Dvorak: iPad is not going to be Apple’s next runaway best seller

“The Apple iPad is not going to be the company’s next runaway best seller,” John C. Dvorak writes for MarketWatch. “Not if the industry can help it.”

Dvorak continues, “What is most galling to the tech industry is a company coming along within an existing sub-segment of the market, such as MP3 players, and showing up all the established manufacturers and then taking over the market. What is more galling is doing it without underhanded business practices designed to somehow lockout or screw the competitors. Apple has done it by shrewd marketing and the wise use of industrial design and stunning user interfaces.”

“In the process it has humiliated Sony Corp., Samsung, Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp., Microsoft Corp., Panasonic Corp., Ericsson, and dozens of other flat-footed companies in both the MP3 world and the smartphone arena,” Dvorak writes. “It went on to embarrass every single record label and music distributor with its iTunes, too.”

“It’s now trying to humiliate everyone and anyone who ever tried to push a tablet computer and I sense that this time the industry is not going to be taken to the woodshed any more for the Apple spanking,” Dvorak writes.

Dvorak continues, “This scenario comes to mind because on Monday, at the Mobile World Conference and CEO junket in Barcelona, Intel and Nokia are expected to make a partnership announcement. Everyone assumes it’s headed in the direction of more mobile computers from Nokia… Nokia is now fooling around with Netbooks and could easily develop an e-reader or iPad-like device with Intel.”

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Source: MacDailyNews