Didin't read the whole article but I'm incredibly frustrated with my iPad already. iTunes is such a pain in the ass for syncing files. I was playing around wit

Didin't read the whole article but I'm incredibly frustrated with my iPad already. iTunes is such a pain in the ass for syncing files. I was playing around with loading up some comic books for an upcoming trip. A nice directory structure of .cbr files on my computer is mangled beyond repair when turned into a flat list of files to add to a single app. The app (Cloudreaders) offers organization via tagging, but re-tagging 500 files is untenable. The iPad needs to expose itself as a USB storage device that I can drag folders onto, security sandbox be damned. No background processing is disappointing for a hacker like myself. I've been building an in-browser HTML5 audio library. MP3/M4A playback works extremely well on the iPad's Safari. Until you open a "new page" or jump out of the browser. Thankfully the current song doesn't stop playing, but no Javascript events fire so the next song can't start. I also do miss Flash for various reasons. Flash can extract waveform data from audio files to perform visualizations for example. Battery life, blah blah blah, I need a computer I can hack and script. I use Chrome and have my bookmarks synched across many computers, so Mobile Safari is a black sheep anyway. I do get in the zone on my iPad when I'm reading some PDFs or comic books, watching ABC or Netflix, or playing pinball. The size and touchscreen and battery are amazing. So it's not all bad. But it's a toy, not a real computer, and that's frustrating to a hacker like myself.