I suppose the economics of their past product launches tells us that they make more money by leaving out features and then adding them later: a double fanboy tax, as it were.

I still want one.

My mom has her general PC activities down, but file management still confuses her. I think she'd enjoy an iPad for fiction reading, email, and web.

Very likely we'll see a camera. One of the magazines cracked open an early sample finding a camera holder inside. The SDK supports camera. Yes, cam would be huge. I think the iPhone would benefit from a user-facing cam for chats.

Thanks, Ben.

My mother is largely computer illiterate. Full OSs clearly intimidate her. She doesn't have or want a smartphone. The iPad could be her only computer, for all intents and purposes. She wants access to the WWW. She wants email. The productivity tasks I use my netbook for not so important.

But a camera is huge, because being able to video skype with her children is something that is a wonderful use for the ipad platform. I don't think it's a make or break feature, but it's significant for a slice of the population that needs a powerful computing device that doesn't act anything like a traditional computer.

Great arguments here – because most of the arguments against the iPad are framed in the current limitations of our technology. It is like claiming that they aren't putting enough parallel ports on my laptop today.

TO'B