Totally agree, I have 40 years computing experience so I am used to technologies and operating systems coming and going. I use my iPad maybe 5-6 hours per day, gave away my laptop, have PC dual head station in my office.

Slashdot just gets tedious when discussing Apple or tablets, and it all seems totally rooted in fear of loss of advantage through personal PC skills.

The part I find incredibly depressing is how people happily refer to millions of tablet buyers as fanboys, and totally fail to appreciate the fact that the vast majority of potential users out there are not in IT, don't care about rooting, jailbreaking etc etc. Slashdot these days seems like a board full of Ham Radio fanatics, bewildered at the idea that someone might simply want a radio that they just switch on and use - and patronising and insulting to those that express that view.

Jerry

Moria on VAX/VMS I found to be a great start ;-)

These were around 30 years ago??? Jerry

Windows Phone 7 offers a curated experience, which means Microsoft controls the quality of games appearing on the device. Microsoft curates, whilst Apple stifles ;-) Jerry

These are exactly the incidents which will give chromeos fertile territory to plant in.

Your glib use of concentration camp imagery denigrates the millions who died, this does NOT compare with some restrictions on developers. Please find another way to express yourself.

So am I, when she was an ambassador for Digital/Dec , she would hand out sachets of ground black pepper, the diameter of each piece was approximately the distance a signal travelled in one nanosecond.

Captain Grace Hopper (later Admiral) defined COBOL.

You are like the hideous bugblatter beast of Trall, who, if you couldn't see it thought it couldn't see you.

The iPad already is penetrating the corporate environment, big time, I suggest you find out why instead of spouting drivel.

Well, when I am in a corporate meeting everyone is whipping them out. (too easy, leave it)

Think calendar, email, slides, web + 10 hour battery life.

That's all most people want except techies or specialists

The ibm pc, and thus DOS came about because IBM salesmen were complaining that personal computers were leaking into their client base without them having a response plan.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana.