Watching Apple’s exciting unveiling of the over hyped iPad did little to mask the plain fact that is is a cool gizmo with no real niche to occupy. I am sure it will be a lot of fun to play with and the interface is just as snappy as the iPhone. With the giant group of developers and available compatible apps orignally designed for the iPhone the iPad does have some great things going for it. But still if you already have an iPhone and MacBook Air (um… like some of do), then what do you really need this over sized iTouch for?

Frankly what the iPad needs to move it in the marketplace is sex, and lots of it. Every one knows that the Internet is rife with pornography. What you may not realize is that without porn to drive innovation the web would not be as fast, or as commercially developed, or even as widespread. To deliver high quality images and video you need a big pipe, by that I mean broad band to every home. E-commerce is largely based on the pioneering work of porn sites. The basic technology of the Internet, DVDs, cable TV, VHS, and even traced all the way back early photography in the 1800s, and even further back to shortly after the Gutenberg press was introduced all were driven by sex and pornography.

The iPad can deliver streaming video content to a beautiful 10.5 screen almost anywhere. Other then that it is just an over sized iTouch, that is to say an oversize iPhone that cannot make phone calls. The iPad needs sex. Without it, it serves no purpose at all.

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