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Re:My verdict after one day of using the iPad by randrews on Sunday April 04, 2010 @01:41AM (#1239825)
They're framed with that assumption because of the other articles that call it "the future of computing". If something's the future of computing, it's supposed to supplant the present of computing, right?
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Re:My verdict after one day of using the iPad by bombs on Sunday April 04, 2010 @02:27AM (#1239866)
Why can't the future be something that augments instead of supplants?
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Re:My verdict after one day of using the iPad by nooneelse on Sunday April 04, 2010 @10:51AM (#1240231)
Wouldn't that be phrased better as "a part of the" instead of just "the". The definite article alone directs the connotation towards exclusivity.
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Re:My verdict after one day of using the iPad by pkulak on Sunday April 04, 2010 @02:43AM (#1239885)
By definition?
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Re:My verdict after one day of using the iPad by swombat on Sunday April 04, 2010 @05:23AM (#1239975)
Yes, because there totally aren't any sailboats around now that steamboats and motorboats got invented.

And people definitely don't go and watch plays and operas live anymore now that they can do so in their living room with a TV.

You need a better dictionary..

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Re:My verdict after one day of using the iPad by krainboltgreene on Sunday April 04, 2010 @07:34AM (#1240043)
Sailboats are luxury items, dude. People aren't forced to use sailboats. In fact, instead of 100% of ships being sailboats, I'd gander only 5% or less are sailboats.
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Re:My verdict after one day of using the iPad by swombat on Sunday April 04, 2010 @09:53AM (#1240157)
5% of the sailboat market is pretty significant - as is 5% of the computer market. In fact, iirc, Apple has been making solid profits from round about 5% of the laptop market.

Anyway, I was merely illustrating that "the future of" does not mean "the sole replacement of".

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Re:My verdict after one day of using the iPad by krainboltgreene on Sunday April 04, 2010 @10:32AM (#1240206)
And my counter point was that both your Opera/Theater and Sailboat analogy prove his point.

Motor/Steam boats are now used where Sailboats were used, 100% of the time.

TV/Movies have replaced Opera/Theater for mainstream entertainment.

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Re:My verdict after one day of using the iPad by ryanhuff on Sunday April 04, 2010 @04:29AM (#1239949)
It certainly simplifies things to say x will replace y. I suspect that with the ipad, its more of the beginnings of a new facet of computing.

For me, as a developer, the ipad certainly won't be much more than a diversion or a target for development. For people like my wife, though, I think it will definitely have an impact. Many people simply want a content consumption device (web, media, etc), and I think the ipad is a very good device for consuming most content.

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Re:My verdict after one day of using the iPad by dkersten on Sunday April 04, 2010 @09:09AM (#1240108)
Don't forget the cost. If its the future, its a must have thing. But its also expensive, meaning a lot of people can have only one and its a choice between the future of computing and everything else.
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