Then you should pay better attention, the person I was replying to, Sam, is of the opinion that pads will replace workstation machines.
Pads, i and otherwise, are portable webTV. Capable of some small apps, but not of desktop level application usage. And no 75% of the desktop enterprise machines don’t only browse the web and do e-mail, you’re just plain making up stats on that one.
How much storage you have is meaningless if the document you want isn’t there and the cloud has gone down. The problem with cloud computing, on any level pad or otherwise, is that where you are, where anybody is, is one lightning strike away from being “off the cloud” for a few hours. I live in the lightning capital of North America, every summer my work internet goes poof. Maybe you live in an area of calm peaceful weather, but out in the wild world the cloud isn’t that stable. Lightning, hurricanes, tornadoes, car crashes (lost my internet because somebody ran into the wrong box once), if you’re pushing the cloud as an enterprise level solution you damn well better be concerned.
And THERE you raise the Straw Man and wave him around and expect us to bow down to him. Discostu, I did not say that 75% of desktop enterprise machines only "browse the web and do e-mail"... you've artificially reduced the iPad's capabilities to that limited set for YOUR purposes.
My point is that the iPad has MORE computing capacity and capability than the vast majority of what is needed or used on the Enterprise desktop. It certainly has more power and capacity than what existed and was used productively on that desktop less than five years ago. . . and still exists on many of those desktops. Your assertions of it's limitations fly in the face of our experiences both working with the iPad AND working in the Enterprise in IT, AND seeing what people in business are actually doing with it, that you dismiss with the wave of your Straw Man limitations you claim for something you really have little experience with.