Content creators and website developers will increasingly need to begin to think about how to deliver their content to the iPad, presuming it enjoys wide adoption over time. If Apple gets the form factors right -- and they seem to be good at this -- as well as the marketing, adoption should follow.
People have been trying to build tablets for a long time, and the time may be right now that the technical limitations (battery life, memory, screen cost) can be overcome.
Those who remember their media history would probably agree that a shout out is due to Roger Fidler, who for many years ran the Knight-Ridder New Media Lab and as long as two decades ago was advocating in the newspaper industry for development of a tablet device. Roger, now program director for digital publishing at Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute in Columbia, Missouri spent years building prototypes and articulating the future vision that Apple may have delivered yesterday. His 1994 video on the subject is below. That's 16 years ago.
Roger's 1997 book, Mediamorphosis, is still available on Amazon.
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