Until I watched this video – the iPad didn’t really excite me in any way. I think everyone felt a bit underwhelmed by it – and indeed there was a lot of satirical commentary around it being an iPhone that won’t fit in your pocket. Even though it is important to remember that the demonstration is of an Adobe Air app, making this tablet PC agnostic – as we’ve seen in the smartphone market – Apple’s user interface and touchscreen technology will  probably outclass its competition for some time to come (a recent post on Crunchgear highlights how ridiculous it is that Apple’s iPhone touchscreen from 2007 still can’t be matched or bettered by smartphones from 2010).

Looking at the video – it becomes clear what these tablets are for. I can’t think of a better way of consuming ‘print’ media.