Is the iPad more like a Mac, or an iPhone?-UPDATED

I'm sure the question has already been asked. I am here to answer it. I'm correlating all the ways the iPad is like a Mac, and all the ways it is like an iPhone.

Aspects shared by the iPad and Mac:

• When purchased, you are given the option to recycle your own computer
• Runs iWork full-fledged
• Can be mailed in for repair (MacBooks are the only Macs that can be mailed in)
• LED Display
• Has file syncing/sharing/downloading capabilities
• Has 802.11n WiFi

Aspects shared by the iPad and iPhone:

• An App Store
• The UI (The iPad UI is a bit more rich, and user-friendly)
• Is synced to a computer
• No user-accessible file system
• Two-year AppleCare extended warranty (suggested by MacFusionGirl, thanks!)

I'll let you guys decide. Let me know in the comments what you think.

Why Android Will Ultimately Fail

Android has some impressive features. It can run multiple apps at once, supports the 1GHz Nexus One, and overlays demographic data onto a map.

And that is precisely why they'll fail.

If you are a geek, you may want more out of the iPhone or the iPad. You want the ability to customize the UI, run multiple apps at once, and download apps that may or may not be damaging to the core services of your phone. All these things must be done with some knowledge of how technology works; how processors deal with tasks, for example. If you are running multiple apps, you'll need to figure out which app is a CPU hog, and quit it. This is easy if you're a geek. But, if you're an average user, this may be incredibly hard to comprehend.

The 1984 Mac introduced the GUI. The GUI revolutionized computers… It let users run a computer without extensive knowledge of how it actually works… no need to know any command line whatsoever. The iPhone is doing that with cell phones. It's simplifying the cell phone. Yet, making it more powerful. So you don't have to deal with a task manager on a mobile device.

I wanted to keep this brief, but you can view the continuation here.

Apple's Laser Focus

When Apple sees the potential for a new technology, they don't take incremental steps to reach it. They hold off on all technology that will be released between now and then, and make the jump immediately. In fact, sometimes they are so ready for a new piece of technology that they implement it immediately, and it's so far ahead, that nobody has any use for it.

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Why the iPad can be the best eBook reader in the world

Everyone is griping about how the iPad doesn't have an e-ink screen, and that they'll have to read on a painful, backlit, LED display.

LED is actually very pleasurable to read on…almost as much as e-ink is. Switching from a fluorescent backlit LCD on my PowerBook to an LED backlit LCD on my MacBook Pro, and later the LED Cinema DIsplay hooked up to my Mac Pro, was like night and day. You're eyes barely strain when reading for hours on end, and the text is so crisp, it's like paper.

The iPad will have an LED backlit screen as well. Reading books on it from the iBookstore will be amazing.

But that's not what's going to make it a killer device.

Because it runs iPhone apps, it'll run the Amazon Kindle app, as well as the Barnes and Nobles app! It will have access to 3 major libraries! Any book that can't be found on the iBookstore can be found on Amazon or BN. Not to mention, this way, you can KEEP your current Amazon Kindle books, if the iPad is replacing your Kindle!

Oh, the possibilities. 

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