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Originally Posted by stustaff
so when you said the iPad is 'one of many' and I said name me 2 your response was 2 unavailable future devices and some 'better' devices that arent the same at all.
I gave you such a simple brief too, if its one of many name me a device similiar and you couldnt even name one!
thats why iPad will sell(has sold) so well have any of those better devices sold 300,000 in one day? advertising is part of that but for the people who are buying them they dont want an XYZ that may come out in 6 months and they dont want a higher powered tablet with keyboard.
they want an iPad type device and there arent any others out there!
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Indeed, there aren't any good alternatives I can think of right now either. Pretty much everything I've seen in the last...ever...has been crippled by things like shoddy software, terrible touch interface, extraordinarily poor battery life, excessive heft/thickness, heat problems, or any combination of the above.
Apple managed to make a reasonably quick and smooth device that has pretty nice touchscreen integration, pretty good software and support, and a very reasonable form factor with very acceptable battery life. I've not seen all or even most of those features come together in any other tablet device.
I have decided to not bother with an iPad for now because it still has too many little quirks that accumulate and add up to a no-go for me, but despite just being a bigger iPod Touch, it's also the best basic tablet computer I've ever seen. I've seen cooler
concepts (like Courier) and even promising
prototypes (like Adam), but I haven't seen any better real products. I look forward to Tegra 2 stuff, and I hope there are some awesome products that flesh out this usage paradigm, which netbooks and smartphones are not completely adequate for in my opinion. They aren't here yet though, and there's no promise of them being good when they
do arrive.