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Originally Posted by lifevicarious
I don't understand your list above. Other then logging into work where I can understand you would need a netbook, why can't the ipad do the rest of these things? You can get work e-mail (assuming your company allows it) and with a larger keyboard, or better yet hte external keyboard, you should be able to respond just as quickly.
As for hulu, isn't that just through a browser? iPad has Safari so not sure why it won't work on that. I know netflix doesn't work now but I'm sure it will soon.
There is a SD attachment so you can move photos to it.
As for ebooks, I don't understand what you mean by scrolling on your touch. You do know you can just tap the side of the screen and change pages right? You do NOT need to "swipe" across. It's the same action as a Kindle except no button.
And your stock trades, aren't those via browser as well? All mine are and there are plenty of brokerage apps already available for the itouch and iphone. I can only see them getting more sophisiticated with a more powerful machine and more screen real estate to use.
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Yes, I think the external and larger virtual keyboards are a real benefit to the iPad. It takes forever on the iPod Touch for me to reply to email.
Hulu is flash based. As far as I know, no plans to get it to work on the current iPhone platform.
On the iPod Touch, a lot of the user interfaces on various apps involve scrolling. For email, I have to scroll down to see older messages and to continue to read messages. Tapping on the Kindle app works fine. You're totally right on that. The iPad real estate should help lots here. I'm just saying that for me, I probably wouldn't use a netbook or iPad to replace my kindle. Other than book price (moot with Kindle app for US customers) I find the battery life the next most desirable feature, followed by how easy it is to hold.
Maybe what I'm waiting for for stock apps is a slightly more industrial browser or a larger keyboard. It's true that there's plenty of apps and mobile sites already available. I crash safari on the touch at least once a month, though... not what I'd want to deal with in relation to money transactions. That is independent of the iPad, more dependent on the OS.
SD card wise, it's great that there's a adapter. Hopefully multi-tasking will be available so people can do something else while waiting for photos to copy over. Also an OS issue.
I guess I need VPN and remote desktop apps
Then I could access desktops and it'd really be a useful device for me.