The iPad itself IS just a big iPhone, meaning it is a crippled, closed piece of hardware that doesn’t do everything it should be capable of.  It still holds a bit of intrigue, though that may just be the early adopter in me.  I’m not a fan of Apple or its products but once again they’ve come up with a device that I am seriously considering buying.  It has definite value as just a small slate that you can just keep on standby around the house and use it for quick internet searches or the more popular use, browsing the web or listening to music while on the toilet.  The 3G connection at a paltry $15 a month with AT&T is much cheaper than the standard contracts you get with most netbooks.  At that price, with the ability to get online anywhere I want to the device has a purpose.  The only problem is that you assume that AT&T’s saturated network will be able to handle the extra traffic iPads could generate.  In the end, I just might buy my first Apple product.  I’ll wait of course for Apple to drop the price after the fanboys buy it at full price and the casual user doesn’t buy an iPad. 

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