[Air-L] why iPad
Ben Moskowitz
benrito at gmail.com
Thu Jul 15 15:10:53 PDT 2010
Amen!
On Jul 15, 2010, at 6:07 PM, Barry Wellman wrote:
> 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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