| NJ5 said:
But how can you do any useful work without multitasking? At the very least you should be able to run a browser and word processing software simultaneously.
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The need for multitasking is mitigated by save states. My phone takes about two seconds to quit a text editor and launch the browser. Once you've copied the text that you're looking for, it takes a couple more seconds to get back to the text editor, which launches at exactly the place you left it. Not quite as fast as alt-tabbing, but the effect is much the same.
This does fall apart if you want to monitor an IM or some other communication software while you work.
Oh, and I never answered your point that Apple could have built the iPad for both Mac OS X and iPhone OS software. Really, doing both is just choosing the Mac OS path, since you have an iPhone emulator on your Mac if you have an iPhone dev kit. The result would be a schizophrenic user experience which would discourage development designed specifically for a touch interface. It would also be following in the footsteps of every failed tablet design of the past decade and pitting the iPad againt Apple's MacBook, which was actually Apple's fastest growing product line last quarter.
I'm not sure how much of a market there is for a less portable, more useable media device between the pocket and the laptop, but the more I think about it, the more I think Apple made the right move by not simply trying to chop the keyboard off a laptop.
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