It’s beautiful. And I really can see myself using the iPad to download books instead of actually reading a “real book” (from Amazon). BUT:

- it won’t let me plug in my AT&T USB wifi card into the iPad because it doesn’t support it and has no USB port. After all the money Att&T and Apple have managed to get from me, I feel like customers deserve this, even if the iPad sits outside the confines of any telco.

- the iPad doesn’t support Flash. So the iPad doesn’t support FLEX. Which won’t support my app. FCUK. Thanks for pushing your agenda down our throats.. we get it, we’re re-engineering… can I just mention too though that a lot of websites who have flash (especially the ones with great content supported by ads) will give users a “broken experience,” i.e. you will see lots of odd things in odd boxes in odd places.

- no built-in camera means no built-in web conferencing. This puzzles me because Steve Jobs said that the iPad would make netbooks obsolete. But Steve, my netbook has a camera so I can video-conference to work on the road.

- The iPhone apps look kind of like a joke on the iPad (the app is the same dimension from iPhone to iPad) but I assume this will be resolved rather quickly as the 3rd party market of app vendors quickly rush in to fill this gap with iPad specific dimensions for their UI.

Also, the iPhone 4G or iPhone HD rumors have me wondering if I should wait to spend my money with APPL again… what can I say, despite all my gripes, Steve Jobs inventions continue to fascinate us all.