Today Apple released a new product called the iPad. It is supposed to be a tablet computer with amazing Web, Email, and eBook capabilities. It looks like a giant 9” iPhone, and frankly performs like one too. The chip is fast and it has a couple cool features but again, it’s just a big iPhone.

If people want to go buy one that’s fine, but I have a couple issues with it. First it doesn’t do anything that an iPod Touch can’t do (with the exception of lame condensed versions of iWork). The iPad should have been built on Snow Leopard with an added ability to run App Store apps. Instead it’s just a big clunky iPod/iPhone without the phone capability.

Second, it doesn’t run Flash! The iPad is being sold as the “best internet experience ever.” Sorry but without Flash, and DivX my web experience is lame.

There is one silver lining. There is a new App and Store called iBooks. It’s an App Store for buying books and reading them on your iPad. This combined with buying Newspaper and Magazines directly to the iPad may very well save the print industry. Even though there are tons of eBook reader apps for the iPhone I think iBooks is a knock out of the park.

Will I get an iPad? I already did, 3 years ago…it’s called an iPhone.