[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaneaus:
I think the OP gets the point regarding HC and Icrap app comparison...

This post is supposed to be about the additional usefulness of the Transformer vs the Ipad. Let's please get back on topic/divert ourselves from arguing about the relative merits of app scalability! ;)

OP:

My deciding factors with HC/Transformer:

Transformer: IT's CONVERTIBLE!

Tablet: 1) I can use it as a consumer device

2) it plays FLASH on websites - a BIG plus to me!

3) I can turn it on and be almost instantly updated via scrollable

widgets show fB, Twitter, SMS messages, news, weather, etc.

4) It is ANDROID - I can make it run how I want to. Display whatever I

want on the screen, load custom Launchers! VTLauncher will be

GREAT once the bugs are out (I'm an ADWLauncher fan).

Tablet/KB combo: 1) I can PRODUCE content with a REAL keyboard.

2) I can remote access my desktop and run ANY Windows app from

my tablet (including modifying WORD docs, Paintshop Pro, etc).

3) I can plug in external storage devices to play videos/movies, etc.

4) did I mention - IT has a REAL keyboard.

5) with the dock I have the following: tablet stand, keyboard, extra

battery, and a protector for the tablet's screen... meaning I DON'T

have to carry around these peripherals separately as they clunk

around in a book bag.

Lastly, why Android is a deciding factor over iOS: Android devs keep coming out with really great apps that interface with home/other components. While on my PC I can access all of my files over wireless from my cell phone, tablet, etc, and drag/drop from one device to another (no iTune CRAP!). I can receive SMS's on my desktop, respond, etc and all messages will be stored on my cellphone/tablet for review later after I left the house/at school/work/etc. One app allows you to create an ad hoc wireless accessible network: Useful how you might ask? You tell it to start, have another student go to a web address the app provides - BINGO, he logs in and accesses files from your tablet/phone - can drag/drop files from his device to yours and back - when you get done you press the stop button on the app! Cool for transferring notes that someone else took when you missed the last class... Done it!

There is another program called Onskreen coming out that will let multiple apps run on the same screen simultaneously - can't WAIT to see THAT on a tablet!

All of this just makes Android the choice for me.

But, admittedly, I hate iTunes and don't own ANY APPLE products and will never use a product that requires iTunes to get anything accomplished. So, I have no idea if much of my last two paragraphs are available on iCrap. BUT, APPLE doesn't have to approve everything a developer releases for Android. If it works... Just install it!

So, you can only expect more and more functionality from an Android Tablet. What has APPLE done with the iPad this last year? Oh, they approved a few more tablet specific apps that make it a BIGGER iPod... Big deal....

The iCrap is all great product - just limited by Apple. Android is wide open.

To recap: Transformer will be something I will be continuing to write my book on, view flash web content on, use to create content on my home PC while away, view a LOT of information almost instantly upon turning it on via scrollable widgets, and I can look forward to being more and more useful as time goes forward. With an iPad I either can't do those things or will have a much harder time doing those things.