In light of all the buzz surrounding Amazon’s pending Tablet launch; HP’s TouchPad demise; this market segment in general (including some of the inaccurate predictions that have been put forth) Apple’s iPad just keeps blazing new trails as manufacturing looks to be the next area it’ll make an impact.
A lot could be stated / written about said space; however, two areas where real-world demand might result in the next generation iPad seeing some design changes could be in the application / usage of NFC and RFID (which, by extension, would be a big coup for both of these technologies in and as far as potentially expanding their commercial potential).
From Computer World: http://goo.gl/SXykQ