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1 posted on 10/22/2010 1:30:14 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Shakeout in the sector will begin next year

Probably right after Apple releases the second generation iPad.

2 posted on 10/22/2010 1:32:40 PM PDT by newheart (Please don't shoot at the thermonuclear weapons. --Vic Deakins)
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To: ShadowAce; Swordmaker

fyi


3 posted on 10/22/2010 1:34:28 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; 50mm; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; ...
Predicting the future of Tablet computing — PING!

Please!
No Flame Wars!
Discuss technical issues, software, and hardware.
Don't attack people!

Don't respond to the Anti-Apple Thread Trolls!
PLEASE IGNORE THEM!!!


Apple iPad Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

11 posted on 10/22/2010 4:15:45 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Swordmaker
Pads are reading devices, plain and simple. Folks who use the iPad a lot all say that they are gorging on newspaper and magazine content constantly on the devices. They are information junkies.... The road warriors who I talk to now... have tried to travel only with the pad computer, and most have resorted to toting both.
I don't have any interest in the iPad, it's neat, and if I traveled a lot I'd want one for the maps and light surfing. Tonight I checked out the new Air, specifically the 11" model. Keyboard is acceptable, the only difference from the 13" keyboard is the top row and cursor pad is squeezed down just a tad (not from side to side, top to bottom) I'd guess because of the need to pack the insides so tight. The screen is beautiful, but I think it might be too small for my tired old eyes. So, if I had a choice to make for travel, I'd get the Air before I'd get the iPad; and I still have a big lump in my shorts for the 17" MB Pro.

If I hit the huge-ass MegaMillions tonight, I'll be picking it up tomorrow, and probably have a horrible accident while I'm at the store and take home three or four other things, y'know, because I'm not always going to be on the road...


12 posted on 10/22/2010 7:15:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

You betcha it’ll happen! There are what, half a million of so-called apps for smartyphones and pads? Who needs them, who uses them, who pays for them, who invests in the companies who write these (mostly) games?


13 posted on 10/22/2010 7:19:31 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Dvorak doesn’t get it again, this must mean iPad is just a flash in the pan.

This is his story and he’s sticking to it, until someone other than Apple gets a viable product out there. Then, lightbulb time, a miraculous conversion in a blinding intuitive flash, to him at least.


15 posted on 10/23/2010 5:36:11 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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