alt Hacker NewsI disagree with "original iPad" being the highest-placed product in that line. iPad 2 should have that spot, no question. A product so successful they sold it for a really long time, plus its guts served in the also-long-lived first gen iPad mini. It was a giant improvement over the original iPad, with a crazy-long support life and outstanding performance characteristics.
I think others are ranking it not that way because of the hardware, but because of the concept and how it dramatically changed the market for tablet computers.