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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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When an article recently stated that Apple is joining the campaign for real breasts, there was always only going to be one outcome. A geek’s love for technology and boobies (not necesarily in that order) knows no bounds and I quickly discovered the wonders that the iPhone is capable of.

Just how big a success is this wonderfully jiggly smartphone? Steve Jobs of course believes that he’s got a big hit on his hands. And there is in fact very good reason to believe that claim, even a google spreadsheet by the MacObserver that shows, through tracking the IMEI numbers of 3G iPhones sold, that Apple probably have exceeded their target. There are of course, doubters who, not without reason, claim that the dropoff in sales numbers after an initial high raise doubts about the iPhone’s sales momentum.

Hardware though, is not what is on my mind. More interesting for any aspiring entrepreneur is this litte tidbit. 500 million App Store downloads is nothing to laugh at, except if you’re the cash-laden owner of a certain jiggly App called Wobble. If you’re a software developer writing for a software platform that is mobile, has 10 million users, with potential to go up to 45 million in 2009, and has the processing power of a Sega Dreamcast, there is a lot of potential for games development.