Richard Anderson on the impending doom of the iPad1:

Thin, light, and long battery life will only go so far unless someone has a reason to reach for their tablet over their personal computer.

Emphasis mine.

iOS + big screen.

That's the reason why I reach for my iPad over my iMac. Maybe you see iOS as a hindrance. I prefer it to OS X for many things. While working at my iMac, I often reach over for my iPad to do certain things quickly.

I'm not an analyst. I don't give a crap whether Apple sells 12 million iPads or 90 million iPads. As long as they sell enough so that they keep making new iPads, the rest isn't important to me.

  1. Technically the piece is about the impending doom of the tablet, but you and I both know that's just code for the iPad. ↩