastic toy tablets to the iPad, there's even more wishful thinking and realitydistortion. The iPad is also a 720P+ screen. 720P+ means that it has more than 720 vertical lines of resolution.The iPad has 768. The Motorola Xoom has 800. The extra 32 pixels of vertical resolution does not overcomethe plethora of weaknesses, chief of which is the platform of apps (or lack thereof) available to the unfortunatepurchaser.

Ultimately, the value of a mobile multi-purpose tablet is the amount of utility, productivity, and entertainmentvalue of the device. The iPad has proven itself to 15 million people so far. The iPad 2 will probably prove itself to 40 million+ during 2011. I truly wish the best for its competitors, but I don't envy the task ahead of them. Thatsthe reality of the situation.

Posted By Devon Dorrity, Centerville Utah: March 3, 2011 10:41 AM

Possibly the worst whiny article that I have ever read

Posted By john Collins, NY, NY: March 3, 2011 10:40 AM

Jobs demonstrated again his incredible vision for post PC products and marketing insight. It blew my mindaway! Android people should learn from him instead of crying like baby.

Posted By Brian, Boston, ma: March 3, 2011 10:36 AM

Mr. Weintraub:

Your anti-Apple writings in this blog, combined with your pro-Apple writings for other sites, has left me with theinclination to trust nothing you write.

Sorry.



Yes, a professional journalist is supposed to be objective. But is there really any objectivity in theblogosphere?

(Edit Weintraub): So I write posts that are both pro- and anti- Apple and therefore I am not objective? Perhaps of I only wrote pro-Apple posts, that would make me more objective.

Posted By R Brown, Finger Lakes , NY: March 3, 2011 10:33 AM

It's Seth Weintraub's "reality distortion", not Steve Jobs.

Your link for the mis-translated quote from a Samsung VP leads to another link that leads to another link thatleads to another link.

Edit Weintraub: The original source, the Wall St. Journal issued the correction :http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/01/31/samsung-galaxy-tab-sales-actually-quite-small/

NONE of the articles ever cited the actual number o f units sold. So how would anyone know the quantitativemeaning o f "progressing smoothly" other than a subjective remark from an embarrassed CEO? However onearticle did cite Samsung's return rate: a whopping 16%.

Edit Weintraub: No, it is 2% https://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20110203/samsung-galaxy-tab-returns-arent-16-percent-theyre-2-percent/

I'm sorry but it's you who only hear what you want to hear, without hard data to support your case.

You picked on SJ for saying "First dual core tablet to ship in volume" because in your opin ion Xoom is shipp ing"in volume" too. How many? I don't recall Xoom ever released their how many, what the hell are youcomparing "in volume" with?

Then you said you've been using And roid phone (the Atrix) with a dual core chip for weeks. SJ is talking aboutdual core tablet, NOT dual core dumbphones!

Apple's market share is indeed 90% . Market share is not shipped , it's units SOLD. You don 't count inventorysitting in some obscure warehouses, they are NOT in the consumer market and they have zero market shares.

I can't even read the rest of the article, it's a waste of my time.

Posted By Appletini, ny: March 3, 2011 10:27 AM

"Apple twisted facts (or worse) to try to convince crowds that all other tablets had no shot at de-throning theiPad in 2011."

I think you should check your facts before trying to p lay the journa list.

OK, so let's take a look at your twisted facts as you call them. You quite deliberately take a quote out of contextand twist it to your own agenda.

It is common knowledge that presentation software uses bulle t points only to highlight comments made duringthe presentation (unless you use PowerPoint where presenters put the entire speech on screen and then readit out aloud in case the audience a re illiterate).

What matters is the presenter's words. In this regard Steve Jobs actually said: "even though others are startingto ship I think this is going to be the first dual-core tablet to ship in volume".

That is he acknowledges that others are shipping and goes on the speak of the iPad in the future tense ('isgoing to be' and not simply 'is' as your twisted text implies). Indeed he even qualifies this by the words "I think".

You continue "Perhaps this has to do wi th Jobs' subjective view of "Volume' starts at whatever numbers i Padsare currently selling?" And "ship"? Well, I don't know."

Well he is clearly speaking of the future and I have $1,000.00 which says his iPad volume will bea t any other tablet volume (with dual-core) and you will be toast on that point. If you have the guts to put your money whereyour mouth is confirm the bet with a paragraph at the end of your article.

