Right now schools are signing up to give iPads to their students, and text book companies are beginning to ship their text books as iPad apps. Not as HTML5 apps, or both Android & iOS apps, but exclusively on iPads.
The same thing is happening in any industry you can name, and the nature of these things means once a platform gets a lead it's pretty hard to catch.
Personally, I don't want the iPad to be the Windows of the next decade, with every other platform relegated to quasi-supported status like the Mac was in the 1990s.
The only way to stop that happening is for other manufactures to ship credible products in numbers large enough that software companies cannot ignore them.
Look at the education market:
Right now schools are signing up to give iPads to their students, and text book companies are beginning to ship their text books as iPad apps. Not as HTML5 apps, or both Android & iOS apps, but exclusively on iPads.
The same thing is happening in any industry you can name, and the nature of these things means once a platform gets a lead it's pretty hard to catch.
Personally, I don't want the iPad to be the Windows of the next decade, with every other platform relegated to quasi-supported status like the Mac was in the 1990s.
The only way to stop that happening is for other manufactures to ship credible products in numbers large enough that software companies cannot ignore them.