…could things go a lot more quietly, the way of the MP3 player market and total Apple / iPod dominance instead?
GigaOM was quick to point out 5 Problems With Gartner’s Tablet Forecast, among them:

Apple’s iPad is poised to continue its overwhelming lead in tablet sales until 2015, holding 47.1 percent of the market according to [...]

In the larger “tech wars” of Apple vs. Microsoft vs. Google, the tablet form factor has all of a sudden gone from a relative novelty (even though Microsoft had tried to establish stylus-based tablets for years) to one of the key battle fronts.
Why? Because the iPad, barely 6 months old, has already sold around 7-8 Million [...]

Now that the dust has settled a bit on the iPad launch (unlike that from the Icelandic volcano which is keeping me in Europe for a few days longer than planned), it is time for a round-up of initial impressions.
And while everyone has predictably been falling all over themselves to get in a lot of [...]

The iPad is set to finally get into the hands of the public Saturday, April 3, after another 2.5 months of additional waiting and speculating. This after the many months of waiting and speculating that had built up before the official iPad announcement in January…
Predictably orchestrated with Apple’s ingenious Archetype Branding, the secrecy has continued [...]

Stop Whining About How Elitist And Expensive TED Is [Just Because] You Didn’t Get Invited Feb. 15, 2010, 9:17 AM
>> Too bad you missed it! Larry Page gave everyone a free Nexus One.
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via Silicon Alley Insider.

(Minor edit for colorful language.)
What is amazing about this (the subhead sentence after the headline), is not what it says [...]

Chances are that unless you have been living under an Internet-free rock, you have gotten a dose of the rumor mill surrounding Apple’s likely new product, the Apple Tablet computer (by whatever name it will eventually appear on Wednesday, unless it won’t, that is).
iPad/iSlate/iTablet/etc., heir to the iPhone, destroyer of lesser technology gadgets?!
The name is [...]