Apple believes that cannibalizing its own products is a good thing. Better to cannibalize your own products than to have someone else's products eating into your market share. That makes sense, of course, but analysts are still wary of the idea that there is a sustainable market for iPads that cost close to $1000 each. The new Wi-Fi only 128GB iPad costs $799, while its mobile-carrier-enabled counterpart will retail for $999. Those are big numbers to be sure, but Apple is targeting a different level of user with its new tablets.
As people have become more comfortable with their iPads, they are using them more like laptops and PCs than the ultra-convenient web browser that they were initially. Apple sees the potential for wide-scale business applications in fields like education, healthcare and the arts. And, it's easy to see why they believe that to be the case. Already, it's commonplace for doctors, nurses and teachers to be working with a tablet in professional settings. With the beefed up storage capacity of the 128GB iPad, it's likely that many more enterprises will find that iPads make sense for their purposes. Given the incredibly stable operating system and the huge number of available apps and services, it makes quite a bit of sense.
Many are already speculating on the demise of MacBooks, as more powerful iPads may make them obsolete. Whether that's true or not remains to be seen, but the fact is that the design, portability, durability and functionality of the iPad make it hard to ignore as the potential heir-apparent to laptops, regardless of their manufacturer or legacy operating system.
As people have become more comfortable with their iPads, they are using them more like laptops and PCs than the ultra-convenient web browser that they were initially. Apple sees the potential for wide-scale business applications in fields like education, healthcare and the arts. And, it's easy to see why they believe that to be the case. Already, it's commonplace for doctors, nurses and teachers to be working with a tablet in professional settings. With the beefed up storage capacity of the 128GB iPad, it's likely that many more enterprises will find that iPads make sense for their purposes. Given the incredibly stable operating system and the huge number of available apps and services, it makes quite a bit of sense.
Many are already speculating on the demise of MacBooks, as more powerful iPads may make them obsolete. Whether that's true or not remains to be seen, but the fact is that the design, portability, durability and functionality of the iPad make it hard to ignore as the potential heir-apparent to laptops, regardless of their manufacturer or legacy operating system.
