I would like to be enlightened.

[cyrano]

Tech folks? Tell me about the iPad. My personal research tells me it's kind of like an iPhone except it has a bigger screen and doesn't make phone calls. I don't really understand the revolutionary nature of the iPhone, which may be part of the problem.
However, I know many people (most of whom are not part of the "It's shiny and I have lots of money" school) who desperately want an iPad. Joel at Gizmodo has called iPad "the stage for some of the most exciting software of the last decade."
There is something that I'm obviously missing, and this would not be the first time, but in this instance I hope that somebody can explain it to me in words.

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[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

An iPad (depending on which version you get) is a big iPod or a big iPhone, but it also runs Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, (the Word/Excel/Ppt for Apple), has iBook, which totally pwns Kindle, and a really good email program. It's also large enough to see movies on without being too big to easily carry around. Mine is getting here next week.