The first generation is meaningless. Of course the first-gen iPad is lacking "obvious" features competitors have. Same thing with the iPhone on Day 1. But in

The first generation is meaningless. Of course the first-gen iPad is lacking "obvious" features competitors have. Same thing with the iPhone on Day 1. But in 9-12 months, when iPad 2.0 comes out, and a year after than when iPad 3 hits the shelves, those feature gaps will be closed, like they were with the iPhone. Apple doesn't win by cramming in all the features on the first go. They win by polishing the heck out of things and executing features well. Then they expand those features in follow-up revisions.