Post pc has nothing to do with windows
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There's almost a smell of desperation in how determined the Apple centered blogosphere is to ignore or write off Android / Honeycomb right now.
I went to a workshop the other day, the score was three Transformers to one iPad; ASUS just upped their estimates recently to 800,000 per quarter. A colleague at work told me her husband was getting one. He just wanted something different from the iPad.
I'm not claiming they are anything like competition for the iPad yet in a market sense. They are a niche obsession, mainly among geeks. But the Galaxy Tab - thinner, lighter, better screen than the iPad? So good Apple is suing in panic to stop it before it even hits the shelves? "Not worth a damn"? Come on MG ...
But, for it to become my laptop replacement, it would need an entirely new operating system. Its current OS is just a toy, as far as I'm concerned.
Of course - I realize that 80% of the population aren't doing 'computing' - they're mainly viewing media with a few edits here and there.
So... why aren't we blogging on our iPad? I call BS on this "post PC" thing. The iPad is not the right tool for every job.
However, those of us who really NEED to do work on a machine, it'll never cut it and neither will the cloud.
If it goes closed everywhere, I'm out.