IPAD the notebook killer or the notebook path?

It will never replace a laptop, it can't, doesn't have the power.

 

Are you kidding? Do you use one? Has it replaced your notebook?

The reason many have sold? Simple! Advertising!

Steve Jobs has turned out to be a marketing genius.

Besides the paid advertising, free advertising as well. Jobs managed to get the media to write a lot about this "revolutionary new idea", although in actuality, tablet PCs have been out for years. (Another reason many newspapers and magazines wrote about it, they hoped for a lot of sales, and that it would start a new paid model for them, rather than the free magazine model on the regular Internet. (I.E., on the Ipad you pay for a subscription to the NY Times, while on the regular Internet you can read it for free.)

Tablet computers will never replace notebooks. They are missing an important component--the keyboard. (No, onscreen keyboards will not replace physical ones.) But, if I were to get a tablet, it would be with a full PC Windows OS. The Ipad just has a phone OS. Why make something the size of a computer, and have only the OS of a phone??? Why doesn't it run the Mac OS? If I am buying a phone, I want it to fit in my pocket.

Everything is too closed, lack of user choice, etc.

Through the genial advertising blitz, there might have been many initial sales of the product. Will people keep using it, buy new models of it, etc.? I doubt it. Within a year or two, the Ipad will go the way of the Newton.

 

Just like the iPhone sank into oblivion in 20... oh wait. Your argument holds no water, and is so one sided it's actually kinda funny. And the reason it doesn't run full blown Mac OSX is because OSX is not touchscreen optimized.