I’m glad John Gruber wrote this, because it sums up my impressions almost exactly, after reading Marco’s post this morning. Much of what he (Marco) said, I agree with, such as:

We’ve had the truly magical and revolutionary product this entire time, but we take it for granted now, and we’ve forgotten how awesome it already is.

But I think the other 2/3 is the same sort of “kickback” that the web is having in general towards the iPad, and which I think will be proven somewhat misguided in the end.

Many people have said it better and more thoroughly that I will here, but here’s how I see it:

The iPad will be more akin to the original iPod than the iPhone. It’s not as instantly revolutionary, to be sure. But in the end, it will be more so. Expectations were just impossibly high because the iPhone was so immediately game-changing. People instantly started thinking fundamentally differently about mobile phones when the iPhone dropped. Give the iPad some time to grow and evolve, even in this 1.0 state, and we are going to witness a sea-change. People will start thinking fundamentally differently about home computers when they encounter this device. And that will be a welcome change in my book.

Loren Brichter (developer of Tweetie) said it well:

“It’s just a big iPod touch” is the new “less space than a nomad”. The Mac had a great run, but this is the end of the desktop OS.