[Air-L] why iPad

Barry Wellman wellman at chass.utoronto.ca
Thu Jul 15 15:07:20 PDT 2010


After all the hype, I can't figger out why someone (even at Duke) would 
use an iPad rather than a netbook for their research. Sounds like kewl won 
over functionality. If I'm taking notes, I'd rather have a real keyboard. 
If I'm doing other stuff, I'd rather have the plethora of applications 
running on Win7/XP or MacOX than on the little apps running on iPods and 
iPhones with their baby OS. -- I've been using the iPhone 3GS for months 
now as a pocket phone etc and am continually frustrated on what it can't 
do.
End iRant. End PodHype

  Barry Wellman
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