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Originally Posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts
I think you meant Apple?
I don't 100% agree with their tactic of the super-closed platform (my iPhone is jailbroken), and I think it indeed may come back to haunt them in the future. But so far so good for them. This iPad will trump almost all eBook reader sales from this point on, I'm pretty sure of that though. The price of the iPad is $10 more than the comparable eBook reader from Amazon (Kindle DX), and the iPad will do so much and more.
-Wayne
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If Porsche followed Apple's business model, you would not have a business.
It is funny how the world turned. Apple was THE open platform, but Jobs was peeved by the clones (The Franklin, etc). So now Apple tries to control everything. The iPad is another entry point to iTunes.
What I don't understand is why Jobs hates Netbooks so much. I mean it is a mania.
The way the iPad is structured, it is a "supplemental" device. You still have to have a main computer with which to sync your iPad. You want to put pictures from your camera on the iPad, well, you have to move them to your PC first, then over to the iPad. There is no slot on the iPad for this. There is no USB port, etc. Unless the Camera is Wifi, which is not common. I wouldn't call this a "fail" but it certainly is a "miss".
If this is basically a large size iPod, I just don't see how most people will justify the cost. Oh, well, as the Zen Master said, "We'll see."