Introducing: The Apple iPad

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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

And also yes, while you pointed out some of those very same negatives that the press has been quick to also do, in a generation or 2 Apple will find a way to improve upon it.

Will they? Because these flaws seem endemic in the design - not in the idea. The execution.

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

Now you made a statement about using Pandora and a GPS simultaneously.

The point is that multitasking is important - the iPhone can get away with it because anything beyond the 'normal' phone (the Smartphone part) is essentially value-added, because it's a phone. This is . . . not.

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

Let me also add in too...while people bemoan that right now you can't multitask, what does multitasking on a portable device do? Drains batteries and slows down performance.

... but it doesn't HAVE to, and that's my point. Why doesn't this use OS X (or really any architecture that would allow for multitasking)?

Well, the cynics would say that making it app-based means Apple gets a cut of every piece of software sold for it, regardless of distributor. I'm inclined to agree with that. It provides no value to the consumer, and is generally a pain - it's the opposite of the Apple ethos!

And that's where you're doubly wrong: I'm not an Apple hater - in fact, in a lot of ways, I'm an aficionado.

I just expected more than this. Well, not "more" - just better.

You also say that HD screens are horrible for e reading. What device have you seen has an HD screen and an e reader because I would like to see it for myself.

There's a reason why you don't see them - they performed miserably in testing, to the point where Amazon actually sponsored research to develop something completely new instead. This is not opinion - there's a lot of hard research and focus grouping.