What is iPad? To be honest, I am not sure what it is. When Apple released its first iPod in 2001, I thought it is just a Portable Music Player. How can it competes with low-cost players? Obviously, many of us are wrong. iPod changed the whole industry. So did the iPhone.
Now the expectation is that iPad will change the publish, broadcasting industries; change the way people read newspaper, magezines and books; change the way people watch TV, videos and movies; change the way people surfs internet and social networking. And maybe more importantly, iPad may change the way of learning.
Can iPad meets these high expectations? Or it is just a iPod Touch with a big screen, a MacBook without a keyboard. I believe only time can tell. Personally I will not bet anything on it. As a consumer, we all benefit from the innovations and competitions. For now, the iPad has ended Amazon’s monoploy position in eBook market (WSJ Article).
