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* Multi-user

* Flash (I browsed the Bowmore whiskey site on my iPad last night... I still hit this occasionally - http://www.bowmore.co.uk/ )

* The chance of getting some native Google apps from the Chrome appstore

* Perhaps a chance to break the dependence on iTunes for updates (just give me OTA already and don't require a link to a computer)

* Chrome Sync so your tabs, passwords, bookmarks go with you

Hell, I'd want it for most of the above. Though I'm growing dependent on the Twitter app for iPad (thankfully the site is catching up fast) and also Flip Board (which doesn't yet have a HTML5 version or Chrome version.

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Multi-user?

Yes.

Screenshot: http://f.cl.ly/items/c7779c1655181c328845/4ac9757b00d99e9143...

From: http://hexxeh.net/?p=328117590

If you look at the Chromium OS http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/ blog http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/wiki/doku.php?id=faq#what_are_the... then in the FAQ you'll note:

"What are the default username/passwords for this build?

Default username is facepunch, default password is facepunch."

It's multi-user.

You can share the iPad with others in your household and instead of being a social device in the shared nature, you can opt to return it to being a user device that many people can have their own account on.

The essence of this is that unlike the Kindle or iPad, you could access whatever you want, download whatever you want, safe in the knowledge that the next user of the device wouldn't see it.

Meaning you could share the iPad with other members of the house, and each member could have their own login with their own preferences, their own bookmarks, plugins, history, saved passwords, etc.

i guess Apple will somehow port that feature out into the iPad sometime into the future... Pretty sure Jobs did not see the iPad becoming a family shared pc substitute household device...

...or Jobs is hoping every family member gets their own iPad.

OTA sync? Wireless is still not fast enough for that. And what's the point if you still need to be in your house? 3G networks are definitely not fast enough, which leaves USB sync.

OTA software updates (a la Android), not OTA syncing

And yet, wireless Time Machines sell pretty well. And that's for backing up hundreds of gigs.

If your sync can run in the background, speed is effectively not a concern.

You never take your Time Machine out with you though? Slow, background sync would cause abandoned syncs all over the place with iPhone.

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