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Originally Posted by thatmariolover

For all of its limitations this thing is more functional than most netbooks. Particularly when you see the productivity apps available for it and consider the hardware inside.

The iWork suite has been split into three apps, Pages (Word Processor), Numbers (Spreadsheets), and Keynote (Interactive Presentations). Each of them have gotten a multitouch rewrite that actually look more functional than their desktop counterparts. $10 apiece, down from the $99 Mac OS suite.

The only reason the hardware is so cheap (and relatively, it's dirt cheap) is because Apple is manufacturing all of the components themselves. They bought a chip manufacturing plant and designed their own mobile processor, A4 as they've dubbed it. They designed the battery. They designed the OS. It's insanely snappy, has an incredible library of apps already available, and has the iTunes store in your pocket on a 10" LED IPS screen.

Also, I can see the iPad exploding in various businesses. But none moreso than the medical industry. This is the tablet that they've been waiting for. It has the speed they need, the display they need, an SDK so they can develop the apps that they need, and more importantly, it's reasonably priced.

I really don't think this is going to be a flop. It's just going to take a little time for us to really figure out everything we can do with this device.

Now that so mention it, it makes perfect sense for medical uses. My family doctor already uses a kind of tablet to check info and to write and print prescriptions.