Bear with me:
The Apple tablet is going to be awesome, we all know it. But in my mind, what is going to make me want to buy one? The software..
Right before the PowerMac G4 came out, I was ready to plop down some money for a new Macintosh. I was leaning towards the next laptop that was coming out. What changed my mind was the introduction ofiDVD. Here was a way to put those home movies onto an actual dvd! Or make an awesome slideshow of pictures of a particular event for family.
It was a solution that I didn’t know I needed or was really possible. That’s what the tablet needs tomorrow. Something that I didn’t know I needed or was really possible.
An iPhone four times the size with the same applications isn’t going to cut it.
Aside from coding, what do you do on your Mac that you could not do on a 10″ iPhone? I think we’re going to be seeing more and more convergence where a lot of our computing is done on these tablets. I can see many uses, for example when W HD or wifi is fast enough, this thing could be your remote screen for your Pro in the office, that you just walk around and edit on with the same app, but a different UI. Email, web surfing, twitter, facebook, calendars, contacts, blogging, all of that stuff can be done on a sturdy device that slips in between the cushions of your couch. I can’t code, or play WoW on it, but other than that, I am finding a hard time finding stuff I do on the laptop that I would not be able to do on this.
Add in the fact that I REALLY want a 500gb fast SSD drive on my laptop, that is one less difference, and the keyboard, if apple would support bluetooth as an option, etc, I dunno, I can see us transitioning……. the network is the weak point, but that will be fixed at some point.