And here’s Google’s answer to the iPad. (Is the iPad that big a deal anyway?)

Wondering about the multi-touch though. What about Apple’s patent? Or maybe it doesn’t really matter.

Google’s speed to market combined with Apple’s love to hold features back for future versions should make this a very interesting battle.

Also, as Siegler puts it -

What’s interesting is that for either of the two to be massive hits, they both will need consumers to continue to feel comfortable moving away from traditional software applications such as Microsoft Office. But their plans to get consumers to do that are very different. Google wants everyone to move towards doing everything on their apps in the cloud. Apple, as they made clear with their overly-long iWork for iPad demo on Wednesday, wants everyone to move towards using iPhone OS-based apps.

Bring it on!