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Originally Posted by kilron
so the question is, how are we judging this? are we judging it as a multi-purpose mobile device or as an eBook reader? i don't think most people see lack of multitasking as a negative when talking about eBook readers.
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It's clearly not an e-reader. It's a multimedia tablet that had reading as one of it's function. I think e-books was the last bullet point on Apple's early slide listing it's features. As such it shouldn't be compared to e-readers. It should be judged as a multi-media tablet.
One can of course discuss how well it does with e-books, but it shouldn't be held to the same standards as a dedicated reader. It should be judged on how well it does everything that a person who wants such a device wants to do with it.
And for the earlier part of your post, of course we're all only talking about what we want/need out of a tablet device.
If most people don't need multitasking, that's fine.
For me, I want something that's basically a PC that I can comfortably hold like a legal pad and read and mark up academic PDFs, student's papers etc. And it would be nice to have the internet up at the same time to run a search related to that. To have music playing so I don't have to bring an mp3 player along with it etc.
But I'm still impressed. Nice technology and $500 for the 1st generation model is a lot lower than I expected. Now I'll just wait for them to add multitasking, stylus annotation in a later generation. Or for someone else to put out a tablet that fits my needs for a similar price in the meantime.