OK I guess I should quantify something, I do read in portrait mode..completely escaped my mind. However I never feel I need to prop it up or set it down, it’s just fine in my bed. Thats the Asus Transformer Prime..an android tablet. I am excited about the MS Tablet because I like the idea of being able to potentially seamlessly move between my home PC, XBox 360 which I use as a media hub and media player and a portable device. That’s my hope. If it doesn’t work out no hair off my chest, but I do get worked up over what I consider either uninformed guesses or exaggerations over minor things that are actually common across every platform right now. I do know one thing my lab will definitely be looking at these for COAs, tracking, test result and dispersal. MS is the only company that had people who were able to get our scales, BioControl DNA systems and customers integrated without a hiccup.
I forgot to mention the rest of your post.
I obviously neglected the commercial and industrial usages of portrait mode for publishing and art, obviously they are using desktop solution 90% of the time and the rest of the time a lap top. Nobody I know who are writers use the iPads for that. It’s simply not that productive for the most part(and that goes across every platform right now in the tablet space)