The iPad - contrary to the way most people thought about it - is not a tablet computer running the Apple operating system. It's more like a very big iPhone, running the iPhone operating system.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The job of the iPad should be to be so powerful and capable that you never need a notebook.
There's no doubt: The iPad is a beautiful, extremely well-designed device.
The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.
The iPad is far and away the most successful product in its category.
The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV?
What the iPad does is it opens people's minds to a new way of doing things. They're actually thirsting for it.
I'm not a techie, but I don't know how I lived without an iPad! Mine comes with me everywhere. As greatest inventions go, it's up there with electricity and cars.
I really like the iPad. I think that's pretty cool.
Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop's keyboard used to do.
The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.