Another iPad blurb! That the competition looks like.

What the competiton looks like!

Right now I think the greatest threat the iPad has are the HP slate and the JooJoo (formerly the CrunchPad). That said they are not an Apple device, so they have that going against them.

The HP offering is by far the best implementation of a tablet, since it run Windows 7 which supports multi-touch, this could be a great alternative to having a netbook or even a notebook, and at around $500 its at a great price point. And the fact that neither one of these devices is an Apple device means that it wont be locked down and hampered with all the limitations Apple usually puts on its devices. The only thing that I see that the iPad has an edge on is the App support by the AppStore.

This a great comparison chart put out by Gizmodo.