Poll: 20% of Apple Fans Will Buy the Tablet “Sight Unseen”

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Poll: 20% of Apple Fans Will Buy the Tablet “Sight Unseen”

More than 20% of Apple fans would buy the upcoming tablet “sight unseen,” according to a poll by 9to5Mac.

That’s a pretty big number, given that the tablet might turn out to be a Jobsian brainfart like the Cube.

But then again, Apple does have a great record of innovative products.

The majority of 9to5Mac readers say they’ll likely buy the tablet (33%), but wait until they see it before parting with their cash.

Only 6% of the 7,454 voter said they wouldn’t buy the tablet.

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Leander Kahney

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  • Mattzook

    I would not buy it sight unseen. I first need to see if the tablet’s features are actually things I would find useful for me personally. But as an Apple product, I would given it a serious consideration… and the benefit of the doubt.

  • Mattzook

    I’m 100% certain that Steve Wozniak will buy two of the Apple tablets sight unseen.

    And then suddenly Woz will start to ignore and forget that he ever purchased that Nexus One.

  • Gazoobee

    If you think the cube was a “Jobsian brainfart” then you have zero credibility so why should I care what you think?

    Either you read everything you think you know about the cube on a wiki somewhere, or you are just plain old biased.

  • Allan

    I’ll certainly have a good, long look at it, but unless I can see how it would replace my laptop, I doubt I’ll buy one.

  • ged

    When I used the first ipod touch it was thrilling!
    I just bought my first one (64GB) and I hardly ever use it.
    I love my old ipod nano (2nd gen).
    When I first saw the Macbook air it took my breath away, but I can’t imagine using one all the time, as the MB pro is so much better in terms of total functionality.

    On a related point, the new 27″ iMac core i7 is amazing!

  • itskaye

    I would buy it but I have to go to the store and play with it first.

  • Sean Peters

    The majority of 9to5Mac readers say they’ll likely buy the tablet (33%), but wait until they see it before parting with their cash.

    Umm, what? 33% is not a majority, I’m sorry to inform you.

  • http://hucbald.blogspot.com/ Hucbald

    “That’s a pretty big number, given that the tablet might turn out to be a Jobsian brainfart like the Cube.”

    Yeah, I’m in that 21%… and I have three Cubes, a late ’05 G5, an original 400MHz G4 tiBook, a 1.67GHz 17″ PowerBook, my second iPhone, a 32GB 3GS, my second iPod, a 5th gen video iPod… oh, and a Newton 120.

    You are a serious knot-head.

  • Cal

    You bought three Cubes? Sucker.

  • Poppa
  • Phil

    How many of those 20% are devs…

  • http://cultofmac.com Leander Kahney

    @ Gazoobee The Cube was one of Jobs’ rare missteps; perhaps the only big one in the last decade.

    It was an exercise in form over function. Its design trumped practical considerations, like who was designed for?

    It was too pricey for ordinary consumers, who were happier buying iMacs. And it couldn’t be expanded with PCI cards and the like, which eliminated the pro market.

    Add the cracking case issue –a legacy of the two-shot mold injection process, new at the time — and it bombed.

    Apple learned a lot from it though, especially how to pack internal components, paving the way for the Mac Mini, the Cube’s successor.

  • Charli

    will i line up on release day, place a pre-order etc.

    not based on ‘we are doing a tablet and here’s the price’. which to me is the true ‘sight unseen’

    based on “we are doing a tablet and here’s how it is going to work and what it does. and here’s the price”, if I like what all those details are, even without putting my hands on one. yeah, probably. Apple hasn’t let me down yet (not even with the 12 27 inch imacs that have passed through my hands)

    although perhaps not first day. I know my local area and how nutty the folks are. but the second or third day. if the lines are wrapped around the mall.