I have been wrong before ...

Scott Adams rescinds his former opinion of the iPad, and decides it’s not such a bad piece of technology after all, even the name has good associations.

The money quote if you please:

Compared to the Kindle, Apple wins on name, coolness, interface, cost-per-person, extra applications, web surfing, and probably its media distribution model. Kindle wins on screen readability, which is mostly relevant to oldsters.