"The
iPad is nothing more than a big
iTouch." "It does nothing that a
netbook can't do".
These are some of the more common statements that I have heard since the
iPad debuted. While it's true that out of the box, the
iPad varies little from the
iTouch, that view is
short-sighted.
Look at the iPhone or
iTouch, out of the box they both play songs, surf the web and check email. But start adding apps and the whole equation shifts to what can't these devices do.
The
iPad is the same way. Out of the box it seems limited, but I feel it has greater business applications in that it's screen size opens it up to a host of applications that are ill-suited to it's smaller brethren. When you consider the apps that can be delivered via the
iPad, the view of the
iPad is transformed from neat toy to virtually anything you want it to be.
