http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/01/the-chess-grandmaster-apples-i.html
Netting it out: The best way to think about iPad is as the device that inspired Steve Jobs to create the iPhone and the iPod Touch. It's the vaunted 3.0 vision of a 1.0 deliverable that began its public life when the first generation of iPhone launched only two-and-a-half years ago, and as I wrote about previously HERE, it is a product that is deeply personal to Steve Jobs, and I believe the final signature product on an amazing career. I would view yesterday's launch in that light.

http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/01/the-ipad-is-the-iprius-your-co.html

About how .avi, .mkv and flash could do for the iPad what .mp3 did for the iPod
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/87921/ipad-as-video-device-not-so-much/

In a funny twist about the inability of iPhone/iPod/iPad to play flash, this will probably force websites with video players to switch to html5 solutions sooner rather than later, given the apparent availability of html5 video in n-1 browsers as of this month. With this, the history of the flash format and its closed ecosystem is about to end at the hand of another closed ecosystem (apple). History will no doubt repeat itself at some point in the future.