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Be pretty hard for them to remove an existing app after stating ALL iPhone apps will work on it.
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Actually, they said
"The iPad will run almost all of the apps designed for the iPhone.". What they may have meant was all the apps EXCEPT Kindle.
I just can't see them selling books and then allowing Kindle books to also run.
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This is what killed this device for me. Any tablet I do purchase for media consumption and web surfing will have to have a camera for video chat
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Maybe for some. Personally, I have two cams, one on a monitor and one on a netbook. Never used either one even once. My guess as to why there is no camera is that they:
1) Did not want to hear folks whine when it did not work well over the crappy ATT 3G.
2) Wanted to have a feature to add if and when the 3G gets better or 4G appears
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The killer features for me would have been stylus annotation and handwriting recognition software.
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Jobs and Apple were already burned by a Stylus device - they see Stylus devices as a failure and Microsoft's experience tends to support this idea.
Overall, I like the device, not sure if I will get one - I think we will see in the next couple months what magazines and what books will show up. I can decide then.
I really like that you are not tied to a spendy data plan and can buy 3G monthly (even tho it is ATT) only when you need it. The real cost of many devices is in the monthly, not the original purchase price. Smartphones are the model here. This can save one REALLY BIG. For example, my cell phone bill is about $30 per YEAR with a prepaid voice only plan - I use free Wifi hotspots and my iPod touch for data. Maybe less than convenient but it saves me over a grand a year (enough to buy two iPads).
My biggest concern is that (I suspect) the books will be more than on the Kindle. If that is the case, I would only buy those books on the iPad that needed the (much better) graphics support. The good news is that content price competition is always good for the consumer (that would be us).