But then I guess you guys believed there were WMD in Iraq too. Even though the source of that informationnow openly admits he lied. The US urgently needs some journalists with balls.

Posted By Mike, Norwich, UK: March 3, 2011 10:24 AM

Ah! Apple haters!! What fun would the World be wi thout them.. But again it wouldn't be fun i f they were takenseriously, would it?

Posted By Ravi, New York, NY: Marc h 3, 2011 10:16 AM

Thanks, Google Coverage Guy. How about some Streak 7 sell through numbers? Isn't the consensus on thatdevice "Even on a tight budget, the Streak 7's deficiencies might not make it worth the p rice."

Posted By Frank, Washington, DC: March 3, 2011 10:15 AM



After reading your abysmal a rticle I feel like any one can become a reporter for Fortune! Who translated thequote from Samsung VP for you? (not that you provide any translation at all ). If you are trying to claim someoneis distorting the truth atleast don't distort it yourself in the same article - what makes a kindle a tablet?? e-bookreader fine, but a tablet? OK Dell streak may be a tablet but "volume" (btw if it is selling in volume can you givethe numbers? ....oh I am sorry perhaps numbers might di stort your reality. Finally, RAM.....time to wake up Mr tech geek....it is a demand supply principle, you need more RAM if the OS needs more RAM....it is the overallexperience that is critical. I am not sure you understand "overall experience" means anyway if you call kindle atablet!! Fortune needs to fire you , period.

Posted By AP, Chicago: March 3, 2011 10:12 AM

Seth, you should qualify every article you write with this statement."I Seth Weintraub am an Apple IHater, everything I write has been paid for by the Google's, Dells and the HP'sof the world and should be taken in that context. While I am no tech expert, I am a paid journalist who can lieand spin the truth anytime I want to."

Posted By Steve Ponte Vedra Beach Florida: March 3, 2011 10:11 AM

Seth,In the future, please write only about topics you have some knowledge of. Your counter-facts are actuallyincorrect.1. Apple's "sell-through" is primarily through Apple stores and Apple.com. They do not count every unit shippedto an Apple store as "sold." When some one walks in and buys an iPad, then it's sold. When Samsung ships a

Tab to BestBuy, they count it as sold. So, please fix all your market share "calculations" accordingly. You'll findthat 90% is probably understated.2. "Shipped in volume." Apple will have stock of iPad 2 in stores on March 11. Yesterday was March 2. Don'tyou think they are shipping in volume right now? Or do you think that 3 million iPads appear magically instores around the world on the evening of March 10, like Santa on Christmas Eve?3. "Shipped in volume." Even Dell admits the Streak hasn't achieved expectations, so it's not really shipping "involume," is it? I'm glad you tested one in January. We were all wondering who bought that unit.

Edit Weintraub: Wow, you waited a whole one bullet point to contradict yourself.Please grow up and do some actual reporting. This article is not worthy of some Android fan-boy blog, never mind Fortune.

Posted By Steve, Austin, TX: March 3, 2011 10:07 AM

2011 will be the year of IPad 2, but 2012 forward will be the years of Android Tablets, as thet finally get theintegration of the software together. (Just as Anroid phones will be 50% ahead of IPhones in sales in 2011,and double by 2014.)

Posted By Roy G. Biv SF Bay Area: March 3, 2011 10:06 AM

" The XOOM's are simply better. It has (expandable) 32GB of RAM buil t in and 3G buil t in (upgradable througha painful mail-in process to 4G). "

You later mention 1GB of RAM; which fact is correct?

Posted By Steve H, Ottawa, Canada: March 3, 2011 10:05 AM

Apple coun ts units sold to customers. Samsung counts units shipped to stores. Xoom will sit on the storeshelves and not convert to sales. Explain how sitting on a store shelf is a sale and i might believe the rest of your drivel. Apple has no real competition in the tablet market. The iPad will be the primary gateway device for

new apple converts. They will quickly realize that apple offers a better user experience across the board. Buthey go buy the xoom if you want one. I sure don't.

Edit Weintraub: Incorrect. When Apple ships an iPad off to Best Buy, AT&T, or Walmart, it is 'sold' just likeSamsung

Posted By Craig, Santa Barbara, California: March 3, 2011 10:05 AM

Android tablets have many advanced features, but the integration of the experience and the Honecombsoftware still leave things to be desired.

Having said that, the IPad 2 needs IOS5, which should arrive in three months or so.




