Former Microsoft employee, Bill Hill, who was leading ClearType of Microsoft, a technology to display text on digital screens in a readable way, says the iPad will be a huge success. The Tablet PC is in fact a laptop-pc with tablet functionality and the Kindle is a transition device. The developer of the iPad, Apple, finally understands what a tablet computer really is.
“I predict it will be a huge success. It will cause the same kind of mayhem among TabletPC and eBook manufacturers that the iPod and iPhone did in their respective market categories.”
Hill went from Windows to MacOS X. He doesn’t like Android, has a MacBook Pro and even his wife started working on an Apple product with the iMac. Even though it seems a little bit too amazing, Hill’s reaction on the low ppi of the iPad is something more people could have troubles with. He has some doubts about Apple’s ClearType. The iPhone has 163 ppi and the iPod nano has even 204 ppi. The iPad has only 132 ppi. Small fonts are displayed unsharp. The iPad is designed for the e-book market so it should display text in an appropriate manner.
We’ll see how things work out when the iPad is launched.
“Apple’s PR department must still have sore hands since the launch, from high-fiving each other. When was the last time the launch of a new computer made the front page of all the major newspapers – with a huge color photograph? (Answer: Never!)”
Source: Bill Hill’s Blog
