Exactly, the desktop box era is fading, we are at yet another fork in the road.
This may be the future too:
http://gizmodo.com/5280273/hybrid-androidxp-tabletlaptop-looks-nice-has-me-confused
It's not so much the iPad itself but the idea that the iPad represents. The Amiga crowd is sounding more and more like Old Farts(tm), opposing every new idea because it doesn't have a boing ball on it...
Thats not what I am saying. I own several touchscreen devices. Just none of them by apple. I refuse to pay hundereds of extra punds for a little bit extra storage.
To get the extra 16Gb of storage on the iphone costs an extra £100 here. Thats a rip-off.
Coupled with the fact that Apple do not put what you would expect on their devices, so they can release upgrades every six months.
The Iphone is still behind on a lot of things that smarthphone users take for granted.
The Ipod has never been the best mp3 player out there, the stole creatives user interface and settled out of court.
Apple are very very very very good at selling a lifestyle, or an item as a fashion accessory, and hats of to them.
But I can't think of a single piece of hardware of theirs that there isn't a better, cheaper alternative for
