Secret #2:

Don’t try to please everyone. There are countless people who don’t want one, haven’t heard of one or actively hate it. So what?

Ah ha! Here’s the iPad’s missing weather app — it’s simple and gorgeous. (Via Gedeon.)

Some great observations by Adam Engst:

So what’s the difference between a Mac and an iPad? It’s that blank slate thing. No matter what you do on a Mac, the keyboard and mouse and window-based operating system make it impossible to ignore the fact that you’re using a Mac, and it’s often equally impossible to ignore the fact that you’re using a particular program.

In contrast, the iPad becomes the app you’re using. That’s part of the magic. The hardware is so understated – it’s just a screen, really – and because you manipulate objects and interface elements so smoothly and directly on the screen, the fact that you’re using an iPad falls away. You’re using the app, whatever it may be, and while you’re doing so, the iPad is that app. Switch to another app and the iPad becomes that app. If that’s not magic, I don’t know what is.

Didn’t know this one: Hitting the eject key on a paired bluetooth keyboard will bring up the virtual keyboard.

How nerdy is it that my killer app may very well be a to-do list app? I can’t help it; I love this Thing.

And speaking of winsome wallpapers for your iPad…

Neven:

If you provide a 1024×1024 image, it will be cropped to 768×1024 or 1024×768, depending on the orientation. So, your safe area is the middle 768×768.

A fantastic article for Time Magazine profiling Apple, the iPad, and Steve Jobs. Seriously, a great read.

The iTunes store is now updated with iPad Apps. Some of this nerd’s anticipated favorites include:

• Instapaper Pro

• Things

• 1Password

• Flight Control HD

• Marvel Comics

• NetNewsWire

• And even though I don’t use Evernote, its iPad version looks incredible.

It is amazing that almost every single one of the iPad apps available right now were built by developers who have never even held the device.

David answers a few of the most-asked questions after his iPad review on NY Times last night. And also, this little nugget:

But I’m telling you, the multitouch screen/software makes it very, very different from a laptop, and the screen size makes it very, very different from an iPhone. It’s something entirely new.