isnt part of the charm of owning comics that you actually own them? like baseball cards? who wants virtual baseball cards or comics? not me. it is a solution to a problem i do not have.
Well, that's the thing, isn't it? The iPhone has thousands of apps and the iPad will soon have thousands. The apps are the key. Apple developed the first PDA with the Newton 20 years ago but then strangely dropped it just when companies like Palm and Compaq were starting to selling million of them. But Apple was looking ahead to the iPod and later to the iPhone and realized that Palm devices with a limited number of hardwired functions were soon going to go the way of the calculator. In a year there will be apps for the iPad to do almost anything. There will be one laying on your couch because it will soon kick the ass of any universal remote control and integrate your computer, video, and audio systems and be infinitely upgradable to control new devices.
You are misinformed. They are all collectible, and the 80-20 rule applies to each. 80 percent of them are mass-produced junk. 20 percent have collectible value. The key is being shrewd enough to know the difference, which is not easily acquired. Those with keen knowledge acquire the valuable pieces only. The other 80 percent (paperbacks, junk novels, MP3-quality downloads, etc) can be recycled or kept virtually. The iPad will be handy for this, perhaps.
:huh: The iPad isn't going to magically sprout an infrared transmitter unless they add one in the next revision. Like it or not, most home theater equipment isn't networked and even the ones that are don't support remote commands over the network (with few exceptions), so I don't see the universal remote possibility taking off for a long time. The iPad is not a Harmony remote.
I would think you would need a rugged version for a doctors office. I am skeptical of its use in such an environment, seems to be a toy more than a real device you want to put in a office for daily-constant use. But maybe it could work, would need to play with it. The bright lights are going to play havoc with the touch screen in a doctors office. And most apps used by doctors will probably not be compatible with iPad. They pay alot of money to put in applications in offices, and most of them are windows based from my experience.
the ipad will not control this market the way they have controlled the mp3 player market. they dominated phones for a couple years but i see that reign ending now as more android phones come out. if the tablet pc market is big, and i dont think it will be as big as people thinnk, then i think apple will be just a part of it, not the dominator like it is with ipod. there are already android and linux based tablets on the way, and they will be more open and have thousands of apps as well. and people really do need a keyboard to get any real work done.
