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stan adams
TSO knows that iTouch will remain the the premier fully portable music centric mobile device -- no way you can transport the iPad as readily. The "full Apple household" will ideally have iTouch's for kids middle school or older, nano's for kids younger, iPhones for mom & dad, an iMac in the den, MBP and at least one iPad, as well as perhaps a shuffle on the low end and classic iPods.
Okay, I hear and understand this. I shan't argue with you on this point because I cannot.
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stan adams
As to the computing nature of the iPad vs other devices I really cannot imagine Apple releasing an SDK for the device, I suspect that no one will EVER be allowed to "write for the hardware", and when i think of traditional "computation / automation" type tasks I think iPad will never be well suited for those things. Even when it comes to "content creation" the iPad will likely be inferior to MBs for a long long time...
Here I cannot understand what you are talking about. Apple is issuing SDK's as we are having this exchange. It is second page news (bottom right corner) on the
Mothership. I whole heartedly disagree with you on the question of whether or not iPad will ever rival MB or MBPro. I think that in some ways it does already. For one thing, have a look at the tools available for iPhone and iPad. The
iWork Suite, nothing to sneeze at, especially not
Keynote, and
Brushes, a fair substitute for
Photoshop if your thing is creating pictures wholly from scratch. The only thing that I can see iPad hurting for is audio and database and those two categories always lag the others.
