iPad 1.0 on MadTV

Apple-dorks (and I use the term lovingly) seem to either love it or hate it, with few voices in between. The glass half empty crowd bemoan that it runs the iPhone/Touch OS; doesn't have USB; doesn't have a camera & mic; is 4:3 format . . . and most of all, it may not make them sexier and "smugger" in public, since the device was demo'd by Steve in what appears to be a home recliner.

The half full folks see it as the alternative to buying a $1000 macbook laptop since all they really want is a wireless "net appliance." A big enough screen to read and watch media instead of a smartphone; none of the geekiness of a netbook and virtually zero learning curve if you already have a Touch or iPhone.

I fully understand why there's no front facing camera in either the iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad . . . put a magazine or book in your lap or hold it as if reading . . . now imagine the camera angle if there was a webcam on that magazine or book . . . how's that nose hair and chin action workin' for you?