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by aroch 4654 days ago
I don't think anyone of note has said Apple will dominate the tablet market forever.
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scholia 4654 days ago
"The iPad didn’t enter the tablet market. It created the tablet market. The iPad’s role in the tablet market much more closely resembles the iPod’s role in the digital music player market a decade ago than it does the iPhone’s role in the 2008 phone market." http://daringfireball.net/2011/07/ipad_dominance

It was a popular meme among Apple fanboys a couple of years ago....

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ajross 4654 days ago
There are quotes from Gruber and Arment elsewhere in this thread that say pretty much exactly that...
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ZeroGravitas 4654 days ago
No, they said there was no such thing as a tablet market, only an iPad market.
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