http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/05/06/how-the-ipad-gobbles-up-netbook-sales/

The device has also crossed the 1 million sales mark twice as fast as the iPhone did when launched. To be honest the real killer feature of the iPad is the device itself, along with the App Store that comes with it and the iPhone. The iPhone is a great phone and its success is due, in part, to the Apps that were written for it. But the size of the device ultimately is the biggest issue. You can browse the web, but you won’t want to for long. The iPhone usage model is task driven.

The iPad overcomes this – the screen size makes it far more usable for Apps. Dave I know that you can do a lot more with a notebook, and there are many tasks I would not want to use an iPad for! But there are also many that I wouldn’t want to use a notebook for too! I don’t want to drag a notebook from meeting-to-meeting just to take notes or check email. I don’t want to boot up a notebook to browse the internet, watch some videos or read an electronic document. The iPad makes media consumption as easy to access as picking up a book and reading it – just a few touches of the screen and it’s there – instant on. It’s not too heavy or bulky, and it’s not a mini laptop trying to run a full-power desktop operating system or suite of applications.

The right tool for the right job is the key thing here, and I think what we see in the iPad is another paradigm shifting, ground-breaking medium for computing on the move.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq6My3kEqqk

But would you really want your stick mitts all over your uber expensive gadget?!

I think what you’ve got here are 10 uses for the iPad. I’m finding it hard to accept that any of these are really ‘killer’ uses.

For me most of these points are solved more simply, and more effectively by other tools that are far better suited to the task. Real pens and notebooks will never be replaced. Laptops give you the capabilities and power to do most of this, and can even do several of these things at the same time, and can be a fraction of the cost these days

I think Apple are going for point raised in Home #1, but it will take lower prices to lure people away from using their phones, laptops and TVs. I’m sure it may prove good for casual gaming (Home #2) and there’ll be way too many gaming apps to choose from before we can blink, but it’s not another hard core gaming platform.

For those of us who are not gadget geeks, digital junkies or Apple zealots, I think it’ll be used for watching TV. Brilliant! All this technology, all this innovation and we’re just making it easier to sit around and watch TV.

No doubt you’ll corner me at work and we’ll continue this debate (-;