It amuses me to read some of these comments about items such as the IPAD.. OF COURSE Amiga fans aren't impressed by the IPAD... We spend our time tweaking the guts of our OSes and editing config files and such. I have no doubt that most Amigaphiles as well as most Heavy Gamers and most power users will look at the IPAD with disdain... This does not however, mean that there is no market for it. The following folks are going to snatch these things up.
1) Elderly. They HATE computers due to the complexity. They want their machine to simply WORK. They couldn't care less about the power or anything else. (Like a friend of mine used to tell me.. Don't give me all the sorted details, just dial tone. When I pick up the phone I don't care how it works, it just gives me a dial tone.)
2) Casual surfers. I have tested the Ipad and for things like surfing, youtube, facebook, email... It is SWEET. Easy to use, no long boot times, just touch the screen and it works. (MANY people hate mice and the trackballs and trackpads suck. Hell I HATE trackpads myself.)
3) Gamers.. Especially younger gamers that aren't interested in simulations that have entire keyboard overlays to play. This thing will become a force in the gaming community for simpler, cheaper games than Nintendo, PS3 and Xbox. A new gaming niche.
And finally, I know you guys all hate this thing, but after using one I will tell you one thing.. Don't let your wife/girlfriend use one or you will never get it out of their hands... For all the reasons I stated above. Girls LOVE this thing and will sit in bed, outside on the porch or in the coffeeshop, wherever surfing their cute little asses off...
Hard to believe guys, but there ARE other markets out there beyond us power users and Apple is going to get filthy rich selling to them...