iPad 2: What's Next?

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With the success of the release of the Apple iPad in April of 2003, Apple was driven to design an even better, sleeker iPad. iPad 2 was designed to be a third thinner and fifteen percent lighter. It features a magnetically attaching microfiber screen protector, an HD rear camera, and a front-facing camera designed to support Apples Facetime app. The new device also features an Apple A5 processing chip, which gives the iPad a huge leap forward (up to 9x graphics upgrade from previous model) in gaming and app abilities. With these upgrades, the iPad 2 will be able to play games comparable to some Xbox 360 games, will run faster than any tablet on the market, and gives the ability for anyone to HD video conference from virtually anywhere. So why, bloggers & alike, should you buy one? What will this device be able to do for YOU, and how are you going to go about getting one? Well, here are two short videos describing its capabilities a little more in-depth, and how the iPad 1st gen defined an entire new category of handheld mobile devices:

So, seeing what how the iPad 2 has evolved in the last year, what it has done for society, and who is able to use it for just about any task at hand, do you think it is as practical Apple makes it out to be, or is it simply just another entertaining gismo that they (Apple) want you to eat up and buy, or is it something else? Something as revolutionary as Apple claims it to be? I believe it is both. I think Apple is using the applications it has been seen used for and is using them as a marketing ploy to get people to purchase one, and end up using them very little for simple tasks that could be done easily with less expensive, smaller devices.