The Secret to Apple's Tablet Success

It sounds a bit ridiculous, nothing information about Apple's new rumored tablet computer has shown for us, but we have talked about the secret of its successful. It is said that the secret will not be the 10-inch touch-screen display that drives adoption of this new tablet computer, but rather the availability of apps for the device, according to one industry analyst.

Gene Munster, senior research analyst at Piper Jaffray, said in a research note to clients on Monday that initial tablet successes will come from the confidence consumers have with Apple's mobile platform. It is widely expected that Apple will use an iPhone-like operating system on the tablet, enabling consumers to utilize existing apps. Recent media reports that Apple is asking developers for super-sized versions of their apps is helping to fuel speculation that existing apps will work on the tablet.

If this is true, Apple's tablet computer will be the most useful and interesting computer of the world. Because the number of Apps in App store has increased to 100,000, and this digit still keeps increasing day by day. However, we can't ensure the number of sofeware in a common PC or Mac can achieve the same scale. The development cycle of an iPhone app is much shorter than the development cycle of a PC software. Besides, the iPhone app's programming language is only single, and it owns a simple SDK. In a word, more and more traditional software programmers have becomed the iPhone app developers. If Apple tablet can run iPhone apps, it will own most of old iPhone users, or even attract many new users from PC platform.

An interesting titbit of information in Munster's research note is that he expects Apple's tablet to compete well in the netbook category. While the Netbook focuses on its portability, Munster sees the tablet focusing "more on apps, entertainment content and Web surfing."

Via CNET by Jim Dalrymple