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Death of Mac OS X premature

May 28, 2010 9:28AM PDT

Just how do you think all these iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch/new AppleTV apps are going to be made? They aren't going to be written on an iPad. You'll always need a OS X to create the apps for these products. I wouldn't count OS X out yet. It's still gonna be around for a long time.

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I agree
May 28, 2010 11:31PM PDT

Even discounting everything else. The gorilla arm problem will ensure that we'll always need mouse/keyboard computers, unless people are willing to settle with nothing larger than 10" screens. And even 10" is some what pushing it, with the ergonomic problems of holding the iPad, it's fairly heavy for an object of it's size.
Additionally, you just can't ask everyone to happily do all their computing on such a close and controlled OS as the iPhone OS. Where's the unix terminal!
Well the problem is not really the iPhone OS, it's really the same as the desktop OS X, just running a different windowserver. Aka, springboard, and it's capable of just as much as the full desktop OS X. The problem is the artificial limitations placed on it by Apple's policies.

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It reminds me of the predictions
May 29, 2010 2:11AM PDT

that web apps are going to kill desktop applications. It might make for a great headline but it just isn't true.

I love my iPad but a desktop or laptop replacement it is not. Its great for consumption of media and light web browsing. There is probably a small demographic that would find that satisfactory as a primary computer but the rest of us still need to get some real work done. Likewise, there is probably a demographic that can get by on Google Docs but that does not constitute an big threat to MS Office's dominance ion the workplace.

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Death of Mac OS X premature
May 29, 2010 8:00AM PDT

Yes until the can bring down the prices of the iPad to the same and the netbooks.

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It's around the price of a netbook already...
May 29, 2010 8:48AM PDT

Lets say... this one?
http://www.amazon.com/Seashell-1201N-PU17-BK-12-1-Inch-Black-Netbook/dp/B002ZLOR56/ref=sr_1_30?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1275173100&sr=8-30
Or this 3G one.
http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-10-1-Inch-Booklet-3G-White/dp/B003FSTC76/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1275173130&sr=8-1

I think the iPad is actually very cheap for what it is. One imagines if Sony did the same product it would probably start at like $1000.
Still, I'm not getting one, it overlaps too much with my laptop and iPhone to be worth it to me.
But then I'm not getting a netbook or a kindle either for similar reasons.