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In a little under two weeks from now, Apple will start shipping its much anticipated iPad tablet, but don't expect the company's App Store to be flooded with new customers. According to market research firm comScore, most upcoming iPad owners are more concerned with surfing the Web than they are with buying apps.
comScore surveyed 2,175 Internet users regarding their awareness, attitude, and opinions of the Apple iPad, as well as other e-readers and tablet devices. What the research firm found was that half of all respondents plan to cruise through cyberspace, while 48 percent said they expect to use the iPad mostly for email.
By comparison, only 26 percent said they are likely to download applications from Apple's App Store, and 36 percent said it would be "unlikely" to do so. That can't be what Apple wants to hear, but it remains to be seen if those numbers hold up once the product actually ships.
Read the full survey here.
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nHeroGo
March 24, 2010 at 10:54am
Is there any Apple product that any MaximumPC-reader secretly likes?
I think I would secretly like to have one of each, but I know that I am not allowed to say it, so I must join in with the gang and say "yeah, Apple, shove it in your iHole!"
I used to have a laptop with a track ball some time in the first half of the 90s. Something like this: http://computerworld.com.edgesuite.net/mac25/mac25_powerbook100_650.jpg
You have to give it to them; they've got something. PC is like Chevy, Dodge and Ford - it works good for clearing brush while running for office - but everyone wants a Maserati.
Keith E. Whisman
March 25, 2010 at 2:52pm
Not true at all.
We like some mac products. The Mac mini is pretty cool. The Mac Book Pro is pretty awesome as well and there aren't many people here that doesn't love the Ipod Classic and Touch. So there are Mac products that are liked by us. It's just the bs commercials and the total control Apple keeps over its products that rub us wrong and the specs for the Ipad just plain suck.
Keith E. Whisman
March 23, 2010 at 2:56pm
Should also point out that perspective Ipad owners are fucking retards.
huhhuh
March 23, 2010 at 2:35pm
If Adobe or anyone else makes this device to be compatible with PS
and I am able to use brushes with my finger (and zoom in by pinching)
then I will definetely buy this product.
It would make my Photo Editing process so much more simpler
that it would pay itself in no time.
Caboose
March 23, 2010 at 3:21pm
And with it's pathetic storage space, lack of connection options or expansion slots for additional storage, and very low performance power, your photoshop will just ZOOOM along! You won't even know you're using a glorified iPod touch!
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
jgrimoldy
March 23, 2010 at 1:37pm
** Insert Please Stop Posting Apple-Related Stories pissy post here **
/snark
This is great news. 'Happy to watch the incremental complete failure that this product will become play out in real time. Very entertaining
bpstone
March 23, 2010 at 12:10pm
I have no interest in owning an Apple iPad. I see specs, not brands. lol
