Ummm...what? Businesses other than Apple stores would have to be out of their fucking minds to tie any part of their business-flow to a device that is as locke

Ummm...what? Businesses other than Apple stores would have to be out of their fucking minds to tie any part of their business-flow to a device that is as locked down as the iPad. Maybe if apple decided to change their licensing and it screwed up something that Lockheed Martin or IBM was doing, apple would help them out...but me? With my 200 employees? Sorry, Ryan! Here's a $5 iTunes gift card! I do not understand this fixation people have with the iPad mattering to manufacturing/warehousing people. We have solved this problem many many many many times over. Intermec, Symbol, Zebra, and Toughbook are the name of the game, have been for 15 years, and will be for the foreseeable future. If I can't drop the device from 4 feet onto a concrete warehouse floor or parking lot over and over and over and over again, all day, every day...then it is useless to me and nearly everybody else in the manufacturing/warehousing industry. If apple pulls the stick out of their butt about user-replaceable batteries, opens the thing from a technical standpoint, and builds a rugged version of it...then maybe (hey, they could call it a toughbook!), until then, it's going to remain something that hip kids with more money than sense show to their friends and something that technophiles use to read their email while sitting on their terrace and drinking wine.