The commercial craze surrounding iPad gave us the impression that this nifty machine is small enough to trot yet packed with superior apps that would put an ordinary smart phone to shame.

Apple has made it a point, in fact, a selling point, that thousands of apps were designed specifically to iPad consumption. These apps range from the leisurely and educational to the business centered. At present, additional apps are still in the process of been developed to ensure that all kinds of processes are possible to be accomplished in the iPad.

Interesting apps are present in the iPad, which may not appear to be immediately useful, but to some extent, is on a good-to-know basis. For instance, there exists a table of elements app called The Elements that has absolutely no use for corporate individuals and just about everyone else. Unless we are still attached to academic Chemistry or have great propensity to create our own potions, the Table of Elements seems like a whimsical addition to iPad’s list of apps. But it does not hurt to find this app, for one, it could come in handy in the face of an alien take-over.

One useful app would be the Epicurious, a comprehensive indexed cookbook. The user could randomly search for a recipe by simply using one of the ingredients names as the search keyword. It will return a list of recipes that includes the key ingredient and the user can further narrow down the search by adding more key recipes.

Other lifestyle apps are offered too that can supplement the Epicurious app such as the Grocery IQ and Mcormick Recipes apps among others.

Games and entertainment apps have a wide array of selection from scholarly to mundane to high speed racing. Even the game apps have been specially redesigned for iPad. Gaming is such a great experience on the iPad because of its rich display, ultra fast processor and multi-orientation screen. The user can flip the tablet from portrait to landscape to better enjoy the gaming activity.

Scrabble and Soduko are two of the most popular educational game puzzles that were integrated into the iPad apps. Puzzle games such as Labyrinth, Monkey Flight, Traffic Rush, Superstar Chef, Bloons Light and more. For the puzzle addict, iPad sounds like a stairway to arcadepuzzle games heaven.

Racing games have so many incarnations in the list of iPad apps such as Real Racing HD, Asphalt 5, F1 2010, Fast Lane Street Racing Lite, Fast and Furious The Game Test Drive, Need for Speed: Undercover among others. There are about hundred of racing games to choose from.

The iPad owner can decide which apps to download on the iPad depending on his lifestyle or tastes. Everything is available on the App Store and almost all of it has been rehashed to adapt to the iPad’s specifications. With over a hundred thousand of apps to choose from, it would be impossible not to find one that will spark one’s interests.

Multiple crooks wedged their way beneath the security gate at a Best Buy brick-and-mortar store in San Carlos, California, and made off with at least 125 iPad tablet devices. The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene in quick fashion at 11:50 PM on Thursday night, but in the minute it took them to get there, the suspects had already fled the premises, iPads in tow, CBS San Francisco reports.

Deputies say the thieves lifted the security gate and slid underneath it. No small heist, the retail loss of goods is estimated to be more than $100,000, which would put the average selling price of all 125 tablets at $800 pop. Apple’s iPad 2 devices sell for anywhere between $500 (16GB, Wi-Fi) up to $830 (64GB, Wi-Fi + 3G).

The iPads were stolen from a locked display case. Surveillance cameras showed the suspects executing a “carefully planned heist” in which they sprinted right to the iPads and never looked up at the cameras in a coordinated theft

The iPad has reached a notable milestone: There are now over 100,000 applications made specifically for this tablet. Considering the iPad has been available for less than a year and a half and developers have only had access to the iPad’s software development kit since January 2010, this is a noteworthy accomplishment.

Although the iPad launched with the promise of supporting “almost all” of the apps previously on the App Store, many applications still benefit from a design that is made specifically with the larger screen of the iPad in mind.

When Apple introduced the iPad 2 in March of this year, the company said it had about 65,000 applications in the App Store designed with the iPad in mind. A few weeks ago at WWDC, the company said it was up to 90,000 apps.

By now, I am convinced that the iPad 2 is not nearly as popular as the initial reactions to the new tablet suggested.

If you are looking for purchase advice, the overwhelming majority of media is providing reasons why not to buy the iPad 2 (yes, we provided that advice as well as there are plenty of reasons why you should consider buying a different tablet.) The reality is, however, that there are good reasons why you would want to buy the iPad 2. The bottom line is that it is a damn good tablet.

