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For all the hoopla surrounding Apple's new slender tablet computer, the question is whether the iPad can achieve anything close to the success of the iPhone, which transformed the cellphone and forced the industry to race to catch up.

Apple is positioning the device, which was introduced Wednesday after months of speculation, as a pioneer in a new genre of computing, somewhere between a laptop and a smartphone. ``The bar is pretty high,'' Steven P Jobs, CEO of Apple, acknowledged. '' It has to be far better at doing some key things.''

Half an inch, or 1.3 cm, thick and weighing 1.5 pounds, or 0.7 kg, the device will vividly display books, web sites and videos on a 9.7-inch glass touch screen.

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