The market has many alternatives to iPad, including books and Android tablets. Instead of whining of how inferior the iPad is, you are free to get whatever you want. Nevertheless, the iPad is not designed to be a phone or a laptop, there is no need of complaining about how it doesn't work as either. In the end, it is consumers and the market that decide. And the the iPad, the market has spoken. To sell over $40 Billion a year of iPads and have a tablet market share exceeding 70%, surely there is something Apple must be doing right. Most people who complain about Apple's produces are the same people who have never used let alone owned an Apple device. You need to hold and iPad and touch it and you will see why no one can compete with it. Reviews on the internet and bloggers (negative or positive) can never really explain the feeling of hold and touching an iDevice.