1. You don’t have an iPad yet

If you haven’t purchased an iPad yet and you have the funds available to pay more than $500 for such a device, then it’s somewhat obvious that you would be looking to get the newer product, rather than the older device. This is mainly a financial decision and if you don’t mind spending the extra dollars over discounted gen-1 iPads, you may enjoy the fancy new look of the iPad 2. Current iPad owners contemplating an iPad 2 purchase may also consider getting rid of their original iPad now and sell the tablet while the demand for the iPad 2 is strong and keeps iPad prices at a higher level. Don’t expect to get much dough for the old iPad once iPad 2 supply has caught up with demand.

2. You have an iPhone 4/Mac/iTunes Account

At this point, you could be thinking whether it really has to be an iPad 2? Maybe you should get an Android device? The fact is that tablets feel cozy in their ecosystem that is growing around a technology platform, which would be iOS in this case. The iPad 2 will provide you with the latest iOS version and a few new features. An Android tablet does not make much sense if you own an iPhone and/or a Mac as the value of these devices is in the platform. On the other hand, if have an Android phone and you buy an iPad/iPad 2 you should not expect to be able to take advantage of the full value potential. An Android tablet may be the better choice in the long term.

3. Choice

Perhaps that is just me, but I look at tablets that are about to be released and I am wondering whether those guys are joking. $800 for a rival tablet? Huh? You may be spending just as much for an iPad 2, if you climb up the spec ladder and choose a much more capable model than the $499 entry-level device. However, the iPad 2 provides more room to purchase a device that fits your wallet and not just the requirements of a manufacturer’s balance sheet. Don’t mistake the iPad 2 to be a bargain device – it is an expensive toy on the lower end. But Apple doesn’t force you to choose a one-size-fits-all tablet. If you need more choice, you can personalize your iPad 2 with colored covers, which would be my personal top reason to get the iPad 2 and not the original iPad. Choice is hidden value we tend to forget.

4. The Processor

This is one for geeks that provides some sort of investment protection (if you really buy this kind of argument.) We haven’t seen any benchmarks yet, but we have heard plenty of reports that the iPad 2 is fast. Two cores tend to be faster than one, if applications support multithreading. There could be applications that tap into the horsepower and provide a much smoother user experience. And hey, two cores are twice the bragging rights of just one core.

5. Apps!

The software and available applications are a big deal. 148Apps.biz tells us that there are currently more than 358,000 active apps in the App store. We know that there are tens of thousands of dedicated iPad apps. Compared to Android, there is an obvious application advantage. The new iOS software upgrade delivers Facetime, which won’t work in the original iPad (well, duh! The old iPad does not have cameras) and there’s now a personal hotspot feature that works with the iPhone 4. In the end, the iPad 2 itself will get boring pretty quick – it’s the apps that will allow you to get value out of the device. At least for now, the iOS platform has the app advantage and future apps may be catering to higher performing processors.

Tablets like the iPad 2 are still luxury items and purchases are often guided much more by emotions than by cold reasoning. However, it does not hurt to think about the value proposition and which tablet would do the most for your needs, before you run out and purchase an expensive device simply because it has an Apple logo on it and Steve Jobs tells you that it’s magical.

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As we are forcing our way out of Apple’s distortion field again and as we are regaining our common sense, we are noticing that Apple’s iPad 2 isn’t exactly the flawless product that has been painted on the flashing presentation screen.

Don’t get me wrong, it appears to be a solid upgrade in the usual Apple style, but if you are among us mortals, those who have to take peek into the checking account before hustling over to the Apple store, should remember that there are some painful downsides and there is a chance that you may regret the purchase of an iPad 2 (which will cost you, on average, $628, according to Apple).

Here are my top five reasons (which add up to one cumulative reason) why you should not buy the iPad 2.

1. It has a really crappy camera

It is suspicious if Apple introduces a new feature everyone has been asking for and then does not talk about it. There are two cameras in the iPad 2 – one antiquated camera for your video chats, some call this “facetiming”, and VGA (640×480) resolution and a 720p back camera with a still camera and 5x digital zoom. However, that is not a 1280×720p camera, as the specs suggest, but apparently the iPod Touch’s 960×720p camera which turns out to be about 0.7 megapixels or the kind of digital camera you would have bought in 1996. The digital zoom is due to its pixel interpolation process virtually useless. Overall, the iPad 2’s cameras are really an insult to the term “digital camera” in the year 2011.

