It’s the talk of the town; Apple brought out their latest touch gadget, the iPad. The anticipation of the announcement last week has been immense, as it always is with new Apple products. The tablet talk has filled most channels that I take part in. Blogs and Twitter streams have been swarming with the expected speculations in details and horribly blurry mobile photos of possible designs.

Now it’s here and it’s already gotten a lot of… well… feedback. Generally a lot of people are at the same time excited about the iPad, but on the other hand also have a lot of reservations and arguments for why they shouldn’t have put it out or what features it’s missing. I remember this was the similar situation when the iPhone first came out. The feedback then was mainly that it seemed like a big and clumsy smartphone, but has since pioneered the new way for smartphones and how we perceive the way we use the mobile phone – especially with the App Store, which no matter how you look at it, is a stroke of genius which not even Apple were aware of.

The way I see it, the iPad is not for everyone. If you, like me, already own a laptop and an iPhone, you will most likely not go out and buy an iPad. But if you on the other hand have neither, the iPad could quite possibly be the ideal home Internet hub. With access to the same applications that you get on the iPhone, along with iPad-revised native apps such as Mail, Calendar etc. you’re getting a nice gadget that you sit, feet on the table, for an hour or two, writing emails to friends or flip through the latest photos from your travel. For those people whose life doesn’t regularly involve interaction with computers or advanced phones.

I’m looking forward to when it hits the shelves and how it will affect the applications that will be built from now on. There’s definitely more opportunities, rather than restraints.