“What does the iPad have in common with Harry Potter? Quite a lot it turns out,” Josh Lowensohn and Jim Kerstetter write for CNET. “It’s got legions of fans eager to line up for it, lose sleep over it, and even skip work to be the first to get their hands on it. And of course there are those that detest it entirely.”
“I’m not going to call CEO Tim Cook a wizard, say there will be an eight-part movie series, or focus on the company’s use of the word ‘magic’ to draw this comparison out even further. But I will say that few products have brought this kind of appeal, and fewer still have done it more than once,” Lowensohn and Kerstetter write. “Yet with the third (and assuredly not final) iPad, Apple’s managed to do it again. yesterday’s launch, which brought lines at Apple’s stores and third-party retailers around the world, is an affirmation of that.”
“It started with the iPod and continued through to the iPad: Apple leaped from the tech product cycle and into the cultural landscape, and it’s done a remarkable job at staying there,” Lowensohn and Kerstetter write. “With that said, there remains the question of when these line-filled launches will peak or hit an end entirely. Using the iPod as a precedent–a product that never caused lines, but boosted Apple’s bottom line and gave it a foothold into the consumer consciousness–it’s clear that what’s hot now can be less hot later.”
“I’m not going to call CEO Tim Cook a wizard, say there will be an eight-part movie series, or focus on the company’s use of the word ‘magic’ to draw this comparison out even further. But I will say that few products have brought this kind of appeal, and fewer still have done it more than once,” Lowensohn and Kerstetter write. “Yet with the third (and assuredly not final) iPad, Apple’s managed to do it again. yesterday’s launch, which brought lines at Apple’s stores and third-party retailers around the world, is an affirmation of that.”
“It started with the iPod and continued through to the iPad: Apple leaped from the tech product cycle and into the cultural landscape, and it’s done a remarkable job at staying there,” Lowensohn and Kerstetter write. “With that said, there remains the question of when these line-filled launches will peak or hit an end entirely. Using the iPod as a precedent–a product that never caused lines, but boosted Apple’s bottom line and gave it a foothold into the consumer consciousness–it’s clear that what’s hot now can be less hot later.”
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