Well, the wait is over. A long, long seventeen year wait if you had (or lusted after) an Apple Newton: Apple’s return to a hand-held, touch-sensitive computing device. The iPad was unveiled today and attempts to fill the niche between full-fledged laptop computer and a smartphone. Yes, you could say the iPod Touch or iPhone are hand-held, touch-sensitive computing devices, but the iPad is designed to be a portable Internet appliance first and a communications device second. And even defining the iPad as a “communications device” is a bit sketchy, as I will get into in a bit.
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