2. There is no 4G

There has never been the right time to buy a computer and this year may change the tablet environment in a similar way: When you choose a shiny new tablet and walk out the door, it may already be old, because you just missed an announcement of a much better and new generation device. Granted, the iPad is brand new, but the lack of 4G integration or a conclusive upgrade path is a letdown. 4G preparation should be part of the iPad 2 to support its web browsing and content consumption focus. However, you could be sarcastic and be happy that there is no 4G: In the end, it may trick you into using much more bandwidth your AT&T plan allows you to use. So, if you are looking for an excuse to purchase the iPad 2, consider it a feature to protect your finances from the greedy hands of AT&T.

3. Where is that retina display?

Among the expected updates for the iPad 2 was a retina display with a much higher and crisper resolution. That was a no-show and the iPad 2 is stuck with the same 1024×768 pixel display as the iPad. Sure, apps run much faster and some apps may run smoother, but they will look the same. This may actually not a bad thing for the iPad itself, as this lower resolution display will somewhat conceal the actual picture quality that is delivered by the 0.7 megapixel camera. With growing competition it is likely that the next iPad will deliver a higher-resolution display and a much better camera.

4. Flash

Supporting or not supporting Flash has almost been a religious issue and we have seen trends that Flash may actually be on its way out. But the fact is that there is still plenty of compelling flash content out there and the recent introduction of stage acceleration support eliminates Steve Jobs’ concerns that Flash is inefficient and consumes too much battery and processor power. It’s nice to have a device to actually run flash apps without staring at empty content space and remember that you just shelled out more than $500 for a web content consumption device. Steve Jobs’ lecture that Flash will die reaches only so far. Can we just agree that this whole argument is not really about security and efficiency? It is about protecting Apple’s walled apps garden. If you want to have access to all popular types of Internet content, including Flash, the iPad is not for you. Period.

5. No USB, No SD

When Apple introduced the iMac in 1996 and told users that they really do not need a floppy drive anymore, we wanted to agree with Steve Jobs, and we had to, eventually – but it was a painful decision. Apple offered iDrive, an online data storage solution in place of the floppy, but we were dealing with 56K data connections and just downloading a new web browser took about 2 hours. Today we have to deal without common storage solutions such as USB and SD in the iPad/iPad 2 and you scratch your head over the same question: How do I get a lot of data from one place (a digital camera, for example) to this thing? Well, cloud computing could be a solution (just hope you are not on AT&T’s 200 MB data plan when you are on the road) – or another expensive Apple accessory to transfer pics from your camera to the device. But hey, it has an Apple logo on it, so you know that there are some detours you will have to accept.

The Bottom Line

All those reasons above add up to one main reason why you should not buy an iPad 2. In many ways, it is just a minor upgrade over the original iPad and in its basic feature set, the new iPad is, for its primary purpose of web browsing, just as good as the new one. If you look at it with common sense, the new iPad 2 is a bridge device that will lead to a much more substantial upgrade next year.

If you have an iPad already, there is no reason to buy a new iPad 2, other than you have $600 or more laying around growing mold. And if you don’t have an iPad, you may consider the original iPad, which we hear is seeing dropping prices. The crappy camera, the software update and the dual-core processor may not be worth the extra expense.

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iPad comes with a bunch of features that can enhance the experience of browsing on the Internet. Although, it has been some time since iPad was launched, it is still a relatively new field of development and not many people are fully aware of using the capabilities iPad gives and the kind of applications that can be developed for it. This is the main reason why it is highly recommended that you hire an iPad developer to make the best use of all the amazing features iPad boasts.

Apple proclaimed that with iPad the browsing experience a user has will completely change and the device is very much capable of standing true to the claims. The 9.7 inch wide fully touch screen, the virtual keyboard, the graphics, the crisp text, wi-fi, internet facilities, 10 hours lasting battery life and so many others are a perfect combination for hooking on to it. It makes the applications function even better.

All the applications that have been made for the iPhone will totally work on the iPad. But you can also get apps made especially for it and they will give even better results and this is where you would need to hire an iPad developer.

Although, the iPhone apps work for the iPad, there are certain things that are different in the two devices like the screen size and the graphic quality, thus if you custom make the applications for iPad they will give you better experience.

