While I will be using my iPad as a partial business laptop replacement, I just want to carry the internet, email and contacts with me. Actually quite basic modern day computing, not business level by any means.
The fact that I can build & carry all my weekly newsletters/articles and can throw away that big old box of old issues that are good for new customers is a plus. Pages is actually better on the iPad than on a computer. It's easier and has more functions. Plus Pages opens and saves in virtually all formats businesses use so therefore I can manipulate just about anything someone can send my way and send it back in a way they can use it too.
Oh wait, you can't print from the iPad. You can only print from a special printer using a special protocol that virtually no one has in there home or office (unless they have an iPad) and therefore I still have to lug around a box full of old newsletters/articles. This means email becomes critical.
I'm not concerned necessarily with other people, I used the codes, it's the fact that when I open the Mail program an email is already displayed.
But I have to question why Apple took such a giant step backwards in the way mail is handled since smart mailboxes, hell multiple mailboxes and multiple signatures, rules and spam filtering is such a basic part of every Mail type program out there. It's not that there isn't the computing power, it's they chose not to do so. WHY?
