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This all assumes that the iPad will be "THE" touch pad leader in the industry.
Quite frankly I find it hard to believe that it will.
This is a subject near and dear to me and one I've put a LOT of thought into, since way back into the early 90's when the first "touch screen" CRT's just started coming down in price and at the same time the LCD prices were just barely edging downwards.
It has been a "why not" kind of subject for me? I'm happy to see that a major player in the industry has come out with a commercially viable touchpad, but I truly believe the iPad will become much like Mac computers:
Much beloved by a small group of people, elitist in attitude, but when it comes to general use for the common man, it'll be the WIntel machines that truly own the market.
As soon as HP/Microsoft, or Dell, or Intel come out with their version of the touchpad, and as long as they're priced competitively, you're going to see the iPad relegated to the long time Apple users. The rest of us will use something else.
The iPad has some serious "missing" features that make it a non-starter: lack of removable media (SDRAM cards, a frickin' STANDARD USB port), compliant file system, complete blue tooth support, etc., seriously limits what can be done with it.
Anyway, I think this isn't all that moot. Apple's psycopathic tendancies toward proprietary implementations of their hardware will keep supply low even in spite of any actual demand anyway.
Flash will live on and on causing plenty of issues for us as the standard home technology platform slowly moves from "desktop" to "touch-top"...
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