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Old 08-27-2010, 01:38 PM   #28
Undertoad
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This is where we are now:

Linux is not a good choice because it doesn't run the specialized tools I need to run, some of which are Windows development tools, and even Flash player.

In order to understand this, we need to alter it just a tad:

The iPad is not a good choice because it doesn't run the specialized tools I need to run, some of which are Windows development tools, and Apple actually prohibits Flash.

Doesn't make sense, right? But the iPad is not such a different device. It's just a computer with a wireless interface and a touch screen.

And so it turns out that running Quickbooks, Flash, and Windows development tools is not the future end-all/be-all of computing.

In fact, the iPad has no printing capabilities at all.

Perhaps that's why it's in such huge demand.
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