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Originally Posted by CyGuy
If you own a Windows 7 computer, you can find applications from a million different sources. If you own an iWhatever, you have one source for applications. The mystery to me is how can so many people fall for that? Having the hardware locked to installing only "approved" applications allows them to dictate what you can or can't install, and set the price to whatever they want. How/why would anyone fall for that?
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Lol! Really your comments are amusing.
I own a Windows Vista Computer which I built myself (and which I will be upgrading to Windows 7). I have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. I used to be a mid-manager of a thirteen programmer development team for a retail web site. Allow me to explain how the process works.
You find yourself a bit 'tech shy' at some point in your life. In my case I have no smart phone and my laptop has died (which is fine as I no longer travel). Reading eBooks on my Palm TX - tired of that, the heck with it even, it was a miserable experience (to me).
So you hear about the upcoming release of numerous eReader capable devices in the year 2010. Having professional experience in your past you put together your List of Requirements. I did this.
So I have a List (created BEFORE the marketing folks show up, mind you) and I am trying to ferret out specifications for the ASUS devices - looks like one or more will be a good fit! Then Apple comes out with the iPad and what do you know....
Battery Life - check
Weight - check
Web Browser - check
eMail (was classified as 'icing', not a requirement) - check
and so on down the list...
not locked in to a carrier - check
So you purchase technology according to your requirements, pretty simple process.
If YOUR list of requirements is YOU need a Netbook, then don't purchase the iPad. I have no need of a Smart Phone, I have no need of a Netbook. The iPad fits my needs.
The only way the iPad can be a mismatch to my List of Requirements right now would be if Apple were to tell me that 100% of my iPad eBooks have to come from Apple - and that question will be answered one way or the other in sixty days.