I’ve purposely held off on making any comments or observations about the Apple iPad, but now I feel almost compelled to put a few simple notes down “on paper”.

The iPad is big enough to be a netbook but without all the features on the netbook that I currently own. And I paid $300 for my netbook.

It looks like a really big iPhone except I can’t make calls from it. Even if I could make calls I wouldn’t because no one wants to hold a netbook-sized device to their ear unless it has some sort of boom box cover graphic on it. Even then it’s dicey.

I suppose what it’s really most like is a gigantic iTouch. And I never even considered purchasing one of those – even for the briefest of moments.

So I guess, in general, I just don’t get it. I’m not sure who Apple is targeting with thie iPad. Now…give me an iPad that runs Snow Leopard, and one would be sitting on my desk right now.