The most wonderful and least appreciated feature of the new Apple iPad

It was a lots of fun to hear all of the pundits before, during and after the announcement of the Apple iPad today. Seeing them fib about their prerelease information, back peddle and Monday morning quarterback is fun and interesting.

But on to the important item, the iPad. I think it is going to be a real game changer for both the personal computer industry and the mobile phone industry.

And without further ado, the most wonderful thing about purchasing a iPad..... it means we can all go out and buy the simplest, cheapest and most reliable mobile phone that JUST DOES PHONE CALLS WELL!!!!! Hooray!!!!

iPad is NOT a phone. Yes, I know than in no time at all, innovated developers will figure out how to make Skype and other voice over data applications work on the iPad. It will be interesting to see how AT&T works to slow this and how the likes of Google work to speed it. Talk about an epic sea battle about to unfold.

That battle will be fun entertainment for all of us simpletons that just want a damn mobile phone to make and receive phone calls. Because the purchase of a iPad means we can all recycle our iPhones, Android phones, Palm phones, Window phones and every other lack of battery life and unreliable 'smart super phone' we own and go back to our drawer full of discarded technology and pull out, recharge and reenable the last mobile phone we owned that actually half way decently made phone calls AND NOTHING ELSE!

And went we want to use all of the cool data and information features of the iPad, well it looks like we will be able to do that and for only USD 30 per month.

I look forward to all of the up coming innovative accessories that will make the iPad easily to carry and quick to use. I think I would love to be a purse designer right now. And I look forward to version 2 of the devices shown below in an upcoming SkyMall catalog.

So rejoice, we can all go out and buy a Jitterbug mobile phone and quit wasting so much time trying make our phones do things they should not do. This might be such a great stress reducer, that the iPad might just live up the the hype that it is the holy grail for improving health care, not because it might be a good device for electronic medical records, but because it will reduce stress from technology medical problems.

I'm looking forward to much innovation and simplification based on the iPad. Congratulations Apple!