I just don't get the ipad!!!!
I just don't believe there is a long term market for it.

I'm a huge apple fan but the ipad has no appeal for me whatsoever.

It seems Apple are trying to invent a new place in the market somewhere inbetween a netbook and a smartphone!!!

I understand the intial excitement and many millions of people purchasing them based upon the hype and the clever advertising, but I really don't see where it fits in.

It is not a phone, so lets say i have an iphone, well I already have every single bit of functionality that the ipad has but on a smaller screen.
So I want a larger screen for surfing the web but don't want to carry a laptop round with me, well I can get a netbook for far cheaper than an ipad!

It just seems pointless seeing that on the iphone I can already listen to all my music, surf the net, read ebooks, etc etc, and it is also a phone!

Most people I've spoken to who want an ipad are almost trying to find or make up reasons for why they need one, but ultimately it is a product that is just not required or needed.

All these people saying Netbooks are more functional, are they really? I have used 3 or 4 different Netbooks, I have lasted 10 mins maximum before I've closed the thing in a huff. Slow, buggy, crash prone things that have small keyboards, low resolution screens and fragile bodies. I'm not going to comment on iPads because I've never used one, I know that is going to have to be a pretty bad device to be worst than your average netbook.

I'm not all that convinced by netbooks either to be honest.
At what point does a laptop become to big to take somewhere that it is fine to take a netbook to??

Ive had a Toshiba NB series netbook for about 14 months now, and find it brilliant. Certainly serves the purpose of the IPAD - and more imo. So long as you get one with more than 1gb ram they are fine.

Just get a Macbook or an iPhone and save yourself the hassle.
Macbooks are great and the iPhones are great too, this just has no place in dare i say normal peoples lives.

People who can afford to buy one or two are the only people who will use them, and even then it is only to add to their "image" at work.

i don't like the itunes software that you need to use to add stuff on