On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:48:15 -0500, rwalker
wrote:


I haven't felt the need for an iPhone or an iPod, so I guess I'll skip
the iPad.

I have an iPod 80gb. I plug it into my car stereo, hang it on my belt
when I go out walking, and take it into my office. That's what makes
it so handy. iPad? Not so much. It's too big to fit in a pocket, so
unless you want the thing in your hand all the time, you have to carry
it around in a bookbag or briefcase. At $500 ($900 with reasonable
amounts of memory and 3G) no parent is going to let their kid carry it
around in his/her bookbag, and businesspeople carrying briefcases will
more likely opt for something more powerful like ever-improving
netbooks or a small laptop that have video-out, memory card slots, a
genuine keyboard, can play flash videos from the internet, and have
USB (probably 3.0 soon.) You can buy a lot of laptop for $900, so
unless you're just dying for multi-touch, why bother with the iPad?

Brian