It seems you are not paying attention if you think the iPad is not going anywhere or is not capable of much.
This reply was posted from my iPad.
I think you told me last week you had no need to get an ipad right away.
No camera. Really? My 2 year old vanilla Razr has a camera. My $300 Linux based netbook has a camera.
No multi-tasking, one app at a time. Are you kidding me? In the age of multi-core cpus where even windows has figured out multi-tasking :-) a new device and new interface is limiting the user to one thing at a time? I can see that on an iPhone or iPod touch - small screens. But an iPad? No background music while doing other tasks?
Apparently no VoIP nor Skype? Not real clear on this one but really?
No USB slots. This is a joke right? Oh, yeah, you can buy an adapter and use your one hardware interface to create a USB but no "native" USB? They can't be serious.
No Flash Compatibility. Just what is the beef between Adobe and Apple anyway?
A default of 16GB? Even my low-end netbook has more flash memory than that. And you're going to pay a premium for an iPad? Why?
I've heard other things such as having to move media files through iTunes or some such. I don't remember the details, just that it seemed very limiting.