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Sinofsky: iPad and Mac hardware are fundamentally identical
“The iPad is a Mac. The Mac is an iPad in terms of the hardware.”
Evans: iOS split-screen multitasking will not reignite iPad sales growth
“It's not going to, you know, suddenly reignite sales of iPad growth sales growth, but, you know, it may change what it means to use it a bit.”
Evans: Apple iPad captures 80% to 90% of total tablet usage
“The iPad share of tablet use is 80 to 90% on any kind of, or to the extent that anybody who has metrics specifically For iPad use, that is to say e-commerce sites or websites or, you know, anybody who's doing video or anyone who's actually selling anything see…”
Sinofsky: Apple sells more iPads than total US laptop volume
“They sell more iPads, you know, than the laptop run rate in the US.”
Sinofsky: iPad Outlook app has features missing from Windows desktop Outlook
“The Outlook that got updated today that's on my iPad, like, has connections to Facebook events and Evernote, which aren't things that exist in the Outlook that I would use on my Windows desktop.”
Walden: House subcommittee forced FDA to clarify if iPad is medical device
“We actually did a hearing on my subcommittee to force the FDA, the regulator in this case, to tell us, is an iPad a medical device?”
Evans: iPad sales are trending down with record low average prices
“For the iPad numbers and sales, it's not a record low, but sales have been trending flat to down for the last 18 months to two years, and it's a record low ASP, record low average selling price.”
Evans: Tablets are household devices with 3-5 year upgrade cycles
“And it feels like where we're settling is it's a one per household or two per household device that gets bought every three or four or five years.”
Evans: Active iPad installed base exceeds active Mac base by 2x
“There's probably a 180 to two hundred million iPads in use now, Versus about eighty million Macs, according to Apple.”
Steve Jobs Evaluated Products by Pretending to Be Customer Number One
“He was, in my view, I don't know what's going on inside his head, but just having seen him do that, having at least, you know, enough experience with him and his approach to evaluating work is that he was putting himself in the position of a customer. He had, …”