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Not to delve into trolling, but I just went to an Apple store and tried out an iPad again. I've seen it a few times. I still recognize that it doesn't really do what I want: annotate technical and academic PDFs. The eink side of the Edge does actually do this, and at about half the cost of an iRex DR1000. The Kindle DX is out simply because it lacks Wacom input. The iPad does a reasonable job with PDFs in landscape, but it doesn't really show a full page.
Where the iPad shines is its attention to interface detail. For example, animation is a _big_ part of that, because animations are used as interface cues (rather than being flash, they are function). Multitouch and the capacitive touchscreen on that device is highly accurate compared to the edge. The onscreen keyboard is responsive in real time. Unlike the edge, doesn't _wait_ for the device when performing simple interface related tasks (though computationally intensive tasks take time).
IMO: The edge is better hardware than the iPad. But the iPad software works so.much.better. It is incredibly responsive in comparison to the edge.
This is my first experience with Android. I sincerely hope Android 2.1 is a significant leap ahead of 1.6, because this release is no competition to iPhone/iPad OS. It may offer many features that Apple restricts, but it does so at the cost of not just interface simplicity, but usability itself. Waiting ten seconds for buffered keystrokes to finally be output to the screen is simply unacceptable. Entourage should _know_ that. This product, as it sells right now, simply will not succeed in this market because the features that Entourage markets this product as having ... _don't really exist._ Not in a meaningful and usable manner.
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