The Apple iPad is one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful tablets on the market. An elegant design, intuitive interface, and a massive app ecosystem that lets you do nearly anything you can imagine have all combined to propel the iPad to stardom. Want to watch a movie? Download the Netflix app. Want to get some work done? Download the long-awaited and recently released Microsoft Word for iPad app. Any task you want to do, there's probably an app for that.

According to Apple, more than a half-million dedicated iPad apps have been released worldwide.