I'm not much a fan of apple myself really. I'm not drinking the kool-aid on tablets right now either. I'm waiting to see what the next generation does. I'm very curious about Amazon's tab coming end of the year, and the second revision of the ASUS eePad Transformer.
There is a LOT of headway being made on the android platform and music. There's a great article on Create Digital Music on free open source touch control for android
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