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In the famous words of Steve Jobs “Netbooks are just cheap laptops” and “Netbooks aren’t good at anything”.
Completely not true when you think about it for two seconds. Netbooks are useful tools. They have their purpose in specific tasks that make them attractive devices: Email, writing, video, programming, things with flash…
If the iPad is supposed to be presented as this ultimate “third” device that can offer a better experience than both the iPhone and the Macbook into something that is really only unique in it’s ability to do reading, pictures, video, and web.
Oh, wait, I forgot about something, Apps.
That’s the only thing I’ve been excited about with the iPad. Hell, Apple could have done a 2 hour presentation all about how all the iPad does is let’s you create and use 10 inch large apps and not do anything else at all, and I still would be thinking about the same things. All the different App possibilities. All my excitement for the device now is for apps.
Apps was a big reason in me buying my iPhone in the first place, and I think it’ll be enough to get me to buy the iPad.
So the chances are that in six months I’ll be sitting there, typing out an essay on my iPad, less quickly than I could on my netbook, then the feelings of regret will start to flow over me for buying the iPad as I start to play Commander Keen on the beautiful 10” screen.
How else am I going to get to use 10″ tablet apps though? A Kindle?
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