"an HTC representative let slip"<p>Do PR people really let things 'slip'? To let something slip is usually indicative of an accidental giveaway. If a PR person tells a tablet-oriented site that HTC are working on a tablet too, surely this is a regular announcement without any useful or interesting details?<p>At the very least, HTC could have bought a blogger to circulate rumours or pointed a trade magazine to 'expose' an order from a supplier's factory. It's this attention to detail that put Apple ahead of the crowd!<p>I've been holding off and holding off, waiting for a decent iPad competitor to come along and it seems that there could be a few in 6 months or so - Notion Ink's Adam looks very nice and I am sure that HTC's tablet will be pretty too. However, Apple have shipped, the thing works and it has a reasonable software ecosystem. I can actually go to a shop and buy one.<p>Since I actually want a tablet-like device, I can't really think of any reason not to buy an iPad right now. Why has it taken so long for competitors to provide an alternative?
It's a funny site name: 'Anything but iPad'.<p>In a german newspaper interview[1], a random analyst said that the iPad already has become the standard to which any new device will be compared.<p>This site confirms that theory. Or is a brilliant parody of it. I'm not quite sure.<p>[1] = <a href="http://www.derbund.ch/digital/computer/Apples-Rivalen-muessen-mit-guenstigen-Preisen-Druck-machen/story/18733056" rel="nofollow">http://www.derbund.ch/digital/computer/Apples-Rivalen-muesse...</a>
I'm as non-Apple-fan as they get, but this is honestly why I really, REALLY admire Apple - they only announce products that are ready to ship, and steer clear of "We're working on this, stay prepared for our awesomeness to blow you out of the water! Coming soon to cinemas near you!"
It'll be interesting to see if people take up Android tablets the way they have with Android phones. My experience with the iPad suggests that a tablet is like a traditional computer in that the experience is dependent on the availability of quality apps. Right now, the Android Market is easily the weakest aspect of Android.
not all that surprising.<p>what caught my eye was the 5.1 channel smartphone audio remark - how much storage space do they anticipate smartphones having by the time that is released? multichannel audio is pretty huge, spacewise