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.