Why you need an ipad

I was listening to the podcast and I think one thing that has to be said is Apple is smart because of all the plugging surrounding it for months now alot of people have been pre-meditating about what place the tablet would fill without even know much about it. So it's not like "ok we have it now what will I do with it", most people already had the use of it planned for months this was just substantiation of "oh yeah I can use it for what I've been make arrangementsto use it for". I didn't even have to think about it, last night was a prime example for me, my MB Pro is in the shop and I didn't want to take home my netbook to watch the podcast but watching it on my phone although it's better than not watching it doesn't give me the same level of emmersion. So ta daa in steps the iPad and with the capaciousscreen and keyboard and I'm hoping louder speakers spot filled.

Also like I was saying in another thread I judgeone of the ways Apple could make this device complimentary to the iPhone is this. I don't know about others but I hate when I'm working and my phone is in my pocket and I get an email or text message. I don't want to take the phone out of my pocket, check it, it's nothing crazyDetermining and I just interrupted my train of thought or what I was doing. Then two ways to do it a) have message forwarding on the phone and you weigh the iPad as the destination it's sitting on my desk and if a text, email, whatever comes to the phone blip it pops up on my iPad simple to read and dismiss if it's not important and without disrupting my workflow alot b) Once the link is active if the iPhone is running a process, iTunes, Safari, etc. the messages get relayed to the iPad. Also with the same token if I have the iPad in my lap and I'm reading the message on my phone I just swipe it and it flies into the iPad and I can reply with the sizable screen/keyboard.

Now let'sLook at at some of the promising uses for the ipad now that we know we need one.

-special app that turns this thing into a music-sheet-screen for musicians: orchestra's and stuf. Kinda of teleprompter.
- interactive catalogues where you can turn /flip pages: for salesmanagers and such
- medical use
- musea
- digital menucard
-ebook reader
-thin client to access other machines
- handheld game replacement