1- Evaluate the impact of the iPad using porter's competitive forces model.
2- What makes the iPad a disruptive technology?
Who do you think are the winners and losers of the iPad's success? Why ?
• iPad can be considered as a disruptive technology because it is achieving success in many fields , specially in media , so many users of normal ways of viewing media are transferring from those traditional ways and start using iPad , so iPad is destroying other's popularity and success.
The winners are the users and consumers because they are finding their comfort when using iPad , and the providers and suppliers of other industries are the losers as they lose their customers who transfer to iPad and leaving them.
3- Describe the effects that the iPad is likely to have on the business models of Apple , content creators and distributers. • Content creators in the past believed that the content is not as important as the device popularity but now , they totally understand that they need a high quality content from all types of media offered by their devices , on the other hand , the company's new goal after iPad is to make deals with each media industry to distribute contents at a price agreed to by the content owners and Apple.
Mis in action :
1- iPad is powerful and useful in reading books because it allows you to highlight what you need and gives you the ability to take lots of notes. The iPad is clearly best at the latter two tasks, especially the note-taking. And it keeps getting better in that regard: Amazon recently updated its Kindle iOS app to offer several different colors of highlighter ink, making it easier to color-code your notes in a book as you go. That’s a feature shared by Apple’s iBooks app as well, as both companies work to appeal to the educational and textbook markets , it is powerful in surfing the web as it has the faster browser ever , it is also useful in watching video because