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I am not one of those who will be buying the first iteration of the ipad. Perhaps a future, improved one. But I am very interested to see what will happen during the first 3 months after launch. I have read that about 15-30% of ipod and iphone owners are interested. Which is, of course, a huge number. But my guess is a lot of them will be sitting on the sidelines at the start and watching actual reviews and customer responses. I would be very surprised if it is a huge success after 3-6 months. Apple made a lot of compromises in this version. Through all the hype, a lot of people may not realize that now.
Of course the iPad is not aimed at heavy readers, the reader functionality is just incidental. It is not expensive, but $500 is quite a lot for a gadget with so many limitations that is not doing anything that other devices cannot. Let us see how great the buying publics' gadget lust is.
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