An important point is being missed: That Apple has done a rather good job dragging the incumbents out of their slumber. They did it with the laptops, they did it with the iPod, they did it with the iPhone. You only have to look at the field of imitations to see that this is true. iPad? Why of course this is the netbook done right! No need to take bets on how long before others pile in (with, yes, more openness, multitasking, etc.). For me this is the most important aspect of this thing. At first I'd also taken the whats-the-point view. But the more I think about it... I think the walled garden will disappear soon enough, so will the multi-tasking limitations (iPhone/iPad OS 4.0)... The competition is going to force it on them. And yet Apple will still prove able to out-design them all (just look at the field of iPhone wannabes).
So yes, my analyst (if I had one) would recommends BUY! :) P. On Apr 02, 2010, at 12:25, Christopher Nambale wrote: > > Well it should care for their thoughts at the very least, considering that OS > X and Iphone OS borrow their core from the open source Freebsd community. > > Granted some of Apples products are brilliantly engineered and > groundbreaking, however, isn't this whole Apple worshiping thing going a bit > too far?Well I guess the tech sector has its high fashion supplier now. > > CN > > --- On Fri, 4/2/10, Mwirima Byaruhanga <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Mwirima Byaruhanga <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [LUG] The 5 best excuses for not buying an iPad > To: "Linux Users Group Uganda" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, April 2, 2010, 3:55 AM > > > Free software proponents fought hard to give choice back to the > > people > > unfortunately for the free software proponents (and > fortunately for apple), they are not apple's target > market and apple couldnt care less about their dime > or thoughts > > eb > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- >
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