Joe Wilcox at BetaNews is stirring the pot in his post: “Be smart, don’t buy into the iPad hype.” Any time you want to stir the pot, say something negative about new Apple products. You’ll always get burned by hardcore fans and early adopters.
I don’t think this article is an attack on the iPad–just its delivery. Wilcox is suggesting that a product needs more than ‘hype’ to achieve market ubiquity. Read the article here. It digs into the roots of the phenomena.