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[Jonathan Smith]

I am sure you are right about tablets, but I am still holding on that one.
In Asia people love all these digital devices. You see OAPs with their smart
phones, whereas in the UK the same age group can hardly send an email.

A tablet of some kind would seem like a very good thing to travel with, to
read your Lonely Planet Guides, read email, etc. Wi-fi is everywhere now.

iTunes is a huge success. Steve Jobs knows how to market products, but its
sad that sound quality is going down not up with the "iPod". The younger
audience don't acre, but I guess that lossless, even HD, music will be
common soon.

I know what you man about Google. Gmail is good. I don't write anything that
would interest them or anyone else.

On 12 April 2011 22:10, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:

> On 11 Apr 2011, at 19:31 , Jonathan Smith wrote:
> > I can see that a the tablet idea is a good one, but looking at the specs
> of
> > an iPad, I can't see that its not that good. The iPad 2 is not rumored to
> be
> > much better. I have read that real advances can expected with the iPad 3!
> > Apparently, although presumably you can attach a bluetooth keyboard, you
> > can't use a pointing device?
> > There are some alternatives running Android, which allow the use of USB
> > ports and memory cards which makes much more sense
>
>
> I think we are definitely in the early days of tablets.  There is much to
> be seen about what happens with capabilities and form factors with regards
> to tablets, e-readers, smartphones, netbooks, etc.  Really, "digital mobile
> work and lifestyle" is still in its infancy, though rapidly evolving.
>  Interesting times.
>
>
> > iTunes-- I will not buy from iTunes. There is nothing in their stores in
> > Asia anyway as American companies think that people will pirate the
> > contents, leaving you little choice but.... The common stuff is so easy
> to
> > find why pay $10.00 for an album which is only lossy files?
>
>
> Agreed, iTMS is not for me.  Though, clearly, it works for some people.
>  But, then again, some people like asparagus, while I don't. :)
>
>
> > You can use Google's word processor and spreadsheets but they are not
> very
> > good and no one really wants everything they write probed by Google.
> "Cloud"
> > computing is slow coming.
>
>
> Also agreed, though I have to admit that I don't really care whether Google
> is reading my docs and email or not.
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
> http://www.carlaz.com/
>