Where will the iPad find its' market?

So yes yes the iPad is beautiful, it's elegant, stylish yadda yadda yadda. But beyond the Appleites, a tablet is something of a half way house

It's not a mobile, it's not a laptop. It's both and yet neither

Where does it fit in with the regular joe?

I gotta believe that at $499 it will be aimed at the netbook crowd

However everyone baulked at the Joo Joo pad's price tag for the same

$500 - $1000. It'll be like buying a Merc. You'll pay for extras.

Fair point but it shows both the power of brand and the sheep effect when one company gets lynched for the price point and another gets nothing but love for the same.

Better price point than I expected but I will wait for version 2 when there is a camera built-in for vc

Look at the specs and the pricing. very expensive for 64GB storage. Also no USB expansion storage option. That's very disappointing.

Also check out this mashable article on what the ipad does not do. Whilst some is just nitpicky others are a genuinely shocking omission even more so in light of the higher price points.

Would love to get to play with one. Think though one has to wait for the version with the wi-fi / 3G combo (and the camera add-on).