[OSX-Users] Re: ipad?

[Nick Gibbins]

Neither fish nor fowl nor good red meat. It isn't a laptop  
replacement, it isn't an iPhone/iPod Touch replacement, it isn't a  
netbook replacement, and it isn't a replacement for ebook readers  
(like the Sony PRS505/700 or Kindle) at the size it is.

It may be that my singular lack of imagination is blinding me to to  
obvious purpose for this device, but I'm finding it hard to think of  
anything it does that isn't done better by something else.

Most of all, I'm disappointed that they've kept with the closed  
platform/AppStore model. I shouldn't have to resort to jailbreaking to  
make a computer do what it's capable of.
-- 
Dr Nicholas Gibbins

On 28 Jan 2010, at 08:47, Neil Broderick <ngb at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> does anyone have any views on the ipad?