No other products from Apple released over the last decade have been generating some much buzz prior its announcement and comments after its birth to the world. While Apple have been clearly defining the iPad as the missing element between the SmartPhone and the notebook, some analysts and/or journalists are trying to compare the iPad with notebook and classify it somewhere. We can understand that some people like to categorize everything, however the iPad might well be the first model of its own class. netbook did not exist before they were released, while being a defined class of cheap notebook with limited capabilities.
Did Apple manipulate news network by releasing some info and flares? For sure. They might even be at the origin of rumors related to the price of the iPad: 1,000 USD as a consequence, when Steve announced that the entry level models was only 499 USD, everybody was cheering as "expectations" were higher. Nevertheless the high-end model is priced not so far away from the 1,000
