I don't get it. I seriously don't.
The only applicable use I can think of for this thing is to read e-books, but yet it's not really being marketed as such. Jobs sort of attempted to make a brash comparison to a netbook, but I can't even begin to see how that would work.
The only determination that I can come to is that it was created with no reason other than to make money. The Ipod makes sense, the Iphone makes sense and yes even the failed AppleTV makes sense. The Ipad has no real applicable use that cannot be replicated on either the Iphone or Ipod touch...well other than reading e-books, which is a retarded invention on it's own.
So Apple, what is it? What are you trying to do, other than to make money and get us to read on books a computer? Do you expect people to watch movies on this, I seem to remember seeing that on the Ipad commercial. I can't imagine watching a movie on that, it's simply to big to hold for long periods of time. So are we suppose to use it on long rides where we can prop it up? Though I only rarely take long trips, I would like to take more but they're to expense. So would I want to drop $500 on a movie watching device that I would only use a couple of times?
How about this Mr. Jobs: For the second generation of the Ipad, you take the same basic design and make it a little smaller...you know for ergonomics reasons and then you rename it the Ipod Touch. Yeah, that sounds like a real winner right there.
So please Apple, help make sense of this for me. It is really confusing.