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Originally Posted by scottjl
ok. there have been plenty of MID type devices which have been around, but none of them have been breakaway successes. why?
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It's not the ecosystem, because the iPod was a success before iTunes and iPhone was a success BEFORE the App Store came along, it was mostly branding (with a dash of pricing - an the American inability to discern total costs in the face of subsidy that doesn't happen in the rest of the world for the iPhone).
For the iPad it WILL be the ecosystem (which I acknowledge above before your post), but you missed my point which wasn't "The iPad offers you nothing over MIDs" but that "People are largely deceiving themselves as to why they want the iPad specifically." If it's for couch surfing, toilet reading, etc. all of that functionality exists in MIDs (which by the way will work with iTunes for media, remember it's a standalone cross platform media player/organizer/store that can run independently on a desktop just fine).
If it's for the app store, and Apple brand, the the iPad is your only choice but very few declare that as why they want or need the iPad. So it's a case of Apple telling them, "This is what the iPad can do." and them saying, "Oooh, I want that." NOT people saying, "This is what I want to do" FIRST and "Oooh, MIDs can do that... and so can the iPad."