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IPad Maintains Apple’s Lead: Tech by Rich Jaroslovsky

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Let’s get right to the point: If you don’t already have an iPad, chances are you’ll be very happy with the third-generation model that goes on sale Friday. If you already have an iPad 2, there’s little need to upgrade.

It isn’t that the new iPad lacks impressive features --most notably, a vastly better display and an ultra-fast Internet-connection option. It’s just that it seems designed to maintain Apple’s huge lead in the tablet wars, rather than to extend it.