[NTLK] Who here thinks the iPad is a worthy replacement for the Newton?

[Goodwin, Greg P.]

On Mar 19, 2010, at 12:15 PM, Matej Horvat wrote:

>> It's all about speech for me on these tablets. If I have to input  
>> lots
>> of text privately, I will pick up the laptop instead.
>
> And I thought the main point of a tablet was to, you know, write.
>
> -Matej Horvat
>

Exactly.  Even the name, "iPad", implies the metaphor of a pad of  
paper; and what good is a pad of paper without a PEN?

-Jim


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Good point.

But I think we are looking at this wrong.  It is not a Pad, as in writing pad...

... more like a maxi-pad.   A really large one.