Il volto che vedete sopra è di Tim Cook, COO di Apple e uomo che al momento guida l’azienda nell’attesa che Steve Jobs recuperi dai suoi problemi di salute.
“Cosa ci interessa a noi di chi guida Apple?”
Ci interessa per quanto riguarda le ultime dichiarazioni di Mr. Cook riguardanti i concorrenti di iPad.
Il succo del suo discorso è stato: i Tablet Windows sono “grossi, pesanti e costosi” (dato che iPad è “molto economico”), mentre i Tablet Android sono “smartphone ingranditi” (cosa che iPad “assolutamente non è” giusto?) e li ha definiti come “prodotti bizzarri”.
Ecco la risposta completa:
“Q: What about iPad competitors?
TC: There’s not much out there as you know. There are two kinds of groups today (in the market) — the ones using a Windows-based operating system. They’re big, heavy and expensive. Weak battery life. Need keyboard or stylus. From our point of view, customers aren’t interested in that.
Then you have the Android tablets. The variety shipping today, the OS wasn’t designed for a tablet — but Google said this. So you wind up having the size of a tablet that’s less than reasonable. Or one that’s not even a real tablet experience. It’s a “scaled-up smartphone” – that’s a bizarre product in our view. Those are what is shipping today. If you do a side-by-side with an iPad, some enormous percentage are going to pick the iPad. We have no concern there.
In terms of next generation. There’s nothing shipping yet. So I don’t know. “Today they’re vapor.” However, we’re not sitting still. We have a huge first-mover advantage. And a huge user advantage from iTunes to the App Store. Huge number of apps and an ecosystem. We’re very confident entering into a fight with anyone.”
Cambia il nome di chi parla, ma lo stile è sempre quello di Stevie.