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Originally Posted by Charbax

Pixel Qi is designed to be mass manufactured according to demand from day one. If Apple puts a billion dollars on the table, you can be sure Pixel Qi would deliver just as many screens they need.

do you think apple in no way considered the Qi? i would think apple considered every alternative and there had to be some reason they went with the screen they did. they didn't just throw a dart a board and see what screen it hit.

During the next few months, several other companies can unveil $200 10" Tablets that run 50 hours on a battery, that are actually readable using Pixel Qi screen technology, and that will be able to multi-task and do all the other much better things that Android does so well and that will only do even better for higher resolution larger screens.

the nice thing about technology is there is always something else coming out 6 months down the road. how long do you wait before you actually make a purchase? i could be using my iPad for lots of things for the next 6 months while you wait on the possibility that other manufacturers might announce a device, and wait longer for it to actually ship.

The ipad will not sell more than the Apple TV, if you want to call that a failure or not, I dunno. That's still potentially a few million devices, it's just not going to revolutionize anything.

can you give me winning lottery numbers too? you have no facts to back up this statement.

Music is better on a pocketable device, video is better on the HDTV, web browsing is better on the laptop. A 10" Tablet can only be good if it is good for reading. If you are the type at all that enjoy reading and eventually taking notes on A4 sized pages.

hmm. i seem to remember lots of boomboxes selling in the 80's that wouldn't fit into anyone's pocket. a lot of video looks just fine on standard definition tv (just ask netflix, they don't even stream hdtv and their president just gave a ton of excuses why). who says web browsing is better on a laptop? you? ok. that's your opinion. i certainly wouldn't mind not having a heavy, hot laptop sitting on my lap while i'm surfing and reading news lying in bed.

Apple prides itself (and by its legion of fanboys) for being an innovating company, which means that Apple should be one of the companies pushing new technologies into the market. I just don't find them innovating at all if they don't push the market forward using Pixel Qi screen technology.

ok. so apple. just because they don't use a screen that you seem to be a fanboy of, is a failure? i don't see any other company coming out with a device capable of what the iPad will be able to do, with the media (music, video, applications, and books) available on day one, in the next 60 days. i'd say apple sure is pushing some new technology into the publics hands and they stand to make a boatload of money off of it.

Let's use Android Tablets instead. Full Flash 10.1 support in Android is imminent. No reason Android Tablets can't do as much if not much more than the ipad.

here's one good reason. no one has one for sale.