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You know things are getting out of hand when gadgetry website Crunchgear starts reporting on the total instances of “iPad” appearing on various news websites. Yesterday Apple released the iPad upon a (mildly) unsuspecting world and unleashed a tidal wave that crashed Twitter (almost, again).

Why, you might ask, is the iPad the recipient of so much scorn from the tech head community? Scott Adams, author of Dilbert, says the iPad “looks like committee work to me”; Mashable lists 4 very good reasons why the iPad disappoints; and GigaOM gives a couple of true reasons why the iPad won’t make headway with business users.

If you ask me, there are 5 thoughts that are worth mentioning:

• The iPad is a device that will appeal to casual users of the web who don’t want a clunky, unintuitive computer like a regular Windows desktop. (first suggested by Daniel Tenner)
• As regular users of the web and technology, it escapes our notice that there are literally masses of people who don’t use computers to surf the web, blog, shop, and chat endlessly.
• This is the computer that can replace your old photo album, your recipe book, and even your TV. If it can overcome the potential glare issues associated with reading off the screen for hours, it can replace your kindle too.
• There was a time when smartphones were considered not powerful enough to be much use for business, and too cumbersome for casual use. The same could now be said for the iPad. It is breaking new ground.
• Apple’s bet is probably that the iPad will take root in places where nobody expected before. Who would have thought that you can have a portable electronic recipe book with full colour in the kitchen?

Now, as a thank you for entertaining the thoughts of this blogger, here is Hitler’s disappointment on learning about the iPad.

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