Basic iPadia

Because it is my favorite of the three, I'm going to look at Numbers. I really like the app and its ease of use. I have been using Excel most of my life, and Numbers looks to have all of the things I would say I need from Excel. The three things that I like that both contain are the range of functions for input, the easy transfer of a data table into a chart, and the ability to manipulate presentation of data (number of decimal places, percentage, date, etc.). The two big differences I saw were ones that give Numbers a slight edge for me. I like that it saves automatically and the file is ready to be stored even if you don't remember to hit save every two minutes. I also enjoyed the ability to shrink the table down to just the cells in which one is working. It's not a huge problem to see more, but the simplicity of shrinking the view is nice. With both the similarities and differences, the iPad yields itself to quick and easy use. The function bars on Excel are very busy and Numbers looks to have all the functions and buttons very easily accessible.
I liked Box.com. It will be nice having another storage cloud to transfer and share documents for myself, classmates, and future students. It was fairly easy to use and simple to figure out, which is always a bonus.
iBooks and Kindle are both good apps for reading. They have similar interactive attributes. The book appearances on the shelf and in reading mode are about the same. I had a hard time finding big differences. The one big one that I noticed was the "track bar" at the bottom of the iBooks app. It let's one "scroll" through the book. Kindle has the search and "go to a page" function but the scrolling through pages on iBooks is a big plus for me. It seems to make the job of searching faster and easier.
As I watched and looked at Rover, I'm not a big fan. The limitation of java and flash is something to consider if a school decides on the iPad, but the bandwidth issues with Rover are quite significant. I don't know that there is anything online that I absolutely MUST have and would need the Rover app. In addition to the negative side of Rover, Apple has worked with the education system to provide games and apps for learning in the classroom.