iPad accounts for 97 percent of US tablet traffic online

I honestly have been waiting for this data to come out.  I knew it was out there. I knew it was exactly what I imagined and now I am justified when I see a tablet ad on tv and they are claiming to be defining the tablet genre, or redefining it.  Or especially when they claim that someone should look out because they are better....etc etc

And i think to myself who are they kidding?  I don't think Apple is a god but I certainly know that they have cornered the tablet market. They have defined the market in fact.  They certainly are not threatened by ....you.  You should be just building yourself up. Not talking trash to the consumer public.  Sure some folks are gonna buy something other then an iPad.  Sure I get that.  But look at the data.....go ahead I will wait.

Now that you have looked.  Its not close. Its not coke and pepsi out there. Its Apple.  And if you want to take a chance with several hundred dollars....

Anyway, I'm all fired up mostly because I know someone I know who isn't a techy is going to buy some other device and when I ask them why they bought it they are gonna say "Dan, they are all the same"

iPad accounts for 97 percent of US tablet traffic online: "

It's no secret that the iPad commands a serious lead in the battle for tablet mindshare, but comScore's new Device Essentials traffic-tracking service shows just how much that translates into market dominance. According to the web monitoring company, the iPad and its successor account for 89 percent of tablet internet use globally, and 97 percent here in the US. Of course, the slate segment is still young and accounts for only a tiny percentage of total traffic. And, it's worth noting, the iPad has a significant advantage in being the first to hit shelves. If you want to dig a little deeper, hit up the source link for the PR and a few more charts.

So Apple just kicked their competition in the pants

I just got done watching Apple's Presentation for new IOS

Since the iPad came out I have been asking why any two devices of Apples do not work better together.  And apparently iCloud is the solution. Tons of free stuff all synched to a cloud all synched to any device or number of devices you want.  They just made me very happy.  Solves a ton of personal organization issues with photos and music that i have been facing recently.   Now if my wife's iphone can just hang on until the system goes live.

After that a big user issue for me was the notification system that the iDevices have been using.  Its been really intrusive across the board no matter what you are doing. They are moving it to a more subduded and useful notification system. I for one will be very happy with any change they make here.

Next is a huge bonus.  No more cables. No more connecting to a Mac or PC to make an iDevice work.  Why is this good for Dan?  My parents will one day need to replace they computer and instead of a computer I am going to buy them a wireless router and an iPad so they can stop living in that tiny spare bedroom to get online and finally have internet where they spend their time.

Aside from that there were huge creature comforts added to email.  I have been wanting draggable addresses for quite some time. I always need to switch TO and CC addresses.  Rich text and message flags.  The built in dictionary is available across platform.

Now weird thing was the iPad split keyboard option.  I really want to try this but I am not certain if I will use it.

And the text messaging service is now....a service and not just MMS.  The whole concept has changed. Its more of an apple handling your texts and not just texts coming in unhindered.   You finally get to have your texts on your wifi only devices and can pick up where you left off from your phone.

For me another big one is twitter integration across the devices.  Now i can share things to twitter very quickly from safari etc.  And my twitter account info is kept in one place instead of inside multiple applications.

Tabbed browsing .....seems like this was a cut and paste type situation. This should have been available a long time ago.

Reminders:  I have no idea why this seemed to get such a big response but apparently there will be a reminder screen akin to a pegboard that will be connected to your calender.   *shrugs*

Camera button on the lock screen is especially helpful.  I will be using the new camera features for sure.  I like being able to use the volume up button for taking photos...

There are tons of other things....and some developer stuff but that's a nutshell of what is to come.  I can online imagine how peeved Apple's competition is.  I hope this drives them to better things.