It's aimed squarely at the exploding E-book reader market with Apple having their own i-book store.Thats about it.
It will be great for running some of the useful Iphone apps on a big screen and an absolute pleasure for internet browser. When Ipad specific apps start hitting the market it will be awesome.
I don't really buy into this argument that it doesn't take the place of an Iphone as well as a netbook etc. The average household of the furture will have a number of different devices that do specific things really well and the Ipad will be another of them. Would like to have one some time , because I just love touch screen tablet type computing. I love my Ipod Touch to bits .
It will add to my 2 PC's , notebook, netbook and Ipod Touch