It was reported to be the most important thing ever done by Steve Jobs & Apple so when the iPad was officially revealed it was like a Fat Elvis took the stage.
I was equally dismissive of the Nexus One being branded a Google phone along with being called a Super Phone, but that was more of a coming out event rather than a legend taking the stage to one up himself.
The iPhone, like Elvis, was indeed revolutionary in breaking down barriers and setting new standards which has to be admitted by all, regardless if you like either’s “music”.
As an Android advocate I respect the iPhone for what it started but believe that Android is passing it by like Elvis performing in the age of Disco.
PC World wrote earlier in the week that the iPhone itself is a Fat Elvis while Android is The Beatles.
Interestingly Elvis did snear to President Nixon that The Beatles represented a negative pop culture trend, perhaps due to their OPENNESS.
The rise of Open Sourced Android along with HTML5 & Flash threaten to undermine Apple’s peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwiches provided by the iPhone and App Store so it had to take the stage again to change the battlefield, or dinner table, to something else.
A Fat Elvis then proceeded to take the stage with high expectations & banking on previous successes while providing an underwhelming performance that was a shadow of its past.
The iPad, like Elvis ,continued to sing the same old songs like it does with AT&T & no Flash support.
Interesting that the development kit for the iPad is called iPhone SDK 3.2 but won’t actually work on its namesake, the iPhone itself.
Elvis fans like Apple fan boys will continue to overpay for anything associated with that brand and claiming others are simply impersonators all the while never believing it actually died on a toilet.
Of course this post wouldn’t be complete without the MadTV skit on the iPad about half a decade ago in 2006
