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timark_uk
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Was it the Regent Street Store? Mark
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EddArmitage
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Amnesia10
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Dell: iPad 2 will fail in enterprise market http://www.macworld.co.uk/business/news ... id=3267719 | | | | Quote: Despite the iPad's big head start in the enterprise - or large-business - market, Apple's tablet PC won't prosper there, according to an increasingly bullish Dell.
Speaking to Macworld's sister site CIO Australia in Sydney, Andy Lark, Dell’s global head of marketing for large enterprises and public organisations, said that while the first iPad had achieved one million sales just 28 days after the device first became available in the US and precipitated the explosion in tablet PCs, the product would ultimately fail in the enterprise sector.
"I couldn't be happier that Apple has created a market and built up enthusiasm. But longer term, open, capable and affordable will win, not closed, high price and proprietary," Lark said. "[Apple has] done a really nice job, they've got a great product, but the challenge they've got is that already Android is outpacing them. | | | | |
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timark_uk
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Dell has a great track record with predicting what Apple should do. Mark
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ProfessorF
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Oh the irony. Dell bloke doesn't understand iPad. Are we surprised? Of course, he's missing the fact that for all the talk of being locked into an Apple eco-system, most enterprises are locked into a Windows eco-system. Which is why when the IT buyer shops with Dell, they'll probably go back to Dell for a tablet. Quite.
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Amnesia10
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They are doing remarkably well in the enterprise market. Restaurants are using them, now parliament, I suspect that they will appear in more and more places even if they are a closed system.
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forquare1
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jonbwfc
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In theory you wouldn't need as many waiters. People pick off the menu themselves and the orders can get sent via wifi to the kitchen. All your waiting staff have to do is actually serve the food. Less effort therefore less staff required. Course you'd have to build the ipads into the table or something, or you'd be broke by the end of the first night  .
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forquare1
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Nah, they'd be handed out, then you would order and the waiter would come and collect them. Still get the face time of the waiter so you wouldn't feel you were being palmed off with a cheap alternative.
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Amnesia10
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I think that there was a restaurant in Sydney Australia using them within weeks of the originals being launch, got them loads of publicity and probably extra customers wanting to see how it worked in a restaurant. As for other businesses I would imagine that they will be used as and where they can. The New York Plaza http://www.fairmont.com/theplaza has them in every room. It allows customers to order room service, book restaurant reservations and change many of the room settings. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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timark_uk
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Iceland Express were the first European airline to offer the iPad as in-flight entertainment. See hereMark
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jonbwfc
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What a waste of time & money that is though. Ok, in theory, if you're redoing the menu every day it saves you on printing costs. Other than that, you're spending 500 quid a pop on something that's serving exactly the same function as a piece of paper. You can get an awful lot of menus printed for 500 quid, let alone 500 quid times the number of menus you'll actually need simultaneously. Jon
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HeatherKay
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Much better idea to provide a web-based menu, which punters can access via their smartphone/tablet if they wished.
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Amnesia10
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Might be too complex and open to problems like customers changing initial orders. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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HeatherKay
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Still better than clients walking out with the menu system when they leave. _________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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