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My wife has okayed me buying an iPad. GPS is a non-negotiable requirement so a 16 gig 3G + GPS model will hopefully be gracing our living room soon. I fully ex
by watmough 16y ago
My wife has okayed me buying an iPad. GPS is a non-negotiable requirement so a 16 gig 3G + GPS model will hopefully be gracing our living room soon.
I fully expect it to largely replace my wife's MacBook.
Let's face it, like her, most of us just surf the web, write email and update our facebook and twitter statuses on our laptops and netbooks. This market will move to the touchpad computers.
- skinnymuch 16y ago"most of us" whoa there buddy, I'm sure there's a decent percentage of people at this site that do more than just that (hell I don't do any of what you say more than once a day except the first).
- jacquesm 16y ago> most of us just surf the web, write email and update our facebook and twitter statuses on our laptops and netbooks. Right. Writing email on the ipad is one of the harder things I believe (at least, without an external keyboard hooked up to it somehow), and of course we all do nothing but using facebook and twitter all day long... Really, I think the 'most of us' may be true in a general sense, but if it is addressed to the HN audience then I think you're missing the fact that 'most of us' are probably not at all like you. Like skinnymuch, above, and you, I browse quite a lot but I would feel like I'm looking at the web through a keyhole on an ipad. And forget about doing any cad work, electronics design, running an IDE and so on. Basically the ipad is great, unless you're actually working. It's a media consumption device for the most part. If media consumption is your thing, great.
- bitwize 16y agoIt's a communications device, not a productivity device. That's what Macs are for. :)