For as much as I like my iPad, I agree with you 100%. I'm not crazy about the hardware as much as I am the OS (which is basically just iphone OS), and I know that with Apple's developer restrictions (and that I don't know Objective C, and probably won't bother to learn it because of Apple's developer restrictions) it'll never be more than a toy for me until somebody builds an app that makes it an appliance. As of right now, Epicurious comes closest to this goal, of transforming it into a purpose-built piece of hardware.
The obvious counter-argument to this is to build apps as HTML(4 or 5) for the iPad, and then they should "just work" whenever an Android competitor comes out, but for now, the iPad's lack of slide animations in Safari bugs the living hell out of me.
The obvious counter-argument to this is to build apps as HTML(4 or 5) for the iPad, and then they should "just work" whenever an Android competitor comes out, but for now, the iPad's lack of slide animations in Safari bugs the living hell out of me.