Hiring an iPad developer can help you build such applications that are true to the nature of this device. Developing applications for iPad is not an easy task and so it is much more advisable to take help of a professional. Developers are experienced and completely aware of the technical know how as to how to go about developing amazing applications.

iPad developers/programmers that have been working on the iPhone platform can use their experience and the possibilities provided by iPad and build applications that will delight your senses. They are aware of the latest trends of the market and know what works best for which group of audiences. So when you hire an iPad developer, they can help you take a more informed decision, consult on what will work the best for you and bring out applications that will fulfill your requirements and have the competency to stand the market.

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Rarely does Apple ever sell you an accessory that competes with a basic function of the device it’s intended for.

Apple believed in its virtual keyboard on the iPhone and thus you never got a physical alternative. So what makes the iPad so different that Apple would offer a $69 dock with a built in keyboard?

The iPad keyboard isn’t really portable. It is from a size/weight standpoint, but its shape tells a different story. It’s the dock part of the keyboard dock that really prevents this thing from being portable in any normal iPad case. It’s because of this that I believe it turns the iPad into more of a desktop than a netbook/notebook.

And I think that’s Apple’s intent as well. In Apple’s eyes, the iPad is already more than capable at the sort of casual web browsing/emailing that netbooks are designed for. The keyboard dock simply makes the iPad function as a light desktop when you’re at home. It’s not going to make the iPad any more appealing, but if the device was designed for you, it’s going to make your life easier.

The iPad keyboard dock has made me understand the real focus of the iPad more than I did a week ago. This truly is a computing platform for people who don’t really need a computer, at least not all of the power and capabilities of a full fledged computer. It’s great for the basic things: typing, checking email, looking at photos, playing music, browsing the web. These are all things any computer can do, and a netbook can actually do them cheaper. The iPad just does them simpler. In achieving that simplicity you do lose out on some higher level functionality of course (e.g. not being able to open zip attachments in Mail), but for some that’s a fair tradeoff.

Strange Behavior

The keyboard dock has three points of interface: the dock connector for the iPad, the dock connector for your power brick/computer, and a line out port for external speakers.

The iPad dock connector is a relatively snug fit, which unfortunately means you’ll have to remove Apple’s case before docking your iPad. The external dock connector works as advertised, although given that most PCs can’t charge the iPad while connected you may find yourself switching dock cables quite a bit (unless the iPad is your primary computing device).

The line out port is the strangest of them all. When in use, you lose the ability to adjust volume on the iPad. Either via the volume rocker or the hotkeys on the keyboard, you can’t adjust volume. It defaults to four bars and anything more you have to adjust on your speakers. You can still mute audio however.

I also found that I’d occasionally get a hissing sound out of my speakers occasionally when I’d launch certain apps or hit the lock button on the keyboard.

The Keyboard & Using it

Setup of the keyboard dock is simple, it is just a dock with a keyboard attached to it. Slide the iPad on and everything is good to go. The OS was designed around the keyboard.

The lock key on the keyboard immediately locks the iPad. Tap it again to unlock. There’s a home key and a search key. You can adjust brightness, skip between songs in the iPod app, adjust/mute volume and even bring up the virtual keyboard by hitting one of the top row of function keys.

Many keyboard shortcuts work. Cmd + X/C/V still lets you cut/copy/paste. The keyboard has arrow keys so you can shift-select text and delete/copy/move it. Even some OS X keyboard shortcuts work. Cmd + Up/Down will move your cursor to the very top or bottom of a document. Others don’t translate quite as well. For example, hitting option + delete will delete the first word to the left of your cursor. Unlike in OS X however, it will also delete the preceding space. Let’s say I delete the word “something” in the following sentence using the option + delete keystroke: “The quick brown fox did something”. In OS X my cursor would end up one space away from the last d in did. On the iPad, my cursor would be right next to the last d.

Deleting the space that preceded the word is silly. I’m guessing if you have to delete an entire word it’s because you want to use a different one, not because you want to make the previous word longer or end the sentence.

Formatting shortcuts are absent as well. Want to bold text? Cmd + B won’t do anything for you in Pages. You’ll have to tap the B button at the top of the screen.

With the physical keyboard you retain the iPad’s limited autocorrect functionality however I found myself generally typing faster than the suggested words had the chance to appear. For example, if you type netbook the iPad will by default suggest “net book”. With the keyboard dock, if I want to type netbook and not have it autoreplaced with net book I have to type the word then wait a fraction of a second for the suggestion, then tap the X button to close out the suggestion and hit space to go on. If I just type at regular speed the iPad won’t even have the opportunity to pop up the net book suggestion before I hit space, which means the OS will assume I wanted the correction and substitute it in for me. It’s frustrating but this is one reason I’m thankful Apple toned down the autocorrect on the iPad.

