This is MacOKEN. Analysts analyze the iPad event.

tablets are rocked to the PC's scissors,

and getting ready for iPad 2's arrival,

it's Friday, March 4th, 2011. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from Maco

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A bigger chunk of Wall Street is weighing in on Apple's March 2nd announcements.

I told you yesterday of the thumbs up given by analysts from RBC Capital, Morgan Stanley

and J.P. Morgan to Steve Jobs introduction midweek of the iPad 2, iOS 4.3

and accessories and applications for the two.

Now Fortune has reactions from just about everybody else in the financial sector.

Not really. It only feels like it.

Oppenheimer's year Rhiner says iPad 2 offers the kind of incremental improvements consumers have come to expect from a second generation Apple device.

While there was no one thing that anyone would call earth-shattering,

Reiner says the sum total of its refinements and upgrades significantly enhance the device's overall appeal.

This is a sad day for the crowd of competitors still struggling to home in on the first iPad's

price and performance, says the analyst, adding, we continue to see Apple. first iPads

price and performance as the analyst adding we continue to see apple grabbing 75 to 85% of the tablet market in 2011

Needham and companies Charlie Wolf thinks iPad too kills everything that's just starting to show up to compete with iPad.

They may meet or beat on text and specs, but they can't match its software, nor can they match its price.

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