[OSX-Users] Re: ipad?

[Christopher Gutteridge]

I predict it will be the obvious product placement item in many films 
this year, showing hip people using them in everyday situations...

JD Marsters wrote:
> On 28/01/2010 09:09, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
>   
>> I can see them being used by businesses who want their traveling staff
>> to have more flash than a rugged-ised laptop.
>>     
> So they'll have more flash but less Flash? :-)
>
>   
>> It looks classier than a phone or laptop; I can totally imagine it
>> being used by people like wedding planners and Maître d's.
>>
>> It fills the same niche as a clipboard.
>>     
> Zing!
>
>   
>> Neil Broderick wrote:
>>     
>>> ...
>>> My initial impression is that I would rush out and
>>> buy one if it was running OS X or a similar operating system in which
>>> I could do what I wanted
>>> but not if it is just a large iphone without the ability to make
>>> phone-calls (or have a GPS chip).
>>>       
> So it has a microphone but no phonecallability? Are we to expect a
> flurry of interest in skype-like apps, then?
>
> JD
>   

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