That’s not the only autosubstitution problem I found. In Pages if you put two spaces after a word using the virtual keyboard the app will automatically end the previous sentence with a period and begin a new one. Do the same with the physical keyboard and there’s no period. Obviously you don’t need the little shortcuts as much with a physical keyboard, but it’s annoying.

More important than the missing auto-period is the fact that there’s no easy way to switch between apps using the keyboard dock. Cmd + tab doesn’t do anything (perhaps it will in OS 4?) so you’re left with hitting the home key, tapping a new app and going from there.

You also can’t do things like use the arrow keys to scroll through a web page and Cmd+L won’t let you type in a new URL in Safari. There’s no reply to email shortcut either. Despite the addition of a physical keyboard, the iPad is still all about a touch interface. Thankfully the screen isn’t very far away from your hands given that it’s docked about a centimeter away from the top of the keyboard.

The iPad Keyboard Dock (top) vs. Apple’s Aluminum USB Keyboard (bottom)

Switching between the iPad’s touchscreen and the physical keyboard actually felt more natural than I expected. I think it has a lot to do with the close proximity of your hands to the iPad while you’re typing. Building the keyboard into the dock (or vice versa) was actually a very smart move in this sense. The whole thing, when assembled, works more like a mini iMac Touch rather than a silly tablet + keyboard combination. I’d say if you plan on making your iPad a permanent computing device in your life, the keyboard dock is perfect for getting work done while at home. At this screen size, I’d argue that a multitouch interface does work very well for a desktop. I do wonder how well it’d scale to a more iMac-sized device, but I smell potential.

One of the most frustrating aspects of the iPad keyboard dock is the fact that it doesn’t work if you have your iPad in Apple’s case. The dock connector can’t make good contact with the port on the iPad. Meaning whenever you want to dock it, you have to take off the case and put it back on after you’re done. This is a definite buzz kill for the grab and go folks.

And you’ll need that case because the iPad keyboard dock only works in portrait mode. If you want to watch a full screen video on the iPad, you’ll need the foldable case so you can prop it up in landscape mode. There are some elements of the whole keyboard dock setup that really do seem like Apple thought of everything. The keyboard shortcuts, the face that the virtual keyboard stays hidden when you have it connected. But then there are other obvious problems that weren’t solved, like the issue of landscape mode and not being able to work with Apple’s own case. My guess is that Apple thought of it but just saw the keyboard dock as a very focused device – for someone who wants to use their iPad for writing longer documents while retaining its portability.

Final Words

The iPad Keyboard Dock is good at one thing: turning your iPad into a desktop writing station. Think typewriter but with a different sort of multitouch. If the iPad is the perfect computing device for you, the keyboard dock is going to make it that much better. The ergonomics problems of using the iPad at a desk are solved, as are the typing speed issues thanks to Apple’s excellent aluminum keyboard design. If the iPad was made for you, the $69 Keyboard Dock will be worth every penny. It’ll turn your beloved iPad into a mini iMac Touch.

What it won’t do however, is make the iPad any more attractive to you. If you can’t deal with the limitations of the platform, the keyboard dock doesn’t do you much good. Even if you just hate the idea of a virtual keyboard, the dock won’t help much since it’s a sort of awkward thing to carry around; not to mention that you need a desk to use it on.

Regardless of what side of the fence you’re on, the quirks are annoying. It’s great that Apple enabled some keyboard shortcuts (copy/paste/page up/down), but leaving out others (bold, reply) is disappointing. The lack of app switching is irritating but also understandable given the lack of a multitouch way to do the same.

Personally, I like it. It makes the iPad more useful at my desk and I like the ability to quickly pull it off the dock and carry it with me. I just wish you didn’t need to take it out of its case all the time. The iPad is still much more portable of a device than a netbook, the keyboard dock just makes it more useful when you’re not porting it around.

Like the iPad it pairs with, the Keyboard Dock is a very polarizing device. You’ll either love it and think it’s worth every penny, or burn all of your black mock turtlenecks in disgust.

Confidence is built upon credibility, something Apple really earned thanks to the first iPod.

Apple gained the mainstream credibility to introduce a product, say it’s going to be the best thing ever, and have customers give it the benefit of the doubt.

