[sjs]

For me it's the same but the software I use is for Unix. By the way, most of the software you use is available on OS X and Linux as well. All of it that I can see, but I'm not familiar with Pencil, Widcomm BT, or FBReader.

I guess if the software you use works well with a touch screen then that's fine. I far prefer my iPhone to any Windows Mobile device I've owned. You can't just shoehorn a desktop UI into a touch-screen device without a keyboard or mouse without the experience being subpar.

I have not used a good tablet PC, maybe I should try one out but none have been that compelling to me. I'll probably get an iPad eventually, to develop for it if nothing else. It's too much like my iPhone and not enough like my notebook for me to jump at the 1st revision of a 1st gen product. In a year or two I'll get one when the kinks are worked out and the feature set has been fleshed out.

edit: While the exo pc and tc1100 look pretty nice I don't imagine many developers tailor anything for them. That will be the biggest strength of the iPad (at first anyway).

[stcredzero]

edit: While the exo pc and tc1100 look pretty nice I don't imagine many developers tailor anything for them. That will be the biggest strength of the iPad (at first anyway).

I think you hit it spot-on there! The way iPhone OS and its ecosystem is set up, developers must tailor their software to the device to succeed. This was the big weakness of the Tablet PC initiative: that such fine tuning was considered optional.