"You can argue that the crap tablets MS and its partners put out beat Apple to the punch, but that's missing the entire point." Actually, that is the entire po

"You can argue that the crap tablets MS and its partners put out beat Apple to the punch, but that's missing the entire point." Actually, that is the entire point. That's exactly what is being discussed. Apple did not invent the tablet, they took an existing idea and improved its implementation dramatically. "Nothing that was released prior to the iPad was anything like the tablets that people have decided are so exciting now, and to pretend they were is disingenuous at best." The IPad certainly evolved far beyond its predecessors. That doesn't mean it took nothing from those designs. Clearly there are some similarities if they've all been labeled 'tablets'. To pretend there aren't is disingenuous at best :-/