I think they have got it right - it's not for us.
This is the kind of computer that my mother/father in wifes, non-techies etc. will use. It's not really for 'power users' or geeks, it's for the great unwashed.
The time i've spent trying to get parents/oldies working on email. web etc. however let them use an iphone and they just get it, so much quicker, they don't have to deal with the abstraction of their hand in one place controlling a little thing on a screen in front of their face. Double click, single click, click hold and drag, computers are not easy to use!
iPhone; Point at what you want and press, drag, swipe, it's a lot more 'natural'.
As for no multitasking, as above, how many times have I had to deal with "the mail/web/Iwork window has disappeared! Where has it gone!!!" iPhone/Pad press the 'home button, press the mail picture on screen, 'boom' as the man would say.
I feel the iPad truly is the computer for the rest of us.
[ie not me and you who read the Register!]
Biting the hand that feeds IT
