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The iPad is not a laptop killer for people who want to be productive on it. Period. If they want to make the iPad a laptop killer, they first need to make it m

• technoslut 15y ago
  >they first need to make it more like Asus's Transformer, with a keyboard dock These already exist from Zagg and Logitech. >they need to get more apps on iOS that can replace people's need for Windows apps This takes time. Hardware and software will progress to allow this.
• lukifer 15y ago
  In fairness, "productive" is highly domain-specific. If your version of that is something like reading legal briefs, or drawing free-hand sketches, or collecting survey results from passersby, an iPad could be very productive indeed.
• Oompa 15y ago
  "If they want to make the iPad a laptop killer, they first need to make it more like Asus's Transformer, with a keyboard dock" Not only does Apple actually make a keyboard dock: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC533LL/B?fnode=MTc0MjU4NjE&mco=MjM2MDgwMzI http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC533LL/B?fnode=MTc0MjU4Nj... but the iPad can also connect to a Bluetooth keyboard, which I've actually used in the past. "and second, they need to get more apps on iOS that can replace people's need for Windows apps." They've obviously released some with the iWork suite. There's also simple text editors (and more sophisticated ones, but I'm not a fan). I can easily see the iPad as a laptop killer for some.