Matt Gemmell on How to Compete With iPad

post from Daring Fireball on 17 February 2010 05:49:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Matt Gemmell:

It?s difficult to get our heads around the fact that these non-technologically-savvy users can suddenly constitute a core market for a device, yet that?s the case here. Nintendo saw it, and Apple sees it too. It?s an uncomfortable realisation since these people are so unfamiliar to people like you, as hardware manufacturers, and me as a software engineer. This discomfort leads to a kind of understandable blindness, and more importantly can make us leave money on the table. The relative sales and demand figures for Wii vs PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 over the last several Christmases are indicative of that.

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