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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5069902" data-attributes="member: 20741">I do not believe that Flash will continue to be unsupported by Safari for iPad.  Their principle concern to date has been virus related. iPhones were one thing; they won't let that continue for iPad.As for the USB and SD card connectivity, those are supported by a dongle - for now.They also suppory a bluetooth keyboard. The $499 for 16GB is not that far off the market place price for a Netbook. Your "ow" is misplaced. The eeePc was released with what only 4gig 2.5 years ago at a $399 and $449 price point?  Think about that for a moment please. Compare the eeePc 9" Netbook to the iPad. These are similar devices, aimed at a similar market.As the Netbook market has expended and vies now with the lower end latops - the NEtbooks have upped their hard drives to the point where several of them really aren't Netbooks at all anymore. They are laptops.Whatever the case, I think the 16/32/64 price point will be fine for users of the iPad. Those numbers iwll change over the years as static HD memory changes.I think one problem with techies reviewing this gadget and wondering whether the lack of a feature is a problem or not relates to the kind of device the iPad is and who it's aimed at. This isn't aimed at the kind of guy who types on a Dell 17" widescreen dual nVidia graphcs card gaming laptop. (which is what I use at work, btw). No, this device is aimed at somebody else. This is being marketed at Ms. Consumer. The read on the bus, read in bed, surf/read in Starbucks kind of people. And yes, I absolutely believe that they will be incredibly successful with this product and will own the netbook market. Own it. Outright. No meaingful competition to speak of in 36 months.As for laptops - I didn't suggest they would own that market - but this WILL put a dent in it and it will herald the battle that is about to take place over the course of this decade as feature creep starts to blur the edges of this category. The place where that line is drawn will erased and re-drawn in a series of skirmishes over this decade. It's a target "line" that will be ever-changing.I'm not an Apple fan boi. The closest thing to a Mac I own is an iPod Touch. I own 6 PCs.  Doesn't matter. I think the iPad ver 1.0 will be a game changer, and the brand will spew forth a multi-headed Hydra, yielding another dragon slayer or three as the various models unfold and evolve over the coming years. But now we know what it's going ot look like and the rough price points which battle will take place within.At that price? This is a complete winner. It will change the market in a manner similar to the way the iPod changed music this past decade.There are winners and losers with this kind of significant technological change. I'm not sure who ELSE will be a winner, but I believe that Apple will be the main winner.You are, of course, free to believe something else. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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