>>>>>When I said, "wow, Chiefs won, Oregon Ducks won, and today ain't even my birthday"....I was wrong, it IS my birthday.
>>>>>
>>>>>Just like the Monopoly card says, "Life insurance matures, collect $500", I got an unexpected windfall this evening.
>>>>>
>>>>>So I'll be able to buy an iPad, without needing to stick a crowbar in my wallet.
>>>>>
>>>>>I cannot believe I'm buying an Apple product. After looking at so many products with the idea, "I want it to do what the iPad does", I finally realized I should just buy the freakin' iPad.
>>>>
>>>>I thought you'd be one to be saying, "I want it to do MORE than what the iPad does". I figured you to be in the, "not Magical...Functional" camp :)
>>>>
>>>>Anyway, congratulations. Oh, that's just wrong. Here I am congratulating you on getting an iCant when I didn't do the same when your daughter was born :{
>>>
>>>He has other options:
>>>
>>>http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-apps/10027-productivity-office-apps.html
>>>
>>>The post (especially the comments in that top post) are interesting...
>>
>>OK he may have something of a MS Office substitute but let's see him open Visual Studio on that iCant :)
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>But why would he want to? It is not intended as a one stop solution, any more than a smartphone is.

Absolutely. The current fashion is for things (or even politicians) to *be* what they are and make a statement about the user (or voter). Insisting that they actually *do* something useful and any questions about form over function are just - well, *not* cool.

(and yet oddly identified as "PC" ... I think they are still working that one out)