| If you think the cell phone wars have grown a little | | | | managed to exceed their expectations. iPad combines |
| intense, then put on your helmet and fasten your | | | | all of iPhone's most desirable features, all of iPod's |
| seatbelt, because the netbook wars set to break-out | | | | best sound capabilities, and all of Apple engineers' |
| in the spring of 2010 will make the current campaigns | | | | latest innovations. The competition purposely has |
| look like little more than playground scuffles. | | | | delayed launch of its new netbooks, wisely waiting to |
| Netbooks generally are designed as pumped-up, | | | | see what the final version of iPad will do, and |
| buffed-up, super-conditioned, super-charged, | | | | especially waiting to see how much it will cost. Apple |
| turbo-powered, speed-of-light handheld | | | | competitors planning to use Google Android remain |
| communications devices. In other words, if the | | | | hopeful about commanding a strong position in the |
| netbook market grows as analysts and experts | | | | market. Windows 7 contractors, not so much. |
| predict, these lightweight marvels of modern digital | | | | You have an exceptional opportunity to influence the |
| communications will render the old-fashioned cell | | | | competition's outcome. For the next several months, |
| phone obsolete. No one intends netbooks to replace | | | | you may test an Apple iPad, reporting your results |
| laptop computers; instead, in a business person's | | | | and making suggestions to the design and marketing |
| arsenal, the laptop and the netbook are | | | | professionals at Apple. When you sign-up online and |
| complementary weapons, both intended to blow | | | | complete a couple of simple marketing surveys, |
| away the competition...and the Blackberry with it. | | | | Apple Computers will send you an iPad for your |
| At least three major manufacturers were poised to | | | | everyday use. When you complete your product trial, |
| debut upscale netbooks in the spring of 2010. Then, | | | | the iPad is yours to keep. The product trial enables |
| Apple Computer unveiled iPad at the January, 2010, | | | | you to become one of the first to own this state of |
| tradeshows, and the competition hastily retreated. | | | | the art netbook, which will sell for more than $500 |
| Experts and ordinary consumers have come to | | | | when it hits stores in March, 2010. |
| expect everyday miracles from Apple, and iPad still | | | | |