Nexus One - Buy the Nexus One Mobile phone. Technology on Wireless Week. iPadversaries! 32 Tablets, Slates, Pads, and More. Why are iPads selling as fast as Apple’s Chinese subcontractors can crank them out?
In part, it’s because the iPad has a suddenly-hot product category pretty much to itself. Before scuttlebutt that Apple was working on a tablet started to heat up, no major PC manufacturer seemed to think that consumers wanted a general-purpose, touchscreen-only computing device. Now almost all the big names–and lots of little ones–are furiously playing catch up.
End result: Starting later this year, the iPad will be confronted by an army of other touchscreen machines, from potentially worthy opponents to shameless wannabees. Call ‘em iPadversaries, and read on for my first stab at accounting for (most of) them.