About the 'followers' of Apple; some have a Windows OS that might open up a whole new world of possible apps to come. Maybe open source can go the road of Android.
It is fun to see these pads come to real life long after they were introduced in the '80's in Star Trek the Next Generation. The logic of a handheld device giving you control of your environment and providing context related data was just waiting to happen. What a great era we live in!