No no no- it’s more like comparing a Cherokee to a Camaro based on which one has a radio period. Sirius? Seriously? I don’t even know how to get Sirius radio- how can you compare that to the accessibility to something like Flash??
It’s true what he says, there’s different feature sets for different audiences. Not having a radio in your car isn’t going to kill you… but, it might. What’s the real question- I don’t think this is about comparing one car to another. It’s really more like comparing a car to a go-kart. There’s an understanding that a go-kart is only meant for having fun in a particular environment- in most other environments it loses practicality. A car on the other hand has all the practicality, but what this fool fails to see is that a car can be just as fun.
It’s not about “different audiences” as if one type of person buys the iPad and the other type will buy the HP Slate- the HP is a computer. Nobody needs a go-kart, it’s just for fun. Everyone needs a car (or use one at any point in their life). In fact, if you stack and scale the amount of features against the price, an iPad may actually be more expensive. If you had to choose between the two: would you pay $500 for a big ass iPod, or $1000 for a touch screen computer?
“It leads me to ask the question: ‘who cares?’ You may have noticed that Apple has done quite well with the iPhone and the iPod Touch without Flash support. Why should the iPad be any different?”
Because the iPad has the power you ambition-less monkey. When someone goes “hey did you see that thing on Hulu last night?” you can’t go “Oh show me on my $500 could-have-been-a-computer iPad device”. Then again you don’t have to, because he’ll go “Let me show you right now on my $250 netbook”. What a cruel joke to introduce a “powerful new cpu” only to handcuff it to the iPhone OS.
Am I going to get an iPad? Depends on how much more functionality they add. Believe me- I had a lot of interest in the iPad when it was first introduced but now I’m more keen on the Slate coming out later this year. It would bug me too much if I can’t watch Hulu on such a large screen.