subject: Ipad 2 Set To Be Everything Apple Wished [print this page] Apple is often inexplicably criticized over the fact that the second generation of each of its products is better than the first, as if there were some sinister plot behind the innovation. Thatll happen again with the iPad 2, as it gets set to all but automatically put the original iPad in its rear view. What too few observers catch onto is that rather than Apple hedonistically holding back on various features the first time around just to try to force you into upgrading a year later, the second generation of an Apple product is simply what the companywishedit could have delivered the first time.However strong iPad sales have been this year, theyd have been even stronger if it had come with a camera, or FaceTime, or better storage Dell latitude d820 Battery or a svelter weight. Apple certainly wished it could have pulled off all of the above and then some, but as Steve Jobs is famously known as saying, real artists ship. So the first iPad rolled out as a strong product which could have been even stronger if Apple had held if back Dell vostro 1500 Battery for a year to continue refining it. The iPad 2 in 2011, then, will be the tablet computer that Apple wished it could have delivered in 2010. And if that causes existing iPad users to upgrade to the iPad 2 en masse, lets just say thats not exactly keeping Apple up at night either. Heres more on theiPad 2.