iPads are not computers - Jobs

SFGate.

Like he did at last year's iPad introduction, Jobs closed the iPad 2 release event by talking about Apple's philosophy of marrying technology with liberal arts.

Then he explained why he thinks Apple will continue to stay ahead in the tablet market.

CNet says at the roll out of the iPad 2, Jobs' carefully calculated musings about the post-PC world were meant to sow just enough doubt in consumers' minds that they think twice when buying that second PC.

Meanwhile, Computerworld reports that even as Apple was taking the wraps off the new iPad 2, one analyst firm was reporting that tablets are wreaking havoc on the PC market.

With tablets like the iPad and now the iPad 2 in the market, consumers are apparently losing interest in laptops, according to analysts at Gartner.

Tablets are expected to have a large enough effect on the PC market that Gartner lowered its PC sales forecast for both 2011 and 2012.