It's also amusing to be in a position where I can appreciate the iPad, I can afford the iPad, but I don't
need an iPad... the gadgets I already have will do most of the things the iPad does to a reasonable level, so I don't have a jones to go out and snap one up. (That's also why I didn't get an iPod Touch.)
My wife heard me talking about it, and asked me outright: "So, are you going to buy one?" And I responded, "Well, no. The things it can do, I can already do with the stuff I have." (She remained silent... which, I'm pretty sure, means she was relieved, though possibly a bit dubious of my sincerity... if she'd been very dubious, she would've just called me a liar to my face!
)
But I am still interested, because the iPad has the potential to be the hardware basis of a "e-scrapbook" device I wrote about in one of my novels, and that understandably intrigues me. In fact, if the e-scrapbook software I described in the novel was made available for the iPad (along with appropriate content to be manipulated by said software), that would be enough to convince me to get one.