first of all the iPad has many multi touch gestures, and it has many apps there are over 140 000 apps for it, while the kindle has only " thousands " of apps and games, not to mention that the iPad can run all apps on the AppStore which are over 500 000 apps and games Also iPad has iOS 5 the most advanced mobile operating system ever, which means that it it's stable, and it has better features and built in apps by apple.