What's the Point of an iPad?

For this week we have been investigating Apple’s iPad. I’ve never really used an iPad until this week but I’ve always thought “what’s the point of these? Anything you can do on the iPad you can do better on a laptop or using your iPod or iPhone.” After using the iPad I have to say that my opinion hasn’t changed at all. It is definitely a nifty device and I can see why people would like them, but if you already have a computer and iPhone, do you really need an iPad?’ I wasn’t sure if maybe I was missing something awesome that an iPad could do so I looked up different forums and articles to see if maybe this really is a special device. It turns out that not only does the iPad lack anything really substantial; it also doesn’t have USB capabilities, that means no importing or exporting files and no uploading pictures off your camera. This reminds a lot of when the MacBook Air came out and it was really thin and everyone thought it was awesome…but it lacked a CD drive. Apple is great at making cool looking products but it seems that by doing so they sacrifice the important functional parts in the process.