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Re:The iPad Is Unbeatable by poutine on Friday March 09, 2012 @12:38PM (#3685051)
Smart phone? I agree smart phones are different. My somewhat glib inference was that the iPad could maintain the same market dominance as the iPod Touch due to similar reasons.
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Re:The iPad Is Unbeatable by shingen on Friday March 09, 2012 @12:55PM (#3685145)
The iPad has no more of a moat around it than the iPhone does.

The iPod had a moat around it courtesy of the extremely difficult dynamics of dealing with the music cartels. Apple broke the cartels and came to dominate them; nobody else was able to. Such problems don't exist in either smart phones or tablets.

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Re:The iPad Is Unbeatable by tosseraccount on Friday March 09, 2012 @02:22PM (#3685528)
Apple broke the cartels? Actually it was Napster and bittorrent that broke the cartels. Apple saved what was left of the cartels.
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