Editorial from Engadget’s editor summarizes well the competitive landscape:

But right now — in the tablet space at least — the problem for Motorola, Samsung, HP, RIM, and anyone else who is challenging Apple becomes infinitely more difficult. Almost any company could put together a more powerful or spec-heavy tablet, but all the horsepower in the world can’t help you if you don’t find a way to delight the average consumer. Those other tablet makers may have superior hardware (and in the case of the Xoom, some superior software as well), but without that key component of sheer delight, the road for them is long and hard. HP is getting close by touting features like Touch-to-Share, but against experiences like the new GarageBand for iOS and the 65,000 apps (and counting) that currently exist, it’s hard to see a clear path to sizable competition. That goes for Google and RIM as well.

The common thread in my tech frustration is products that either don’t work or make things too hard.

Apple’s stuff isn’t perfect, but they know what it means to delight. Even in the traditional space they address the things others have long since allowed to become status quo. A MacBook Air boots in about 15 seconds. You can put it to sleep and port it around like an iPad, counting on it to wake instantly whenever you need to use it. What other “traditional” PC product can say that? If Apple hadn’t done this with the MacBook Air, would there be any hope PC wake/boot time would ever be instant or even significantly improve?