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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 998271"><p>Because those are the people who SHOULD have laptops. The iPad is **not** intended to replace laptops, or even netbooks*.</p><p></p><p>*netbooks will die on their own because they're largely crap. No help from the iPad needed.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Not really. Think about what the iPhone came with (and what it did for seven months before the App Store came around) compared to what it can do now.</p><p></p><p>LOTS of companies in specialty and vertical high-end markets use the iPhone as a platform for apps. A few examples from the medical profession (1544 apps and counting) are detailed <a href="https://www.softwareadvice.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p></p><p>There is little doubt that the iPad gives them even MORE to work with than the iPhone does, but the point is that the iPhone turned out to be <strong>no barrier at all</strong> to such professional uses, even though the iPhone is marketed NOT as a computer, but as a smartphone with an iPod included.</p><p></p><p>The iPad IS a consumer device. In a huge number of professions, third-party software will easily make it into a "professional" device for their vertical-market needs. Thanks to its "ubiquitous internet," the things people claim are barriers (no external storage, for example) are simply non-issues. The "cloud" will expand to accomodate most, if not all, of the concerns people think they have, same as the iPod overcame objections, same as the iPhone overcame objections.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 998271"] Because those are the people who SHOULD have laptops. The iPad is **not** intended to replace laptops, or even netbooks*. *netbooks will die on their own because they're largely crap. No help from the iPad needed. Not really. Think about what the iPhone came with (and what it did for seven months before the App Store came around) compared to what it can do now. LOTS of companies in specialty and vertical high-end markets use the iPhone as a platform for apps. A few examples from the medical profession (1544 apps and counting) are detailed [URL='https://www.softwareadvice.com/']here[/URL]. There is little doubt that the iPad gives them even MORE to work with than the iPhone does, but the point is that the iPhone turned out to be [B]no barrier at all[/B] to such professional uses, even though the iPhone is marketed NOT as a computer, but as a smartphone with an iPod included. The iPad IS a consumer device. In a huge number of professions, third-party software will easily make it into a "professional" device for their vertical-market needs. Thanks to its "ubiquitous internet," the things people claim are barriers (no external storage, for example) are simply non-issues. The "cloud" will expand to accomodate most, if not all, of the concerns people think they have, same as the iPod overcame objections, same as the iPhone overcame objections. [/QUOTE]
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