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Originally Posted by Graham
I can think of many jobs outside the IT industry where people would like to be able to connect their work device quickly to an available printer or network, or plug in a DVD drive, external storage or a USB key.
Each job's appropriate portable device is somewhere on that tablet to full laptop scale, which is why I foresee a swing back towards netbooks once the market settles down and the initial rush to tablets is over.
Graham
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It depends on what the iPad turns out to be...accessory or replacement.
If it is replacement...then the iPad will evolve to care for those needs you mention above. When it came out people couldn't watch videos or play many games for lack of Flash. Things evolved and now they can.
I'd just remind people that USB ports are going to go away. CD/DVD drives too. We don't know what will replace them, or how long away that is...but it
is coming. Just as the day that 3.5" floppies went away came and went...
Printer connectivity software is evolving too. Both Google and Apple are pushing the envelope on that.