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I'm probably beating a dead horse here but I think, as with most Apple products and especially here, a lot of the appeal is in the in the iCult-ish allure of their products. Ever since the iPod Apple has truly excelled at creating a great market image for their products. They got a lot of genuine practicality cred for the iPhone (smartphones really are a game-changer) even if they weren't really the first. Since then they've really been trying to replicate that with permutations of the same crap. I'm still not precisely sure what the appeal of an iPad is, but it's popular.