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Sorry, but I disagree.

It is interesting.

It is interesting because it is a new product category and it is selling like crazy. Truly new categories of personal computing devices don't happen very often at all. Desktop, laptop, mobile phone, netbook, touch screen mobile phone . . . now this. There's the history of product categories for 30 years. Chrome OS may change that again.

It is also interesting because when a consumer has only so much budget for new computing devices. Their choices matter, not only to Apple but to competitors.

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Well tablets aren't 'truly new.' (Neither were netbooks for that matter.) The iPad just happens to be the first one with wide appeal.