You can see for yourself how buggy the UI is.
Choppy flash video is well known to anyone who's tried to watch Hulu on a Linux machine that isn't, say, a quad cpu dual core 4ghz with 16gb of ram. (and even then, it only hits about 22 fps) </slight exaggeration>
So for many platforms, you're SOL for hardware acceleration. Do I have it completely wrong?
Besides, isn't their next meal ticket much more about the form factor than the actual iPad? I mean, isn't the JooJoo pad or any other small enough to be mobile, but big enough to read on device just as good for Wired or any other company to build on?
I really hope it's the form factor that becomes popular and not just the iPad.