How many of you are up for a bet? I bet 100 to 1 that the iPad will become more popular then the iphone and that it will become a main stream device by December 2010. Why... you "hardcore" techies are maybe 10-25% of the total population. Now my 65 year old father, iPad... Perfect. My 6 year old son, iPad... Perfect. My 45 year old sales rep who is a professional sales person and not a techy, iPad... Perfect. The kids in Africa, trying to learn English, Math, Science and does NOT have a Geek Squad, Best Buys, or even an IT guy to call, iPad... Perfect. So Apple has made a console (Yes, I'll agree to that) that fits 85-90% of the worlds population for organizing, viewing, limited creation/editing, gaming, educational, multimedia content and information device that is Virus free, 10 hours of use, light weight, near instant on/app opening AND... Affordable for most Americans! (I know the argument about the Africans can't afford it... BUT their governments CAN!) Yes, you have to buy app versus getting them off of BitTorrent, but isn't that the nature of the beast? The beast, being a FOR PROFIT business? The iPad is starting with 100,000+ apps, yeah but their not iPad optimized, HEY GEEK! Who cares??? My father, son, sales rep, teacher, mother won't know the difference and for that matter, won't care... does the app turn on and work is all they are going to worry about, something you can't say about Windows Tablets. Now on that on different note; Multitasking, camera, flash, etc... Ah, did you know that the USA government had a full size RV run on water across the entire USA...ON WATER, Don't hear any of you crying to GM, Ford about not having Water ran vehicles. Or how about the FACT that the Macintosh OS was 1,000,000,000,000 time easier in 1987 then Windows 3.11, Windows 95 or for that matter Windows XP! It has taken Microsoft up to 2009 to release Windows 7 for even the hardest core PC person to say, "Final, we are catching up to the Apple Macintosh experience!" (LOSERS) Apple knows they can add Multitasking, it's actually in there now... iTunes and mail run in the background right now!!! Hey Geeks, what causes Memory leaks the most on Desktops... THIRD PARTY APPS!!! Flash, seriously... Adobe has never taken Flash on Macintosh serious, so why should Apple add Flash??? F Flash!!! Go h.264 and HTML5!!! Camera, WHAT!? ATT 3G network is already reaching capacity and you want to have Video conference, so you can show your Geek friends the Star War figure you found at a store!? Don't worry, 100:1 Odd Apple already has plans to add a camera. So here we are, facts are facts and the iPad is here to STAY!!!