This diverges quite a bit from my gripes about it. Its closed nature is one
part. We've covered that. The second part is its place as a product period.
Its a seriously deficient solution to a problem I can't even validate.
Lets take netbooks. When the original EEe PC came out it had an SSD, no
optical drive, was something you could fit in a purse (thinking women here),
and still offered more than a phone's computing power and could do a lot of
really practical things. And were CHEAP. Today their screens are getting
incrementally larger, there are now ones claiming the title with optical drives
and the price point is just about the same as a "laptop". This market segment
is coming into question.
Cell phones can already outright replace dedicated GPS & MP3 players. They
encroach on netbooks for minor web usage. Anything more then minor and netbook
looks a lot better.
Laptops and some netbooks devalidate stand-alone portable DVD players.
Get too big a netbook and you'd be better off with a laptop.
Its all about positioning. This is where I have yet to find any place the iPad
validates its existance on. Keep in mind this is 500$ USD to START.
Andrew
> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:14:30 -0500
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [MLUG] Us-things
>
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 01:51:34PM -0500, Andrew Oulton wrote:
> > A web browser without flash? USELESS.
>
> I beg to differ.
>
> > As a picture frame? Made less
> > convenient for having no SD card input. This would have been cool for
> > truly portable iChat video-conferencing. NO CAMERA. **WTF** No optical
> > drive. Liveable, but no USB to connect any aforementioned tools even if
> > you wanted to. This is like the lowest level of accessibility one could
> > imagine these days.
>
> Look: if you don't like the iPad, just don't buy it. That's not the
> issue here. We don't care if you don't like the iPad, a lot of people
> don't like marshmallows and we don't hear them complaining. ;)
>
> The issue is that it's a trend Apple is starting and propagating, and
> that trend is threathening, because everybody is likely to follow suit
> and create closed devices instead of proper, generic and open hardware.
>
> A.
>
> --
> Le pouvoir n'est pas à conquérir, il est à détruire
> - Jean-François Brient, de la servitude moderne
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