While this thread has been immensely entertaining to read over the last few months, I still find it hard to believe that you are so down on the iPad Mickey. I don't recall seeing anywhere you mentioning that you tried it out at the Apple store and based on the 10, 15 or 30 minutes of playing with it that you are that sure that it is such a piece of crap? Sure, it has a non-standard screen format - by yesterdays standards, but how many laptops, netbooks or most standard desktop displays have you seen that display in portrait mode? It was designed as a portable reader. It's meant to be used in both portrait and landscape modes. I'm sorry that you feel so strongly that it is pure junk, but 2 million units sold clearly indicates that Apple is on to something and now the other companies are having to scramble to keep up. I look forward to the competition's releases over the next 6 months to a year, but Apple clearly has a pretty solid lead at the moment.