It's marketing. He did superb job.

Posted By julie, boston, ma: March 3, 2011 10:03 AM

The "in volume" and ">90%" statements can all be tied to the "smooth" to "small" mistake.

Whoever did the research for him missed the correction to Samsung's statement ("small" back to "smooth") andthus provided Jobs with erroneous data.

Forget about Nook and such, they are not even in the same class as iPad and XOOM.

ALl that said, I see honest mistakes where o thers like to claim reality distortion field. Whatever...

Posted By Tom, San Jose, CA.: March 3, 2011 10:02 AM

Seth, get over it. Your little Apple IPad Tirade sounds more li ke a 2 year old temper tantrum than anythingrelevant or germaine to the Awesomeness of the IPad2. Motorola's Xoom is better than the IPad2? In your dreams. $800 for a hal fbaked device with no apps or ecosystem, that was supposed to include Flash and hasto be sent in for 4G conversion. And does anybody know the battery life on this piece of crap. You can foolsome people with your raves but not many. Stop wasting everybodies time with your tantrums and go back toyour crippled Atrix and Xoom.

Posted By steve Ponte Vedra Beach Florida: March 3, 2011 10:01 AM

How are those sour g rapes, Seth?

Posted By Kyros: March 3, 2011 10:00 AM

Your phone is not a tablet.

Neither the Dell, nor the Xoom have yet announced shipmen ts that I would call Volume

Jobs didn't say that the IPad was, he said he thought it would be .

For the last 6 months everything prin ted about Android has stated that Android has passed iOS, often doub le,whereas in fact in Q4 iOS sales were 34 .5M to Android's 32M

There are too many bu ilders fighting for too small a market share with Android.

And they started off as losers. They're on Android because their previous systems couldn't compete.

This year is Apple's. Samsung, HP and MMI will take no more than 15% of the market between them. (Sell. Nothow many they build)

RIM will probably never even launch.


Steve meant BIG Volume.


Did you just write: "OMG Math." ? Shame on Fortune Magazine editors, if such a role exists.

Funny, bitter little man, writing for a rag that lost it's credibility long ago.

Posted By MrKruser, Wichita, KS: March 3, 2011 9:58 AM

Yes, the RDF does exist. But your assessments are a bit of a stretch. Yeah the Samsung quo te was a b itsleazy. And the 90% market share may be a bit exaggerated. But its very close to 90% because the GalaxyTab is not selling wel l and has over 16% return rate (iPad has 3%). And that $499 starting point for the GalaxyTab? That's subsidized on a 2-yr contract buddy. $600 unsubsidized for a non-Tablet OS with a tiny screen thathas a very disturbing return rate. The XOOM is great, but does cost more, twice as thick and has about 100apps vs 65,000 for iPad. And let's not forget all the mistruths about Flash on the XOOM (which it does NOThave yet and can't even browse to it's own flash website) and and it's does NOT have 4G yet. So all in all, I'llroll with Steve's embellishing because his p roduct has everything he speaks of in 8 days

Posted By Kn: March 3, 2011 9:57 AM





"Both Apple and Samsung measure sales the same way - into the channel."

Wow!

Samsung filling/priming its channel = Apple's continuing replenishment of its channel?

Apple's channel is selling; Samsung's channel, not close.

Posted By pk de cville, VA: March 3, 2011 9:49 AM

Nice try at pumping Samsung and Dell. But Apple's leadership in tablets is compelling and undeniable. WithiPad2 it looks like Apples' dominance will continue for a long while. The sales volume of all of iPad'scompetitors combined is fractional to Apple's success, so yes, Steve Jobs sees the definition of "volume" a bitdifferently than Samsung, Dell, and some pundits.

I encourage anyone doubting where iPad2 is headed to devote 70 minutes to watching Apple's productannouncement from yesterday (March 2). It's posted on Apple's website. To anyone doubting Jobs' hea lth, heimpressed everyone with enthusiasm, stamina and mental clarity. Sharp as ever, skinny as always, nothingfrail about him at all.

Posted By David Lindberg, Chattanooga TN: March 3, 2011 9:49 AM

Reliable estimates of Samsung Galaxy SALES to consumers cluster around 200,000, compared to 2 millioninto their distribution channels. Every single iPad recorded is in the hands of a consumer. Jobs is right on this

one, and you are wrong. Do your homework.

(Edit Weintraub): No, no...and no.

