Anyone could be forgiven for not thinking much of tablets before the iPad. Tablets sucked before the iPad. And what made the iPad different was not really about

Anyone could be forgiven for not thinking much of tablets before the iPad. Tablets sucked before the iPad. And what made the iPad different was not really about the tablet anyway, it was about the platform. The iDevices are just a convenient vector for introducing a new computing paradigm, something Apple has probably been aching to do for a long time. How Android fits into that paradigm is not yet clear. Devices in this category need to be fully usable by anybody. In that respect, IMHO, Android is presently broken and fragmentation may prevent it from ever being fixed. It's no wonder that Apple is so fanatically protective of their platform.