I’ve been meaning to comment on this for awhile

I wanted to see a Macbook Pro running OSX 10.6 with Boot Camp and a capacitive touchscreen on a swivel over a full keyboard. That would have been perfect. Just add a swivel to the screen. Every other manufacturer has been doing it for ages, it’s not that goddamned difficult.

Instead, we got a comically over sized iPhone that can’t run multiple apps simultaneously. It doesn’t have Flash support either, so you can’t play most online games. It also runs a watered-down iPhone OS, which means I can’t put actual programs on it, which means I can’t put Illustrator on it, which means I can’t use it for actually DRAWING THINGS, which is the entire point of having a tablet in the first place.

Unfortunately, you can’t say it won’t be the big ticket “Hot Item” of 2010. The segment of the market that Apple caters to, (the people who need to be told what they want), are going to buy this en masse, and the other half of the market is going to be left with whatever tablet we can find from HP or Asus.

My biggest problem with Apple over the past few years is that they don’t listen to what consumers want. They just create whatever product comes out of Steve Jobs’ twisted imagination and throw it on the market. People will buy it for the brand, then claim the “features” of said product make it a superior to everything else, even if those features are terrible.

The search for the perfect tablet PC continues.