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Originally Posted by nostatic
v3 of the iPad will kill. Apple historically gets v1 about 80% right, then dials it in from there.
HP slate will be a non-event. It's the OS, not the hardware.
You can't have your cake and eat it too. Apple devices have become a closed platform because that's how they ensure a consistent user experience. It certainly has downsides, but I can't really complain about my iPhone, or my last couple MacBookPros. In fact I don't even own a desktop computer anymore. I do everything (including video editing) on my MBP.
I'm still waiting to see how the iPad shakes out. I am beginning to see a place for an eReader in my life, and the prospect of being able to resize text and have some degree of notation and interactivity makes it worthwhile to me. We're also moving a lot of our training content to the iTouch because that (handheld device) frankly is how you're going to learn/train over the next decade or so. Buh bye, textbooks and printed manuals...
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I expect you are right. Except that the iPhone STILL doesn't have any removable storage. One of the things I've been doing for years with my old Lifedrive was keep movies on SD cards. To watch different movies, I swapped in a different SD card. No need to find a PC to synch. Also, if I wanted to off load photos from a Camera SD card, pop it in and move the pictures to the internal storage.
Add an SD slot, a USB port at least. Add a front mounted web cam, maybe a mic. I could see this as a power portable system for SKYPE. This is how this could expand far beyond a reader.
It definitely has potential. Seems over priced for what it can do.