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Touch screens and stylus screens can be useful for handling icons and other “mousy” tasks, however to me there’s nothing better than the good old keyboard for entering text.
Carrying it around might be cumbersome. It won't fit on your belt, and if it needs to go in your briefcase you might as well take a laptop. Maybe a shoulder-holster for it?
I could learn to type one-handed on such a device. I already use my iPod Touch for most of what I used to use a laptop for. My laptop has been demoted from primary Internet device to secondary. Specialized apps on my iPod Touch handle most of my Internet based tasks, and whatever task doesn’t have an iPod/iPhone app equivalent can be accessed via Apple’s web browser, with the exception of java and flash based web apps, but vendors are slowly and surely releasing iPhone/iPod app versions.
There is one thing you can be sure of - if Apple does come out with a tablet you can bet it is part of a larger plan, a piece of a larger puzzle. Most competitors see only the pieces but never the puzzle until Jobs puts it together for them.
I can’t remember being more anxious for an Apple product to be released than this one.
I am wondering if they won’t use one of the new OLED screens. Imagine what Jobs and company could do with a screen that could be folded. Maybe you would carry the tablet around in a tube and just unroll it to use it.