IPad2: Thinner, Lighter, faster and two cameras. That's it, No Need to Rush

First thing, it was good seeing Steve Jobs up there on the stage.  He looked pretty good for a guy with only six weeks to live.
I only wanted two things in the iPad 2:  more storage and a faster processor.  Well, we got the faster processor.  With flash memory prices dropping so much in the past year, I seriously expected that Apple would double the storage, giving us something like a choice of 32G, 64G and 128G models.
Even if you don't care about the iPad, if you have any interest in tablet devices, we have to watch what Apple is doing.  While others sold functional pad computers before Apple began designing the iPad, it was Apple's use of the stripped down OS that made it reliable.  It was the 3rd party developers who wrote apps that took advantage of the good things about IOS while working around the bad things that made the iPad popular.
This meant that anyone else wanting to compete in the tablet/pad arena has to outdo Apple.  So there is the big interest.  What would Apple do to the iPad to leap ahead of the competition again?

Today's answer turned out to be: "Nothing"  Even the Apple website can only say that it is "Thinner, Lighter, Faster" and has FaceTime and "Smart Covers".  Not exactly compelling reasons to rush out and buy one on the day of release, especially if you already own an iPad.
Motorola with the Xoom, is already shipping a tablet computer that is the equal of even the iPad 2.  The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 looks to be the same as the Xoom and iPad2.  I'm sure that Viewsonic, LG and the others who all have 10" tablets coming out this year will also be in the same ballpark.
Apple can't even say that they were first with the new features as Motorola beat them to it.
As for the rest of the magical and revolutionary features of the iPad 2...

1. The cameras don't do a thing for me.  The iPad is too large to use as a camera except for an emergency.  A rear camera IS handy for use as a barcode scanner though.
2. Thinner and lighter is always good, though IMHO the iPad 1 was just fine in those respects.

The rest of the new features?  There aren't any.
Thinner, Lighter, faster and two cameras.  That's it.
A Verizon version? It would have been news only if it wasn't available for Verizon.
The Smart Cover is cool though not "magical and revolutionary" as my REB 1200 eBook reader had a stock leather cover that turned the device on and off using magnets.  That was ten years ago next month!  The built-in microfiber cleaning cover seems like it'd only work if you could scrub the IPad with it like with a cloth
Hmm, I wonder if RCA or Gemstar patented that?  If so, I wonder if Apple paid for the license?  The patent would still be in effect.