This quote from Eric Sink basically highlights why so many people don't understand the iPad. It's an appliance.

"The industry is finally ready to sell things that make geeks feel frustrated instead of things that make normal people feel helpless"

Jeff Jarvis has some very interesting comments about content creation and the democratization of the web. I think this comment is particularly astute:

The iPad is retrograde. It tries to turn us back into an audience again. That is why media companies and advertisers are embracing it so fervently, because they think it returns us all to their good old days when we just consumed, we didn’t create, when they controlled our media experience and business models and we came to them.

The funniest iPad review quote so far is from Paul Thurrott:

"Anyone who believes this thing is a game changer is a tool."