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Originally Posted by FanIn80
The iPad is not a netbook.
The iPad was never meant to be a netbook.
The iPad is not a laptop.
The iPad was never meant to be a laptop.
The iPad exists in a brand new device category that has nothing to do with netbooks or laptops.
I didn't create the thing, I'm just telling you what it is.
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When you look at prices of computing devices, you either pay for performance, or pay for size. ie, you can get the same performance in a desktop for a lot less than a comparable laptop. Or you pay a lot to get some decent performance in a phone sized device (iphone/droid/pre). If you put a iphone os onto a desktop pc, you'd be laughed at, you wouldn't charge more than a comparable desktop? A big iphone should really be cheaper than a small iphone, because it is cheaper and easier to build the same performance into something bigger. It should also be cheaper than a netbook, given that a netbook is essentially a full functioned computer in a similarly sized form factor, but with a keyboard instead of a touch screen. So the rub, is that when compared to the landscape out there, they are selling a $150 device for $500-800. But I don't underestimate Apple enthusiasts willingness to overpay for stuff, so it may be a smashing success. Apple extending their closed, locked down OS from the phone market is a bad precedent for consumers. Good thing Google has emerged as a competitor to keep them honest, and google/apple is shaping up as the new MS/Apple.
Apple seems to straddle the line of a truly innovative and creative consumer electronic company, and an all marketing/no substance company that is basically the Bose of the computing world. This device is definitely in the Bose mold.