Okay, I admit it -- the iPad really is magical. At least it is when it's put into the incredibly talented hands of Charlie Caper and iMore reader Erik Rosales. The performance by Step2 Communication at MIPIM in Cannes, which Erik said required 7 iPads and one of Sweden's best magicians, was on behalf of the Swedish capital of Stockholm.

I can't even imagine how much practice must have gone into making this work. Amazing.

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Georgia, Chad, and Rene discuss the original iPad one year later, is the iPad magical, iOS 4.3.1 Jailbreak, and the iPad at work. This is iPad Live!

Complete show notes for the week in iPad after the break!

Announcements

• Win a Tablet of your choice from TouchType!
• Element Case unleashes Joule Chroma stand for iPad 2 [give away]
• TiPb TV 18: Ultimate iPad case sledding challenge

News

• Happy birthday iPad Wi-Fi!
• Apple airs new iPad 2 commercial — We Believe
• Magical
• Apple removes Liquid Contact Indicators from iPad 2
• Dell dude says only they can offer imaginary, over priced technology to Enterprise
• Time Warner Cable pulls channels from TWCable TV app for iPad
• Dev-Team releasing Redsn0w and PwnageTool iOS 4.3.1 untethered jailbreak tonight!

Apps

• Adobe working on a full featured version of Photoshop for iPad
• The Onion Tablet now available for iPad

Hosts

• Georgia (@GeorgiaTiPb
• Chad (@iChadman)
• Rene (@reneritchie)

Credits

Thanks to the TiPb iPad Accessory Store for sponsoring the podcast, and to everyone who showed up for the live chat!

As we wait on Apple's Q4 earnings report later today, it's interesting to look at the graphic above and see just what a profound effect iPad sales have had, and are likely increasingly to have, on the US PC market. Deutsche Bank's Chris Whitmore:

• The U.S. PC market grew an anemic 4% year-over-year in calendar Q3 without the iPad, according to IDC. Include the iPad, as Whitmore feels one ought to, and that growth jumps to a robust 24%.
• Exclude the iPad, and Apple's (AAPL) PC sales grew 24% year-over-year. Include them, and Apple's unit sales soared roughly 250%. By comparison, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) grew 3% year-over-year and Dell (DELL) units fell 5%.
• When the iPad is part of the mix, Apple's share of the U.S. PC market is about 25%. That makes it the market leader, having gained a remarkable 18 points in the space of two quarters.

Add to that: Apple makes good margins on a $500 iPad, a device with great build quality, materials, and consumer appeal. Other manufacturers typically make razor thin margins on $500 netbooks/laptops, which are also typically poor devices with lousy build quality, cheap materials, and consumer appeal attached only to the price tag.

[Fortune]

TechCrunch is reporting that sales of the iPhone app iFog [$0.99 - iTunes link] have shot up following a T-Mobile commercial for the myTouch (their rebranded Google Android Magic, which in no way is meant to glom any mind share from i(Pod) touch), where Saturday Night Live alum, Dana Carvey demonstrates a similar Android app.

Given Apple's much vaunted 85,000+ apps, it's interesting to see that iPhone owners will look to the App Store, rather than competing platforms, even when competitors show off apps. Congrats to the developers for the boom-by-proxy.

Maybe Carvey should have shown off Google Voice?