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Originally Posted by drachasor
Watching video requires finding it at least. Facebook and Twitter are types of social networking, and a LOT of people that use those also input data, which the Ipad won't be good at. Honestly, the internet is becoming more and more interactive, and in this world the Ipad is shockingly lacking in input capability.
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On screen keyboard is fine for that, and I just use the same handful of sites so once it's bookmarked that's fine. 99% of my web browsing is done with book marks. I hardly every type and url. That or type one or two words into google to find a site--again the onscreen keyboard will be fine for that. Should be quicker than texting on a non-QWERTY keyboard phone, and people my age and younger (and older for that matter) do plenty of that every day!
I also do very little text input on Facebook. I mainly read people's updates, play games like Mafia Wars etc. that's are just clicking. Even if I do comment on someone's status etc., it's just few words which again the onscreen keyboard can handle.
You're acting like people will buy this instead of a laptop or PC. That's not the case, it's a supplemental device. I'll ALWAYS have a laptop provided by work and/or a personal one as well.
The tablet would be a supplemental device used for marking up documents, reading, browsing the net on the couch (maybe lack of keyboard will be a good thing and keep me from wasting so much time on forums like this one!) etc., with the laptop used for actual computing.
Again, I get that tablets aren't for you. That's fine. Now get out of the iPad threads and leave the discussion to people who have some level of interest in the iPad or tablets in general who are discussing the actual pros and cons of the iPad--not just bitching about why they don't have any interest in Tablets period. That adds nothing to the discussion.
People know what tablets can and can't do. We know the limitation of not having a keyboard. You pointing that out over and over is nothing more than a "no shit Sherlock) annoyance. We all know this won't be a text entry device.
It's device inbetween a phone/pda and laptop/netbook for those of us who need such a device and have plenty of disposable income for owning a slew of gadgets for specific needs.