i will buy iPAD if it has all i need/want and also meet my expectation on the design. but for now it just piece of crap.

iPad is just so bloody redundant. If you had an iPhone or iPod Touch, what would be the point of carrying an iPad when 90% of what its features is in your pocket already? Plus if you were using it and you wanted to make a phone call, you have to put down your iPad and fish out another device just to make a call.

allow adequate time and feedbacks for apple to tweak and finetune the iPad and if by then, it still cannot prove its (both) monetary and quality worth, it should qualify for cnet's worst gadget of the year.

The meta lesson is that the story told is as important as the hardware, software and services being sold -- and while everyone may not be convinced, I do think Apple will win over the majority of a skeptical audience with high expectations.

Yeah, I'm just pointing out his hypocrisy.

Care to state the purposes that tech-savvy or professionals may find in the iPad? I'm genuinely curious because I really want to get this but I can't justify it.

To put it simply, when you've spent enough time puzzling over human computer interface related stuff, you'll will indeed know the issues. You don't really need to have the iPad in your hand either to understand the interface hell that it'll play when it comes to camera position when you rotate the screen. Just take a good look at your own camera at the top of your mac's screen. Rotate your mac 90 degrees, or 180 degrees, and see if the camera still have got your face in focus or not, and look at the holding position that you'll need to have to keep your face in focus. Try doing this with your notebook and see for yourself. Forget the 180 degree rotation, just try for the 90 degree.

I'm not being apologetic, I'm being realistic and I have given my reasoning on why I view it as such. And thus I prefer not to whine over something that is limited by technology at the moment either. I would rather spend my time looking at the various applications that I can think of for such a device. What I can say is that it does open new doors for me to pitch specialized applications to my clients. Seeing that none of what I've got in mind to build requires a camera, the lack of the camera right now doesn't bother me.

The Human Computer Interface constraints is the main reason why the full OS X is not stuffed into the iPad either, despite the iPad being capable of running the full OS. Its like when I first stuffed Linux into the 1st gen iPaq. While it was fun for a day or 2, I ended up asking myself after that, exactly how practical is it to have a linux command prompt on the iPaq.

1. I believe its based on the same architecture of the iPhone and most cellphones and PDAs... all of them can't multitask. I also believe that once its multi-tasking capable, it's gonna be hot... too hold to hold.

with Jailbreak lor...

God knows why Apple didn't allow this feature to be out in the first place.
hmm.. really cannot play Music and browse at the same time? confirm?

hmmm.... guys, when will ipad available at m'sia market ??

Well according to Stevie it comes with 16, 32 and 64!!! should be sufficient...

please refer to the official ipad feature page (some of it are pretty lame i must say such as calendar). it clearly said MOVIE. if those listed there arent one of the selling point, why bother listing?
furthermore, those feature you claim it to be secondary only applies to you or other apple fanbois. to alot of us, we seek for those features.
now you see why netbook sells as well? you are clearly an apple fan so you considering an ipad is kinda natural.

while u think it is secondary, there are ppl who seriously wants to view movies on it. dont assume on their behalf.
ironically, i noticed that most ppl who actually wants to buy an ipad are ppl who already owns an apple product.

here's an article on iPad written by Paul Thurrott last week. He makes a good point and non biased at all.

http://www.winsupersite.com/alt/ipad_preview.asp

Hmm thinking about the potential of developing games on the iPad.. Not sure if it'll market well...

Does apple includes the stand so that you can put the ipad on the table while you use it? I mean this thing weighs around 700 grams and it would just take minutes for the hand to feel cramped while holding the thing to use.

If you just put it on the table and use, walao user will become bongkok leh.

waiting for u to try cutting ur simcard

It looks like 3rd party accessory.

I puzzled too. Maybe Apple trying to push it so they can save lot more space on next gen iPhone?

All iPhone so far uses standard full-size SIM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-SIM