Yeah, or maybe it shows that you actually weren't an "Apple worshipper" just because it was obvious to you that the iPad was going to be huge.

I don't know, I knew many people who wanted such a device, I was just hoping someone other than Apple would make one too. It was obvious for years that tablet had potential but for some weird reason, no one saw how crappy windows was on a tablet. At least none of the manufacturers noticed it. I got a macbook tablet mod for one of my bosses in the past. It was unusable considering OSX wasn't built for touchscreens (exactly like Windows tablet).

Android has been out for years now. They could have seen the tide coming and released a tablet running it way before apple. But they didn't. They just seem to want to leech of apple's market research.

Windows Vista sells nearly 40 million licenses in the first 100 days (http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/microsoft-vista-sells-nea...).

This is an operating system which received a strong negative reaction from many in the (non-Microsoft-worshiping) tech press. It just goes to show you how out of touch many of them are with what really excites users.

Vista took 7 months to reach 4% market share, 7 took 3 weeks.

7 sold 90 million licenses in its first 4 months.

The iPad took 4 weeks to sell 1 million units.

The iPhone 3GS sold 1 million units in 3 days. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/03/ipad_sales_top_one_m...)

The 3GS and the iPad occupy completely different segments and markets (one of which didn't quite exist before the device was created), Vista and 7 don't.

It's one of those devices which you can sell really easily to people even if they may not need it. Combined with Apples always effective marketing.