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So start by crossing anything with windows 7 off of the list.

The most interesting to my mind is the Cisco one. They seem to be targeting the enterprise - I can imagine office's full of people carrying these. RIM did awfully well in this niche. Could Cisco do the same?

I am really really hoping that HP don't mess up their purchase of Palm and deliver something fantastic with WebOS too.

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I guess it depends what you mean by interesting. I'm not convinced that anyone targeting the enterprise is ever going to be able to reproduce the quality of UI that apple has achieved over the past few years.

Android has proved a huge disappointment to me because their customers have actually turned out to be enterprises (telcos customising and bundling crappy out of date versions) rather than selling direct to end users. I guess Cisco might do well in some verticals, but I'm not getting excited about it just yet.

(agreed that Windows 7 is a dead end for pads)

And everything priced at $499 or more. Why buy the cheap brand if it is just as expensive as the brand with the "Apple tax"?

The movie would be called "iPod Killers II" and be just as bad.

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