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<blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 5069968" data-attributes="member: 8158">So my &quot;ow&quot; is misplaced by virtue of what existed two years ago? Is Apple going to sell these things using the wayback machine? The eeePC's I'm looking at on Amazon today have 160-250GB or more. That's quite a large discrepency in the here and now. A very real &quot;ow&quot;.Speaking of here and now, we have no evidence that Flash is coming. What we have is Jobs talking about Youtube just like he did on the iPhone years ago. We also have Apple's refusal to allow apps that provide competition for iTunes, like the Hulu app.Since a netbook is just an imprecise term coined to idenfity cheap laptops, this is simply a baffling assertion. They're getting better over time like all technology does. So what? I'll think about it for a moment. Still baffled. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />When you said &quot;the market will be theirs&quot;, what market were you referring to? Netbooks? Slates? Smartphones? The iPod and iPhone were game-changers because they actually offered something that changed the game.What does the iPad do that makes it special? That's the question that the tech-unsavvy Mr. Consumer will ask. &quot;What does this do?&quot; The answer will be &quot;a bunch of stuff Apple already targeted with their iPhone&quot;. And then they'll say &quot;well, my smartphone already does that and it fits in my pocket&quot;. What is Apple's response going to be?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Felon, post: 5069968, member: 8158"] So my "ow" is misplaced by virtue of what existed two years ago? Is Apple going to sell these things using the wayback machine? The eeePC's I'm looking at on Amazon today have 160-250GB or more. That's quite a large discrepency in the here and now. A very real "ow". Speaking of here and now, we have no evidence that Flash is coming. What we have is Jobs talking about Youtube just like he did on the iPhone years ago. We also have Apple's refusal to allow apps that provide competition for iTunes, like the Hulu app. Since a netbook is just an imprecise term coined to idenfity cheap laptops, this is simply a baffling assertion. They're getting better over time like all technology does. So what? I'll think about it for a moment. Still baffled. :) When you said "the market will be theirs", what market were you referring to? Netbooks? Slates? Smartphones? The iPod and iPhone were game-changers because they actually offered something that changed the game. What does the iPad do that makes it special? That's the question that the tech-unsavvy Mr. Consumer will ask. "What does this do?" The answer will be "a bunch of stuff Apple already targeted with their iPhone". And then they'll say "well, my smartphone already does that and it fits in my pocket". What is Apple's response going to be? [/QUOTE]

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