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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 5347849" data-attributes="member: 8158">Well, my best friend is an unabashed Applemming, and he says that it's been four months since he moved into his new apartment, and he hasn't set up his Mac yet. He can do all his surfing and email on the pad. And the multimedia experience isn't just limited to PDF's. He can read ebooks, newspapers, and watch streaming video. Now, we're talking about a guy who hates Windows because of all the viruses and crashes he used to get. Of course, he rejects personal accountability for clicking pop-ups willy-nilly just to make them go away. It's the eternal trade-off between freedom and security. Microsoft cares little what you do within your Windows environment. Apple, on the other hand, provides a more controlled experience where they call the shots. They can do this because they don't do OEM licenses with their OS, and they make their own hardware. My friend can't do anything that requires Flash, but on the other hand he also doesn't sit around complaining about why his iPad freezes up constantly. Personally, I want to see some tablet alternatives. Problem is, everyone else is very timid about running a proprietary OS on their devices, and there's real hasles finding a licensable OS that fits the form factor. Lenovo was going to do a Linux shell called Skylight, and produce this really awesome laptop/tablet hybrid, but they copped out. Windows provides major resource-utilization challenges for a tablet, overtaxing both the processor and battery. Android seems like the most logical alternative, but Google won't step up and provide a set of tablet specs, which forces manufacturers to use the cell phone specs. This, of course, means the tablet must include a phone, which not only makes it hard to compete with the iPad's price point, but also drags carriers and vocie plans into the affair. As has been said, a tablet is no replacement for a cell phone.The only real competition I can think of at this point is the Blackberry Playbook, and the details on it are pretty vague at the moment.</blockquote>

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