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Whoa slow down there.

This is the company that was nearly down and out and then came up with the iPod. Then the iPhone and iPad.

How many product categories do you want them to come up with (ok maybe not come up with, but you know what I mean) before Apple is innovative? A company is lucky if they come up with one innovative consumer product and corners a lion's share of the profits.

Besides, they came out with the iPad last year. Their time machine needs some time to recharge before they can pull more gadgets from the future.

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To fairly clarify, while they may not have created any new product categories with the above examples, they certainly did succeed in redefining product categories, in addition to dominating. :) Perhaps the biggest thing the iPod had that other music players didn't have was a successful online music store. Likewise, iPhone and the app store and multitouch. Carry that over to iPad, compared to what tablets were previously.

Come on, the iPad doesn't even have a tabbed browser and they still call it the "best web experience" and I'm not talking about Flash. When you have a full tablet and you still have to quit your program, go find the settings icon, to click on Generla to finaly activate your Bluetooth.... it's just plain ridiculous!

You changed the way people will access mobile information with your first tablet, but don't get stuck with it!

Do you think the iPad's target audience even knows what tabs in a browser are? Or cares? It's entire goal is to simplify computing.

I would venture to say they do. After all, every major desktop browser has tabs (around 11% worldwide are on IE6, but I also doubt those users are getting iPads). How is a tap and another tap a simplified version of browsing compared to tabs?

I'm not saying the iPad browsers window management scheme is better than tabs, I'm just saying most people probably don't use them. I have no definite numbers, but from experience in watching people browse, they have a bunch of windows open and use the Google search bar to type in "facebook".

I realise this isn't addressing your point, but if a browser with tabs is your major objection to the iPad, I would heartily recommend iCab Mobile. It's full of power user features including 'real' tabs and costs $1.99.

http://www.icab.de/mobile.html

In answer to your actual question, I think Apple will address the more specific needs of power users when they feel they can do it without compromising.

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