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Originally Posted by =X=
I personally don't like the direction the Tablet industry is going. Tables have a real potential of being productive devices, much like the courier. But the industry is content on making these devices nothing more than toys by putting a sub par OS on them (read mobile phone OS)
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Yep, that's two things that bother me about recent tablet annoucements.
Phone OSs, and tending to have 16x9 screens and 5-9" screens--bad ratio and size for working with A4 sized documents which is my main need.
The OS issue I can get around. The only real problems I have with the iPad OS is lack of a user accessible file system (like windows explorer etc.), files mostly only accessible to one App due to lack of central location for document files, lack of drag and drop in windows, lack of USB ports etc.
I'd think all that could be done in a Android or WebOS based tablet. And give the advantage of having the speed, slickness (built from ground up for touch use) and battery life of the iPad by not running a full PC OS.