[OSX-Users] Re: ipad?

[Philip Boulain]

On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 14:17 +0000, Terry Payne wrote:
> Hang on, are we falling into the perennial "...it hasn't got what I
> would want so axiomatically it is crap..." type argument?  The one we
> had when the MBAir came out... oh yeah, and when the iphone gen1
> appeared?

Probably---that's why I said I didn't think it was intended to compete
with netbooks, because I don't think it /can/. (Again, the Air is a
closer match there.)

I cannot see any device you would want to *replace* with this, except
possible a pre-smartphone PDA if you decided you didn't need it to fit
in your pocket any more.

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