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... I'll bite in hope the conversation grows.
This is hardly the "first of its kind of technology." As someone above indicated, everything that it does is already out there in one form or another, and in some of those cases much more useful configurations. There's no excuse, this day and age, for a product with such well-founded technologies to lack essentials. Essentials that Apple products have been shunned for not possessing in the past.
Okay, you think the iPad could be good? Fine. But don't be an idiot: wait until the third generation to buy one, where most of those essentials are actually implemented. There's nothing benefiting this first model.