[OSX-Users] Re: ipad?

[m.c. schraefel]

i still miss the newton - or what might have been an iSlate, as in with pen.

mc

At 09:30 +0000 on 28/1/10, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:


>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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