You wouldn’t think that Apple, the largest and most hyped-up tech company on the planet, would have anything left to prove.

Hyped-up! Smoke and mirrors! Reality distortion field! Other lazy tropes!

A year ago, when Apple introduced the iPad, it was the first tablet of its kind on the market. Now there are as many iPad competitors as Dalmatians.

There aren’t 101 real iPad competitors even if you read that in binary.

Only the 32 gigabyte $599 Motorola Xoom tablet gives the iPad a real run for its money in cost: It is a full $130 cheaper…