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This is as clear and concise a statement I have found on why this is it-
1. It is SO SIMPLE. It is basically a highly responsive capacitative piece of glass with solid state memory and an IPS display. Just as a book is basically paper bound together in a portable form factor. The simplicity is what allows everyone, us, software developers, content providers and accessory manufacturers to pour themselves into it, to remake it according to the limits of their imagination. I’ll stop before I get too Disney.
The book analogy is a great one, also ironic since the iPad is also intended as an alternative to paper books…
From StephenFry.com
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TUI stands for Touch User Interface of course.
Apple won. And this time they have the traction and experience to keep the lead.
If you want to look at the iPad long term, forget about the specs, the interface is the only thing that won’t be COMPLETELY different 5 years from now. Anyway, I’m sure multitasking and possibly Flash is coming in a few short months with OS 4 anyway.
This is the future of computing, I don’t mean in a ‘wow the new Intel CPU has 20 cores!’ sorta way. Actually, the original iPhone represented the future of computing, this is just the next step in that progression. As Stephen said, without the iPhone there would have been no Android, WebOS, etc.
While Microsoft was devoting much of its effort on Windows 7 (and should be commended for it), Apple just completely changed the future of computing. Do you think people will be using clamshell notebooks in 10 years? Think again.
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-Price range of $500 to $1000
-iPhone OS
-iWork and other tablet-optimized apps (from both desktop and iPhone)
-10″ screen
-Apple book store
-External keyboard
From insidedigitalmedia.com