iPad vs Netbook

[famousringo]

invetedlotus123 said:

famousringo said:
For me, the iPad is less about fighting netbooks and more about lowering barriers to computing. The iPhone OS model is extremely reliable both in terms of being resistant to malware and user incompetence. The touchscreen interface is even more comfortable, intuitive and elegant than the venerable mouse.

Believe it or not, there are a lot of people who still don't use computers, or hate them as they use them. They get confused by something as fundamental as a file system, which the iPhone OS hides away from sight. They just want the computer to get the hell out of the way so that they can do what they want to do with it, and this is something that the iPhone OS strives to achieve.

It's far from certain, but the iPad might actually do for computing what the DS and the Wii did for gaming.

Windows already did it.

Yes it did. Just as there were other key consoles that expanded the gaming market before the Wii came along and blew things up even bigger.

Who knows, maybe MS will cook up a way to co-opt the iPad just as they slashed Windows licensing fees to co-opt netbooks before Linux could establish itself in that market. But if anybody's going to steal Apple's thunder on this one, I think it's going to be Google. Android is much more competitive with iPhone OS than any of Microsoft's platforms for the next year or so.