Credibility is a finite good however. Promise the world and deliver beans instead too many times and you’ll find yourself back to square one. Luckily for Apple, that hasn’t happened yet.

The iPod gave Apple credibility, but Mac OS X, Mac hardware and eventually the iPhone all made deposits in that bank. That’s not to say that Apple devices are flawless, but the company has won the confidence of a huge part of the market.

The road to the iPad announcement was riddled with rumors and unsubstantiated claims of what the Apple tablet would do. It was to be the replacement for everything from cable TV to netbooks. Hype is a difficult thing to control, but in the case of the iPad, the market’s expectations were beyond unrealistic.

The hopeful child in all of us wanted to believe. We wanted to believe that Apple would introduce something truly revolutionary, something that would let us do anything we ever wanted to do. We just didn’t know what that was, but we believed that there was a slight chance Apple might make it happen.

What followed on January 27, 2010, the day of the iPad announcement, was a collection of excitement, disappointment and confusion.

I do have to place some (a lot?) of the blame on Apple. By saying nothing, confirming nothing (short of threatening law suits) Apple let the hype get carried away. And I’m not totally convinced that Apple itself wasn’t behind some of the leaks in order to generate free marketing for this device. The worst? Jobs calling the iPad magical. If the device was shipping today with no ergonomics issues, no slowdowns, no crashes and with a full list of heavy hitter apps (real ones, not just ones that showed us what the iPad could do in the future), then I’d call it magical. You can’t call something magical if it just promises magic at some point in the future. Well, you can, but then you’ll anger a lot of people who oppose to such liberal use of language.

You have to hand it to Apple PR though. Through careful planning and seeding of review units, it managed to end up in all of the right hands a few days prior to its launch.

It had been on every single late night talk show in the span of a couple days. It even made it to the grammys earlier this year. Folks looking to catch a break would kill for the sort of free publicity apples iPad has received. It has celebrity status without even adopting any orphans.

And like a celebrity, the iPad is very polarizing.

The iPad, even moreso than the iPhone, is not the end all, be all universal device for everyone. In fact, unlike the iPhone, it doesn’t replace any existing device in your life. It’s an addition. There are things it does beautifully, things it does ok, and things it just plain can’t do. Today, I’ll try to take you through all of that as best I can.

Steve Jobs is at it again. This time, he and his company, Apple Inc. have once again launched a new innovative product that is out of the box cutting-edge technology. While there have already been netbooks, smart phones and even digital book such as the Amazon Kindle, Steve and Apple have an even more brilliant idea. They combine all aspects of the already existing devices and pack them into one slim portable device which they call the iPad.

With an iPad, the user is not only capable of reading the e-books but also able to play sophisticated games such as Need For Speed Shift that is developed by the big name company, Electronic Arts, Inc. This is possible because the iPad has been equipped with a processor that seems to be more powerful than that equipped into a common netbook.

Long before, in the year 2001, Microsoft’s founder, Bill Gates, had already forecasted that such a tablet computer as iPad would become the trend in the world of consumer electronics in a period of 5 years. But unluckily for Microsoft and Gates, their project got stuck even though such big names as Compaq and Dell were behind the company to give it support.

However, it is a relief to the world that Steve Jobs stepped up to plate. With his artistic touch, he had actually obtained the rights to the technology in 2004. But the 5th September 2007 became the first time that he ever launched his first mini tablet computer, that is the iPod Touch. This is the real beginning of the iPad.

Steve mentioned that with the experience of Apple, Inc. of selling 75 million devices (iPhone and iPod Touch) they knew that people are indeed in need of the iPad. We could even see that Steve’s face was full of confidence and joy when he mentioned it at the launch of the iPad.

With a device that is sold with a price tag between $499 and $829, Steve Jobs, together with his beloved Apple, Inc. crew, has once again broken the rules and laid out the regulation that tends to limit people from being creative and innovative.

Going against the norm seems to be one of the things that Steve is really good at. Twenty five years ago, this was exactly what he did and he became the first person to revolutionize the computer. He became the person who came up with Silicon Valley right from his home. At the launch of iPod in 2001, he did sparked another revolution in the industry of music. While people are busy hijacking music in MP3 format, Steve was able to sell the MP3 music in mp4 format instead. Now, with his iPad, he seems to be challenging the Amazon Kindle.

However, it is up to the customers after all which one they will go for. It could be an iPad or it could be an iBust!