If you don't cannibalize your own products, someone else will

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/opinion/1635335/why-apple-regret-ipad

You need to be the one cannibalizing your own products. Too many companies make the mistake of trying to protect their one great idea from anything that might threaten it. In doing so they prevent themselves from innovating.

What will the iPad compete against?

It's interesting to compare the iPad to other devices it will be competing with:

Sources:

Sony DVD Player

Kindle DX

PSPgo

Nintendo DSi

JooJoo

Dell Mini

MacBook

iPad

How Bad is the Web in Mobile Safari?

There's been a lot of complaining about how the new iPad doesn't support "the real web" because it doesn't support Flash. The implication is that Flash is so essential to the web, that not having it in the iPad makes the web browser useless.

There's a post at http://theflashblog.com/?p=1703 that attempts to drive this point home by showing some photoshop mockups of what they think web sites will look like on the iPad.

Rather than fake photoshop mockups, how do some of those sites look in mobile safari on the iPhone today?

Are there websites that don't work and are broken? Certainly. But implying that the lack of Flash makes sites like CNN, Disney, and Google Financials useless is just wrong.

[update]

Mark Damon Hughes has another good comparison of the sites demonstrated above.