-I love macs, but HATE reading text in black on white background. For hardcopy paper as it reflects light, it's the most efficient. For a screen, beaming photons into your eyes, it's the worst. Give Aqua an option for a soft, less harsh skin, and if you want to sell me an e-reader, get a clue and GIVE ME AN OPTION FOR LIGHT TEXT ON DARK BACKGROUND. Dealbreaker, but as it would be SO SIMPLE to give me that option on the iPhone OS, I have hope. There's not a day that I don't fantasize about switching to Linux on my workstation due to this limitation in Aqua. How simple an option it would be for Apple to empower their users by letting them have an interface option on all their products that did this.
-I love my mac pro, and I love a touchscreen interface as it's far superior to a mouse (or even my thumb driven trackball). How about an option to use the iPad as the interface for my very expensive 8-core workstation? Apple and the aftermarket out there have FAILED to give me a modern interface option (short of Cintiq, which I've considered, but it's pricey) for my expensive workstation, and I don't understand why. This would be pretty SIMPLE, so I have hope.
-I love the direction Apple is taking in controlling / delivering home tv and audio, and I believe there are apps which turn the iPhone into a remote controller, so this iPad will make a nice controller / remote for my eventual total home setup. While not exactly simple, the technology already exists, both in hardware and software, so when all this gets integrated, I'll be more interested. But until I'm assured that the iPad will do this, I'm going to hold off on buying one.
-I agree about the limitations of the OS. No multitasking, file transfers, etc? I'll wait. I need a certain level of control, especially if I'm paying hundreds for Gigs of flash storage.
-I love that it has GPS. But I'm not sure I want it sitting in the middle of my car cockpit. Liability on this is tricky, but what I really want is a hardware / software product that I can wire into my car, plug in an iPad, and take the navigation data to a small projector in front of my steering wheel, on top of the dashboard, and project GPS mapping info on the inside of my windshield. Simple light green path info. I don't think this is too far off, but I want it now. And did they say they have a navigation software that talks to you? Kind of madatory, that.
-It's not a phone. I've got a crappy first gen cell phone and have been waiting for the right hardware to upgrade. I take it back, it's not that crappy. It's a working phone, and that's all I need it to do, and it's a lot smaller than an iPhone. Portable. The iPhone always struck me as too big a phone, with too small a screen for video / web, so I never got one. Now, I'd love an iPad, but there's no way I want to have to buy an iPhone as well. What I'd like as a companion to the pad is an iPhone shuffle. Something small, maybe the size of a bluetooth headset (or even better, a sexy black pen), but better looking / better design. On its own, it would work with voice commands or simple buttons, and wouldn't need the iPad to function. I can't believe the market hasn't provided a small sexy phone with no damn screen. Market FAIL. Synced with the iPad, you'd get a whole interface with much more power to control your messaging experience.
-I HATE HATE HATE java and LOVE that Apple and Google are teaming up to make it outdated. Screw Java and the horse it rode in on. HTML5 is going to grow pretty fast, I think. Now they need to work something out where I can use Google Voice. This is also a deal breaker for me to upgrade. I want a virtual number that I keep for life, and can redirect to any other numbers I choose, on the fly. I want a web interface that gives me total control of which calls get routed where and when. I REALLY want to be able to record calls at the press of a button, and to have all my voicemail instantly accessible as computer files. My outgoing messages too. If Apple can't work with a direct competitor, I understand. Just duplicate the service and offer it to me as part of cloud / mobile me / whatever it's called, and I'll consider the $100/yr (which I'm not considering now, especially since it can't even sync my workstation with my macbook).
-I'm not crazy about the proportion of the iPad, or it's screen. There's simply no way that in future versions, it won't be 16x9, and full screen. How big is that border between screen and edge, because it looks like a full inch. No border, and no ugly IMAX square aspect ratio for the iPad dimensions. I understand they're doing it this way to keep costs down, but maybe I'll wait for an aesthetic (and OLED) upgrade.
-I'm seriously considering voice command as a major interface on my workstation. With a companion iPhone shuffle implementing this, you wouldn't have to type on a piece of glass (that's not looking great to me, but as good as Apple is on design, they're bad with ergonomics. Can I have an ergonomic keyboard please? No? Well *&%!@). That would be nice.
