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Originally Posted by delphidb96
You know what I see this as? A killer student device.
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Yes. At all grade levels, including college. People bring laptops to many of my college classes now, and the sound of typing is distracting, as well as the screens sticking up between students and teachers, etc. This would be much more classroom-friendly.
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Originally Posted by scottjl
yeah. i don't see the need for 3g. wifi is everywhere. maybe if i didn't have a cell phone i'd go for the 3g. but the wifi is good enough. in the worst case i can "tether" it to my iphone and use that 3g connection. count me in for a 64g wifi.. now what to do with my 2 month old sony reader touch. sigh.
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Actually, I often find myself using my laptop in a place with no wifi, so if I could afford to get an iPad, I'd probably go for the lower-cost data plan.
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Originally Posted by pilotbob
The biggest problem with this device is that it doesn't run OS X.... you can put any app on it. I assume they went with the iPod/iPhone OS because it was much lighter weight than OS X.
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I think they went with the iPhone OS because they wanted to maintain control over apps, probably for ease of support. If people can't install any old code on the machine, it's more likely to keep working. In general.
But it's a turn-off for me, too. I'd much rather be able to work directly with the OS. I'm on the command line on my MacBook Pro pretty much every day as it is.
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Originally Posted by poshm
The killer features for me would have been stylus annotation and handwriting recognition software.
It looks smart but doesn't appear to do much over and above what my iPod touch already does - well not enough to get me to press the buy button.
Love the tablet concept but I want one I can write and draw on like my Wacom drawing pad but with a full-functioning computer under the screen.
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There is handwriting recognition. See the WritePad app at the iTunes store. If you prefer, you can use something like FastFinga to record "ink" notes, and sync automatically with Evernote, where your handwriting becomes indexed and searchable.
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Originally Posted by kjk
Apparently the new SDK makes mention of the iPad camera, which means:
a) its just a mistaken reference
b) it was intended to have one but was removed, or
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I used to think I wouldn't use a camera, but since I've been using Evernote on my iPod Touch, I find that I would actually use the camera to store notes, pictures of whiteboard/blackboard contents, books or magazines I see while I'm out, etc. As a data collection tool, a camera is actually quite helpful. If the next version has one, it would come quite close to my long-coveted InfoPad.
