Opinion – Why iPad Competitors will Fail

Wow.

The Apple iPad

The Apple iPad sure has the entire world interested in what it can do.  I’ve had everyone from managers and directors at the office (including the Chief Medical Information Officer at the hospital where I used to work) ask me what it was, if it was for them, and why they should buy one. Those are hard questions to answer, especially if you don’t know what the person’s intended use for the device is. However, I have had a fair number of those same people indicate that they were going to wait until either a MS/Windows or Android tablet was released and they were going to get it.

Really?

Personally, I think this is a horrible idea.  Here’s why…

I had a conversation about this in my neighbor’s back yard yesterday afternoon. The iPad in many ways may be the "magical device" that Steve Jobs is painting it out to be; but there is one (or just a very small handful of) reason(s) why it may have a lock on the tablet market already. The iTunes Eco System.