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Sweet spot for the iPad, and combining it with an iPhone

There’s been a lot of talk about the iPad and all the minutia that surrounds it. But what about some stuff that no one is talking about, stuff like how much apps could cost, what the pricing sweet spot might be, and how developers could use the iPhone and the iPad in tandem. Here are some thoughts on all of those things.

Apple’s facing a real opportunity to increase revenue for developers.

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Bill Gates on iPhone: ‘Oh my God, Microsoft didn’t aim high enough’

During the TED Conference this week in Long Beach, Calif., BNET’s Brent Schlender asked Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates what he thought of Apple’s new iPad tablet.

“You know, I’m a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard – in other words a netbook – will be the mainstream on that,” Gates told BNET. “So, it’s not like I sit there and feel the same way I did with iPhone where I say, ‘Oh my God, Microsoft didn’t aim high enough.’ It is a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‘Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.’”

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