The Wall Street Journal reports on LG’s vice president of marketing saying LG is readying an iPad ‘killer’. Again, the claims are pretty much copied and pasted from the How To Get Tech Journos Excited About Your iPad Killer That Doesn’t Actually Exist fact sheet: Android device; better than iPad for [SUB: INSERT REASONS HERE]; “our device will totally rock”.

What’s most surprising, though, is Chang Ma’s slightly odd decision to smack the iPad with the same kind of bullshit that lazy tech journos use. Ma is quoted as saying the iPad is a great device, but that he doesn’t do much work on it, inferring that Apple’s device is for displaying content, not creating it:

[LG’s] tablet will include content focused on creation such as writing documents, editing video and creating programs. It will also have “high-end features and new benefits,” many of which will focus on productivity, Mr. Ma said. “It’s going to be surprisingly productive,” he said.

Man, if only the iPad had some kind of App Store, with hundreds of great apps for boosting productivity and creating work, such as SketchBook Pro, OmniFocus for iPad, Pages and Numbers, Bento for iPad, iMockups for iPad, OmniGraffle, Markup for iPad, and ReelDirector, we wouldn’t be stuck waiting for LG to magic a ‘productive’ tablet into existence, along with the dozens of unicorn-dust-sprinkled apps that will also suddenly be available to make said tablet productive.