You are commenting about these products from a PC-era 'speeds and feeds' mentality, where specs onmemory, disk space, processor speed and so on were rated more important than the total user experience withthe product (thus hiding from users, for example, the huge distractions from dealing with virus and trojans andmalware that make Windows relatively unproductive).

(Edit Weintraub): Apple uses Speeds and feeds when it is convenient for them. "1 GHz Dual CoreProcessor!" How much RAM? "It doesn't matter!"

We have moved on. What counts now is the total user experience, how much fun he/she has, how productivewe become, how much we embrace and enjoy the possibilities these devices bring to us. That's what Applefocuses its R&D on, and judging by the results, the market understands this, even if you fail to do so.

(Edit Weintraub):Apple does well, but that doesn't excuse lying

Posted By Stefan Youngs, Annapolis MD: March 3, 2011 9:48 AM

See you at earnings Writer. Keep swimming for 2011.

Posted By Ann: March 3, 2011 9:47 AM

Yeah, but who wants to use crap Android??? Over two dozen apps were just pulled from the AndroidMarketplace because they were actually malware (shocker). Android is a house of cards. It's Windows all over again, only worse. If that turns your crank, good for you. The rest of us would rather use something that justworks, that doesn't harvest our personal information for advertising purposes, and that features software thatcan be trusted. Android loses on all accounts.

Posted By Rob: March 3, 2011 9:46 AM

"quite smooth"

so you believe Samsung's PR 'correction'?

I believe Apple replayed that recorded comment over a 100 times before putting it on a slide for Jobs to repeat.

I think Samsung's doing the lying, not Jobs.

Posted By pk de cville, VA: March 3, 2011 9:45 AM

A nook is a tablet? really? talking about reality distortion and the Kindle??? hahahaha, that is a good one. I'venever heard anyone even remotely call the Kindle a tablet. Gee and if you keep following your links to the"Thorough Debunking" of the Samsung VP quote, you'll find that the return rate of the galaxy tab to be quitehigh. Also to say that the Tab sold 2 million last quarter is quite a stretch. Please provide exact proof of aSamsung press release or statement that proves this.



I have heard nothing but bad things about the Streak so who cares about it.Hardware specs are almost irrelevant with these devices. The user experience with the software is key. I seeonly the Xoom with any good press in regards to this...It's hard to believe a "reality distortion" article that is full of them itself....

Posted By chip, clearwater fl: March 3, 2011 9:43 AM

Seth - Sometime during the past centuries the art of marketing was created. Apple happens to be very good at

this magic art as are many di fferent companies. You may want to return to school to take a class in marketingso that you can be properly equipped to write for Fortune magazine.

P.S. You may want to ask around Fortune as I do bel ieve they have a marketing department.

Posted By Steve Davison, Loveland, CO: March 3, 2011 9:42 AM

Yawn. Steve says tomato, you say tomahto. I'll go w ith the guy who's actually in the biz.

Posted By Rangerover: Marc h 3, 2011 9:41 AM

@Seth WeintraubAre you being paid by Google to be outraged toward Apple and give a promotional for Android? You mustreally think that your arrogant DISTORTION of the REAL TRUTH matters.

Posted By Observ er, Boston, Ma.: March 3, 2011 9:41 AM

""First dual core tablet to ship in volume"."

He's wrong, you're wrong.

More accurately, he should have said "sold" not "shipped".

On Mar 11th weekend 1 mm 2s will be sold, and by Mar 30th, 3mm 2s will have been sold.

How many will the others have sold by then?

Posted By pk de c ville, VA: March 3, 2011 9:41 AM

Someone selling a product cherry-picking the "facts" to make their offering look better is hardly surprising.Because their obj ective is crystal clear it's easy to take what they say for what it is; a sales pitch. I find thisbehavior much more problematic when it comes from "news" providers. Grossly misleading headlines,misquotes and wrong "facts" are much too common in the contemporary news business.

Posted By Johnathan Black, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.: March 3, 2011 9:41 AM

Not all 2 million of those samsung tablets were actually sold in that time frame. Also those Dell and Samsungtablets are a much smaller screen for the same price of the entry level iPad with 10" screen.


Not to mention not admitting there is a death grip on the phones. And most of claiming its fixed! what? Fixed, itmeans there is a problem!http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/03/technology/verizon_iphone/index.htm?source=yahoo_quoteHolding it naturally is bad after all!


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