Official iPad Thread

[LeMansX5]

Originally Posted by JCL

It doesn't have a physical keyboard, you can buy one for additional cost. And those keyboards aren't as elegant or as well-built as the iPad itself. And if you do put a keyboard on it, then you have just created a netbook, but at more than twice the price.

It isn't widescreen, it is 4:3. Widescreen is 16:9 by my definition. Turning it sideways makes it portrait or landscape, that's all.

Webcam and more memory are updates to second generation. I also have a camera expansion kit so that I can interface a camera through the Apple connection. More cost, though. We had several hundred thousand Visa points, so my iPad was free. I missed the chance to buy other toys, but it didn't result in any out of pocket cost.

Flash is one thing I miss. I don't like going to websites and seeing blank boxes. I just can't view those websites. That sucks. There aren't that many of them, but there are enough to notice.

I do own one. And I like it for what it does. But it loses in feature comparison tests with laptops, just the same way as it wins as long as you consider it a new product category, discounting previous tablets.

All IMO.

Price is definitely an issue with iPad.
The bottom line is Apple or Android or Windows, tablets are the future. That's what Windows 8 is targeting as well. I am seeing them in use more and more. I used to fill paper forms, now most places just hand you a tablet to fill form.
Will the tablets eventually replace laptops or PC? Only time will tell.

But why is it that these devices are so popular only after first Apple brings them out followed by attack of clones. We have seen with iPod, iPhone and iPad.