wsgolfer
Wow, surprised to return to such a lively thread!
I did look at all my options pretty closely. Ultimately the reasons I decided to purchase a Kindle were price and readability outdoors.
I’m a pretty big Apple fan. We have a MacBook, a HP Mini Hackintosh, and a pair of iPhones. Try as I can, I just can’t come up with a compelling reason why the iPad would be a better “simple book replacement”, which is what I’m looking for. Most of the other things the iPad can do (email, web browsing), I can do with either of our laptops, or iPhones. If I was going to buy a ‘couch’ computer, I’d at least want it to support multiple user accounts, a surprising and glaring omission in iOS4, IMO.
Thanks for the lively discussion.
wsgolfer
(also an AAPL shareholder).