During yesterday’s iPad 2 launch event, Steve Jobs provided the audience with some of his opinions on why the iPad 2 will be an incomparable success, and how competitors are wrongfully addressing market trends. The main quality of the iPad 2, on Steve Jobs’ account, is that it is not a PC, and Apple’s success lies in fully engaging in bridging the software and hardware for this innovative device.

Regarding competitors, their biggest mistake is not coordinating their actions, resulting in an incoherent product: Google gets involved in developing the software and leaves to Motorola the hardware chore; Hewlett-Packard gets mixed up when it comes to segmenting the market and uses personal computer tools for business aims; Microsoft is too narrow-minded on adapting the Windows OS for tablets.

The new version of the iPad features greatly improved video capabilities, the most significant beings the A5 chip, cameras, HDMI Out and perfected iMovie Apps. The dual-core A5 chip design has a fascinating effect by speeding up the graphics processing. The rear-facing camera of 720 pixels and the FaceTime feature enhance the photo-sharing (with photo apps, like Photo Booth) and video calling experience, along with options like filming video on iPad 2 or importing it from the computer and editing it. Everything connected with transitions, effects, text, sound effects and music is easily accessible and manageable.

Yet, la pièce de résistance is the HDMI-out that allows users to watch movies playing via the device on a TV device with a 30-pin connector. This feature will be fully appreciated not only by movie fans, but also by gamers. “The iPad is an outstanding machine for personal consumption of media of any kind,” declared Computerworld blogger Jonny Evans. “Music, video, email, the Web, applications, TV, you name it, the iPad can access it. The iPad is the ultimate in personal technology.”

The upgraded video capabilities of the iPad 2 will have a certain impact on on media-rich app makers, as Venture Beat reports in a short interview with Ge Wang, founder of social music app maker Smule. The new iPad 2 will definitely encourage the creation of more high-end apps and more online video streaming, drawing online video platforms into the game. Two days ago, online video platform Ooyala announced the launch of a set of mobile video publishing tools that give publishers the ability to deliver live streaming video and secure video-on-demand to Apple devices.