> Steve says you don’t need USB.
> Steve says you don’t need an SD card slot.
> Steve says you don’t need a camera.
> Steve says you don’t need another OS.
> Steve says you don’t need to multitask.
You also don’t need to print, scan, or have pen-input either.
Earlier tablet PC’s had all these. The iPad seems like more of a step back than anything.
Let me try a car analogy here.
A Windows-based tablet PC is like a common car. You can drive it anywhere, carry whatever you can cram into it, and you can also get into an accident if you are not careful.
The iPad is like a city bus. It goes only where it goes, and nowhere else. You can carry only what the driver allows you to carry, and there is a fee whenever you need to carry something new. There are hardly any controls for you to worry about, and they don't do anything important anyway. Most trips end where they started. But it's pretty safe.