re: Buying Apple stock tomorrow.

Like I've said, the iPad is the best web browsing platform in existance.

Anyone that disagrees hasn't used it.

Videos imbedded in web pages for instance, you play them then put two fingers on the video and flick outwards and the video goes full screen and is pristine. When you are done, you put two fingers on the video and flick inwards and the video goes back to imbedded in the page.

Nothing can compare to web browsing on the iPad.

The business I work for has 3000 people in the field that need to access internal websites, and display engineering drawings at high resolution, currently everyone is using a notebook PC, but our technology team just returned from meeting with Apple, and the ipad will probably be deployed in the near future.

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i can that same thing by just double clicking with 1 finger

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Use an iPad and then come back.

No more posts from people that have not used one, lol.

ive used one. they are very cool. i still don't know if aapl is gonna hit 300 though.

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I have, and its not, and its not even close. It doesn't have flash, that is the end of that discussion considering the number of sites that use flash

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What, no Farmville?

Websites are adjusting to Apple's not having flash.

I almost never have issues with having no flash.

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I disagree. I think they will be every bit as technologically inferior as the iPods and iPhones have been their entire existances, but I also think that just like for those 2 devices, it won't matter.

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iPod possibly, iPhone definitely not. The original iPhone and the 3GS were head and shoulders above all competition technologically until the very recent past. The verizon Droid and the Nexus One were the first phones that could even challenge the iPhone, and even then they certainly weren't superior in technological terms. The new wave of smartphones (Evo, Droid X, Samsung Wave, etc) match or surpass the iPhone 4, but Apple has such a huge lead in terms of brand loyaly by essentially building that niche industry, they'll still move a ton of iPhone 4s. The growth rate of iPhone adoption will decline though, and again, as far as stock prices go, especially for companies valued like Apple is, growth rate is the only thing that matters.

I don't see that happening with the iPad. Yes, they have already gotten out ahead of everyone, as they are prone to do. Yes, they will move a ton of product, as they are prone to do. However, unlike the iPhone, it isn't going to be 2+ years before someone can match the iPad in terms of technology or functionality. They won't have time to build that level of brand loyalty and hold on to market share with the death grip they have with the iPhone. Its not about losing market share, its about not getting it in the first place.

It isn't about Samsung or MS or Motorola or whoever "surpassing" Apple, either in terms of phones or in terms of tablets, nor is it about Apple somehow becoming unprofitable in any sense of the word (even though that seems to be the Apple fanboy mantra), nor is it about the iPad or the iPhone being bad products (they clearly are not), its about all of those other companies combining to eat up the remaining market share in those niches, lowering the literally exponential growth rate Apple has experienced in the past 5-6 years. The market has it priced in to continue at that level, but I don't see it happening. There's a reason we have supra-normal equity valuation models.

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People don't want technologically advanced, they want simple, easy and shiny. People also are suckers for hot and trendy and no one works the press like Apple. The preorder failure for iPhone for probably did nothing but increase demand

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I don't disagree with that in the slightest, but I also think Apple's competitors, especially on the tablet side, have learned that as well, and I think you'll see that evidenced by the type of tablet and the OS structure that accompanies them. Google OS (not android) is practically a rip-off of the iPhone OS as is, its completely dumbed down into a bunch of icons.

Yes, more or less. The iPod and iPhone (at least in my opinion) revolutionized and basically created the mass market for their respective technologies, and as a dork, I am eternally grateful to AAPL for doing that. The tablet isn't even a new invention, its just been updated with current tech to make it more viable/mobile/shiny/etc. I don't see AAPL as a trailblazer here like they were in those other two markets, they're just the first one in line (eg very little differentiation), and everybody else is right behind them.

3 million iPads moved in 80 days.

Early news reports (pervasive) reporting a rather serious issue that if you hold the phone in your left hand it can't make calls. Come on APPL.