Here’s some links explaining about the iPad and its potential to be a game change.

Daniel Eran Dilger’s Roughlydrafted is a pro-Apple site that picks apart negative rants about Apple  from tech pundits. He’s putting up a series called “Ten Myth’s of Apple’s iPad.”  It’s quite good and to the point.

Basically, though, one must not think of an iPad as a PC with a touch screen, but something different.  The negative reaction to the iPad is the result of people’s thinking that it should act like a classic PC running a familiar mouse driven operating system.

But the comment below from Infoworld pretty spot on:

bbahner
28-Jan-10 3:06pm
Just like the iPod was a dud when it came out (just a hard drive based mp3 player- nothing to see here) or how the iPhone was doomed when it came out (my Simbian/Blackberry/WinMob phone has all of these features – why would I want one??) The iPad is not about features. You can’t do anything new that is impossible on a laptop or iPhone. It’s about the experience of using it. Most people don’t need a computer – they need email. They need a spreadsheet. They need to watch a movie. Why do they need to know how to install software or how to find the file they saved using the Windows Explorer – they don’t. Those things just get in their way. Also it’s not a sized-up iphone – can I create a real spreadsheet or presentation on my iPhone? The iphone UI doesn’t support those things – it had to be completely rethought from scratch. The iPad is offering a brand new large scale completely touch based UI that can be used for doing real work. Nobody else has done this yet. That by itself is hugely ambitious. Then on top of it, here is a sweet piece of hardware, and a bunch of rewritten apps that use the new UI. It is really great what they have pulled off. Most people don’t understand the scope of what Apple has done here. This iPad IS a revolution, but like most things Apple, nobody will realize it until a year from now when they have sold 10 million of them.

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