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Originally Posted by Nakor
I just think they should up the specs a bit and throw a proper OS on there. Include the app store, but also let people use other software. For example, some fiction writers might want to be able to throw Scrivener on the iPad, which isn't in the app store to the best of my knowledge. A proper OS also solves the multitasking problem in and of itself.
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See, what you are doing is trying to make the iPad something it is not intended to be. A writer should be using, for example, a full size ergonomically correct keyboard to type on, not a software keyboard or little portable bluetooth jobbie. Multitasking is not a "problem" on the iPad because for the most part, there is not a need for it. You don't multitask consumption, which is what the iPad is for. You multitask work, which is not what the iPad is for, anymore than the iPhone is for multitasking work.
You might as well be criticizing ebook readers because they don't surf the internet, and you can't watch movies, and they have a poor music file interface, and you can't adjust equalization on them, & on & on.
The iPad has the proper OS for what it is intended to do. It is a closed ecology, not an open one, and one reason is that a large portion of the prospective iPad customer base is not those who want to spend time cultivating the OS.
As for upping the specs, all that would do is up the price. My guess is that the big seller will not be the upscale 3G 64, but the 0G 16, precisely because of the price. Heck, Apple could run out of them if I'm right about this. So I'm ordering a 0G 32, in part to make sure I actually get one without much of a wait.