So while waiting on getting a decent Android tablet I decided that I might as well try and see what all that iPad fuzz was all about, so I bought an iPad2 and just got it today. Do any of you guys have an iPad and if so what do you mainly use it for?
lol ... that is exactly the story of mine. I like Android (have an Android mobile phone) and in general don't understand most of the Apple hype, their strict rules and closed technology. So, I studied the Android tablet market and was really disappointed to see that there are no good solutions yet. According to several reviews the Android3.0 OS is not really user friendly yet and suffers from poor performance (esp. the browser). Again, this knowledge is based on what I read in reviews. In addition, devices like Motorolas Xoom were comparably expensive compared to the Apple devices. That's why in the end, I also did buy an iPad2 (WiFi only).
I will be using mine for testing my iPhone/iPad apps once I get as far as starting on making some for the apple products. At the moment I'm only working on Android apps since I can compile those on my PC. Eventually I will buy either a MacMini or a MacAir or something to that effect so that I can compile for that platform as well. I'm using Monkey where the code I make works on all platforms, so its just a matter of getting the hardware, which is expensive.
I also want to run certain apps on the device. However, I am not into native app development - more stuff you can do using HTML5/Javascript/Flash. So, the OS did not really count - I just wanted the user experience when it comes to the size of the device as well as the touch controls.
I'm thinking that I would be using it on the couch as well for playing games and surfing the web.
That's currently the major situation I use it, too here ;-) Next to using it on my ride in the train to work.
I'll like to know what you use yours for, if you have any that is. I know its a step towards the "evil enemy", but I'm going to try and make a little bit of cash of it so I think I'll be fine since I had a good motive for buying it.
Most of the time I use it for browsing the net, playing games and doing some business stuff (like MindMapping etc). As I said above, I use it indirectly for getting the user experience of having a pure mobile touch device and for testing some self-made apps on it.
All in all I have to say that the iPad2 is a nice gadget (concerning the hardware). The basic OS is really responsive, the browser
feels extremely fast. What really annoys me is that I have to use iTunes to sync the device with certain data and that Flash is not supported on that device.
Besides if I don't like it anyways I can always sell it for 95% of the cost since Mac people seems to be paying top dollar for used equipment 
That's exactly what I had in mind. Compared to other computer brands, whereever an apple is on it - the value of the hardware does definately not decrease as fast as any other device.
