January 28, 2010 early morning news, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs has just announced the launch of the long-rumored Tablet PC iPad, into support for WiFi and support for WiFi +3 G in two versions, with 16GB, 32GB and 64GB 3 kinds of capacity size, support for WiFi version of the 16GB capacity iPad a minimum price of 499 U.S. dollars (about 3400 yuan).
In fact, the “Tablet PC” is not Apple’s original, but the success of the first paragraph iPad is not listed on Tablet PC, but the market has triggered a huge iPad quite a stir. Why iPad listed before the Tablet PC has been no one is interested? Apple iPad for Tablet PC instantly becomes hot, can achieve universal access to Tablet PCs?
Bill Gates, the wrong definition of a “Tablet PC”
As early as November 2002, Microsoft released in the United States Tablet PC, the product equipped with X86 processors and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system. Microsoft Tablet PC is defined as: Tablet PC is not a flip, there is no keyboard, small enough to put Ms. handbags, but full-featured PC. Than the laptop, in addition to its own all of its functions, also supports handwriting input or voice input, mobility and portability are all superior.

January 28, 2010 early morning news, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs has just announced the launch of the long-rumored Tablet PC iPad, into support for WiFi and support for WiFi +3 G in two versions, with 16GB, 32GB and 64GB 3 kinds of capacity size, support for WiFi version of the 16GB capacity iPad a minimum price of 499 U.S. dollars (about 3400 yuan).
In fact, the “Tablet PC” is not Apple’s original, but the success of the first paragraph iPad is not listed on Tablet PC, but the market has triggered a huge iPad quite a stir. Why iPad listed before the Tablet PC has been no one is interested? Apple iPad for Tablet PC instantly becomes hot, can achieve universal access to Tablet PCs?
Bill Gates, the wrong definition of a “Tablet PC”
As early as November 2002, Microsoft released in the United States Tablet PC, the product equipped with X86 processors and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system. Microsoft Tablet PC is defined as: Tablet PC is not a flip, there is no keyboard, small enough to put Ms. handbags, but full-featured PC. Than the laptop, in addition to its own all of its functions, also supports handwriting input or voice input, mobility and portability are all superior.
Between mobile phones and notebook computers to locate gaps in the market. Obviously, full-featured Tablet PC is necessarily costly and poor value for money, and no-fat alternative to ordinary notebook.
Pairs of flat-panel computer the wrong location, this is Bill Gates pronouncements of the underlying causes of frustration.
Apple iPad redefined the “Tablet PC”
Apple’s iPad, equipped with Apple 1G Hz A4 processor, using 9.7-inch screen, and supports multi-touch like the iPhone multi-touch, the thickness is only 1.27 centimeters, with 10 hours standby time, the battery can be replaced, while supporting wifi and wifi +3 G in two versions.
Why allow iPad has gradually moved away “Tablet PC” once again become the focus? In addition to Apple, I would like to have the charm of this brand, the iPad has been from an objective point of view to avoid Microsoft “Tablet PC” are facing three major challenges: life, the price of wireless networks. 10 hours of battery life, the lowest price of 3200 yuan, around the world 3G networks, which have all been iPad more attractive than the Tablet PC.
I think the most important is that Apple did not intend to let iPad to replace notebook computers, but will iPad position in notebook computers and smart phones gap between the market, this also means iPad without competitors. At the same time, Jobs was seeking more content for the iPad support, which includes a variety of applications on the App store programs, as well as the New York Times and other newspapers, book publishers are talking about the “digital books”, to let iPad become a carry-on e-books.
When people began to forget eight years ago Bill Gates right rhetoric when the Tablet PC, Apple iPad has lifted people’s appetite for Tablet PC, but also for the Tablet PC has been re-defined. Tablet PC is not a computer, but notebook computers and smart phones based on the product between, no keyboard, finger touch, playable games, watching movies, editing documents, see e-books.
Tablet PC does not rely solely on Apple’s popular
Tablet PC development and popularity can not rely on Apple iPad, after all, the hardware and software belongs to Apple’s one, iPad, and iPhone is still the same as belonging to a small minority of goods, while Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and other mobile phone companies is the main body of the mobile phone market. But the iPad birth, indicating the direction of development of the Tablet PC provides a benefit of their experience.
I listed in the iPad the same time, we see that Freescale, Qualcomm and NVIDIA are trying to enter the portable mobile Internet devices, Freescale and Qualcomm has introduced is not based on the ARM architecture processor, smart phones, portable terminals; and NVIDIA’s Tegra is a solution based on ARM processors.
On the software side, Google Android’s free, open, and software store model, these low-power processors are becoming the terminal operating system, Qualcomm, Freescale and these products will be called smart book, and Lenovo, Foxconn has launched the corresponding intelligent this product.
I believe that in the iPad under the leadership of the banner, in the ARM architecture low-power processors and open Android operating systems such as combinations of, in the Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Acer, Lenovo, Asus and other OEM manufacturers under the coordination of the popular Tablet PCs will soon be ripe, and we will wait and see!