<i>Wherever we stand in digital history, the iPad leaves me with the feeling that Apple’s interests and values going forward are deeply divergent with my own.</i><p>It's pretty odd to me how people have willingly accepted Apple's closed phone and media player ecosystem without batting an eye-lash, but the iPad is just outrageous as it encroaches on the PC.<p>Isn't the iPad just a logical continuation of Apple's trajectory of the last decade?