What is it about the iPad that has people so riled up? Both the media frenzy building up to Wednesday’s announcement and the almost equally frenzied denouncement of the device by most media outlets have been pretty irrational, even given the intense debate that normally crops up between the Microsoft and Apple camps (for my attempt at a level-headed look at the device, see my other site ). I think in both cases, it has to do with Apple’s failure to “get the tablet right.” The tablet PC has been around since the early 2000s, and while many people are drawn to the idea of a PC they can write on and interact with as they would a pad of paper, the concept has never really gone mainstream