Very good point - especially for the first one. <i>They won't need someone's help.</i> Mainly, our help.<p>One could say Steve Jobs has "taken" the market from us, now controlling even the developers. Yet I believe, as the post pointed out, that theres an escape hatch through using the internet as a delivery mechanism. HTML5 and responsive web apps are truly the future there. Learn UNIX programming if you haven't.<p>This <i>moves</i> the developers, from say, GeekSquad and "Best Buy Optimization" rip-off services to productive application development. One <i>could</i> argue that this will make the smart smarter (as the barrier to entry is higher) and the "dumb" (less experieced a better word?) interested in something else.<p>I think the iPad is "meh" because to some degree we haven't seen what it will do to the landscape yet. We've been focusing on the technical aspects of the device - and putting up against a rubric we've built over the last 30 years. I believe Jobs aims to change that rubric.<p>Other people have said it - computers are complicated for laymen users and they want it to act like an appliance. Hes giving it to them.