(http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/500x_brave_new_ipad.jpg) (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/brave_new_ipad.jpg)It's taken me a couple of days for me to understand the wet sickness I felt in response to all the post-iPad whining, until it finally came up in a sputtering lump: disgust.
The iPad isn't a threat to anything except the success of inferior products. And if anything's dystopian about the future it portends, it's an American copyright system that's been out of whack since 1996 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act).
Source: iPad Snivelers: Put Up or Shut Up (http://gizmodo.com/5461485/ipad-snivelers-put-up-or-shut-up)