Multitasking
Justin de Vesine shares more or less the same complain that I have about the iPad:
No, I’m not trying to run Linux on the thing. It runs a perfectly acceptable *NIX operating system already, and in fact has a fantastic GUI (for almost every purpose) and software installation procedure (for almost every case) already. I just want to run my instant messenger /and/ Pages.
Craig Hockenberry offers an alternative philosophy:
What I find most interesting is the inclusion of the iWork applications. I suspect that we’ll all benefit from working in Pages, Numbers and Keynote without the distractions of the web, Twitter or chat. And in the long run, we’ll prefer it.
I think that the extreme focus of a single application is a pleasant side-effect of single-tasking, not an intended feature.