Someone Please Develop a Competitor to the iPad

Okay here’s what I don’t get… We’ve been prophesying the iPad for years now and no one had the guts to beat Apple to the punch (except the folks at Techcrunch with their Crunchpad, which I’m sad didn’t get off the ground).

Here’s my biggest problem…

They totally missed the boat!!!

The iPad virtually guarantees that I’ll still need to bring my laptop with me most of the time, because it lacks two simple features.

Did you hear that!?  Two more features and it would have almost been the perfect device!!!!

1. Where’s the USB port!!!!??? – Seriously, this is crazy to me.  What if I want to use an external USB drive?  What if I want to take photos or video from an external camera and use them on the iPad.  This is a huge drawback.
2. Why isn’t there a video out!!!????  - Why can’t I plug this thing into a projector and run powerpoint presentations or play movies.  I think this is also a huge problem.

Someone please design a device that is similar to the iPad that has these two features.   Right now I can get a netbook for $300 that has both.  I can also outfit it with a 3G card for maybe another $50 bucks.

And it comes with video out and at least 3 USB ports, and great battery life.  Come on, there’s got to be a touch-screen version of this.

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