Just noticed this thread now and was wondering where Orange Box's magic eye tracking wunderkind fits in to this. You know, the one that was coming out from Apple soon and was going to destroy Maemo/Nxxx?

I'm actually a little relieved to see Apple fall on its face here from a technological standpoint...it might drive more sheep out of the fold when they see just how much they're being milked.

I for one will buy an Ipad. The reason for me is simple, the App store. I'm a physician and have a lot of apps from the apps store for medical books, and need to carry it around to look things up that I normally don't see. I love the N900 and think it's better than the Iphone with the exception of the App store. The future of medicine has started years ago with the doctors carrying around small computers to do charting, look up information etc. So while I agree that it is a giant Ipod Touch it will have uses and fill a void left by the N900 that Nokia may or may not be able to fill. Namely apps.

So one of the dozen windows tablet laptops doesn't fit the bill at considerably less cash then? Most texts are available via eCommerce and PDF seems to work fine even under Windows.

Kind of big. I think it needs a sofa adapter.

The iPad is Apple's Palm Foleo

Here's a good thread.

Turns out those "apps" for iPhone are mostly packaged up reference books that are available without Apple getting a cut of your cash.

Edit: Er, skip the first page. I forgot that thread was BBOB (Before Banning Orange Box).

If you don't mind, go back and read what I've stated over and over... naw, you obviously didn't.

Let me say it here for you where even you can understand. I want Nokia to do well.

That means if they include a camera on the N810, N900, use the thing in a useful way.

Now, as far as the iPad goes - I've already stated that I was unimpressed. Not sure what your vector was, but it's wasted on me. I'm simply talking about Nokia only in my statements. Keep the competition out of your mouth whilst addressing me because I didn't bring it up in what you quoted.

I can be displeased where you're obviously pleased because I'm a potential customer, prior customer, and at this rate, not a customer that has any want for the iPad nor any unused parts on my purchases.

It's not a tough pill to swallow. Build it, use it. Don't use it, then explain it. I don't see what's difficult about accepting that somebody might actually want to use each and every part of their purchase in an useful way.

My opinion, I can state it. And I'm not stating that from any Apple-centric manner either. I'm stating it from a Nokia-centric stance only. And if nobody asks, nobody questions, then nothing will change.

And I'm the type of person that sees the current Maemo status quo as lacking since it's not taking full advantage of what's surrounding it - a great community, a great piece of kit and ultimately a great new direction if Nokia implemented the things that the people - not the core group, not the geeks, not the number crunchers - but actual people in a lot of markets have been looking for, missing or might actually want.

And the resistance against that is what exactly? You don't want Nokia to succeed by adding to it's capabilities on a platform that is clearly superior but needs to actually do something with that superiority other than just state it?

Sheesh. I'll hush up then and give you people what you want to hear.

iCrap sucks. Jobs reality distortion fields in full-effect. Nokia RULZ!!!1

and engadget will cheer it on til the bitter end, rather then send jobs a sour public letter questioning its existence...

Could you please explain what you think the relation between the "HTML"5 and H.264 is?

I mean... you can embed H.264-videos in HTML4 and XHTML1.x - and you can play other codecs than H.264 in <video> - what are you trying to say?

I'm starting to doubt that. I think the geeks are starting to see... this is just nothing more than a huge *** iPhone. Same serial-tasking, some decent content served up via an easy to digest ecosystem - but can be found elsewhere - and really an oddity that despite the rumors, even the tamer ones were higher than what was delivered.

Price point is about the only thing I admit that I do like. But as a person that's never bought a Kindle or Nook, this might be an option. But it's not an option for a lot of people. Myself included.