Bill Gates Responds To Apple iPad

superapecommando writes "Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has called Apple's iPad a 'nice reader' but claims netbooks are the way forward. Speaking briefly to BNET's Brent Schlender, the Microsoft Chairman, who had admitted to being in awe of the iPhone on first release, saw nothing in the iPad to really excite him."

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Re:Pretty straightfoward comment

[Anonymous Coward]

I think the charitable donations for vaccines at the bottom of the article is more interesting, though that's been covered here already.

Yeah, because nothing says "altruism" like adding 7.6 million people to a community that already has widespread famine.

Re:Uh, what?

[Etrias]

Say what you will about Tivo or cable DVRs, but they get the job done. The iPad hasn't exactly had fawning reviews and it starts hitting the price point where people start to second guess their purchases unless they know exactly what it is. Is it an e-reader? Not really with a backlit display and likely a criminally short battery life. Is it a netbook? No, especially if you have to choose between an awkward virtual keyboard or lug a physical keyboard around to type--not to mention the lack of multi-tasking. It's essentially a enlarged iTouch without phone or a camera and still tied to the ever-so-shaky AT&T network. It is the multi-function object that doesn't really do any particular function well.

Re:Pocket PC

[intheshelter]

If you really believe the load of shit you just posted then you obviously have the technological vision of a gnat. Tell me, where is the big explosion of pocket pc's that resulted from that supposed feature parity you're claiming. I'm willing to bet the iPad will be huge, but Pocket PCs were worm riddled dogs in comparison. Sorry, but if you are really so short sighted to think that a Pocket PC feature list makes a compelling argument then maybe you should be posting for the Wall Street Journal or some other technologically challenged dinosaur.