[Leica] OT: Yawn

[spencer at aotera.org (Spencer Cheng)]

Such animosity. :) Thinking it is an overgrown iPhone would be to seriously 
underestimate Jobs/Apple. The bigger screen allows for much more interesting 
user interfaces to be designed. The base price ($500) brings it really close 
to the price of a netbook. I bet a large number of potential netbook buyers 
will switch to buy one of these overgrown iPhones.

Apple's support, when they have a store in your city, is way better than any 
Windows machine manufacturer I've come across in recent years. No other 
company can give me <3 hour repair turnaround with OEM parts when I go to 
their store. Otherwise, it is uneven.

I am interested in the potential of the iPad as a very light weight photo 
editor for traveling. We travel on our tandem (or hike) on our vacations. 
Carrying a full sized laptop can get kind of heavy when climbing big hills 
(or even not so big hills :). An iPad kit with everything probably could 
weigh in at about 1Kg which is about 2 Kg less than my MacBook Pro + power 
supply. Its cheaper too which means if I break it, I won't feel so bad.

Apple announced a camera connector kit (SD card reader & USB interface) for 
the iPad which allows it to import photos. Now I just have to wait for the 
S/W (Aperture, iPhoto, Lightroom, whatever) to become available. Checkout 
the bottom of this page <http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/> for the connector 
kit.

Regards,
Spencer