Apple Inc. iPad

Advantages

As a computer, it features everything a normal PC has including personal folders and Internet accessibility. There are over 35,000 Applications available for the iPad from the Apple Inc. App Store, more than any other form of PC in the world. These can range from reading books, to teaching music, downloading images of X-Rays and charts for medical purposes and playing games. Its weight is between that of the average Tablet PC and a Laptop computer and because it is also an open-faced PC, combined with its light-weight and it is also the most portable computer system ever created. It also runs the same system as the iMac, used by the biggest media companies in the world for their work, meaning that the iPad will soon replace it giving these companies the freedom to work on the move.

Disadvantages

Although the size of the iPad is a good thing in most ways there is also the fact that if dropped from a certain height or enough times, it will break, very easily although there is now a case to go with the iPad that is designed to protect it from external damage. They are easy to hide in a thin space so they are easily stolen from out of an open bag or when it is sitting out in the open.

Threats

Due to the advantages of the iPad are the threats that they pose. As with my posts on social networking and instant messaging the iPad is obviously going to be very addictive to its users, which could lead to a degrading social life for iPaddicts.